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Lin, Jin-Ding; Lin, Lan-Ping – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The purposes of the present study were to describe the welfare expenditure for people with disabilities and examine its relation to national economic growth from 1991 to 2006 in Taiwan. We analyzed data mainly from the information of population with disabilities, disability welfare expenditure and national economic growth and gross national…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Developmental Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Welfare Services
Dupuis, Yves – 1979
An education price index for elementary and secondary education in Canada was needed to determine what portion of expenditure growth was caused by changing prices, as opposed to the quantity and/or quality of inputs purchased. The primary objective was to construct a statistical measure that would permit expenditures on education to be deflated.…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Economic Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
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Norwood, Janet L. – Journal of Economic Education, 1994
Asserts that policymakers and the general public should be well informed about economic and social issues. Contends that a statistical system in a democracy has a heavy responsibility to ensure that the data represent fact, not opinion. Discusses changes made in the Consumer Price Index to prevent it from becoming politicized. (CFR)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Cost Indexes, Data Interpretation, Databases