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Immigration Statistics

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Panel On Immigration Statistics

Häftad, Engelska, 1985-02-01

891

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This book examines the needs for and availability of statistics concerning immigrants and immigration. It concentrates on the needs for statistics on immigrants, refugees, and illegal aliens for policy and program purposes, on the adequacy of the ...

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AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Social Committee On Aids Research And The Behavioral And Statistical Sciences, Lincoln E Moses

Inbunden, Engelska, 1989-02-01

971

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The AIDS virus is spread by human behaviors enacted in a variety of social situations. In order to prevent further infection, we need to know more about these behaviors. This volume explores what is known about the number of people infected, risk-...

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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions: v. 1 Review and Recommendations

av Committee On National Statistics, Panel To Evaluate Microsimulation Models For Social Welfare Programs, National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education

Häftad, Engelska, 1991-01-01

1045

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This book reviews the uses and abuses of microsimulation models--large, complex models that produce estimates of the effects on program costs and who would gain and who would lose from proposed changes in government policies ranging from health ca...

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Assessing Evaluation Studies

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Panel To Review Evaluation Studies Of Bilingual Education

Häftad, Engelska, 1992-02-01

468

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Bilingual education has long been the subject of major disagreements in this country. This book provides a detailed critique of the two largest studies of U.S. bilingual education programs. It examines the goals of the studies and what can be lear...

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Teacher Supply, Demand, and Quality

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Dorothy M Gilford

Häftad, Engelska, 1992-02-01

667

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This book examines policy issues, projection models, and data bases pertaining to the supply of, demand for, and quality of teachers in the United States from kindergarten to twelfth grade. It identifies additional data needed to clarify policy is...

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Integrating Federal Statistics on Children

av National Research Council And Institute Of Medicine, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics And Board On Children And Families

Häftad, Engelska, 1995-10-01

379

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Those who make and implement policies for children and families are seriously hampered by several features of the federal statistical system: categorical fragmentation, sampling strategies that follow adults and families rather than children, and ...

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Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, John Pepper

Häftad, Engelska, 1998-03-01

522

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Longitudinal Surveys of Children

av Committee On National Statistics, National Research Council And Institute Of Medicine, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Terri M Scanlan

Häftad, Engelska, 1998-09-01

481

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The Committee and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened in September a workshop to discuss ways to foster greater collaboration and sharing of information among principal investigators of several longitudinal surveys of children. Amo...

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Survey Measurement of Work Disability

av Institute Of Medicine, Committee On National Statistics, National Research Council, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Gooloo S Wunderlich

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-03-01

430

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) is engaged in redesigning its disability determination process for providing cash benefits and medical assistance to blind and disabled persons under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program ...

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Time-Use Measurement and Research

av Committee On National Statistics, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, National Research Council, National Academy Of Sciences

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-07-01

481

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One of the most substantial policy changes in the past decade was the elimination of the main social welfare program for poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, ending the entitlement to cash benefits and replacing it with a policy...

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Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs

av National Research Council, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Committee On Law And Justice, Committee On Data And Research For Policy On Illegal Drugs

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001-10-01

764

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How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to combat the destructive effects of illegal drug use. Yet there is a remarkable paucity of data and r...

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Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty

av Panel On Estimates Of Poverty For Small Geographic Areas, National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-01-01

789

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The Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas was established by the Committee on National Statistics at the National Research Council in response to the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994. That act charged the U.S. Census Bure...

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Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency

av National Research Council, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Constance F Citro, Miron L Straf

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-01-01

507

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Since 1992, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) has produced a book on principles and practices for a federal statistical agency, updating the document every 4 years to provide a current edition to newly appointed cabinet secretaries at ...

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Preparing for an Aging World

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Committee On Population, Panel On A Research Agenda And New Data For An Aging World

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-07-01

654

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Aging is a process that encompasses virtually all aspects of life. Because the speed of population aging is accelerating, and because the data needed to study the aging process are complex and expensive to obtain, it is imperative that countries c...

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At What Price?

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Measurement Panel On Conceptual And Other Statistical Issues In Developing Cost-Of-Living Indexes, Christopher MacKie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002-03-01

584

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How well does the consumer price index (CPI) reflect the changes that people actually face in living costs?from apples to computers to health care? Given how it is used, is it desirable to construct the CPI as a cost-of-living index (COLI)? With w...

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Toward a Health Statistics System for the 21st Century

av Committee On National Statistics, National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Terri M Scanlan

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-08-01

522

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The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) convened a workshop on November 4-5, 1999, to identify new directions for health statistics and the implications for health data of changes in the health arena faced by DHHS; state and local health dep...

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The 2000 Census

av Panel To Review The Census, Committee On National Statistics, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, National Research Council

Häftad, Engelska, 2002-02-01

686

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This volume contains the full text of two reports: one is an interim review of major census operations, which also assesses the U.S. Census bureau's recommendation in March 2001 regarding statistical adjustment of census data for redistricting. It...

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Statistical Models and Analysis in Auditing

av National Research Council, Division On Engineering And Physical Sciences, Mathematics Commission On Physical Sciences And Applications, Board On Mathematical Sciences, Committee On Applied And Theoretical Statistics

Häftad, Engelska, 1988-02-01

430

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Sharing Research Data

av Committee On National Statistics, National Research Council, National Academy Of Sciences, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education

Häftad, Engelska, 1985-02-01

686

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The Dynamics of Disability

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Institute Of Medicine, Board On Health Care Services

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002-09-01

746

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The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claimants as baby boomers age, changing attitudes culminating in the Americans With Disabilities Act. Disab...

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Elder Mistreatment

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On Law And Justice, Committee On National Statistics, Panel To Review Risk And Prevalence Of Elder Abuse And Neglect

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003-02-01

840

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Since the late 1970s when Congressman Claude Pepper held widely publicized hearings on the mistreatment of the elderly, policy makers and practitioners have sought ways to protect older Americans from physical, psychological, and financial abuse. ...

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Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioral Sciences Research

av Surveys Panel On Institutional Review Boards And Social Science Research, Committee On National Statistics, Cognitive Board On Behavioral And Sensory Sciences, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, National Research Council

Häftad, Engelska, 2003-07-01

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Institutional review boards (IRBs) are the linchpins of the protection systems that govern human participation in research. In recent years, high-profile cases have focused attention on the weaknesses of the procedures for protecting participants ...

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Survey Automation

av Oversight Committee For The Workshop On Survey Automation, National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Michael L Cohen

Häftad, Engelska, 2003-06-01

840

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For over 100 years, the evolution of modern survey methodology?using the theory of representative sampling to make interferences from a part of the population to the whole?has been paralleled by a drive toward automation, harnessing technology and...

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Improved Operational Testing and Evaluation

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Panel On Operational Test Design And Evaluation Of The Interim Armored Vehicle

Häftad, Engelska, 2003-07-01

468

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The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is responsible for the operational testing and evaluation of Army systems in development. ATEC requested that the National Research Council form the Panel on Operational Test Design and Evaluation o...

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Innovations in Software Engineering for Defense Systems

av National Research Council, Division On Engineering And Physical Sciences, Committee On Applied And Theoretical Statistics, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics

Häftad, Engelska, 2003-10-01

507

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Recent rough estimates are that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spends at least $38 billion a year on the research, development, testing, and evaluation of new defense systems; approximately 40 percent of that cost-at least $16 billion-is spe...

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Discriminant Analysis and Clustering

av National Research Council, Division On Engineering And Physical Sciences, Mathematics Commission On Physical Sciences And Applications, Board On Mathematical Sciences, Committee On Applied And Theoretical Statistics

Häftad, Engelska, 1988-02-01

481

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Measuring Racial Discrimination

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Panel On Methods For Assessing Discrimination, Constance F Citro

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004-07-01

789

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Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discriminationa "pervasive and open denial of civil, social, political, educational, and eco...

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Eliminating Health Disparities

av Panel On Dhhs Collection Of Race And Ethnic Data, Committee On National Statistics, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, National Research Council, National Academy Of Sciences

Häftad, Engelska, 2004-09-01

654

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Disparities in health and health care across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds in the United States are well documented. The reasons for these disparities are, however, not well understood. Current data available on race, ethnicity, SE...

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Beyond the Market

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Panel To Study The Design Of Nonmarket Accounts, Christopher MacKie

Häftad, Engelska, 2005-01-01

88

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The national income and product accounts that underlie gross domestic product (GDP), together with other key economic data?price and employment statistics? are widely used as indicators of how well the nation is doing. GDP, however, is focused on ...

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Measuring Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Economy

av National Research Council, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Committee On National Statistics, Panel On Research And Development Statistics At The National Science Foundation, Marisa A Gerstein

Häftad, Engelska, 2004-12-01

609

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This report examines the portfolio of research and development (R&D) expenditure surveys at the National Science Foundation (NSF), identifying gaps and weaknesses and areas of missing coverage. The report takes an in-depth look at the definiti...

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