377 Ebooks bởi Committee on National Statistics
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Using the American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a major new initiative from the U.S. Census Bureau designed to provide continuously updated information on the numbers and characteristics of the nation’s peopl …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Understanding American Agriculture
The Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) is the federal government’s primary source of information on the financial condition, production practices, and resource use on farms, as well as th …
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€49.29
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads
Since the early days of the nation, the federal government has collected information on the revenues, expenditures, and other features of state and local jurisdictions and their operations. Today, th …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty
Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-t …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Surveying Victims
It is easy to underestimate how little was known about crimes and victims before the findings of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) became common wisdom. In the late 1960s, knowledge of c …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Ballistic Imaging
Ballistic Imaging assesses the state of computer-based imaging technology in forensic firearms identification. The book evaluates the current law enforcement database of images of crime-related cartr …
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Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice & Committee on National Statistics: National Children’s Study Research Plan
The National Childrens Study (NCS) is planned to be the largest long-term study of environmental and genetic effects on childrens health ever conducted in the United States. It proposes to examine th …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Using the American Community Survey for the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Workforce Statistics Programs
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has long collected information on the number and characteristics of individuals with education or employment in science and engineering and related fields in the …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Since 1992, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) has produced a book on principles and practices for a federal statistical agency, updating the document every 4 years to provide a current ed …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists
All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal datasuch as phone records or Web sites visitedshould be required to evaluate the programs’ effectiveness, la …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Strategies for a BEA Satellite Health Care Account
In March 2008, the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies held a workshop to assist the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) with next steps as it develops plans to produce a satelli …
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Center for Education & Committee on National Statistics: Protecting Student Records and Facilitating Education Research
Designed to protect the privacy of individual student test scores, grades, and other education records, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 places limits the access of educa …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Coverage Measurement in the 2010 Census
The census coverage measurement programs have historically addressed three primary objectives: (1) to inform users about the quality of the census counts; (2) to help identify sources of error to imp …
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Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph: Polygraph and Lie Detection
The polygraph, often portrayed as a magic mind-reading machine, is still controversial among experts, who continue heated debates about its validity as a lie-detecting device. As the nation takes a f …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Racial Discrimination
Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discriminationpervasive and open denial of civil, …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Ballistic Imaging
Ballistic Imaging assesses the state of computer-based imaging technology in forensic firearms identification. The book evaluates the current law enforcement database of images of crime-related cartr …
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€64.31
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists
All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal datasuch as phone records or Web sites visitedshould be required to evaluate the programs’ effectiveness, la …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice is one of the smallest of the U.S. principal statistical agencies but shoulders one of the most expansive and detailed legal m …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Vital Statistics
Vital statistics, the records of birth and death, are a critical national information resource for understanding public health. Over the past few decades, the specific program that gathers the data h …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reengineering the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Beginning in 2006, the Census Bureau embarked on a program to reengineer the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to reduce its costs and improve data quality and timeliness. The Bureau …
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Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys
Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys summarizes a workshop organized to draw upon recent advances to improve the measurement of physical and cognitive disability in …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Intangible Assets
Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to raise the efficiency and brand identification of firmscomp …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice is one of the smallest of the U.S. principal statistical agencies but shoulders one of the most expansive and detailed legal m …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Data on Federal Research and Development Investments
Two surveys of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) provide some of the most significant data available to understand research and development spending and …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Vital Statistics
Vital statistics, the records of birth and death, are a critical national information resource for understanding public health. Over the past few decades, the specific program that gathers the data h …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Protecting and Accessing Data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates
The Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) collects data on the number and characteristics of individuals receiving research doctoral degrees from all accredited U.S. institutions. The results of this ann …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reengineering the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Beginning in 2006, the Census Bureau embarked on a program to reengineer the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to reduce its costs and improve data quality and timeliness. The Bureau …
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€60.18
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys
Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys summarizes a workshop organized to draw upon recent advances to improve the measurement of physical and cognitive disability in …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Database for a Changing Economy
Information about the characteristics of jobs and the individuals who fill them is valuable for career guidance, reemployment counseling, workforce development, human resource management, and other p …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Intangible Assets
Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to raise the efficiency and brand identification of firmscomp …
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€41.16
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Protecting and Accessing Data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates
The Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) collects data on the number and characteristics of individuals receiving research doctoral degrees from all accredited U.S. institutions. The results of this ann …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Data on Federal Research and Development Investments
Two surveys of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) provide some of the most significant data available to understand research and development spending and …
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€43.32
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Envisioning the 2020 Census
Planning for the 2020 census is already beginning. This book from the National Research Council examines several aspects of census planning, including questionnaire design, address updating, non-resp …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Developing and Evaluating Methods for Using American Community Survey Data to Support the School Meals Programs
The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation’s foo …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty
Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-t …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Database for a Changing Economy
Information about the characteristics of jobs and the individuals who fill them is valuable for career guidance, reemployment counseling, workforce development, human resource management, and other p …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Accounting for Health and Health Care
It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they repr …
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Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Conducting Biosocial Surveys
Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-scale household surveys. By combining biological and …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Envisioning the 2020 Census
Planning for the 2020 census is already beginning. This book from the National Research Council examines several aspects of census planning, including questionnaire design, address updating, non-resp …
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€102.92
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials
Randomized clinical trials are the primary tool for evaluating new medical interventions. Randomization provides for a fair comparison between treatment and control groups, balancing out, on average, …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Health Care Cost Projections for the Medicare Population
Developing credible short-term and long-term projections of Medicare health care costs is critical for public- and private-sector policy planning, but faces challenges and uncertainties. There is unc …
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€32.25
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Conducting Biosocial Surveys
Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-scale household surveys. By combining biological and …
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€33.50
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Developing and Evaluating Methods for Using American Community Survey Data to Support the School Meals Programs
The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation’s foo …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Databases for Estimating Health Insurance Coverage for Children
This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop convened in June 2010 to critically examine the various databases that could provide national and state-level estimates of low-income uninsured ch …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Since 1992, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) has produced a book on principles and practices for a federal statistical agency, updating the document every 4 years to provide a current ed …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Understanding Business Dynamics
The U.S. economy is highly dynamic: businesses open and close, workers switch jobs and start new enterprises, and innovative technologies redefine the workplace and enhance productivity. With globali …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place
The usefulness of the U.S. decennial census depends critically on the accuracy with which individual people are counted in specific housing units, at precise geographic locations. The 2000 and other …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Expanding Access to Research Data
Policy makers need information about the nationranging from trends in the overalleconomy down to the use by individuals of Medicarein order to evaluate existingprograms and to develop new ones. This …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Beyond the Market
The national income and product accounts that underlie gross domestic product(GDP), together with other key economic dataprice and employment statisticsare widely used as indicators of how well the n …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring International Trade on U.S. Highways
<p>International trade plays a substantial role in the economy of the United States. More than 1.6 billion tons of international merchandise was conveyed using the U.S. transportation system in …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Experimental Poverty Measures
The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Research Council (NRC) convened a workshop on June 15-16, 2004, to review federal research on alternative methods for measuring poverty. …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Economy
This report examines the portfolio of research and development (R&D) expenditure surveys at the National Science Foundation (NSF), identifying gaps and weaknesses and areas of missing coverage. The r …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Eliminating Health Disparities
Disparities in health and health care across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds in the United States are well documented. The reasons for these disparities are, however, not well understoo …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reengineering the 2010 Census
At the request of the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Research Council’s Committee on National Statistics established the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods to review the early planning proc …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: 2000 Census
The decennial census was the federal government’s largest and most complexpeacetime operation. This report of a panel of the National Research Council’s Committee on National Statistics comprehensive …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improved Operational Testing and Evaluation and Methods of Combining Test Information for the Stryker Family of Vehicles and Related Army Systems
The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is responsible for the operational testing and evaluation of Army systems in development. ATECrequested that the National Research Council form the Pa …
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Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Committee on National Statistics: Innovations in Software Engineering for Defense Systems
Recent rough estimates are that the U.S. Department of Defense (Do D) spends at least $38 billion a year on the research, development, testing, and evaluation of new defense systems; approximately 40 …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program
This report reviews the methods used to estimate the national number of people eligible to participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) under full …
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€62.70
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Planning the 2010 Census
The Panel on Research on Future Census Methods has a broad charge to review the early planning process for the 2010 census. Its work includes observing the operation of the 2000 census, deriving less …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Survey Automation
For over 100 years, the evolution of modern survey methodologyusing the theory of representative sampling to make interferences from a part of the population to the wholehas been paralleled by a driv …
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Center for Education & Committee on Improving Measures of Access to Equal Educational Opportunity: Measuring Access to Learning Opportunities
Since 1968 the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report (known as the ES survey) has been used to gather information about possible disparities in access to learning opportuniti …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Measurement Problems in Criminal Justice Research
Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports has collected information on crimes known to the police and arrests from local and state jurisdi …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Statistical Issues in Allocating Funds by Formula
In 2000, the federal government distributed over $260 billion of funding to state and local governments via 180 formula programs. These programs promote a wide spectrum of economic and social objecti …
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Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Review the 2000 Decade Design of the Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT): Improving the Design of the Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT)
The past decade has demonstrated the utility of SESTAT, but the SESTAT design shows some deficiencies with respect to response rates, coverage of populations of interest, and its ability to support s …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reliability Issues for DOD Systems
The final report of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Panel on Statistical Methods for Testing and Evaluating Defense Systems (National Research Council, 1998) was intended to provide broad advic …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Dynamics of Disability
The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claimants as baby boomers age, changing attitudes culminati …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Key Transportation Indicators
A transportation indicator is a measure of change over time in the transportation system or in its social, economic, environmental, or other effects. Two National Research Council (NRC) studies recom …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Housing Discrimination in a National Study
Federal law prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of seven protected classes including race. Despite 30 years of legal prohibition under the Fair Housing Act, however, there is evidence of co …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: 2000 Census
This volume contains the full text of two reports: one is an interim review of major census operations, which also assesses the U.S. Census bureau’s recommendation in March 2001 regarding statistical …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Studies of Welfare Populations
This volume, a companion to Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, is a collection of papers on data collection issues for welfare and low-income populations. The papers on survey issues …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Choosing the Right Formula
The workshop was a direct outgrowth of a previous study by the CNSTAT Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas. That panel, established under a 1994 act of Congress, began its work wi …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Toward a Health Statistics System for the 21st Century
The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) convened a workshop on November 4-5, 1999, to identify new directions for health statistics and the implications for health data of changes in the health …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program
Each year the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must estimate the number of people who are eligible to participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children ( …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: At What Price?
How well does the consumer price index (CPI) reflect the changes that people actually face in living costsfrom apples to computers to health care? Given how it is used, is it desirable to construct t …
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Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Preparing for an Aging World
Aging is a process that encompasses virtually all aspects of life. Because the speed of population aging is accelerating, and because the data needed to study the aging process are complex and expens …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS), to be run by the Census Bureau, will be a large (250, 000 housing units a month), predominantly mailout/mailback survey that will collect information similar to t …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty
The Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas was established by the Committee on National Statistics at the National Research Council in response to the Improving America’s Schools Ac …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs: Informing America’s Policy on Illegal Drugs
How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to combat the destructive effects of illegal drug use. …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition
Reform of welfare is one of the nation’s most contentious issues, with debate often driven more by politics than by facts and careful analysis. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition ident …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Access to and Confidentiality of Research Data
Improving Access to and Confidentiality of Research Data summarizes a workshop convened by the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) to promote discussion about methods for advancing the often co …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Small-Area Income and Poverty Estimates
Recent trends in federal policies for social and economic programs have increased the demand for timely, accurate estimates of income and poverty for states, counties, and even smaller areas. Every y …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government: Summary of a Workshop on Information Technology Research for Federal Statistics (
Part of an in-depth study of how information technology research and development could more effectively support advances in the use of information technology (IT) in government, Summary of a Workshop …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Time-Use Measurement and Research
One of the most substantial policy changes in the past decade was the elimination of the main social welfare program for poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, ending the entitlement …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Designing the 2010 Census
The Panel on Research on Future Census Methods was formed to examine alternative designs for the 2010 census and to assist the Census Bureau in planning tests and analyses to help assess and compare …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Survey Measurement of Work Disability
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is engaged in redesigning its disability determination process for providing cash benefits and medical assistance to blind and disabled persons under the Soci …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring a Changing Nation
This final report of the Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies provides an assessment of the Census Bureau’s plans for the 2000 census as of the time of the 1998 census dress rehearsal. It examin …
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Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Review the Social Security Administration’s Disability Decision Process Research: Measuring Functional Capacity and Work Requirements
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is reengineering its disability claims process for providing cash benefits and medical assistance to blind and disabled persons under the Social Security Disa …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Longitudinal Surveys of Children
The Committee and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened in September a workshop to discuss ways to foster greater collaboration and sharing of information among principal investigators …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring the Government Sector of the U.S. Economic Accounts
This report had its origin in a Committee on National Statistics workshop in November 1993, one of a series on improving economic statistics, jointly sponsored by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition
For every weapons system being developed, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must make a critical decision: Should the system go forward to full-scale production? The answer to that question may in …
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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Local Fiscal Effects of Illegal Immigration
The recent level of illegal immigration to the United States has increased debates about the effect of these immigrants on the cost of public services, and states have begun to enact policies that li …
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€21.59
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Data on America’s Aging Population
The Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population, at the request of the NIA, convened a workshop in March 1996 to discuss data on the aging population that address the emerging an …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Surveying Victims
It is easy to underestimate how little was known about crimes and victims before the findings of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) became common wisdom. In the late 1960s, knowledge of c …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Coverage Measurement in the 2010 Census
The census coverage measurement programs have historically addressed three primary objectives: (1) to inform users about the quality of the census counts; (2) to help identify sources of error to imp …
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€57.36
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Using the American Community Survey for the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Workforce Statistics Programs
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has long collected information on the number and characteristics of individuals with education or employment in science and engineering and related fields in the …
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€40.67
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Strategies for a BEA Satellite Health Care Account
In March 2008, the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies held a workshop to assist the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) with next steps as it develops plans to produce a satelli …
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Center for Education & Committee on National Statistics: Protecting Student Records and Facilitating Education Research
Designed to protect the privacy of individual student test scores, grades, and other education records, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 places limits the access of educa …
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€41.17
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Understanding American Agriculture
The Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) is the federal government’s primary source of information on the financial condition, production practices, and resource use on farms, as well as th …
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€70.93
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Business Statistics Through Interagency Data Sharing
U.S. business data are used broadly, providing the building blocks for key nationalas well as regional and localstatistics measuring aggregate income and output, employment, investment, prices, and p …
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€52.47
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States
The United States is viewed by the world as a country with plenty of food, yet not all households in America are food secure, meaning access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. A …
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€52.48
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment
The Department of Defense (Do D) recently adopted evolutionary acquisition, a dynamic strategy for the development and acquisition of its defense systems. Evolutionary defense systems are planned, in …
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€30.86
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies
Several changes in the United States over the past two decades have implications for diet, nutrition, and food safety, including patterns of food consumption that have produced an increase in overwei …
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€49.93
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Analyzing Information on Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting
It has been clear for at least 50 years the disadvantages that small businesses face in competing for U.S. government contracts. The Small Business Act of 1953 created the Small Business Administrati …
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€40.99
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Racial and Ethnic Data on Health
The panel convened the Workshop on Improving Racial and Ethnic Data in Health to review information about current private-sector and state data collection practices in light of existing federal, stat …
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€30.74
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Data Needs for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program
The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was established by Congress to provide health insurance to uninsured children whose family income was too high for Medicaid coverage but too low …
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€30.81
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Evaluating Welfare Reform
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 fundamentally changed the nation’s social welfare system, replacing a federal entitlement program for low-income f …
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€69.74
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty
The U.S. Department of Education uses estimates of school-age children in poverty to allocate federal funds under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for education programs to aid d …
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€47.68
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform
This report was prepared in response to a request from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It summarizes the discussions at a February 1998 workshop conv …
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€30.78
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Review of the Disability Evaluation Study Design
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has been engaged in a major effort to redesign the process for determining disability for cash benefits and medical assistance under its Social Security Disab …
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€21.86
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Health Care Cost Projections for the Medicare Population
Developing credible short-term and long-term projections of Medicare health care costs is critical for public- and private-sector policy planning, but faces challenges and uncertainties. There is unc …
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€46.43
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey
Following several years of testing and evaluation, the American Community Survey (ACS) was launched in 2005 as a replacement for the census "long form, " used to collect detailed social, ec …
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€14.62
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Databases for Estimating Health Insurance Coverage for Children
This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop convened in June 2010 to critically examine the various databases that could provide national and state-level estimates of low-income uninsured ch …
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€64.07
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Elder Mistreatment
Since the late 1970s when Congressman Claude Pepper held widely publicized hearings on the mistreatment of the elderly, policy makers and practitioners have sought ways to protect older Americans fro …
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€82.86
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice & Committee on National Statistics: National Children’s Study Research Plan
The National Childrens Study (NCS) is planned to be the largest long-term study of environmental and genetic effects on childrens health ever conducted in the United States. It proposes to examine th …
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€55.42
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials
Randomized clinical trials are the primary tool for evaluating new medical interventions. Randomization provides for a fair comparison between treatment and control groups, balancing out, on average, …
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€46.20
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on National Statistics: Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners
As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation’s school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With the 2001 …
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€33.93
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey
Following several years of testing and evaluation, the American Community Survey (ACS) was launched in 2005 as a replacement for the census "long form, " used to collect detailed social, ec …
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€21.75
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Accounting for Health and Health Care
It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they repr …
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€70.59
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Change and the 2020 Census
Sponsored by the Census Bureau and charged to evaluate the 2010 U.S. census with an eye toward suggesting research and development for the 2020 census, the Panel to Review the 2010 Census uses this f …
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€21.23
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Change and the 2020 Census
Sponsored by the Census Bureau and charged to evaluate the 2010 U.S. census with an eye toward suggesting research and development for the 2020 census, the Panel to Review the 2010 Census uses this f …
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€21.95
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Facilitating Innovation in the Federal Statistical System
On May 8, 2009, the symposium, The Federal Statistical System: Recognizing Its Contributions, Moving It Forward was held in Washington, DC. One of the topics considered at that symposium was the heal …
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€21.18
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Facilitating Innovation in the Federal Statistical System
On May 8, 2009, the symposium, The Federal Statistical System: Recognizing Its Contributions, Moving It Forward was held in Washington, DC. One of the topics considered at that symposium was the heal …
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€21.86
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Future of Federal Household Surveys
Federal household surveys today face several significant challenges including: increasing costs of data collection, declining response rates, perceptions of increasing response burden, inadequate tim …
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€29.49
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Future of Federal Household Surveys
Federal household surveys today face several significant challenges including: increasing costs of data collection, declining response rates, perceptions of increasing response burden, inadequate tim …
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€32.07
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on National Statistics: Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners
As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation’s school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With the 2001 …
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€37.36
Committee on National Statistics & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering (S&E) information to data users in a very fluid en …
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€30.89
Committee on National Statistics & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering (S&E) information to data users in a very fluid en …
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€39.72
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on National Statistics: Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems
During the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies on the application of statistical methods to improv …
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€21.13
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on National Statistics: Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems
During the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies on the application of statistical methods to improv …
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€36.08
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at least 5 collect relev …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at least 5 collect relev …
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€32.08
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on National Statistics: Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use
The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world’s energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, commercial floor space, transportation, goods, and se …
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€3.85
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on National Statistics: Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use
The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world’s energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, commercial floor space, transportation, goods, and se …
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€35.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Small Populations, Large Effects
In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, economic, and housing data from a sample of the U.S. …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Small Populations, Large Effects
In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, economic, and housing data from a sample of the U.S. …
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€46.21
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on National Statistics: Testing of Body Armor Materials
In 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the report Warfighter Support: Independent Expert Assessment of Army Body Armor Test Results and Procedures Needed Before Fielding, which …
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€3.81
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Using American Community Survey Data to Expand Access to the School Meals Programs
The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation’s food sec …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Using American Community Survey Data to Expand Access to the School Meals Programs
The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation’s food sec …
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€64.31
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education
Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society: teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute significantly to the nation’s economic activity, both directly and th …
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€3.84
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education
Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society: teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute significantly to the nation’s economic activity, both directly and th …
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€48.27
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on National Statistics: Key National Education Indicators
The education system in the United States is continually challenged to adapt and improve, in part because its mission has become far more ambitious than it once was. At the turn of the 20th century, …
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€3.84
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on National Statistics: Key National Education Indicators
The education system in the United States is continually challenged to adapt and improve, in part because its mission has become far more ambitious than it once was. At the turn of the 20th century, …
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€42.23
Committee on Examination of the Adequacy of Food Resources and SNAP Allotments & Committee on National Statistics: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a strain on already limited resources and may compel them …
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€3.85
Committee on Examination of the Adequacy of Food Resources and SNAP Allotments & Committee on National Statistics: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a strain on already limited resources and may compel them …
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€52.60
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Collecting Compensation Data from Employers
U.S. agencies with responsibilities for enforcing equal employment opportunity laws have long relied on detailed information that is obtained from employers on employment in job groups by gender and …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Collecting Compensation Data from Employers
U.S. agencies with responsibilities for enforcing equal employment opportunity laws have long relied on detailed information that is obtained from employers on employment in job groups by gender and …
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€42.45
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Options for Estimating Illegal Entries at the U.S.-Mexico Border
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for securing and managing the nation’s borders. Over the past decade, DHS has dramatically stepped up its enforcement efforts at the U.S. …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Options for Estimating Illegal Entries at the U.S.-Mexico Border
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for securing and managing the nation’s borders. Over the past decade, DHS has dramatically stepped up its enforcement efforts at the U.S. …
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€45.89
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring What We Spend
The Consumer Expenditure (CE) surveys are the only source of information on the complete range of consumers’ expenditures and incomes in the United States, as well as the characteristics of those con …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring What We Spend
The Consumer Expenditure (CE) surveys are the only source of information on the complete range of consumers’ expenditures and incomes in the United States, as well as the characteristics of those con …
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€52.26
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Medical Care Economic Risk
The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, an …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Medical Care Economic Risk
The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, an …
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€60.17
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Benefits, Burdens, and Prospects of the American Community Survey
In June 2012, the Committee on National Statistics (sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau) convened a Workshop on the Benefits (and Burdens) of the American Community Survey (ACS)the detailed demograph …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Benefits, Burdens, and Prospects of the American Community Survey
In June 2012, the Committee on National Statistics (sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau) convened a Workshop on the Benefits (and Burdens) of the American Community Survey (ACS)the detailed demograph …
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€46.43
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Nonresponse in Social Science Surveys
For many household surveys in the United States, responses rates have been steadily declining for at least the past two decades. A similar decline in survey response can be observed in all wealthy co …
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€3.81
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Nonresponse in Social Science Surveys
For many household surveys in the United States, responses rates have been steadily declining for at least the past two decades. A similar decline in survey response can be observed in all wealthy co …
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€43.58
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: National Patterns of R&D Resources
National Patterns of R&D Resources is an annual report issued by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation, which provides a national view …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: National Patterns of R&D Resources
National Patterns of R&D Resources is an annual report issued by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation, which provides a national view …
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€43.21
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individuals, households, businesses, academic institutions, a …
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€3.80
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individuals, households, businesses, academic institutions, a …
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€46.12
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Design of the National Children’s Study
The Children’s Health Act mandated the National Children’s Study (NCS) in 2000 with one of its purposes being to authorize the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to stud …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Design of the National Children’s Study
The Children’s Health Act mandated the National Children’s Study (NCS) in 2000 with one of its purposes being to authorize the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to stud …
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€39.88
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Research Opportunities Concerning the Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger
Section 141 of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 20101 provides funding for a research program on the causes and consequences of childhood hunger and food insecurity, and the characteristics of ho …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Research Opportunities Concerning the Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger
Section 141 of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 20101 provides funding for a research program on the causes and consequences of childhood hunger and food insecurity, and the characteristics of ho …
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€46.20
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Subjective Well-Being
Subjective well-being refers to how people experience and evaluate their lives and specific domains and activities in their lives. This information has already proven valuable to researchers, who hav …
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€3.82
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Subjective Well-Being
Subjective well-being refers to how people experience and evaluate their lives and specific domains and activities in their lives. This information has already proven valuable to researchers, who hav …
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€46.18
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Developing New National Data on Social Mobility
Developing New National Data on Social Mobility summarizes a workshop convened in June 2013 to consider options for a design for a new national survey on social mobility. The workshop was sponsored b …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Developing New National Data on Social Mobility
Developing New National Data on Social Mobility summarizes a workshop convened in June 2013 to consider options for a design for a new national survey on social mobility. The workshop was sponsored b …
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€33.28
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault
The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) measures the rates at which Americans are victims of crimes, including rape and sexual assault, but there is concern …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault
The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) measures the rates at which Americans are victims of crimes, including rape and sexual assault, but there is concern …
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€56.31
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation
Since the 1950s, under congressional mandate, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) – through its National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) and predecessor agencies – has pr …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation
Since the 1950s, under congressional mandate, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) – through its National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) and predecessor agencies – has pr …
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€64.00
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences examines how to update human subjects protections regulations so that they effectively …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences examines how to update human subjects protections regulations so that they effectively …
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€52.48
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Science of Science and Innovation Policy
The National Science Foundation developed the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program (Sci SIP) in 2006 to fund basic and applied research that bears on and can help guide public- and privat …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Science of Science and Innovation Policy
The National Science Foundation developed the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program (Sci SIP) in 2006 to fund basic and applied research that bears on and can help guide public- and privat …
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€43.52
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Human Spaceflight: Pathways to Exploration
The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemi …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Human Spaceflight: Pathways to Exploration
The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemi …
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€70.62
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: National Children’s Study 2014
The National Children’s Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children’s Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Chil …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: National Children’s Study 2014
The National Children’s Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children’s Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Chil …
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€48.89
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Issues in Returning Individual Results from Genome Research Using Population-Based Banked Specimens, with a Focus on the National Health and Nutrition Examination
Population surveys traditionally collect information from respondents about their circumstances, behaviors, attitudes, and other characteristics. In recent years, many surveys have been collecting no …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Issues in Returning Individual Results from Genome Research Using Population-Based Banked Specimens, with a Focus on the National Health and Nutrition Examination
Population surveys traditionally collect information from respondents about their circumstances, behaviors, attitudes, and other characteristics. In recent years, many surveys have been collecting no …
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€41.08
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Civic Engagement and Social Cohesion
People’s bonds, associations and networks – as well as the civil, political, and institutional characteristics of the society in which they live – can be powerful drivers affecting the quality of lif …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Civic Engagement and Social Cohesion
People’s bonds, associations and networks – as well as the civil, political, and institutional characteristics of the society in which they live – can be powerful drivers affecting the quality of lif …
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€56.29
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Data and Research to Improve the U.S. Food Availability System and Estimates of Food Loss
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research Service’s (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but related data series on food and nutrient availabilit …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Data and Research to Improve the U.S. Food Availability System and Estimates of Food Loss
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research Service’s (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but related data series on food and nutrient availabilit …
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€49.54
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reliability Growth
A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), as well as the nation. Those systems are not only …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reliability Growth
A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), as well as the nation. Those systems are not only …
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€62.78
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Realizing the Potential of the American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) was conceptualized as a replacement to the census long form, which collected detailed population and housing data from a sample of the U.S. population, once a deca …
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€3.81
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Realizing the Potential of the American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) was conceptualized as a replacement to the census long form, which collected detailed population and housing data from a sample of the U.S. population, once a deca …
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€57.78
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation is responsible for national reporting of the research and development (R&D) activities that occur in …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation is responsible for national reporting of the research and development (R&D) activities that occur in …
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€52.09
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on National Statistics: Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is housed within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and offers insurance policies that are marketed and sold through private insurers, but with …
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€3.85
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on National Statistics: Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is housed within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and offers insurance policies that are marketed and sold through private insurers, but with …
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€52.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Bicentennial Census
In 1982 the Census Bureau requested the Committee on National Statistics to establish a panel to suggest research and experiments, to recommend improved methods, and to guide the Census Bureau on tec …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Bicentennial Census
In 1982 the Census Bureau requested the Committee on National Statistics to establish a panel to suggest research and experiments, to recommend improved methods, and to guide the Census Bureau on tec …
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€70.62
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Rationalizing Rural Area Classifications for the Economic Research Service
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA/ERS) maintains four highly related but distinct geographic classification systems to designate areas by the degree to which they are …
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€3.79
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Rationalizing Rural Area Classifications for the Economic Research Service
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA/ERS) maintains four highly related but distinct geographic classification systems to designate areas by the degree to which they are …
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€50.08
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums: Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums
When Congress authorized the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 1968, it intended for the program to encourage community initiatives in flood risk management, charge insurance premiums consis …
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€3.83
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums: Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums
When Congress authorized the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 1968, it intended for the program to encourage community initiatives in flood risk management, charge insurance premiums consis …
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€51.47
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children
The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary f …
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€3.84
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children
The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary f …
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€43.62
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Specific Mental Illness Diagnoses with Functional Impairment
The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary f …
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€3.80
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Specific Mental Illness Diagnoses with Functional Impairment
The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary f …
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€46.06
Board on Human-Systems Integration & Committee on National Statistics: Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health, and Highway Safety
There are approximately 4, 000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might hav …
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€3.84
Board on Human-Systems Integration & Committee on National Statistics: Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health, and Highway Safety
There are approximately 4, 000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might hav …
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€61.49
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on National Statistics: Evaluation of the Achievement Levels for Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Since 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been providing policymakers, educators, and the public with reports on academic performance and progress of the nation’s student …
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€3.84
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on National Statistics: Evaluation of the Achievement Levels for Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Since 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been providing policymakers, educators, and the public with reports on academic performance and progress of the nation’s student …
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€70.10
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Modernizing Crime Statistics
To derive statistics about crime to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement approaches to prevent it a conceptual framework for defining …
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€3.85
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Modernizing Crime Statistics
To derive statistics about crime to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement approaches to prevent it a conceptual framework for defining …
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€83.20
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Trauma
The Workshop on Integrating New Measures of Trauma into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Data Collection Programs, held in Washington, D.C. in December 2015, w …
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€3.85
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Trauma
The Workshop on Integrating New Measures of Trauma into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Data Collection Programs, held in Washington, D.C. in December 2015, w …
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€46.20
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration
The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration finds that the long-term impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native-born workers overall is very small, and that any negative impa …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration
The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration finds that the long-term impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native-born workers overall is very small, and that any negative impa …
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€135.33
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Recovery from Substance Use or Mental Disorders
In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHS …
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€3.81
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Recovery from Substance Use or Mental Disorders
In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHS …
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€47.49
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reducing Response Burden in the American Community Survey
Although people in the United States have historically been reasonably supportive of federal censuses and surveys, they are increasingly unavailable for or not willing to respond to interview request …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reducing Response Burden in the American Community Survey
Although people in the United States have historically been reasonably supportive of federal censuses and surveys, they are increasingly unavailable for or not willing to respond to interview request …
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€49.70
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Advancing Concepts and Models for Measuring Innovation
Because of the role of innovation as a driver of economic productivity and growth and as a mechanism for improving people’s well-being in other ways, understanding the nature, determinants, and impac …
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€3.80
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Advancing Concepts and Models for Measuring Innovation
Because of the role of innovation as a driver of economic productivity and growth and as a mechanism for improving people’s well-being in other ways, understanding the nature, determinants, and impac …
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€64.44
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Collection of Indicators of Criminal Justice System Involvement in Population Health Data Programs
In the U.S. criminal justice system in 2014, an estimated 2.2 million people were in incarcerated or under correctional supervision on any given day, and another 4.7 million were under community supe …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Collection of Indicators of Criminal Justice System Involvement in Population Health Data Programs
In the U.S. criminal justice system in 2014, an estimated 2.2 million people were in incarcerated or under correctional supervision on any given day, and another 4.7 million were under community supe …
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€60.48
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Innovations in Federal Statistics
Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role in a democracy. For decades, sample surveys with instruments carefully designed for particular data need …
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€3.81
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Innovations in Federal Statistics
Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role in a democracy. For decades, sample surveys with instruments carefully designed for particular data need …
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€60.31
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individuals, households, businesses, academic institutions, a …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individuals, households, businesses, academic institutions, a …
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€56.47
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Motor Carrier Safety Measurement
Every year roughly 100, 000 fatal and injury crashes occur in the United States involving large trucks and buses. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in the U.S. Department of Tra …
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€3.80
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Motor Carrier Safety Measurement
Every year roughly 100, 000 fatal and injury crashes occur in the United States involving large trucks and buses. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in the U.S. Department of Tra …
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€63.19
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for Federal Program Evaluation
In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 1-day public workshop on Principles and Practices for Federal Program Evaluation. The workshop was organized …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for Federal Program Evaluation
In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 1-day public workshop on Principles and Practices for Federal Program Evaluation. The workshop was organized …
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€52.64
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Smarter National Surveillance System for Occupational Safety and Health in the 21st Century
The workplace is where 156 million working adults in the United States spend many waking hours, and it has a profound influence on health and well-being. Although some occupations and work-related ac …
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€3.83
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Smarter National Surveillance System for Occupational Safety and Health in the 21st Century
The workplace is where 156 million working adults in the United States spend many waking hours, and it has a profound influence on health and well-being. Although some occupations and work-related ac …
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€70.47
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: 2014 Redesign of the Survey of Income and Program Participation
The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a national, longitudinal household survey conducted by the Census Bureau. SIPP serves as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of government-sp …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: 2014 Redesign of the Survey of Income and Program Participation
The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a national, longitudinal household survey conducted by the Census Bureau. SIPP serves as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of government-sp …
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€70.42
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Crop Estimates by Integrating Multiple Data Sources
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the primary statistical data collection agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). NASS conducts hundreds of surveys each year and …
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€3.86
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Crop Estimates by Integrating Multiple Data Sources
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the primary statistical data collection agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). NASS conducts hundreds of surveys each year and …
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€69.87
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Federal Statistics, Multiple Data Sources, and Privacy Protection
The environment for obtaining information and providing statistical data for policy makers and the public has changed significantly in the past decade, raising questions about the fundamental survey …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Federal Statistics, Multiple Data Sources, and Privacy Protection
The environment for obtaining information and providing statistical data for policy makers and the public has changed significantly in the past decade, raising questions about the fundamental survey …
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€60.18
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring the 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce Population
The National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), one of the nation’s principal statistical agencies, is charged to collect, acquire, analyze, report, …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring the 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce Population
The National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), one of the nation’s principal statistical agencies, is charged to collect, acquire, analyze, report, …
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€63.03
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Modernizing Crime Statistics: Report 2
To derive statistics about crime to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement approaches to prevent it – a conceptual framework for defini …
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€3.85
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Modernizing Crime Statistics: Report 2
To derive statistics about crime to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement approaches to prevent it – a conceptual framework for defini …
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€70.40
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reengineering the Census Bureau’s Annual Economic Surveys
The U.S. Census Bureau maintains an important portfolio of economic statistics programs, including quinquennial economic censuses, annual economic surveys, and quarterly and monthly indicator surveys …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reengineering the Census Bureau’s Annual Economic Surveys
The U.S. Census Bureau maintains an important portfolio of economic statistics programs, including quinquennial economic censuses, annual economic surveys, and quarterly and monthly indicator surveys …
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€62.92
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Health Research on Small Populations
The increasing diversity of population of the United States presents many challenges to conducting health research that is representative and informative. Dispersion and accessibility issues can incr …
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€3.83
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Health Research on Small Populations
The increasing diversity of population of the United States presents many challenges to conducting health research that is representative and informative. Dispersion and accessibility issues can incr …
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€50.29
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Data Collection and Measurement of Complex Farms
America’s farms and farmers are integral to the U.S. economy and, more broadly, to the nation’s social and cultural fabric. A healthy agricultural sector helps ensure a safe and reliable food supply, …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Data Collection and Measurement of Complex Farms
America’s farms and farmers are integral to the U.S. economy and, more broadly, to the nation’s social and cultural fabric. A healthy agricultural sector helps ensure a safe and reliable food supply, …
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€57.78
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Methods to Foster Transparency and Reproducibility of Federal Statistics
In 2014 the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided support to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a series of Forums on Open Science in response to a government-wide …
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€3.79
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Methods to Foster Transparency and Reproducibility of Federal Statistics
In 2014 the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided support to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a series of Forums on Open Science in response to a government-wide …
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€62.91
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving the American Community Survey
Since its origin 23 years ago as a pilot test conducted in four U.S. counties, the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) has been the focus of continuous research, development, and ref …
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€3.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving the American Community Survey
Since its origin 23 years ago as a pilot test conducted in four U.S. counties, the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) has been the focus of continuous research, development, and ref …
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€63.15
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Choosing the Right Formula
The workshop was a direct outgrowth of a previous study by the CNSTAT Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas. That panel, established under a 1994 act of Congress, began its work wi …
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€27.67
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on National Statistics: Dynamics of Disability
The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claimants as baby boomers age, changing attitudes culminati …
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€49.54
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty
The Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas was established by the Committee on National Statistics at the National Research Council in response to the Improving America’s Schools Ac …
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€74.46
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Small-Area Income and Poverty Estimates
Recent trends in federal policies for social and economic programs have increased the demand for timely, accurate estimates of income and poverty for states, counties, and even smaller areas. Every y …
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€34.42
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Elder Mistreatment
Since the late 1970s when Congressman Claude Pepper held widely publicized hearings on the mistreatment of the elderly, policy makers and practitioners have sought ways to protect older Americans fro …
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€57.15
Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph: Polygraph and Lie Detection
The polygraph, often portrayed as a magic mind-reading machine, is still controversial among experts, who continue heated debates about its validity as a lie-detecting device. As the nation takes a f …
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€49.40
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Data Needs for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program
The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was established by Congress to provide health insurance to uninsured children whose family income was too high for Medicaid coverage but too low …
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€21.23
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Key Transportation Indicators
A transportation indicator is a measure of change over time in the transportation system or in its social, economic, environmental, or other effects. Two National Research Council (NRC) studies recom …
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€21.27
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Preparing for an Aging World
Aging is a process that encompasses virtually all aspects of life. Because the speed of population aging is accelerating, and because the data needed to study the aging process are complex and expens …
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€43.67
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Measurement Problems in Criminal Justice Research
Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports has collected information on crimes known to the police and arrests from local and state jurisdi …
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€32.51
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Statistical Issues in Allocating Funds by Formula
In 2000, the federal government distributed over $260 billion of funding to state and local governments via 180 formula programs. These programs promote a wide spectrum of economic and social objecti …
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€38.28
Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Review the 2000 Decade Design of the Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT): Improving the Design of the Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT)
The past decade has demonstrated the utility of SESTAT, but the SESTAT design shows some deficiencies with respect to response rates, coverage of populations of interest, and its ability to support s …
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€14.76
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reliability Issues for DOD Systems
The final report of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Panel on Statistical Methods for Testing and Evaluating Defense Systems (National Research Council, 1998) was intended to provide broad advic …
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€28.19
Center for Education & Committee on Improving Measures of Access to Equal Educational Opportunity: Measuring Access to Learning Opportunities
Since 1968 the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report (known as the ES survey) has been used to gather information about possible disparities in access to learning opportuniti …
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€28.71
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Housing Discrimination in a National Study
Federal law prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of seven protected classes including race. Despite 30 years of legal prohibition under the Fair Housing Act, however, there is evidence of co …
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€21.12
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Studies of Welfare Populations
This volume, a companion to Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, is a collection of papers on data collection issues for welfare and low-income populations. The papers on survey issues …
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€57.71
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Survey Automation
For over 100 years, the evolution of modern survey methodologyusing the theory of representative sampling to make interferences from a part of the population to the wholehas been paralleled by a driv …
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€75.58
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: 2000 Census
This volume contains the full text of two reports: one is an interim review of major census operations, which also assesses the U.S. Census bureau’s recommendation in March 2001 regarding statistical …
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€45.74
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program
Each year the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must estimate the number of people who are eligible to participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children ( …
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€21.15
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Toward a Health Statistics System for the 21st Century
The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) convened a workshop on November 4-5, 1999, to identify new directions for health statistics and the implications for health data of changes in the health …
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€34.88
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Since 1992, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) has produced a book on principles and practices for a federal statistical agency, updating the document every 4 years to provide a current ed …
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€34.33
Committee on National Statistics & Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioral Sciences Research
Institutional review boards (IRBs) are the linchpins of the protection systems that govern human participation in research. In recent years, high-profile cases have focused attention on the weaknesse …
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€38.51
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: At What Price?
How well does the consumer price index (CPI) reflect the changes that people actually face in living costsfrom apples to computers to health care? Given how it is used, is it desirable to construct t …
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€49.27
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs: Informing America’s Policy on Illegal Drugs
How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to combat the destructive effects of illegal drug use. …
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€58.89
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS), to be run by the Census Bureau, will be a large (250, 000 housing units a month), predominantly mailout/mailback survey that will collect information similar to t …
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€21.19
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Access to and Confidentiality of Research Data
Improving Access to and Confidentiality of Research Data summarizes a workshop convened by the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) to promote discussion about methods for advancing the often co …
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€34.83
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government: Summary of a Workshop on Information Technology Research for Federal Statistics (
Part of an in-depth study of how information technology research and development could more effectively support advances in the use of information technology (IT) in government, Summary of a Workshop …
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€21.12
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Time-Use Measurement and Research
One of the most substantial policy changes in the past decade was the elimination of the main social welfare program for poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, ending the entitlement …
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€31.99
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Designing the 2010 Census
The Panel on Research on Future Census Methods was formed to examine alternative designs for the 2010 census and to assist the Census Bureau in planning tests and analyses to help assess and compare …
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€21.27
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Survey Measurement of Work Disability
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is engaged in redesigning its disability determination process for providing cash benefits and medical assistance to blind and disabled persons under the Soci …
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€38.24
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty
The U.S. Department of Education uses estimates of school-age children in poverty to allocate federal funds under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for education programs to aid d …
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€33.47
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform
This report was prepared in response to a request from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It summarizes the discussions at a February 1998 workshop conv …
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€21.04
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring a Changing Nation
This final report of the Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies provides an assessment of the Census Bureau’s plans for the 2000 census as of the time of the 1998 census dress rehearsal. It examin …
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€31.46
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition
For every weapons system being developed, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must make a critical decision: Should the system go forward to full-scale production? The answer to that question may in …
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€41.51
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring the Government Sector of the U.S. Economic Accounts
This report had its origin in a Committee on National Statistics workshop in November 1993, one of a series on improving economic statistics, jointly sponsored by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA …
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€34.42
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Longitudinal Surveys of Children
The Committee and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened in September a workshop to discuss ways to foster greater collaboration and sharing of information among principal investigators …
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€43.19
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Local Fiscal Effects of Illegal Immigration
The recent level of illegal immigration to the United States has increased debates about the effect of these immigrants on the cost of public services, and states have begun to enact policies that li …
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€14.58
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Data on America’s Aging Population
The Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population, at the request of the NIA, convened a workshop in March 1996 to discuss data on the aging population that address the emerging an …
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€21.12
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improved Operational Testing and Evaluation
The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is responsible for the operational testing and evaluation of Army systems in development. ATEC requested that the National Research Council form the P …
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€31.15
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program
This report reviews the methods used to estimate the national number of people eligible to participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) under full …
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€44.21
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Planning the 2010 Census
The Panel on Research on Future Census Methods has a broad charge to review the early planning process for the 2010 census. Its work includes observing the operation of the 2000 census, deriving less …
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€34.87
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Committee on National Statistics: Innovations in Software Engineering for Defense Systems
Recent rough estimates are that the U.S. Department of Defense (Do D) spends at least $38 billion a year on the research, development, testing, and evaluation of new defense systems; approximately 40 …
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€34.68
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Racial and Ethnic Data on Health
The panel convened the Workshop on Improving Racial and Ethnic Data in Health to review information about current private-sector and state data collection practices in light of existing federal, stat …
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€21.31
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improved Operational Testing and Evaluation and Methods of Combining Test Information for the Stryker Family of Vehicles and Related Army Systems
The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is responsible for the operational testing and evaluation of Army systems in development. ATECrequested that the National Research Council form the Pa …
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€48.54
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: 2000 Census
The decennial census was the federal government’s largest and most complexpeacetime operation. This report of a panel of the National Research Council’s Committee on National Statistics comprehensive …
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€58.42
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Racial Discrimination
Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discriminationpervasive and open denial of civil, …
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€44.31
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Reengineering the 2010 Census
At the request of the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Research Council’s Committee on National Statistics established the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods to review the early planning proc …
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€43.92
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Eliminating Health Disparities
Disparities in health and health care across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds in the United States are well documented. The reasons for these disparities are, however, not well understoo …
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€43.57
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Assessing Evaluation Studies
Bilingual education has long been the subject of major disagreements in this country. This book provides a detailed critique of the two largest studies of U.S. bilingual education programs. It examin …
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€41.10
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Beyond the Market
The national income and product accounts that underlie gross domestic product(GDP), together with other key economic dataprice and employment statisticsare widely used as indicators of how well the n …
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€36.68
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Economy
This report examines the portfolio of research and development (R&D) expenditure surveys at the National Science Foundation (NSF), identifying gaps and weaknesses and areas of missing coverage. The r …
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€41.51
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring International Trade on U.S. Highways
<p>International trade plays a substantial role in the economy of the United States. More than 1.6 billion tons of international merchandise was conveyed using the U.S. transportation system in …
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€21.13
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Experimental Poverty Measures
The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Research Council (NRC) convened a workshop on June 15-16, 2004, to review federal research on alternative methods for measuring poverty. …
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€21.23
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Analyzing Information on Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting
It has been clear for at least 50 years the disadvantages that small businesses face in competing for U.S. government contracts. The Small Business Act of 1953 created the Small Business Administrati …
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€28.94
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century
It is not news that each of us grows old. What is relatively new, however, is that the average age of the American population is increasing. More and better information is required to assess, plan fo …
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€27.60
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Behind the Numbers
America’s international economic decisions rest to a large degree on the information available to policymakers. Yet the quality of international trade and financial data is in serious doubt. This boo …
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€29.61
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions — The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling
This book reviews the uses and abuses of microsimulation modelslarge, complex models that produce estimates of the effects on program costs and who would gain and who would lose from proposed changes …
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€90.88
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition
Reform of welfare is one of the nation’s most contentious issues, with debate often driven more by politics than by facts and careful analysis. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition ident …
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€44.16
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Immigration Statistics
This book examines the needs for and availability of statistics concerning immigrants and immigration. It concentrates on the needs for statistics on immigrants, refugees, and illegal aliens for poli …
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€83.85
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Toward a National Health Care Survey
The nation’s health care system has changed dramatically and the country is debating further significant changes. Comprehensive information is needed to guide policymakers in understanding and evalua …
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€26.91
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Since 1992, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) has produced a book on principles and practices for a federal statistical agency, updating the document every 4 years to provide a current ed …
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€21.23
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Teacher Supply, Demand, and Quality
This book examines policy issues, projection models, and data bases pertaining to the supply of, demand for, and quality of teachers in the United States from kindergarten to twelfth grade.It identif …
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€43.83
Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Review the Social Security Administration’s Disability Decision Process Research: Measuring Functional Capacity and Work Requirements
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is reengineering its disability claims process for providing cash benefits and medical assistance to blind and disabled persons under the Social Security Disa …
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€41.73
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Evaluating Welfare Reform
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 fundamentally changed the nation’s social welfare system, replacing a federal entitlement program for low-income f …
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€49.43
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on National Statistics: Review of the Disability Evaluation Study Design
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has been engaged in a major effort to redesign the process for determining disability for cash benefits and medical assistance under its Social Security Disab …
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€14.69
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies
Several changes in the United States over the past two decades have implications for diet, nutrition, and food safety, including patterns of food consumption that have produced an increase in overwei …
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€35.32
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Expanding Access to Research Data
Policy makers need information about the nationranging from trends in the overalleconomy down to the use by individuals of Medicarein order to evaluate existingprograms and to develop new ones. This …
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€31.46
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States
The United States is viewed by the world as a country with plenty of food, yet not all households in America are food secure, meaning access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. A …
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€36.57
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment
The Department of Defense (Do D) recently adopted evolutionary acquisition, a dynamic strategy for the development and acquisition of its defense systems. Evolutionary defense systems are planned, in …
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€21.21
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Business Statistics Through Interagency Data Sharing
U.S. business data are used broadly, providing the building blocks for key nationalas well as regional and localstatistics measuring aggregate income and output, employment, investment, prices, and p …
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€36.53
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Respirator Use in the Workplace
Respirators are used in a variety of workplaces including emergency response, mining operations, construction, manufacturing, and hospitals. In 2001, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Hea …
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€21.27
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place
The usefulness of the U.S. decennial census depends critically on the accuracy with which individual people are counted in specific housing units, at precise geographic locations. The 2000 and other …
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€51.56
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Understanding Business Dynamics
The U.S. economy is highly dynamic: businesses open and close, workers switch jobs and start new enterprises, and innovative technologies redefine the workplace and enhance productivity. With globali …
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€35.94
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Board on Research Data and Information: Reproducibility and Replicability in Science
One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced it. When a scientific effort fails to independentl …
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€70.89
Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years & Committee on National Statistics: Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and …
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€70.74
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on Developing Indicators of Educational Equity: Monitoring Educational Equity
Disparities in educational attainment among population groups have characterized the United States throughout its history. Education is sometimes characterized as the "great equalizer, " bu …
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€70.17
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Using Models to Estimate Hog and Pig Inventories
In 2014, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) engaged the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a planning committee to organize a public workshop for an …
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€70.89
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Satellite Account to Measure the Retail Transformation
Retail trade has experienced dramatic changes over the past several decades in the United States, with changes in the types of outlets where goods are sold, the nature of the transactions that provid …
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€37.23
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Convergence in Science and Engineering
This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the Implications of Convergence for How the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSE …
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€57.68
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States: Considerations and Complexities
Human trafficking has many names and can take many forms – pimp control, commercial sex, exploitation, forced labor, modern slavery, child labor, and several others – and the definitions vary greatly …
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€42.22
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Consumer Food Data System for 2030 and Beyond
Patterns of food consumption and nutritional intake strongly affect the population’s health and well-being. The Food Economics Division of USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) engages in research a …
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€69.74
Committee on Contingent Work and Alternative Work Arrangements & Committee on National Statistics: Measuring Alternative Work Arrangements for Research and Policy
Business structures, employment relationships, job characteristics, and worker outcomes have changed in the United States over the last few decadesin some ways unpredictably. A high level of interest …
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€62.92
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Building Educational Equity Indicator Systems
How can states and schools use data to support their efforts to improve educational equity? Building Educational Equity Indicator Systems: A Guidebook for States and School Districts, provides inform …
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€12.83
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Committee on National Statistics: Assessment of the Need for Native Seeds and the Capacity for Their Supply
Across the United States, millions of acres of land have been so disturbed by human activities or severe climate events that significant portions of their native plant communities have been lost and …
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€47.59
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Government statistics are widely used to inform decisions by policymakers, program administrators, businesses and other organizations as well as households and the general public. Principles and Prac …
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€63.04
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: High and Rising Mortality Rates Among Working-Age Adults
The past century has witnessed remarkable advances in life expectancy in the United States and throughout the world. In 2010, however, progress in life expectancy in the United States began to stall, …
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€134.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: 2020 Census Data Products: Data Needs and Privacy Considerations
The Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day public workshop from December 11-12, 2019, to discuss the suite of data products …
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€62.78
Air Force Studies Board & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science
The effective use of data science – the science and technology of extracting value from data – improves, enhances, and strengthens acquisition decision-making and outcomes. Using data science to supp …
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€52.26
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€19.21
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€19.01
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€19.29
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Consent and Response in Longitudinal Studies of Aging
This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on Improving Consent and Response in Longitudinal Studies of Aging, which was held virtually and live-strea …
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€27.00
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Understanding the Quality of the 2020 Census
The decennial census is foundational to the functioning of American democracy, and maintaining the public’s trust in the census and its resulting data is a correspondingly high-stakes affair. The 202 …
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€36.96
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation
Sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation are key indicators of the demographic diversity in the United States. Sex and gender are often conflated under the assumptions that they are mutually dete …
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€31.99
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Pragmatic Future for NAEP
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) – often called "The Nation’s Report Card" – is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students in pub …
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€21.59
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Vision and Roadmap for Education Statistics
The education landscape in the United States has been changing rapidly in recent decades: student populations have become more diverse; there has been an explosion of data sources; there is an intens …
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€47.15
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Innovation, Global Value Chains, and Globalization Measurement
In recent decades, production processes of intermediate and final products have been increasingly fragmented across countries in what are called global value chains (GVCs). GVCs may involve companies …
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€26.95
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Modernizing the Consumer Price Index for the 21st Century
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), is the most widely used measure of inflation in the U.S. It is used to determine cost-of-living allowances and, among …
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€29.44
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Transparency in Statistical Information for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and All Federal Statistical Agencies
Widely available, trustworthy government statistics are essential for policy makers and program administrators at all levels of government, for private sector decision makers, for researchers, and fo …
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€36.77
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€47.60
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Research and Data Priorities for Improving Economic and Social Mobility
Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic mobility in terms of occupational status and income. …
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€21.95
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Population: Understanding the Aging Workforce
The aging population of the United States has significant implications for the workforce – challenging what it means to work and to retire in the U.S. In fact, by 2030, one-fifth of the population wi …
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€42.34
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good
Historically, the U.S. national data infrastructure has relied on the operations of the federal statistical system and the data assets that it holds. Throughout the 20th century, federal statistical …
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€25.71
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: 2020 Census Data Products
This proceedings summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File, held June 21-22, 2022. The workshop was convened by the …
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€27.02
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Evaluation of Compensation Data Collected Through the EEO-1 Form
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expanded EEO-1 data collection for reporting years 2017 to 2018 in an effort to improve its ability to investigate and address pay disparities …
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€52.53
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Committee on National Statistics: Assessment of Native Seed Needs and the Capacity for Their Supply
Extreme weather and wildfires, intensified by climate change, are damaging the native plant communities of landscapes across the United States. Native plant communities are foundational to thriving e …
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€42.62
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Updated Measure of Poverty
An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population and to assess the effects of government policies on communities and …
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€26.95
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Enhancing Survey Programs by Using Multiple Data Sources
Much of the statistical information currently produced by federal statistical agencies – information about economic, social, and physical well-being that is essential for the functioning of modern so …
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€37.29
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Considerations for Returning Individual Genomic Results from Population-Based Surveys: Focus on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Population surveys collect information from participants by asking questions. Today, many surveys also collect biologic specimens that can be used to analyze a respondents DNA and other biomarkers. T …
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€25.62
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Assessing the 2020 Census
Since 1790, the U.S. census has been a recurring, essential civic ceremony in which everyone counts; it reaffirms a commitment to equality among all, as political representation is explicitly tied to …
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€62.81
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Law Enforcement Suicide
From April 25-26, 2023 the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to identify challenges in and opportunities for measur …
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€24.43
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is one of the U.S. Census Bureau’s major surveys with features making it a uniquely valuable resource for researchers and policy analysts. Howeve …
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€42.52
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Managing Privacy and Confidentiality Risks with Blended Data
Protecting privacy and ensuring confidentiality in data is a critical component of modernizing our national data infrastructure. The use of blended data – combining previously collected data sources …
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€24.32
Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Assess the Portfolio of The Division of Science Resources Studies of NSF: Measuring the Science and Engineering Enterprise
The science and engineering enterprise has continued to evolve, responding over the last decade to increased economic globalization, a post-cold war military, federal budget fluctuations, and structu …
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€52.76
Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Assess the Portfolio of The Division of Science Resources Studies of NSF: Measuring the Science and Engineering Enterprise
The science and engineering enterprise has continued to evolve, responding over the last decade to increased economic globalization, a post-cold war military, federal budget fluctuations, and structu …
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€36.78
Committee on National Statistics & Committee on Policies and Programs to Reduce Intergenerational Poverty: Reducing Intergenerational Poverty
Experiencing poverty during childhood can lead to lasting harmful effects that compromise not only children’s health and welfare but can also hinder future opportunities for economic mobility, which …
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€52.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads
Since the early days of the nation, the federal government has collected information on the revenues, expenditures, and other features of state and local jurisdictions and their operations. Today, th …
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€64.44
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Creating an Integrated System of Data and Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth
Many federal agencies provide data and statistics on inequality and related aspects of household income, consumption, and wealth (ICW). However, because the information provided by these agencies is …
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€51.98
