Sentences with phrase «estimating undercounts»

«Different methods for estimating undercounts in the earlier part of the North Atlantic tropical cyclone record provide mixed conclusions»

Not exact matches

The Economic Policy Institute has constructed more comprehensive estimates and finds that the 60 - day delay would cost retirement savers» IRAs $ 181 million this year and $ 3.7 billion over the next 30 years — and this estimate is still an undercount because it does not include other subjects of potential conflicted advice, like 401 (k) s.

The country has never had easy access to human rabies vaccines, but the disease has soared in recent years: from fewer than 200 cases in the 1990s to 3,302 in 2007, and such official estimates are likely to be an undercount.

Due to limitations of both methods, the citation numbers are only rough estimates and likely undercount actual citations.

That's not the only methodological issue: their study also undercounts subsidies to oil, gas, and coal production, relying on an estimate of $ 23 billion in production subsidies instead of the more than $ 70 billion we've identified in G20 countries alone.

(Updated) LPI's undercounting of the supply figures led me astray, because their estimates for the total supply in a given year are so low that they nearly match just the number of people who complete a program in that year.

Animals used on farms make up the majority of those raised and used by humans, with an estimated 33 billion land animals alive at any given time.18 This estimate is more exact than any other we will consider, since governments conduct counts of livestock in order to understand and regulate local economies.19 However, this is a somewhat similar undercounting to what we saw for lab animals: fish and shellfish are not counted, and in some areas they are raised for consumption in large numbers.20 The estimates also neglect other animals used for food, such as wild fish or commonly hunted land animals, although these animals may be affected by some of the advocacy aimed at helping farmed animals through promoting diet change.

The Stephens et al paper is a very incremental change from previous estimates of the global energy balances — chiefly an improvement in latent heat fluxes because of undercounts in the satellite precipitation products and an increase in downward longwave radiation.

series was first corrected for a modest estimated undercount3 [the previous Mann paper] before the midtwentieth - century undercount, although similar results were obtained (Supplementary Information) using the largest2, 29 published estimates of undercount

Nevertheless, a total population estimate can be reliably (+ / -2.5 %) made and the sub-populations can be deducted to give an estimate of the male fraction, to + / -10 %, which is considerably better than the estimated 40 % undercounting suspected in the census surveys.

4 The estimates of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population presented in this publication are based on 2011 Census of Population and Housing counts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, adjusted for net undercount as measured by the Post Enumeration Survey.

ESTIMATED RESIDENT POPULATION To arrive at the estimated resident population for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, the census count (on a usual residence basis) is adjusted for instances in which Indigenous status is unknown and for net unESTIMATED RESIDENT POPULATION To arrive at the estimated resident population for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, the census count (on a usual residence basis) is adjusted for instances in which Indigenous status is unknown and for net unestimated resident population for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, the census count (on a usual residence basis) is adjusted for instances in which Indigenous status is unknown and for net undercount.

The PES, conducted shortly after Census night, collects information about where people were on Census night and their characteristics to estimate net Census undercount;

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander net undercount (the difference between the PES Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population estimate and the actual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population Census count) was 114,200 persons, 17.2 % of the population.

The estimates of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous populations presented in this publication are based on 2011 Census of Population and Housing counts adjusted for net undercount as measured by the Post Enumeration Survey.

CALCULATING ESTIMATED RESIDENT POPULATION - FINAL Empirical Bayes method 9 Given the relatively high standard errors for net undercount by Indigenous status by state, the ABS used the Empirical Bayes estimation method to estimate more reliable undercount inputs for use in deriving population estimates.

The Empirical Bayes method takes the original PES undercount estimate (the ratio of the PES population estimate to the Census count) for each region and smooths this towards a prediction based on the Census characteristics of the region (specifically the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons and the level of Census non-response in the region).

Net undercount 6 The PES estimate of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population at the time of the 2011 Census was 662,300 people.

The estimates are subject to errors that can not be comprehensively adjusted for within the population estimates compilation process, given the limited ability to estimate Census undercount by Indigenous status and other demographic characteristics.

As explained above, due the undercount believed to occur in the Census the ABS has estimated that the Indigenous population in 2006 numbered 517,174, or approximately 2.5 % of the total Australian population.