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Hipp, John R. – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
This study compares the relationship between official crime rates in census tracts and resident perceptions of crime. Using a unique data set that links household-level data from the American Housing Survey metro samples over 25 years (1976-1999) with official crime rate data for census tracts in selected cities during selected years, this study…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Crime, Surveys, Violence
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White, Aaron M.; MacInnes, Erin; Hingson, Ralph W.; Pan, I-Jen – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2013
Drug poisoning is the leading method of suicide-related deaths among females and third among males in the United States. Alcohol can increase the severity of drug poisonings, yet the prevalence of alcohol overdoses in suicide-related drug poisonings (SRDP) remains unclear. Data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample was examined to determine rates…
Descriptors: Suicide, Adolescents, Young Adults, Drug Abuse
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Panczak, Radoslaw; Spoerri, Adrian; Zwahlen, Marcel; Bopp, Matthias; Gutzwiller, Felix; Egger, Matthias – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2013
In Switzerland, the highest rates of suicide are observed in persons without religious affiliation and the lowest in Catholics, with Protestants in an intermediate position. We examined whether this association was modified by concomitant psychiatric diagnoses or malignancies, based on 6,909 suicides (ICD-10 codes X60-X84) recorded in 3.69 million…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suicide, Religious Factors, Catholics
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Sterner, William R. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2011
Missing data have long been problematic in quantitative research. Despite the statistical and methodological advances made over the past 3 decades, counseling researchers fail to provide adequate information on this phenomenon. Interpreting the complex statistical procedures and esoteric language seems to be a contributing factor. An overview of…
Descriptors: Counseling, Research, Statistical Data, Statistical Analysis
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Dunn, Peter K.; Donnison, Sharn; Cole, Rachel; Bulmer, Michael – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of disease in human populations. This means that authentically teaching primary data collection in epidemiology is difficult as students cannot easily access suitable human populations. Using an action research methodology, this paper studied the use of a virtual human population (called "The…
Descriptors: Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Statistical Data, Statistics
Lauer, E. A.; Houtenville, A. J. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2017
The "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" is a publication of statistics about people with disabilities and about the government programs which serve them. The "Compendium" is designed to serve as a summary of government statistics. The 2016 "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" was substantially revised and…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Disabilities, Statistical Data, Statistical Distributions
Crosier, David; Birch, Peter; Davydovskaia, Olga; Kocanova, Daniela; Parveva, Teodora – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2017
This report aims to provide insight into the realities faced by higher education academic staff at a time of fast-moving change and increasing societal demand. Fluctuating student numbers, new funding and steering mechanisms are among the features of today's European higher education landscape, but not enough is known about how academic staff are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Higher Education
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
This publication provides a summary of data relating to students, programs, subjects and training providers in Australia's government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system (defined as all Commonwealth and state/territory government-funded training delivered by technical and further education [TAFE] institutes, other government…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Federal Aid, Educational Finance
American Institutes for Research, 2014
This tool and its supporting resources are intended to help education leaders understand and assess equitable access data to support a root-cause analysis and, ultimately, draft a State Plan to Ensure Equitable Access to Excellent Educators. The activities in this tool introduce metrics, address staff capacity for analyzing equitable access data,…
Descriptors: Data, Access to Information, State Policy, Guidelines
Haller, Alicia; Hunt, Erika – Center for the Study of Education Policy, 2016
Research has demonstrated that principals have a powerful impact on school improvement and student learning. Principals play a vital role in recruiting, developing, and retaining effective teachers; creating a school-wide culture of learning; and implementing a continuous improvement plan aimed at increasing student achievement. Leithwood, Louis,…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, Principals, Educational Policy, Administrator Education
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Rom, Mark Carl – Journal of Political Science Education, 2015
Data visualization is the term used to describe the methods and technologies used to allow the exploration and communication of quantitative information graphically. Data visualization is a rapidly growing and evolving discipline, and visualizations are widely used to cover politics. Yet, while popular and scholarly publications widely use…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Research Methodology, Statistical Data, Visualization
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Zhao, Wanxia; Zou, Yonghua – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine green university initiatives in the context of China, using Tsinghua University, which is China's green university pioneer, as a case study. Design/methodology/approach: The research method used for this paper is a case study based on participant observation and document analysis. The approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Participant Observation, Content Analysis
Northwest Evaluation Association, 2015
To help provide context to Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) normative percentiles, this document includes multiple College and Career Readiness (CCR) benchmarks, including those from ACT® and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced).
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Benchmarking, College Entrance Examinations
Benetsky, Megan J.; Burd, Charlynn A.; Rapino, Melanie A. – US Census Bureau, 2015
Young adults in the United States have the highest rate of migration compared with other age groups. The most common reasons for moving among all ages are job, housing, or family related. Many of these moves are made between the ages of 18 to 34, an age group marked by various life course transitions associated with moving. These include getting a…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Migration, Demography, Socioeconomic Status
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Ho, Samuel M. Y.; Chan, Ide S. F.; Ma, Ernie P. W.; Field, Nigel P. – Death Studies, 2013
The present study examined the effects of attachment style and continuing bonds, defined as the extent to which a bereaved individual feels that the deceased remains a part of his/her life, on post bereavement adjustment among 71 conjugally bereaved individuals. It was shown that bereaved individuals with an anxious attachment style tended to show…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Grief, Death, Foreign Countries
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