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      Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey: Interim Report

      Panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey,National Research Council

      Advance copy, not for public release before Monday, December 27, 2010.

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      Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education

      National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Measuring Higher Education Productivity: Conceptual Framework and Data Needs

      Committee on National Statistics, Board on Testing and Assessment, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

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      Using American Community Survey Data to Expand Access to the School Meals Programs

      National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Estimating Children Eligible for School Nutrition Programs Using the American Community Survey

      The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation’s food…

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      A Database for a Changing Economy: Review of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET)

      Panel to Review the Occupational Information Network (O*NET),National Research Council

      Information about the characteristics of jobs and the individuals who fill them is valuable for career guidance, reemployment counseling, workforce development, human resource management, and other purposes. To meet these…

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      Measuring the 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce Population: Evolving Needs

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel to Evaluate the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Approach to Measuring the Science and Engineering Workforce

      The National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), one of the nation’s principal statistical agencies, is charged to collect, acquire, analyze, report, and disseminate statistical data…

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      Developing and Evaluating Methods for Using American Community Survey Data to Support the School Meals Program: Interim Report

      Panel on Estimating Children Eligible for School Nutrition Programs Using the American Community Survey,National Research Council

      The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation’s…

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      Assessing the 2020 Census

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Panel to Evaluate the Quality of the 2020 Census

      Since 1790, the U.S. census has been a recurring, essential civic ceremony in which everyone counts; it reaffirms a commitment to equality among all, as political representation is explicitly tied…

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      Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies

      Panel on Enhancing the Data Infrastructure in Support of Food and Nutrition Programs, Research, and Decision Making,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies (2005)

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      An Updated Measure of Poverty

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Panel on Evaluation and Improvements to the Supplemental Poverty Measure

      An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population and to assess the effects of government policies on…

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      Conducting Biosocial Surveys: Collecting, Storing, Accessing, and Protecting Biospecimens and Biodata

      Panel on Collecting, Storing, Accessing, and Protecting Biological Specimens and Biodata in Social Surveys,National Research Council

      Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-scale household surveys. By combining biological and…

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      Federal Statistics, Multiple Data Sources, and Privacy Protection: Next Steps

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science Research Using Multiple Data Sources and State-of-the-Art Estimation Methods

      The environment for obtaining information and providing statistical data for policy makers and the public has changed significantly in the past decade, raising questions about the fundamental survey paradigm that…

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      A Pragmatic Future for NAEP: Containing Costs and Updating Technologies

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Opportunities for the National Assessment of Educational Progress in an Age of AI and Pervasive Computation: A Pragmatic Vision

      The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - often called The Nation’s Report Card - is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students in public and private…

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      The 2014 Redesign of the Survey of Income and Program Participation: An Assessment

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation: Content and Design

      The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a national, longitudinal household survey conducted by the Census Bureau. SIPP serves as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of government-sponsored…

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      Improving Crop Estimates by Integrating Multiple Data Sources

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Methods for Integrating Multiple Data Sources to Improve Crop Estimates

      The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the primary statistical data collection agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). NASS conducts hundreds of surveys each year and prepares reports…

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      Improving Data Collection and Measurement of Complex Farms

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Improving Data Collection and Reporting about Agriculture with Increasingly Complex Farm Structures

      America’s farms and farmers are integral to the U.S. economy and, more broadly, to the nation’s social and cultural fabric. A healthy agricultural sector helps ensure a safe and reliable…

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      Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program: Final Report

      National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel to Evaluate the USDA's Methodology for Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program

      This report reviews the methods used to estimate the national number of people eligible to participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) under full…

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      Understanding the Quality of the 2020 Census: Interim Report

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel to Evaluate the Quality of the 2020 Census

      The decennial census is foundational to the functioning of American democracy, and maintaining the public’s trust in the census and its resulting data is a correspondingly high-stakes affair. The 2020…

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      Small Populations, Large Effects: Improving the Measurement of the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey

      Panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

      In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, economic, and housing data from a sample…

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      Envisioning the 2020 Census

      Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations

      The project that is the subject of this report was supported by contract no. YA1323-06-CN-0031 between the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Academy of Sciences –T.p. verso.

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      Innovations in Federal Statistics: Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science Research Using Multiple Data Sources and State-of-the-Art Estimation Methods

      Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role in a democracy. For decades, sample surveys with instruments carefully designed for particular data needs have…

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      Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

      The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care…

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      Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Enhancing Survey Programs by Using Multiple Data Sources

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Panel on the Implications of Using Multiple Data Sources for Major Survey Programs

      Much of the statistical information currently produced by federal statistical agencies - information about economic, social, and physical well-being that is essential for the functioning of modern society - comes…

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      At What Price?: Conceptualizing and Measuring Cost-of-Living and Price Indexes

      Panel on Conceptual, Measurement, and Other Statistical Issues in Developing Cost-of-Living Indexes,Committee on National Statistics,National Research Council

      Examines the foundations for consumer price indexes, comparing the conceptual and practical strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of traditional fixed basket and COLI approaches. This book delves into a range of…

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      National Children’s Study 2014: An Assessment

      Panel on the Design of the National Children's Study and Implications for the Generalizability of Results,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine

      The National Children’s Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children’s Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute…

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      Measuring Respirator Use in the Workplace

      Panel on Review of the National Institute of Occupation Safety and Health,Bureau of Labor Statistics Respirator Use Survey

      Respirators are used in a variety of workplaces including emergency response, mining operations, construction, manufacturing, and hospitals. In 2001, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and Bureau of…

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      Reengineering the Census Bureau’s Annual Economic Surveys

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys

      The U.S. Census Bureau maintains an important portfolio of economic statistics programs, including quinquennial economic censuses, annual economic surveys, and quarterly and monthly indicator surveys. Government, corporate, and academic users…

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      Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation: Interim Report

      Panel on Developing Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators for the Future,National Research Council

      The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at least 5…

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      Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation: Improving Indicators to Inform Policy

      Panel on Developing Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators for the Future,Committee on National Statistics

      Assesses and provides recommendations regarding the need for revised, refocused, and newly developed indicators of STI activities that would enable National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) to respond…

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      Evaluation of Compensation Data Collected Through the EEO-1 Form

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel to Evaluate the Quality of Compensation Data Collected from U.S. Employers by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Through the EEO-1 Form

      The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expanded EEO-1 data collection for reporting years 2017 to 2018 in an effort to improve its ability to investigate and address pay disparities…

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      Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Panel on the Scope, Components, and Key Characteristics of a 21st-Century Data Infrastructure

      Historically, the U.S. national data infrastructure has relied on the operations of the federal statistical system and the data assets that it holds. Throughout the 20th century, federal statistical agencies…

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      Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use: Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys

      Panel on Redesigning the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys of the Energy Information Administration,National Research Council

      The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world’s energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, commercial floor space, transportation, goods, and services is expected…

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      Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health, and Highway Safety: Research Needs

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Transportation Research Board,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Human-Systems Integration,Committee on National Statistics

      There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might…

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      Improving Motor Carrier Safety Measurement

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Transportation Research Board,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on the Review of the Compliance, Safety, and Accountability (CSA) Program of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

      Introduction – Overview, evaluations, and criticisms of the safety measurement system – Applications of item response theory models in other contexts and public release and transparency – Applying item response…

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      Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure

      Panel to Review U.S Department of Agriculture's Measurement of Food Insecurity and Hunger,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure (2006)

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      Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners

      Panel to Review Alternative Data Sources for the Limited-English Proficiency Allocation Formula Under Title III, Part A, Elementary and Secondary Education Act,National Research Council

      As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation’s school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With…

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