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...Judith S. Rowe 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1977 1977 Census Data Disc Drive Readable Form Caribbean Country Central Statistic Office DEMOGRAPHV© Volume 14, Number 1 February 1977 NON·AMERICAN CENSUS DATA IN MACHINE·READABLE FORM Judith S. Rowe Computer...

.... The authors arrive at 24 variables which are grouped on two levels—category and specific item—by the use of either main tables or indexes. The use of indexes is preferred for its reduction of clerical and computer time. In addition to the index (which should be made available in machine-readable form...

.... The second and third contain additional information on geographic codes, explanations of terminology, etc. This material is maintained in machine- readable form and can be supplied di- rectly on the same tape with the data. This will allow the user to print required copies for distribution, for data...

... of death registration data for the city of Philadelphia in 1880to machine-readable form, linkage of the death register data to the 1880manuscript census, and the cal- culation of mortality schedules from these data provide an opportunity to explore several methods for evaluating population data in open...

... for demographic re- search of this data form. A fundamental conclusion of this paper is that, while a good deal of non printed data are now available, their full use will be dependent mainly on a new approach to cost, data management, and the ownership and con- trol of resources. TRENDS IN AND PROSPECTS...

.... With the increasing availability of computers in Canada, there is a corresponding in- crease in demand for data in machine- readable form. Data in this form pro- vide the users with flexibility and the capability of generating tables with varying breakdowns for varying geo- graphic areas. Tape files containing...

... a machine readable circle) and supplied an incorrect response. Consequently, there were many more opportuni- ties for error than questions on the form. However, we counted errors of a specified type (e.g. skip, failed to fill in a circle, or a wrong response) only once per question, even if the same error...

... are available, the Cen- sus Bureau will undertake to insure that most users of summary tapes and dis- closure-free samples get tape in a form readable on their computers and suited to their software. IMPROVEMENTS IN COMMUNICA- TIONS WITH USERS Summary Tape User Workshops could be expanded, with additional funds...

... of social science research in the late 1950s and early 1960s had led to growing demand for special tabulations, which the Census Bureau prepared on a reimbursable basis (Kraus 2011 ). To meet the demand, in 1962 the Census Bureau drew a 1-in-1,000 sample of the long-form records from the 1960 census...

...." The basic model estimates the relationship between wives' characteristics and husbands' income for a sample of married couples with children under 18 years old. The equation takes the following form: y = xb + e, (1) where y is the natural log of the men's income from all sources except welfare, x is a set...

..., enumerators copied the entries made on census forms to another machine-readable form. This transcrip- tion probably made the review of the questionnaire more thorough. In 1970, the questionnaire was already machine-read- able and an enumerator applied editing instructions. She could then make the judgment...

... are characteristics of the PSID households’ metropolitan area of residence as of the interview wave. Metropolitan-area population size is measured in logged form to reduce skewness. We also include the percentages of the metropolitan-area population that are non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and Asian, as well...

... forming tissues produce a large amount of heat—approximately twice the amount that adult tissues produce ( Laburn 1996 ). Fetal brain development is one of the most heat-producing processes during fetal formation, but brain tissues are also those more sensitive to heat ( Laburn 1996 ). Maternal...

... the five years ending in the census year. States enter the sample when they enter the BRA 17 9 2018 2 11 2018 © Population Association of America 2018 2018 Infant mortality Birth registration Vital statistics Underregistration Vital statistics form the foundation...

... care. These technological changes, whether in the form of new knowledge or new products and services, have enabled people to live longer and better lives (Cutler, Deaton, and Lleras-Muney 2006). Socioeconomic disparities in health have also been increasing over the past century (Elo and Preston 1996...

... formed after 1963. Such counties represent the transfer of land and population from non- metropolitan to metropolitan status. We also considered two types of nonmetropolitan counties: recreational and agricul- tural. Recreational counties are those that were identi ed by Beale and Johnson (1998...

..., and Kvåle 1995). The risk of breast cancer seems to be higher for childless women (Lambe et al. 1998), but their chances of surviving after diagnosis are also higher than for parous women (Korzeniowski and Dyba 1994). High fertility appears to be protective for some other forms of cancer (Egan, Quinn...

... of the functional form of the sex ratio, we divided the sex ratio into sextiles and used ¿ ve dummy Figure 1. Mortality After High School for Men and School-Level Sex Ratios in the 1957 Graduating High School Class for the State of Wisconsin (N = 4,183) Notes: Sex ratios were computed as the number of males divided...

... and Employment 167 may be an all-or-nothing form of assistance for low-income women. If so, simulations in which subsidies raise or lower the effective price of child care for all women are likely to miss the effect of uncertain receipt on women s employment decisions. In doing so, they are likely to overstate...

... will refer to it in more abbreviated form as the "state of birth." 7 Discriminant analysis has the advantage of providing a fit by least squares, so it is no more computationally intensive than regression analysis. It enables us to use a very large sample and thereby 458 Demography, Vol. 25, No.3, August...