Introduction: Use of EHR data for scientific discoveries-challenges and opportunities / Hulin Wu -- EHR project management / Yashar Talebi and Ashraf Yaseen -- EHR databases and data management : data query and extraction / Gen Zhu, Vi K. Ly, Michael Gonzalez, Leqing Wu, Hulin Wu, and Ashraf...

Poverty statistics are conventionally compiled using data from household income and expenditure survey or living standards survey. This study examines an alternative approach in estimating poverty by investigating whether readily available geospatial data can accurately predict the spatial...

The spatial granularity of poverty statistics can have a significant impact on the efficiency of targeting resources meant to improve the living conditions of the poor. However, achieving granularity typically requires increasing the sample sizes of surveys on household income and expenditure or...

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Use of EHR Data for Scientific Discoveries--Challenges and Opportunities -- 1.1. Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence: Big Data in Practice --...

The EU's Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), launched in 2003, was the first micro-level data set to provide comprehensive data on incomes and other social and economic domains over the enlarged EU. This paper draws on two programmes of research to ask how well the EU-SILC has...