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Download full textWestinghouse Learning Corp., Bladensburg, MD. – 1971
This report presents the technical details of the sample design used for the day care survey conducted by Westat Research, Inc. under subcontract to Westinghouse Learning Corporation. It follows the recommendations of the preliminary report on sampling design (available as ED 051 880) submitted on August 15, 1970. That report presented the merits…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Day Care, Demography, National Surveys
Lull, James T.; And Others – 1978
A radio audience survey of 110 sample geographic clusters in the Santa Barbara, California, area served a twofold purpose: the construction of a demographic profile of audience types according to radio format choices, and the identification and analysis of various audience subgroups. A skip interval technique of these geographic clusters resulted…
Descriptors: Audiences, Demography, Educational Background, Listening Groups
Swanson, David; And Others – Small Town, 1995
Increasingly, unpopular facilities are sited in sparsely populated areas for which data are unavailable. The Local Expert Procedure (LEP) estimates selected demographic characteristics of small, rural areas by combining the housing unit method of population estimation with random sampling and key informant ethnography. Factors affecting the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Demography, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Measurement Techniques
International Labour Organisation, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1975
At the request of the government of Iran, a United Nation's team of experts visited Iran in 1971 to assist in developing a long-term program for increasing productive employment and for handling current problems of unemployment and underemployment. Specific recommendations were made for improving the system of compiling manpower and labor…
Descriptors: Demography, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Employment Statistics
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Washington, DC. Data User Services Div. – 1983
This report provides technical documentation associated with a 1980 Census of Population and Housing Summary Tape File (STF) 3F--which contains responses to the extended questionnaire summarized in STF 3, aggregated by school district. The file contains sample data inflated to represent the total population, 100% counts, and unweighted sample…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Databases, Demography, Educational Background
Portal-Foster, C. W.; And Others – 1969
The proposed research design, to be actualized beginning in 1969, was evolved to determine the nature and prevalence of mental retardation in Canada and to relate them to other variables. Issues raised concerning both nature and prevalence were reviewed as were surveys in seven different geographic areas. A pilot study conducted in two small…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Demography, Disadvantaged, Etiology
Levy, Paul S.; French, Dwight K. – 1977
Synthetic estimation is a statistical technique that estimates small-area statistics by combining national estimates of the relevant characteristics with estimates of other known characteristics of the small geographic area. The advantages of the synthetic estimation approach to local estimation are its intuitive appeal, its simplicity, and its…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Collection, Demography, Error Patterns
