Sentences with phrase «from census records»

An assessment to identify those strengths and needs can take many forms, such as a compilation of demographic data from census records, results of surveys, and partners» responses to questions about the community they serve.

But while Masters structured his free - form narratives like epitaphs, Nelson brings her village to vivid life, using residents» actual names gleaned from census records, while passionately imagining the modest pride and struggles of their daily lives.

To find out, Ruben Arslan, a psychologist at the University of Göttingen in Germany, and colleagues analyzed data from census records from 17th and 18th century Germany, Canada, and Sweden, as well as a national population registry from 20th century Sweden, looking at more than 1.3 million people in total.

Relevant details can be obtained easily from census records, credit report agencies such as Experian and Equifax, and consumer data - mining companies like Phorm.

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Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

Since Stephen Harper and David Cameron seem to be on the same wavelength, and the UK thinks it can trash census and turn to isources like credit records for its information needs, the story below on privacy, from Alberta, may be of possible interest.

Allocations for non-maintained special schools are based on the pupil number data from the January 2015 school census; and allocations for special post-16 institutions are based upon the individualised learner record (ILR) data and 16 to 19 national funding formula average funding factors.

Whilst undertaking fieldwork in Gaborone, Botswana's capital, Professor Harding came across historical village census records in the library of the University of Botswana, data which could provide the key to separating electoral pressure from donor demands, allowing us to understand the allocation of development resources.

Compared with census figures from the 1990s, the numbers of Hispanic and Asian New Yorkers grew more slowly; blacks recorded their first population loss since the Civil War; and non-Hispanic whites, who registered their smallest population loss in decades, also logged the biggest gains of any group among young children.

HeritageQuest Online contains U.S. federal census records from 1790 - 1940, special federal census schedules, over 20,000 local and family history books, over 20,000 U.S. city directories, a genealogical and local history serials index, Revolutionary War Pension Files, Freedman's Bank Records, and select content from the U.S. Serirecords from 1790 - 1940, special federal census schedules, over 20,000 local and family history books, over 20,000 U.S. city directories, a genealogical and local history serials index, Revolutionary War Pension Files, Freedman's Bank Records, and select content from the U.S. SeriRecords, and select content from the U.S. Serial Set.

The most elaborate khipus, which could be census records of annual tributes owed to Inka lords, contain upward of 1,500 pendants dangling from the primary cord and six levels of subsidiaries branching from the pendants.

In addition to his wildlife observations, Bicknell has added 10,000 records covering 20 years of wildlife census data from other researchers into an algorithm that highlights biodiversity hot spots.

During more than 30 years of research, the pair have cut a wide swathe: from watching grizzly bears in Alaska to recording birdsong in the North American forests to taking a census of jackals in Africa, and much in between.

Dr Lu and colleagues from Sweden, Iceland and the USA used Swedish census, medical and other records to follow 7,860,629 Swedes aged 15 and over between 1987 and 2009.

We supplemented information from IMPAC II with institutional information from the Department of Education Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS); investigator information from the NIH Doctoral Record File (DRF), which is derived from the National Science Foundation Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), a census of doctorates awarded in the U.S. since 1974; and faculty data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Faculty Roster.

Gotham will build profiles of public information from social networks, mailing lists, marketing surveys, marriage and divorce records, government census records, real estate listings and personal and business websites.

In work that Larry Katz and I have done using archival records from a unique state census, we found that an additional year of high school at the start of the high - school movement in 1915 added more than 12 percent to the earnings of young men (18 - to 34 - year - olds).

It contains searchable and browsable newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, military records, and census manuscripts from Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

The 2001 census recorded just over two million cohabiting couples in England and Wales — a 67 % increase on the fi gures from 1991.