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Sampling Within Households in Household Surveys
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2006 SummaryThe number of people to select within selected households has significant consequences for the conduct and output of household surveys. The operational and data quality implications of this choice are carefully considered in many surveys, but the effect on statistical efficiency is not well understood.
Clark, Robert Graham, Steel, David G
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Agriculture, 2022 The vast majority of farmers in the drylands are resource-poor smallholders, whose livelihoods depend heavily on their farming systems. Therefore, increasing the resilience of these smallholders is vital for their prosperity.
Thiagarajah Ramilan +6 more
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The determinants of expenditures with utilities in Brazilian households
Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e UrbanosThis study provides an analysis of the determinants of the per capita expenditure with utilities in Brazilian households. Using microdata from the 2017-2018 Brazilian Household Budget Survey (POF) we used a two-stage estimation procedure: in the first ...
João Augusto Barcellos Lins +2 more
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A Practical Guide to Pilot Testing Community-Based Vaccination Coverage Surveys
Vaccines, 2023 Pilot testing is crucial when preparing any community-based vaccination coverage survey. In this paper, we use the term pilot test to mean informative work conducted before a survey protocol has been finalized for the purpose of guiding decisions about ...
Dale A. Rhoda +13 more
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Subjective Probabilities in Household Surveys [PDF]
Annual Review of Economics, 2009 Subjective probabilities are now collected on a number of large household surveys with the objective of providing data to better understand intertemporal decision making. Comparison of subjective probabilities with actual outcomes shows that the probabilities have considerable predictive power in situations where individuals have considerable private ...
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Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) Survey in the Czech Republic: Methodology and History [PDF]
Statistika: Statistics and Economy JournalEU-SILC is a survey focused mainly on mapping income and living conditions of households. In the Czech Republic, the survey has been conducted annualy since 2005 under the name “Životní podmínky” (Living Conditions).
Barbora Linhartová Jiřičková +2 more
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Item-nonresponse in a household sample survey in Colombia
Revista UIS Ingenierías, 2021 Item nonresponse occurs when sample units do not provide information on a particular variable, problem that may affect the representativeness of the sample and the reliability of the estimates.
Josefa Ramoni-Perazzi +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar +8 more
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Distribution of household assets in Croatia
Public Sector Economics, 2020 This paper analyses the main components and distribution of household net assets in Croatia on the basis of the data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) by taking into account different socio-demographic characteris¬tics of ...
Marina Kunovac
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The Living Wage:An economic geography based explanation for a policy for equality [PDF]
, 2015 This article examines the theoretical underpinning of living wage campaigns. The article uses evidence, derived from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey from 2005 to 2008, to examine the extent to which a living wage will address low pay within the ...
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