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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Social surveys"”.
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Field computers for spatially referenced social surveys
This study explores the use of a palm computer, linked to a hand held global positioning system receiver, by members of an informal settlement and a rural community to collect socio-economic (SE) data. The theoretical foundation is taken from such disciplines as Semiotics, Human Computer …
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Psychosocial Work Environment Stressors, Health, and Health Disparities: Findings from the 2002 to 2014 General Social Surveys
… while most other countries focus on social class differences. One of the overarching goals of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Healthy People initiatives has been addressing health disparities; for 2020, it aimed to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, …
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Striving for quality, comparability and transparency in cross-national social survey measurement: illustrations from the European Social Survey (ESS)
It is well known that even the best conducted surveys often generate significant amounts of error during their design and implementation, best described by the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework. It is also widely accepted that cross-national surveys have the potential to increase that error …
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Public Religious Participation: A Comparison Of Three Distinct Birth Cohorts
… X to the extent possible. Using the General Social Surveys, this analysis employs an age/period/cohort analytical framework to examine religious involvement. Sociodemographic variables that are associated with religiosity are included in the analysis. Directions for future research on …
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The Effects of Human/Wildlife Conflict on the Potential for Community-Based Ecotourism in the Kasigau Region of Southeast Kenya
… community attitudes are ascertained via written social surveys and transect sampling methods are used to determine the relative abundance and diversity of wildlife on Maungu Ranch in Kasigau. Through these three separate analyses a clear picture of problematic issues facing CBE in Kasigau becomes …
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Actual Versus Perceived Risk of Victimization and Handgun Ownership
… was scarce. Crime rates and respondents' social characteristics were used as proxy measures for victimization risk, while fear of crime measured perceived risk of victimization. Three sets of models were estimated, the first with a pooled sample of men and women, the second and third on …
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Creating comparative advantages in the E-commerce industry
… multivariate regression analysis using General Social Surveys 1972-2000 further justify the claim that virtual communities and personalization have significant positive effects on individuals' online purchase behavior. This empirical work also show that demographic variables are not correlated …
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A sociological study of the New Lothrop community
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Sociology, 1932
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The Prescott community
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1934
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Islamophobia : reality or myth?
… statistical data from available large-scale social surveys. The primary aim of the presented research is to determine the extent to which available statistical data support or challenge assertions and conclusions concerning ‘Islamophobia’ found within recent scholarly and policy literature. …
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Installation and evaluation of domestic greywater reuse systems
… impacts of such reuse, and to assess social attitudes towards reusing greywater in and around the house. Greywater from bathrooms/laundries at four Melbourne properties with different soil types, slopes, house types and family characteristics was filtered, collected in tanks and …
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Change in Race and Ethnic Stratification: The Roles of Period, Cohort, Immigrant Generation, Socioeconomic Origins and Gender in Shaping Educational Attainment
… nationally representative data set, the General Social Surveys, from 1977-2010, with birth cohorts represented from 1880-1985 to assess the conditional probabilities of high school graduation, college entry and college completion for over 45,000 respondents, 16 different "religio-ethnic" groups …
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Trust and Inequality: Are Perceptions of Inequality Influencing Trust?
… trust produces inequality or vice versa. Large social surveys, such as the General Social Survey, that attempt to measure the concept of trust are flawed in that they assume that all respondents have the same conceptualization of the word “trust”, and furthermore leave much open to speculation …
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Dalla Francia all'Italia: impegno politico, inchiesta e transfers culturali alle origini della sociologia del lavoro in Italia
… a School in Florence with an eager attention to social sciences as a medium to become a new model union, while Marxist CGIL, despite its ideological aversion to sociology, finally accepted the social sciences lexicon in order to explain the work changes and to resist against the employers' …
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A Socio-Economic Assessment of Marine Turtle Eco-tourism
… marine turtle eco-tourism around the ACNWR using social surveys and an economic impact analysis tool. IMPLAN, an input-output modeling package, has been used in tourism industries around the U.S. since 1992, but this study is the first to use this tool to evaluate the holistic economic effects of …
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Political Orientations and the Influences of Cohort Membership and Time: Patterns of Change in Tolerance, Confidence, and the Strength of Party Affiliation
… analytical scheme. Using the NORC General Social Surveys (1972-1993), the study tracks eight birth cohorts across twenty-two years to discern change patterns over time. Overall three archetypes and a sub-type emerged from the data. The two tolerance scales and five individual indicators are …
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Is Chir Pine Displacing Banj Oak in the Central Himalaya? Socioeconomic Implications for Local People and the Conservation of Oak Forest Biodiversity
… forests are heavily exploited by local people, Social surveys were carried out to understand the dependency of the local people on these forests and their awareness and opinions relating to the current situation of the banj oak degradation, its consequences for them and the reasons behind …
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SUBMERGED AQUATIC VEGETATION IN A LOW-VISIBILITY LOW-SALINITY ESTUARY IN NORTH CAROLINA: IDENTIFYING TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS BY SONAR AND LOCAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
… sound-wide and by site. The biological surveys were complemented by a social science study that utilized Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) to study SAV stakeholders' perception about SAV and to assess their historical SAV distribution knowledge in western AS. Often, biological surveys do …
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Forests under threat? Changes in land use and forest cover in rural western Uganda
… this work a combination of satellite imagery and social surveys is used to quantify forest gains and loss over the last three decades in the region close to Lake Albert, whilst also providing an account of possible drivers of change. This area proves to be interesting as it covers regions with …
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Essays on the political economy of welfare and redistribution
… constructed from six different cross-country social surveys and government finance statistics, this chapter demonstrates that public ideological preferences influence government decisions regarding the size of welfare expenditure. The chapter further presents a meaningful difference between …
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