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Options for benchmarking ABS population estimates for Indigenous communities in Queensland
Taylor, John; Bell, Martin - 2003
service providers about the accuracy of census counts for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland … methodology for estimating these populations, and benchmarks these against demographic information available from a range of … administrative data. Potential deficiencies in ABS methodology are highlighted and a case is made for the use of administrative data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451699
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Creating a sense of 'closure': Providing confidence intervals on some recent estimates of Indigenous populations
Hunter, Boyd; Dungey, Mardi - 2003
makers need to take into account the fact that Indigenous population statistics from the census are merely estimates. Given … Indigenous population estimates by calculating standard errors, one of the conventional measures of reliability of statistics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451786
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Income Inequality and Racial/Ethnic Infant Mortality in the United States
Jesmin, Syeda Sarah - 2008
National Center for Health Statistics Linked Birth Infant Death database, 2000 U.S. Census, and 2000 General Social Survey, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475004
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Estimating the quadratic mean diameter of fine woody debris for forest type groups of the United States.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Monleon, Vicente J. - 2009
The Forest Inventory and Analysis program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture conducts a national inventory of fine woody debris (FWD); however, the sampling protocols involve tallying only the number of FWD pieces by size class that intersect a sampling transect with no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429473
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An alternative method to produce prices received estimates.
Donaldson, W.W.; Klugh, B.F. Jr. - 1988
The United States Department of Agriculture has issued statistics on prices received by farmers since 1866. Beginning … Agricultural statistics service (NASS) survey data, to estimate all national midmonth prices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429494
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Off-farm labour and the structure of US agriculture: the case of corn/soybean farms.
Nehring, Richard; Banker, David - 2005
While the growing importance of off-farm earnings suggests large benefits accrue to farmers from efforts to expand off-farm income opportunities, economic well being also depends on greater efficiency. To comprehensively gauge the economic health of farm operator households' off-farm income is...
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Does Capital Punishment Save Lives? An Examination of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
Nguyen-Thanh, Mai-khoi - 2008
This paper employs fixed and random effects regressions to analyze panel data from the 50 states and Washington, D.C., between the years of 1980 and 2005, to estimate the relationship between the death penalty and homicide rate, and the degree to which this relationship affects crime outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468250
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Asymmetric wealth effect : American consumption and the stock market
Greene, Jonathan - 2002
Conventional estimates of the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of changes in net worth average about 4 cents on the dollar. If this is true, the $14 trillion rise in household net worth between 1995 and 2000 created an additional $567 billion in household consumption. This increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474970
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Wealth effects on consumer spending in the US economy
Avramenko, Andriy - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of wealth on consumer spending in the United States. A traditional life-cycle model is estimated first. Although it does find a statistically significant wealth effect, its findings are unusable due to the presence of autocorrelation and non-stationarity....
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Overcoming the limitations of efficiency modeling in the health care foodservice industry
Assaf, Albert; Matawie, Kenan M. - 2009
average technical efficiency is around 83 percent for Australia and 80 percent for the USA. The technical efficiency results … the sources of technical inefficiency of health care foodservice operations for Australia and USA. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482082