Coordinating and Sustaining Federal Statistics Decennial Census and American Community Survey Economic Measurement Federal Household and Business Surveys Health and Social Welfare Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency Statistical Methods and Estimates for Policy Use
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 | Using American Community Survey Data to Expand Access to the School Meals Programs
(CNSTAT)
2012
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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 | The Subjective Well-Being Module of the American Time Use Survey: Assessment for Its Continuation
(CNSTAT)
2012
The American Time Use Survey (ATUS), conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, included a subjective well-being (SWB) module in 2010 and 2012. The module, funded by the National Institute on Aging...
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 | Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care
(CNSTAT,HCS)
2012
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 insurance of any kind, and...
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 | Key National Education Indicators: Workshop Summary
(BOTA,CNSTAT)
2012
The education system in the United States is continually challenged to adapt and improve, in part because its mission has become far more ambitious than it once was. At the turn of the 20th century,...
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 | Testing of Body Armor Materials: Phase III
(BAST,CNSTAT)
2012
In 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the report Warfighter Support: Independent Expert Assessment of Army Body Armor Test Results and Procedures Needed Before Fielding, which...
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 | Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education
(BOTA,CNSTAT)
2012
Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society: teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute significantly to the nation's economic activity, both directly and...
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 | Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use: Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys
(CNSTAT,BEES)
2012
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...
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 | Small Populations, Large Effects: Improving the Measurement of the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey
(CNSTAT)
2012
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 of the U.S....
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 | Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation: Interim Report
(CNSTAT,STEP)
2012
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 collect...
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 | Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems
(CNSTAT,BAST)
2012
During the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies on the application of statistical methods to improve...
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