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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Socio-economic characteristics"”.
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Socio-Economic Characteristics of Voluntary Labor Mobility
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:13:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412024.pdf: 7654198 bytes, checksum: 085d9366a4361089c701acc4afe79112 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Demographic and socio-economic characteristics and education in Senegal
… a comprehensive analysis of the demographic and socio-economic determinants of educational attainment in Senegal, with a particular focus on primary education and the persistent issue of gender inequality. The study is structured into five chapters, beginning with an introduction to Senegal’s …
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Socio-Economic Characteristics of Six Aboriginal Communities in Australia: A Comparative Ecological Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:41:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219884.pdf: 16552499 bytes, checksum: c4102fe3f9e3b043e6b8b59b74311f2e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Selected political, personality, and socio-economic characteristics of Virginia Tech Army ROTC cadets
… to examine selected political, personality, and socio-economic characteristics of Virginia Tech Army ROTC cadets in an attempt to acquire a better understanding of "who" will be filling the future officer ranks of the U.S. Army. Although this study focuses on a specific population, it provides a …
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Catch, effort and socio-economic characteristics of the gill and beach-seine net fisheries in the Western Cape, South Africa
… of by-catch in the fisheries, to describe the socio-economic status of participants and to evaluate the management measures currently in effect.
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Utilizing Multiple Data Sources In The Preparation Of A Vision Zero Plan For The City Of Alexandria: Investigating The Relationship Between Transportation Infrastructure, Socio- Economic Characteristics, And Crash Outcomes In The City
“Vision Zero,” first adopted by Sweden in 1997, is a road safety policy that aims to achieve a transportation system having zero fatalities or serious injuries for all modes of transportation. It takes a proactive approach to road safety system by identifying risk and taking steps to prevent …
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Factors which influence the decision of unwed mothers to keep or surrender their illegitimate children to a public adoption agency
… of this study is threefold: (1) to identify the socio-economic characteristics of those women contacting a public adoption agency for the placement of their children with prospective adoptive families; (2) to identify and examine the sociological factors which appear to influence the natural …
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Adoption of animal traction technology and its impact on farmers in the northern province of Sierra Leone
… animal traction; (3) to identify the social and economic factors that hinder the expanded adoption of animal traction among program farmers; and (4) to identify reasons for non-adoption of animal traction by the non-program farmers. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested: (1) there is a …
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Youth Experiences of Organized Activities and Violence: Trends and Interrelationships
… hurt them. It also emphasizes the effect of socio-economic characteristics such as age, gender, level of education, and family income on organized youth activities and youth violence. There are studies as well as a general assumption that organized youth activities contribute to reduce youth …
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A survey of landowner attitudes toward posting and fee hunting and fishing on private land in Southwest Virginia
… was used to obtain information regarding the socio-economic characteristics of private landowners pertinent to their views on access control and fee hunting and fishing. A total of 495 questionnaires, 33.0% of the 1,500 mailed to landowners in urban, mixed urban-rural, and rural counties, were …
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A comparative analysis of perceptions on land expropration by commercial and emerging farmers in Limpopo Province of South Africa
… Descriptive statistic was used to determine socio-economic characteristics. The study revealed that males dominated the farming industry, with males outnumbering females, particularly among emerging farmers. Likert scale and ordinal logistic regression were used to analyse the data. Emerging …
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The Earnings Test and Work Patterns: Experiences of Canada and the United States
… to this goal because people respond to economic incentives. The purpose of this study is to empirically examine what has happened when the earnings test has been liberalized in the United States and completely removed in a country with similar socio-economic characteristics, in this case …
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Comparative Analysis of Mature Travelers on the Basis of Internet Use
… mature market in terms of their market size and economic potential, little research has been conducted to identify and understand the mature travelers who use the Internet.The main purpose of this study is to profile mature travelers on the basis of Internet use. More specifically, the intention …
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The Effects of Agglomeration On the Likelihood and Frequency of Patenting In U.S. Counties
… U.S. during 1997. We analyze the effects that socio-economic characteristics of each county, including density, human capital, industrial diversity, and University R&D expenditures have on patent production. We find that two agglomeration measures, the density of the local labor pool as well as …
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Behavioral Determinants of Biofortified Food Acceptance: The Case of Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato in Ghana
… three varieties. I also find that respondents' socio-economic characteristics do not have a significant effect on consumer acceptance of OFSP. Conversely, providing consumers with information about the nutritional benefits of OFSP exert a substantial, positive and significant effect on their …
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Who Supports Basic Income? Constituency as a Constraint in Political Feasibility Testing
… its constituency base. It inquires on the socio-economic characteristics behind public support for Basic Income through the analysis of a survey conducted in 2016. The findings provide insights on the constituency base of Basic Income which proves to have no socio-demographic homogeneity. …
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Health Care Financing Policies in South Korea: The Interaction of National Characteristics and Influences From More Developed Nations
… in relation to "goodness of fit" with national characteristics and traditions. In fact, some observers have argued that systems designed in Western developed nations may actually be inimical to the welfare of developing countries. In order to illuminate the interaction of national …
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Factors contributing to termination of pregnancies among teenager in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province
… younger. The study also sought to determine the socio economic characteristics of teenagers who terminate pregnancies, the role of parental care in avoiding unwanted teenage pregnancies, the teenagers’ general knowledge of reproductive health issues as well as their sources of information …
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Revealed willingness to pay for conservation across the U.S.
… behavior changes with referenda attributes and socio-economic characteristics of the participating communities. Because the communities have already voted for conservation referenda, the estimates reveal their actual WTP for different land use types. Using a logit model, we find that communities …
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Willingness to pay for social health insurance : a case study of Kampala (Uganda)
… in establishing the extent to which employees' socio-economic characteristics and the SHI attributes affect their willingness to pay.
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