Sentences with phrase «factbook a»

Elizabeth Burke Bryant, the Executive Director of RI Kids Count talks about the release of the 2017 Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook.

In Rhode Island, elected officials and community leaders use both the national Kids Count Data Book, so they can see how RI compares to the other states and the nation as a whole, and the annual Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook, to see how Rhode Island is doing state - wide and throughout its 39 cities and towns.

She then looked to the 2014 Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook.

The factbook reports that just 53 percent of eighth graders in Central Falls were reading - proficient.

She said the high number of homeless children in the state and dramatic decrease in families receiving cash assistance were the two statistics that most jumped out to her in the year's factbook.

Locally, Rhode Island KIDS COUNT takes data «on the road» to several communities with Data in Your Backyard presentations, which makes the Factbook more accessible to community leaders and policy makers.

Rhode Island children rank just outside the top 10 in the country in reading proficiency among fourth grade students, a critical benchmark of child well - being according to the factbook.

This morning, the children's policy and advocacy organization is releasing its annual factbook, a statistical compilation based on 67 different aspects of children's lives including family and community, economic well - being, health, safety, and education.

«The data that we present in the 2011 Rhode Island Kids Count factbook can help policy makers make informed decisions about what programs and policies are most important to ensuring the success of our children and our state.»

Bryant said one of the bright spots in the factbook's findings was in the area of children's overall health.

This year's factbook highlights the startling toll high unemployment and a lack of affordable housing has taken on Rhode Island's children, particularly in the inner city.

The factbook says 21 out of every 1,000 children in the state's six core cities (Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Newport, West Warwick and Woonsocket) were abused or neglected in 2010.

The decision follows the release of the 2015 Kids Count Factbook, which shows that Woonsocket High School has the lowest rate of attendance of any high school in the state, at just 86 percent.

The Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook will be formally unveiled at a breakfast event Monday, but Eyewitness News got a sneak peek at all of the data.

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Defined by Rhode Island's Kids Count factbook as the number of children under age 18 who stayed in homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters or transitional housing facilities in Rhode Island with their families.

Based on the 21st annual publication of the Kids Count Factbook, Geller delivered her data - driven summary to a packed room.

, Adoption factbook V (pp. 485 - 489).

The annual Kids Count Factbook on child well - being in Rhode Island, now in its 23rd year, is a local rite of spring — but it's nothing like the first tulips or tufted titmouse.

(You can read the full Factbook here.)

For example, anything created by the CIA in the CIA World Factbook is available for anyone to use subject to one important caveat: if the CIA is using other people's copyright materials you must have their permission to use that bit.

The report, «Sustainable Energy in America: 2015 Factbook,» details how renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency, natural gas and electric vehicles are colliding with policy, finance and markets to drive fundamental changes in the energy sector.

Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance 2018 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook.

When it comes to harsh spots, Antarctica sweeps the superlatives: According to the CIA World Factbook, this southern land mass is the coldest, driest, highest and windiest continent.

Sources for this report include: Agence France Presse, Asia Pulse, Associated Press, BBC Monitoring International Reports, Central Asia & Caucasus Business Report, Caspian News Agency, Caspian Business Report, CIA World Factbook, Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, The Economist, Energy Day, The Financial Times, FSU Energy, FSU Oil and Gas Monitor, Gas Connections, Global Insight, Hart's European Fuel News, Interfax News Agency, The International Herald Tribune, International Petroleum Finance, ITAR - TASS News Agency, Mining & Metals Report, The Moscow Times, Oil and Gas Journal, Petroleum Economist, Petroleum Report, Platt's International Coal Report, Platt's Oilgram News, Polish News Bulletin, PR Newswire, Project Finance, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Reuters, RosBusinessConsulting Database, Russian Economic News, The Russian Oil & Gas Report, Turkish Daily News, Ukraine Business Report, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of State, Warsaw Business Journal, World Gas Intelligence, and World Markets Analysis.

Sources for this report include: Argus Latin American Energy; Cambridge Energy Research Associates; Chicago Tribune; CIA World Factbook; Dow Jones News wire service; Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire; Electric Utility Week; Financial Times; Global Insight; Global Power Report; Houston Chronicle; Inside Energy; Inside F.E.R.C.; Los Angeles Times; Megawatt Daily; Natural Gas Week; New York Times; Oil and Gas Journal; Oil Daily; Petroleum Economist; Petroleum Intelligence Weekly; Platts Oilgram News; San Diego Union - Tribune; U.S. Energy Information Administration; World Gas Intelligence; World Markets Online.

Sources for this report include: CIA World Factbook; DRI - WEFA Latin America Economic Outlook; McGraw - Hill Companies, Global Power Report; Dow Jones; Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire; Financial Times; Latin American Power Watch; Latin American Energy Alert; Oil Daily; Oil and Gas Journal; Petroleum Economist; Petroleum Intelligence Weekly; U.S. Energy Information Administration; Wood Mackenzie; World Markets Analysis.

Growth, Competition and Opportunity, The PEW Charitable Trusts, G - 20 Clean Energy Factbook.

Elizabeth Tjader, # 2, you and everyone else who's worried about population growth need to study the CIA World Factbook rank order of fertility rates.

Studies show a majority of plans now use TDFs (see above (GAO), see also: ICI Factbook, Figure 7.14).

Using the CIA Factbook for data, the present total fertility rate for the world is 2.407 births per woman that survives childbearing.

I am now amazed that the CIA Factbook estimates that rate at 2.5 for the world on average.

«If the book is a «quick read» [or] fiction, and if I am not likely to make highlights and notes, I don't mind borrowing [an e-book],» an e-book borrower in her late twenties wrote, «but if it is a factbook, or if I make notes and highlights... I want to access my notes in the future.

The charts on the CIA World Factbook show that there will not be enough young people around to run the factories and care for the old people.

The Association of Magazine Media has released its 2012/2013 Magazine Media Factbook and the data is interesting, to say the least!

According to the CIA Factbook, «comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep - seated poverty, social unrest, and illegal drug production.»

There are 100 free classic ebooks that come with the device, along with the user manual and CIA World Factbook.

• Intro • All the points of connection that you have with the world • All your followers, social media, Factbook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube • Customers, people who gave you money, bought your products • Email list • Event attendees, co-workers and family • Members of associations or organizations that you belong to

According to the CIA Factbook, its population is approximately 12 million.

To help you get started, jetBook Lite comes pre-loaded with the CIA World Factbook to make every trip you take more informative and enjoyable.

The CIA World Factbook is one of the best geographic resources in the world.

Sources referenced for this short history include The BBC and their useful timeline, A House of Many Mansions, Wikipedia and the CIA Factbook.

World Education Service Education Statistics — Singapore Statistics Singapore The CIA World Factbook: Singapore

(n.d.) CUNY interactive factbook.

The Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook.

To find the facts about Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world, check the CIA World Factbook.

Some good Internet points of interest include: CIA World Factbook Australian Antarctic Division University of Chicago Virtual Tour

Google's Knowledge Graph is currently bigger than the Knowledge Vault, but it only includes manually integrated sources such as the CIA Factbook.

Uganda and South Sudan, where nodding disease is prevalent; map courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / CIA World Factbook A strange illness has been killing thousands of young people each year, and recently it has started claiming even more victims in Africa.Called nodding disease, it usually strikes children at the age of 4 or 5 years and starts with occasional bouts of uncontrolled nodding.

To indulge in this nerdity, I am launching an occasional Map Monday series, beginning with one by Simran Khosla of GlobalPost who used the CIA Factbook to put together an excellent map detailing every country's highest - valued export.