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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"community survey"”.
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A socio-cultural community survey of the township Nyanga
The author wished to study a community and chose Nyanga, a Black township near Cape Town. As a student from Zululand he was at first a stranger to Nyanga, but learned something about it from direct observation. He then decided that his study should use the Method of Survey, that the sur- vey should …
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A Community Survey to Identify Rehabilitative Needs in the Home
… of senior citizens which would be helpful to the community in planning for rehabilitative services. These needs were identified and described from data secured by personal interviews of 56 respondents, using a prearranged schedule. These respondents were 50 years of age and over who lived in and …
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Female migration and housing in South Africa: evidence from the 2007 community survey
… This research makes use of the 2007 Community Survey secondary data derived from Statistics South Africa. The data analysis was carried out, first, by means of univariate analysis, cross-tabulation, and Chi-square statistical test for association. Logistic regression analysis was used …
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Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using information on the year-of-death of parents from the 2016 Community Survey
… methods are however limited, i.e., the single-survey approach produces out of date estimates of mortality and the two-survey approach is affected by the differential reporting of orphanhood between two surveys. To avoid these limitations, this research considers an extension of the orphanhood …
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Investigation of level and differentials in child mortality in South Africa: insight from Census 2001 and 2011, Community Survey 2016 and Demographic and Health Survey 2016
… the 2016 South African Demographic and Health Survey (SADHS) for the period between 2012-2016 revealed age-specific mortality rates were: Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) was 22.0 per 1 000 live births, Post-neonatal Mortality Rate (PNMR) 13.1, 1q0 34.9, 1q4 5.5 and 5q0 40.2 per 1 000 live births. …
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Solid Waste Management and River Bank Stabilization along Nalung'ombe River in Kinondoni Municipality Dar-Es-Salaam
… and need assessment analysis followed by a community survey were carried out in the project area. The need assessment results identified three main problems: solid waste disposal and seasonal river floods and soil erosion along river banks. A community survey was conducted to establish the …
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Gentrification and Income Segregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas
… public data from the U.S. Census, the American Community Survey and the Washington County Assessor's office has been used to measure economic gentrification in Fayetteville, Arkansas using an index based on property values and median rent prices and how much they have changed between 2000 and …
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Estimating the level and trends of child mortality in South Africa, 1996-2006
… and under-five mortality rates from the 2007 Community Survey data and to use these results to describe the trend in child mortality rates since 1996.
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The Imperfect Question of Stadium Development: A Typology of Contemporary Development and Strategies for a Sustainable Future
… parking. Using OpenStreetMap data and American Community Survey estimates, this project uses GIS analysis to develop a typology of contemporary NFL stadium developments. Using illustrative case studies informed by this analysis, site visits, and pre-existing literature, the thesis evaluates the …
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Essays on Agglomeration, Homeownership, and Labor Market Outcomes
… Using various years of data from the American Community Survey and the County Business Patterns survey, I show that the agglomeration of economic activities reduces the volatility of hours worked. Drawing on Krugman's model, I argue that this implies that labor pooling contributes to …
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Ethnic migration patterns in South Africa: A case of Zimbabwean immigrants
… South Africa and uses the 2011 Census and 2016 Community Survey data for South Africa to explore both provincial and metropolitan migration patterns of Zimbabwean migrants. The study also seeks to identify characteristics of migrant internal movers and how these are associated with their …
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DECONSTRUCTING DISABILITY-BASED SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY: INTERSECTIONAL INJUSTICE, STRUCTURAL ABLEISM, AND STATE POLICY CONTEXTS
… on over a decade of data from the American Community Survey, this dissertation cuts across topics related to disability, inequality, and health policy, ultimately providing new insights into how structural ableism shapes disparities in Supplemental Poverty and unemployment between disabled …
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Essays on the Economics of Rental Housing and Crime
… chapters are conducted using data from American Community Survey and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting database. The third chapter focuses on the relationship between ownership concentration and rental housing market outcomes. This analysis employs panel data on …
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Food deserts, crime, and neighborhood context: an examination of the impact of food insecurity on violent crime in Little Rock
… by the Little Rock Police Department, American Community Survey, and city business license records are used to test neighborhood-level relationships across Little Rock, Arkansas’ 155 Census block groups. Pearson’s Correlation is used at the bivariate level and negative binomial regression tests …
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Understanding Public Library Services and Use: A Structural Equation Modeling Framework
… available data from the 2015 Public Libraries Survey and 2015 American Community Survey to a structural equation model based on a theory of action for public libraries relating operating revenue to latent factors measuring service availability and library use within the context of matched …
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Safety Net System: A Case Study of Primary and Specialty Care for Uninsured Residents in Cobb County, Georgia
… facilities in Cobb County participated in the survey. First, the accessibility of providers and limited hours of operations compared to the number of uninsured residents in Cobb County is very small. This means an excessive number of patients are forced to visit the emergency room departments, …
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Social Investigation of Management Approaches to Effectively Control Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Invasion in the Sooke Region of Vancouver Island, BC
… informant focus group discussion and an online community survey. The analysis identified significant challenges in disposal management, including high costs, limited funding, and regulatory gaps. Participants from both groups emphasized the need for enhanced community engagement and …
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Dollar Stores and Supermarket Survivability in Non-metropolitan US Communities
… Patterns, Rural Urban Continuum Codes, American Community Survey, and authorized SNAP retailer data. The spatial distance between grocery stores and the number of dollar stores at various radii were calculated. Following the computation of the number of dollar stores surrounding grocery stores, …
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