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Social Life Cycle Assessment of Mexico City's Water Cycle

open access: yesAdvanced Sustainable Systems, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2023., 2023
A total of 0.062 worker‐hours (WH) for 1 m3 of water used in Mexico City is estimated. Ninety‐four percent of this time present a high potential risk of social impact on the quality of employment. While 5% implies a high potential risk of adequate public water services for local communities in the Cutzamala system.
Maribel García Sánchez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Bayesian model for estimating Sustainable Development Goal indicator 4.1.2: School completion rates

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), Volume 71, Issue 5, Page 1822-1864, November 2022., 2022
Abstract Estimating school completion is crucial for monitoring Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on education. The recently introduced SDG indicator 4.1.2, defined as the percentage of children aged 3–5 years above the expected completion age of a given level of education that have completed the respective level, differs from enrolment indicators ...
Ameer Dharamshi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flexible domain prediction using mixed effects random forests

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), Volume 71, Issue 5, Page 1865-1894, November 2022., 2022
AbstractThis paper promotes the use of random forests as versatile tools for estimating spatially disaggregated indicators in the presence of small area‐specific sample sizes. Small area estimators are predominantly conceptualised within the regression‐setting and rely on linear mixed models to account for the hierarchical structure of the survey data.
Patrick Krennmair, Timo Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Inequality, income dynamics, and worker transitions: The case of Mexico

open access: yesQuantitative Economics, Volume 13, Issue 4, Page 1669-1705, November 2022., 2022
We characterize the salient features of the distribution of (log) earnings of formal workers in Mexico using social security records for the period 2005–2019. The analysis is based on a nonparametric approach and is focused primarily on the properties of the distribution of earnings changes.
Daniela Puggioni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off‐farm employment? Evidence from 12 low‐ and middle‐income countries

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 197-218, March 2022., 2022
Abstract Gender gaps in labor force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off‐farm wage jobs.
Eva‐Maria Egger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La migración como determinante de la obesidad infantil en Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen La migración internacional tiene consecuencias económicas y en la salud. El proceso de aculturación en el país de acogida puede estar relacionado con la obesidad infantil. Utilizamos el marco conceptual del balance energético comunitario (CEB, por sus siglas en inglés) para analizar la relación entre migración y obesidad infantil en los hogares
Mireya Vilar‐Compte   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un marco conceptual orientado a la acción para soluciones sistémicas de prevención de la obesidad infantil en Latinoamérica y en las poblaciones latinas de Estados Unidos

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen La obesidad infantil en Latinoamérica y en las poblaciones latinas de Estados Unidos es un problema de salud pública complejo y persistente y, como tal, requiere soluciones basadas en la teoría y los métodos de la ciencia de sistemas. En este artículo presentamos un marco conceptual orientado a la acción para diseñar, implementar, evaluar y ...
Leandro M. T. Garcia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Domain prediction with grouped income data

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Volume 184, Issue 4, Page 1501-1523, October 2021., 2021
Abstract One popular small area estimation method for estimating poverty and inequality indicators is the empirical best predictor under the unit‐level nested error regression model with a continuous dependent variable. However, parameter estimation is more challenging when the response variable is grouped due to data confidentiality concerns or ...
Paul Walter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

¿Cómo hacen encuestas los encuestadores? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
En toda investigación mediante encuestas, además de los aspectos puramente metodológicos, hay otros de carácter práctico, menos controlables, y de indudable interés. Nos referimos a aspectos relacionados con la forma de conducirse los encuestadores en
Romero de Loera, Bélgica   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Un algoritmo de cálculo para los desplazamientos en las encuestas cara a cara [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
La realización de una investigación mediante encuestas genera un importante monto de gastos. Existe cierto acuerdo en considerar las encuestas cara a cara como las más gravosas, debido en buena medida al capítulo de los gastos durante el trabajo de campo,
Cano Orellana, Antonio   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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