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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"household structure"”.
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Changing household structure and the impact on the journey to work
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Effect of Household Structure on Family-Friendly Benefit Utilization: Implications for Organizational Attraction and Workplace Withdrawal Behaviors of Federal Government Employees
<p>This study examined the effect of household structure on utilization of family-friendly benefits in organizations, as well as the impact that family-friendly benefit utilization has on organizational attraction and workplace withdrawal behaviors among Federal government employees with children. …
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The Relationship between Household/Parental Structure and Student Performance on Standardized Tests
… of this study is to analyze the reliability of household structure as a means of predicting student performance on standardized tests. How well a student performs on standardized tests is a key component of federal assessments and is ultimately used to determine the quality and success of …
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Factors Affecting Household Disaster Preparedness: A Study of the Canadian Context
This study addresses the issue of household disaster preparedness. This work contributes two elements to disaster research. The first contribution improve the knowledge of the factors that affect household disaster preparedness. The review of literature yielded three categories of variables that …
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Poverty and inequality measurement and determinants : the case of Zambia
… the role of education, employment and household structure in explaining poverty and inequality in Zambia between 1991 and 2004. This period was characterized by macroeconomic and structural adjustment reforms that led to declining public sector employment due to liquidations and …
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Structures, relationships and attitudes: coalmining family life in the Black Country during the second half of the Nineteenth Century
… of this Thesis is to describe and to analyse the structure of coalminer families and households in two woricing-class communities at two points in time in the second half of the nineteenth century. The methodology used is essentially that of comparison of coalminer households across time to look …
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Household moving and tenure behavior : translating retrospective "Recent Mover" surveys into prospective moving decisions
… studies regarding the interdependency of household life cycle stages and moving decisions in demography, most existing LUT simulations do not address households changing life cycle stages when modeling residential relocation behavior. The reasons include 1) the data that capture households …
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Factors influencing childhood overweight and obesity in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
… factors, nutrition transition, family household structure, maternal health status, environment, and sedentary lifestyle. Since the studies varied regarding methods and analysis, we cannot generalize key findings across articles or between countries. Therefore, this review will report on …
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The day activity schedule approach to travel demand analysis
… model identifies purposes, priorities and structure of the day's activities and travel. Conditional tour models describe timing, location and access mode of on-tour activities. The system captures trade-offs people consider, when faced with space and time constraints, among patterns that …
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"When He Comes Home, Then He Can Decide": Male Out-Migration, the Feminization of Agriculture, and Integrated Pest Management in the Nepali Mid-Hills
… in midwestern Nepal We conducted semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation with local farmers and NGOs. Grounded in feminist political ecology (FPE) and drawing on the social relations approach (SRA), we sought to engage with the feminization of …
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Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century)
… providing comparable descriptions of the social structure of seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe: four French, one Italian and two Swedish. It is concerned with elements of the social structure such as family and kinship organization, geographical mobility and the life cycle of …
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The merchants of York, Beverley and Hull in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
… the poor survival rate of male heirs, household structure and family provision, all reflect a high degree of interdependence. The second section of the chapter concentrates on merchant benevolence and piety, concluding that their priorities were similar to those of other townsfolk and …
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Lost in transition: welfare to work in Louisiana
… exits without work. Group location, along with household structure and certain individual factors, influences relationship to poverty level and vulnerability to material hardships. Based on my findings, I discuss policy implications and contributions to theories of poverty.
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Economic Inequality and Intimate Partner Violence against Women : An Analysis of the British Crime Survey 2008/09.
… across three units of analysis (individual, household and neighbourhood). It also specifically examines how economic inequality is related to remaining in, and exiting from, violent relationships for women from the same population. Analysis is conducted on a representative sample of 12,920 …
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Estimating the number of cars in UK and US households
… interests to investigate factors responsible for households’ car ownership. While literature holds an extensive body of investigation usually compartmentalised in individual different disciplines, limited efforts have been made to promote inter-linkages of this strand of research across different …
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Weaving the Home Web: A Canadian Case Study of Internet Domestication
… develops as a set of contextual practices within households of East York, Ontario. My research is part of the Connected Lives Project that took place in East York, Ontario between 2004 and 2005. Using a combination of survey data, semi-structured interviews and digital photos, I offer a novel …
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Child Abuse Allegations in High Conflict Divorce
… family functioning, family dynamics, and household structure. The overall purpose of the present study was to gain further insight into unfounded child abuse allegations. More specifically, the first aim was to describe the families in which child abuse allegations occurred. The second aim …
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Household livelihood: the church's coping strategies against the impact of HIV and AIDS on the female-headed households in the KwaDlangezwa Area
… the impact of HiV and AIDS on the female-headed households in KwaDalngezwa. This is considered through the use of livelihood activities. The first chapter gives an overview of the whole research. The chapter shows the essence and importance of the research. In chapter two is the literature review …
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The role of gender, aspirations, and family structure in Mexican education and migration
… chapter focuses on the role of migration in household structure and the educational trajectory of children in migrant-sending families. In the first chapter, I use a sample of approximately 100,000 adults from the first wave of the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS), collected in 2002, to …
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