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The Role of Questionnaire Design in Reducing Census Coverage Error
, 1995
"... this paper is just the within households. beginning. It is critical that we continue the cycle of Evidence suggests that household respondents tend to analysis, qualitative exploration, and experimentation, err on the side of excluding marginal or peripheral that recently has begun to yield both kno ..."
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knowledge and household residents. This may be due to flaws in the ways practical improvements in roster methods. As we the census roster questions were asked and in their continue to gain insight into the roster process, potential premise that each person can be assigned to one and only causes of coverage
Systematic social observation of public spaces: A new look at disorder in urban neighborhoods
- American Journal of Sociology
, 1999
"... This article assesses the sources and consequences of public disorder. Based on the videotaping and systematic rating of more than 23,000 street segments in Chicago, highly reliable scales of social and physi-cal disorder for 196 neighborhoods are constructed. Census data, police records, and an ind ..."
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This article assesses the sources and consequences of public disorder. Based on the videotaping and systematic rating of more than 23,000 street segments in Chicago, highly reliable scales of social and physi-cal disorder for 196 neighborhoods are constructed. Census data, police records
Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example
- Journal of Political Economy
, 2001
"... and two anonymous referees for helpful suggestions and Kevin Clisham for answering many technical questions about the ready-mixed concrete industry. I am also indebted to John Haltiwanger, Rachel Kranton, Mike Pries, Plutarchos Sakellaris, and John Shea for their instruction and guidance. Funding fr ..."
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and two anonymous referees for helpful suggestions and Kevin Clisham for answering many technical questions about the ready-mixed concrete industry. I am also indebted to John Haltiwanger, Rachel Kranton, Mike Pries, Plutarchos Sakellaris, and John Shea for their instruction and guidance. Funding
"Who Lives Here?": The Use of Vignettes in Household Roster Research
, 1996
"... Introduction Standard procedures for conducting household-based surveys require obtaining a list of household residents. These lists, called rosters are used for complete enumeration of the household, for randomized selection of respondents, and for establishing the eligibility of certain household ..."
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household members for particular questions. However, since rosters are one of the first parts of the survey encountered by respondents, they are likely to have a role in creating the over-all context in which the respondent interprets the survey. For example, in selfadministered census questionnaires
RosterBuilder - An Architecture for an Integrated Airline Rostering Framework
, 2002
"... Rostering is a crucial planning process in an airline’s overall scheduling hierarchy. Besides addressing the issues of crew utilisation and crew costs (which represent two of the major expenses in running an airline), a rostering tool must also cover the question of quality requirements. The quality ..."
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Rostering is a crucial planning process in an airline’s overall scheduling hierarchy. Besides addressing the issues of crew utilisation and crew costs (which represent two of the major expenses in running an airline), a rostering tool must also cover the question of quality requirements
Who lives here? Survey undercoverage and household roster questions
- Journal of Official Statistics
"... We carried out an experimental comparison of three versions of questions for enumerating the residents of a dwelling. One version took the approach that is used in many surveys: it began by asking respondents to name all persons living at the dwelling. The experimental versions began by asking how m ..."
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interviews were completed, about a third of them with each version of the questionnaire. The results indicated that both experimental versions of the roster questions yielded more persons per household than the standard version; however, only the version that did not require full names yielded more persons
The Self-employment Experience of Immigrants
- Journal of Human Resources
, 1986
"... Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self—employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment rates o ..."
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Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self—employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment rates
Alternative Questionnaire Experiment An Experiment to Improve Coverage Through Revised Roster Instructions
, 2003
"... This evaluation reports the results of research and analysis undertaken by the U.S. Census Bureau. It is part of a broad program, the Census 2000 Testing, Experimentation, and Evaluation (TXE) Program, designed to assess Census 2000 and to inform 2010 Census planning. Findings from the Census 2000 T ..."
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This evaluation reports the results of research and analysis undertaken by the U.S. Census Bureau. It is part of a broad program, the Census 2000 Testing, Experimentation, and Evaluation (TXE) Program, designed to assess Census 2000 and to inform 2010 Census planning. Findings from the Census 2000
FOR DEBATE FOR DEBATE Medical rosters and the Trade Practices Act
"... view that medical rosters may breach the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cwlth) as a collective boycott. I examine here whether roster systems are illegal under the Trade The Medical Practices Journal Act of as Australia collective ISSN: boycotts 0025-729X and aim 7 to answer April the 2003 simple 178 7 q ..."
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question 337-340 “Is the ACCC right in what it says ©The about Medical roster Journal arrangements?”. of Australia 2003 I do www.mja.com.au not discuss price-For Debate fixing arrangements, which are illegal under quite different provisions of the Trade Practices Act to those covering collective boycotts
Renegotiation Design: Evidence from NFL roster bonuses
"... Does shaping renegotiation through contracts have quantitatively important consequences for transfers and efficiency? We exploit institutional features of the National Football League (NFL) and a unique and novel dataset on contracts of NFL players to address these questions. We show how contractual ..."
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Does shaping renegotiation through contracts have quantitatively important consequences for transfers and efficiency? We exploit institutional features of the National Football League (NFL) and a unique and novel dataset on contracts of NFL players to address these questions. We show how
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