Sentences with phrase «federal survey data»

According to an analysis of 2015 - 16 federal survey data by Politico and the nonprofit newsroom The Investigative Fund, «Seven of the 10 school systems statewide that used the most restraints and seclusions per special education student were charter school companies in New Orleans.»

Women, on average, nosh on upwards of 400 snack calories per day, according to federal survey data.

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Out of the data on 56 Canadian taxes borne and collected by the governments provided by the surveyed firms, the federal government collects 61 % of the $ 68.5 billion TTC, based on 19 federal taxes.

Examination of data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances — the central bank's effort to examine the financial conditions of American families — by two Northeastern University scholars shows that households with more student debt are less likely to start businesses than other households.

When the Federal Reserve Board released data from its 2013 Survey Consumer Finance (SCF), most of the attention focused on the growing gap between rich and poor.

[5] We used consumer - reported data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances and revolving credit card balance data from Experian as of June 2017 to estimate revolving debt based on household income.

To conduct this work, GAO analyzed household financial data, including retirement savings and income, from the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, reviewed academic studies of retirement savings adequacy, analyzed retirement - related questions from surveys, and interviewed retirement experts about retirement readiness.

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So I dug through a different database, the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, which Pfeffer calls the «gold standard» of data on American wealth.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

The mean credit card debt of U.S. households is approximately $ 5,700, according to most recent data from the Survey of Consumer Finances by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

We have data on wealth from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), administered by the Federal Reserve every three years.

A study conducted by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College using data from the Federal Reserve's 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances found that the typical household approaching retirement is ill prepared financially.

Using data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, we've broken down the median and the average by age, income and gender, so you can see how you fare compared to Americans in recent history.

A 2015 study by the National Institute for Retirement Security, using data from the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, found that across all American households, including those without retirement accounts, the median retirement account balance is $ 2,500, and for households near retirement, $ 14,500.

Respondents from this sample were weighted using benchmarks from the Federal Government's Survey of Consumer Finances data.

It creates a model using data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances and other datasets to estimate household debt and assets, comparing the projected debts and assets of a college - educated household with average levels of education debt to a similar household without debt.

For their analyses, the researchers used combined data from the 1991 - 2015 waves of the federal «Youth Risk Behavior Surveys,» a school - based cross-sectional survey designed to capture the prevalence of health - risk behaviors for the leading causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality across time and racial / ethnic populations.

Anniston residents have up to seven times more PCBs in their bodies than the average for other Americans, Birnbaum said, citing data from the federal government's Anniston Community Health Survey and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

The EPA oversees water quality, and the U.S. Geological Survey is responsible for collecting data and monitoring supply, but no federal agency ensures the effective use of water.

Over time, the government has come to rely on data from the census and its longer annual offshoot, the American Community Survey (ACS), to allocate half - a-trillion dollars through health, welfare, housing, infrastructure, education, and other federal programs.

The legacy data come from extensive surveys of geothermal resources that were funded by the states and federal government in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

The Arizona Geological Survey is leading a coalition of universities and federal agencies on a nationwide treasure hunt to find and digitize these legacy data in a National Geothermal Data System (NGDS) to eliminate some of the financial risk companies like AltaRock face while prospecting for geothermal resourdata in a National Geothermal Data System (NGDS) to eliminate some of the financial risk companies like AltaRock face while prospecting for geothermal resourData System (NGDS) to eliminate some of the financial risk companies like AltaRock face while prospecting for geothermal resources.

A team of researchers from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, used data collected by NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft to pinpoint star clusters located in the resource rich environment of the spiral arms, and use them as markers to trace the structure of our galaxy.

The new CDC numbers were based on 2016 data on more than 33,000 adults from the federal government's National Interview Survey.

The researchers analyzed data from a 2015 federal government health survey.

In a new study, investigators analyzed data from just over 2.5 million American adults who took part in an annual federal government health survey.

Indeed, implications of this survey data should be meaningful to anyone running for public office at the state or federal levels, or for those running campaigns this year.

Federal researchers based their analysis on data from the 1989 and 1993 Teenage Attitudes and Practices surveys, which involved telephone and personal interviews conducted with...

In planning for the 1988 survey — which provides the only federal data on civil - rights compliance in education — O.C.R. has quietly inched back toward its old method, rescinding a change that allowed large districts to sample only certain schools and designing the sample to include more districts that have not been surveyed recently.

Data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey put the average elementary - class size in the state at 17.9 pupils, one of the lowest averages in the nation.

Colorado loses points, though, because data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey show that the average class size in its elementary schools, 23.2 students, is among the highest in the nation.

That is one of the findings among federal data collected for the first time as part of the Youth Risk Behavior survey, which is conducted every other year by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The study from the Council of Chief State School Officers, in Washington, looks at data from a federal survey of 60,000 public school teachers conducted in the 1999 - 2000 school year to gauge how many teachers in grades 7 - 12 are highly qualified in the subjects they teach.

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS) IPEDS combines the surveys conducted by the U. S. Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), to provide information on all postsecondary institutions as well as all technical and vocational schools participating in federal student aid programs or Title IV funding programs (NCES, n.d).

Despite their higher levels of achievement in 10th grade compared with 8th grade, many students may be academically ill - prepared for the transition to high school, data from a massive federal survey suggest.

According to data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey, the average elementary - class size in the state is 19.4 pupils, lower than the national average of 21.2 pupils.

Data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey put the average elementary - class size at 18.6 pupils, compared with 21.2 nationally.

Dozens of studies have sought to confirm or refute them, using either the original «High School and Beyond» data or subsequent federal surveys tracking more - recent student cohorts.

The best data now reside inside school districts and state agencies, rather than in federal surveys.

According to data from the comparable year in a Labor Department survey, an average full - time employee works 1,932 hours a year spread out over 48 weeks (excluding two weeks vacation and federal holidays).

According to the federal government's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the school districts in which our survey respondents resided spent an average of $ 12,440 per pupil in 2012 (the most recent data available).

In other cases, it is an estimate based on federal agency survey or administrative data.

The data come from a series of surveys conducted by the federal government for various years between 1961 and 1997.

Patte Barth, director of the Center for Public Education, provided a summary of the new report, which uses data from the federal Schools and Staffing Survey to examine the scope of choices available both across different school buildings and within school programs.

Our analysis was based on data from the federal Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and its supplemental Teacher Follow - Up Survey (TFS).1 When we originally undertook our study, six cycles of SASS / TFS had been administered over a 20 - year period — 1987 — 88, 1990 — 91, 1993 — 94, 1999 — 2000, 2003 — 04, and 2007 — 08.

There is also a need for firm safeguards on the use and dissemination of student data, and for stronger student protections from state and federal surveys — dreamed up by agenda - driven lawyers and academics — which ask elementary - school students about their gender identification and other controversial topics.

Several of the teachers who filled out our survey echoed that point, and the most recent federal data puts the issue in stark relief: enrollment in teacher prep programs in Michigan dropped 23 % between 2012 and 2014.

Part One surveyed how the state's skepticism of test - based accountability starts at the top with Gov. Jerry Brown, who successfully took on the federal government; Part Two explored how the elimination of certain data systems has limited educational research...