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Jewish Presence in the Land of Israel in the 19th Century: Insights from the Montefiore Censuses
GenealogyThis article presents a new evaluation and analysis of the five censuses undertaken at the initiative of philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore among the Jewish population of Palestine/the Land of Israel between 1839 and 1875.
Raquel Levy-Toledano +2 more
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Using census data to measure maternal mortality: A review of recent experience
Demographic Research, 2018 Background: The Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 (United Nations 2015) set national targets for reducing maternal mortality, putting pressure on governments of countries lacking comprehensive ...
Kenneth Hill +4 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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¿Cómo editar los censos de personas esclavizadas?
Journal of the Text Encoding InitiativeThis article reflects on the process of creating digital editions of the enumerations of enslaved persons produced in various languages in the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Clayton McCarl
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Administrative Data Censuses in US States
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2019 This paper describes work underway to conduct administrative data censuses in several US states. We are helping states identify sources that, when combined, reflect their entire population, and introduce approaches to efficiently and routinely integrate ...
Amy O'Hara
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Migrants in their family contexts: Application of a methodology [PDF]
, 2000 The composition of immigrant families is a topic which has attracted considerable public and political attention in recent years. In the late 1980s concern was expressed over the size of some households of Pacific Island peoples in New Zealand.
Bedford, Charlotte +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Revija za GeografijoThe statistical literature, which contains data for the period of the Habsburg modern population censuses, was created on the basis of calculations by municipal officials.
Ivica Pletikosić
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Selection into Mixed Marriages: Evidence from North Carolina, 1894-1906 [PDF]
, 2015 Using a novel dataset from agricultural censuses and geological sources, I examine the selec- tion into mixed marriages between whites and Cherokee Indians in North Carolina during the late nineteenth century.
Gregg, Matthew T.
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo +3 more
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