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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Expenditure patterns"”.
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Expenditure patterns of older and younger consumers
… was to find if significant differences exist in patterns of consumption expenditures between elderly and younger consumers in the United States. Cluster analysis was used to identify consumption patterns, and then multiple logit analysis was used to test the relationship between consumption …
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Expenditure patterns of students at tourist attractions in the Vhembe District Municipality
… arrivals and departures together with tourist expenditure and receipts. Further variables commonly cited in the literature are travel exports and/or imports, tourist length of stay and number of nights spent at the accommodation. This study aimed to analyse the expenditure patterns of students …
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A tobit analysis of factors affecting vegetable expenditure patterns in U.S. households
Household vegetable expenditure patterns are examined using data from the 1972-1974 Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Diary Survey. Tobit analysis is employed to measure the effects of changes in household socioeconomic and demographic characteristics on changes in the probability of …
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The impact of livestock and gender on household expenditure patterns in the Copperbelt province of Zambia
… examines the impact of livestock on household expenditures. Specifically, the study compares the changes in food budget shares for households that have income from livestock and households that did not have livestock income during the study period. Furthermore, the study examines whether the …
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A comparison of expenditure patterns in public two-year colleges with declining, steady, or increasing budgets
… apportioned their funds in each of six major expenditure categories during the period of 1977-78 through 1985-86. The six major expenditure categories are instruction, academic support, libraries, student services, institutional support, and operation and maintenance of plant. The source of …
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An analysis of the effect of income and prices on food consumption and expenditure patterns in Sri Lanka.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Differences in income and consumer expenditure patterns between foreign and American graduate students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
… total annual income, total annual and monthly expenditures, and consumer expenditure patterns between American and foreign graduate students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI & SU). The study was based on a survey entitled "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State …
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The Price of Prestige: A Study of the Impact of Striving Behavior on the Expenditure Patterns of American Colleges and Universities
… that striving behavior has upon an institution’s expenditures. While not the first study to examine such effects, it was the first to look across a multitude of institutional types, spanning seven levels of Carnegie classifications and encompassing public and private not-for-profit …
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Travel behavior and expenditure patterns of the Chinese university student and the associated visiting friends and relatives (VFRs) markets in New Zealand
This thesis examines travel behavior and expenditure patterns of Chinese university students and the associated VFRs in New Zealand. It also investigates the effects of socio-demographics, travel-related, and psychographic variables on travel behavior and expenditure patterns. The thesis involves …
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An Examination of the Influence of Educational and Occupational Characteristics of the Household Head on Expenditure Patterns for Selected Classes of Consumer Durable Goods
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The Impact Of Selected Socio-demographic, Travel-related And Psychogra
… have attempted to understand the tourism expenditure patterns from the traveler's perspective (Cai, Hong, and Morrision, 1995; Dardis, et al., 1981; Prais and Houthakker,1971; Sheldon and Mak , 1987; Jang, et al.,2003). However, an examination of the previous studies indicates that only …
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Is South Africa's social protection system addressing the causes or the symptoms of poverty? : the case of the Child Support Grant
… 1 Dataset, the effects of the CSG on households' expenditure patterns are examined to assess the extent to which CSG-recipients invest in asset-building. A propensity score matching method is employed to construct an appropriate counterfactual. Households receiving the CSG are not found to exhibit …
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Ethnicity and Clothing Expenditures of U.S. Households: A Structural Equations Model with Latent Quality Variables
… between household characteristics and the expenditure shares allocated among various categories of women's clothing for U.S. households belonging to different ethnic groups. The study also estimated unobserved latent quality variables based on household characteristics, and examined the …
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Backpack travellers using commercial backpacker accommodation in Queensland
… in Queensland and to identify the transport and expenditure patterns and selected socio-demographic characteristics of Backpack travellers using commercial Backpacker accommodation in Queensland.
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Defense Spending and the System of Regional Economies
… the federal budget, the relative instability of expenditure patterns over time, and government purchases of many goods and services from the private sector. Perhaps the most dramatic and apparent of these influences has been the regionalization and extensive geographic concentration of defense …
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Aspects of planning in relation to Claremont shopping centre
… mix, movement, fashion, socio-economic status, expenditure patterns and consumer behaviour. It can be demonstrated that if certain of these factors are left to respond to what is generally known as the "market mechanism", the resultant environment usually exhibits certain undesirable features …
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The financing of health care and health sciences education and training in South Africa
… study was to critically analyse the funding and expenditure patterns of institutions training health personnel. This included an investigation of the distribution of income from the various sources by geographic areas (i.e. by province), between historically white and black training institutions …
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A Comparison of Profiles and Expenditures between Volunteer and Leisure Tourists for the New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area
<p>This research compared the expenditure patterns, profiles, and trip characteristics of volunteer and leisure tourists in New Orleans. Survey research methods were used to obtain a sample of voluntourists that was compared to a leisure tourist sample obtained from secondary data. Visitors’ …
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The impact of foreign aid on government fiscal behaviour: evidence from ethiopia
… aid influences public decision on revenue and expenditure patterns. The result shows that a larger proportion of aid is allocated to capital expenditure and that only a small proportion goes to recurrent expenditure. There is a strong positive association between aid inflow and capital …
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A New Method of Ceramic Economic Indexing in Historical Archaeology with a Case Study from Springfield, Missouri
… archaeological record to quantify ceramic expenditure patterns. However, Miller's method is suited primarily to antebellum assemblages of ceramic artifacts. In this study, I developed a new ceramic economic indexing method, designed expressly for assemblages postdating the 1870s. This was …
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