25,26 A representative sample of 1420 children aged 9, 11, and 13 years at intake was recruited from 11 counties in western North Carolina. Potential participants were selected from the population of some 20 000 children, using a household equal probability, accelerated cohort design.27 Over ...
TwoofficialmeasuresofpovertyinAmerica Therearetwobasicversionsofthefederalpovertymeasure:thepovertythresholds(whicharetheprimaryversion)andthepovertyguidelines.TheCensusBureauissuesthepovertythresholds,whicharegenerallyusedforstatisticalpurposes—forexample,toestimatethenumberofpeopleinpovertynationwideeachyearandclassifythem...
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However, the study was also used by the GAO as a means to put pressure onEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos as she considered whether to rescind 2014 civil rights guidelines from the Obama Administration. The report was part of a political move to force DeVos to keep using guidelines meant to e...
School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Weiming Tang & Joseph D. Tucker Southern Medical University Dermatology Hospital, Guangzhou, China Weiming Tang, Ligang Yang & Bin Yang Human Nature Lab, Department of Sociology, Yale University, New...
Race and Hispanic ori- gin are treated as separate and distinct concepts in accordance with OMB's guidelines. For further information, see www.whitehouse.gov /omb/ombdir15.html. Table 1 compares last year's single-race figures with two different figures this year: one comparison is based on...
Following the Soviet collapse, Uzbekistan has sought to balance ties with its former imperial master and the West. The nation of 32 million people is north of Afghanistan and the location made it an important supply hub for U.S. military operations in that country. ...
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Krieger N, Williams DR, Moss NE: Measuring social class in US public health research: concepts, methodologies, and guidelines. Annu Rev Public Health. 1997, 18: 341-378. 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.18.1.341. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Carey LA, Perou CM, Livasy CA, Dressler LG,...
Standard guidelines, as proposed by Stewart and Shatmdasani [5] and Ritchie and Lewis [6], were followed during the data collection process. The team spent two days in each community. The research team explained the purpose of the study to the formal leaders of the communities and then to...