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Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 Amazonian wildlife population studies often employ conventional biological survey methods to assess species presence but a growing number of studies are making use of local ecological knowledge (LEK) household surveys.
Daniel Zayonc, Oliver T. Coomes
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Upscaling Household Survey Data Using Remote Sensing to Map Socioeconomic Groups in Kampala, Uganda
Remote Sensing, 2020 Sub-Saharan African cities are expanding horizontally, demonstrating spatial patterns of urban sprawl and socioeconomic segregation. An important research gap around the geographies of urban populations is that city-wide analyses mask local socioeconomic
Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx +6 more
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Counting Households Containing Same-Sex Couples: An Inclusive Approach
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022 Though societal acceptance of same-sex unions has grown, resulting in more inclusive government programs and policies and expanded legal protections, analysts remain uncertain about how to identify and enumerate same-sex households.
Peter Brandon, Oleg Ivashchenko
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Household Surveys in Crisis [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2015 Household surveys, one of the main innovations in social science research of the last century, are threatened by declining accuracy due to reduced cooperation of respondents. While many indicators of survey quality have steadily declined in recent decades, the literature has largely emphasized rising nonresponse rates rather than other potentially more
Bruce Meyer +2 more
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Cancer Mortality in Basrah: A household Survey Results [PDF]
The Medical Journal of Basrah University, 2015 Background: This paper presents some data on cancer related mortality in Basrah governorate during the period 2010-2012 as part of a comprehensive household survey carried out during 2013 to document the extent of cancer and validate the official cancer ...
Riyadh AA Al-Hilfi, Omran S. Habib
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A Living Income for Cocoa Producers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana?
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 It is often claimed that cocoa producers are poor, but the extent of their poverty is rarely defined. We analyzed six data sets derived from household questionnaires of 385–88,896 cocoa producers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.
Jiska A. van Vliet +3 more
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Development Studies Research, 2022 Data availability plays a crucial role in the fight against poverty. Yet, it lags behind the data available on most other economic phenomena. This paper catalogs and reviews existing data availability for low- and middle-income countries with a view to ...
Sabina Alkire, Matthew Robson
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Household Structures and Savings: Evidence from Household Surveys [PDF]
, 2008 This paper examines the relationship between household structures, the institutions that shape them and physical and human capital accumulation using household and individual data from China, Indonesia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.
de Laiglesia, Juan R. +1 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 This paper provides recommendations on how large-scale household surveys should be conducted to generate the data needed to train models for satellite-based crop type mapping in smallholder farming systems.
George Azzari +4 more
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Linking Survey and Administrative Data to Measure Income, Inequality, and Mobility
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2019 Background Income is one of the most important measures of well-being, but it is notoriously difficult to measure accurately. In the United States, income data are available from surveys, tax records, and government programs, but each of these sources ...
Carla Medalia +3 more
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