Sampling Space: Statistical Surveys

Author(s):  
E. B. Banning
Keyword(s):  
1996 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 1000-1002
Author(s):  
Taiji KAWAKAMI ◽  
Osamu YAMAMOTO ◽  
Tuyoshi MARUYAMA ◽  
Yoshinori SUENAGA ◽  
Masakazu ASAHI

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1221-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Stratigaki ◽  
D Vaiou

In Southern European countries, much of women's work lies out of the realm of ‘wage labour’ in forms of work which include agricultural labour in family farms, homeworking, unpaid domestic and caring labour, family helpers, and/or informal work in tourism, industry, or personal services. The importance of these forms of work is very likely to increase and several regions in Southern Europe present ‘ideal conditions’ for their proliferation. The bulk of women's work cannot be adequately grasped by looking exclusively at employment categories of economic and statistical surveys. These relegate to ‘nonwork’ many forms of women's labour in society. The authors discuss these ‘other’ forms of labour, focusing mainly on three issues: (a) the meaning and content of work for women in Southern Europe; (b) the connotations associated with terms such as ‘atypical’, ‘irregular’, ‘informal’, and so on, usually used to describe such activities and forms of work; (c) the effects of women's overrepresentation in such forms of work on gender divisions and on their own work prospects.


Ekonomia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Halina Woźniak ◽  
Elżbieta Stańczyk

The introduction of an additional financial incentive for statistical interviewers aims to improve the quality of statistical surveys carried out in households as well as the quality of quotation of goods and services conducted in retail outlets and service points, inter alia, by increasing the completeness of these surveys. These are conducted by Statistics Poland and its local agendas, i.e. statistical offices. The aim of the article is to analyse the diversity of results of interviewers’ work in the context of construction of the bonus system.As a measure of the result of the interviewerʼs work, the survey completeness index was used, which may be the basis for the level of thresholds defining the amount of the bonus.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Vorgrimler ◽  
Gorja Bartsch ◽  
Florian Spengler ◽  
Daniel Kuehnhenrich

1940 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 160-188
Author(s):  
Ivor J. Herring
Keyword(s):  

Arthur Young's judgment on Irish roads is well known; that indefatigable traveller who had many hard words for the highways of his native country, asserted: ‘ For a country so very far behind us as Ireland, to have got suddenly so much the start of us in the article of roads, is a spectacle that cannot fail to strike the English traveller exceedingly ’ A quarter of a century later his views received general corroboration from the statistical surveys of the counties and from other commentaries and travel-journals of the time. Sampson, who found little to criticise in the county Derry roads, remarked: ‘ I have seen no country more intersected by good roads than the neighbourhood of Kilrea and Magherafelt’.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (252) ◽  
pp. 73-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Urla ◽  
Christa Burdick

AbstractScholars of language policy and politics have increasingly come to appreciate that there is much insight to be gained by scrutinizing data collection practices and the debates around them. What is (or is not) counted and how counting is done has consequence, but in ways that are not always self-evident. Taking the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) in Spain as a case study, this article examines the historical context in which census and other statistical surveys of language emerged and what the changing forms of quantification can tell us about the evolution of language advocacy discourse and politics more generally. We will look at how concerns with tracking marginalization led minority language advocates to experiment with measures of oral use and linguistic landscapes in the public sphere. The final section examines how economistic and quality management techniques have gained traction in recent efforts to quantify Basque value and vitality today. We conclude with a consideration of the insights to be gained by looking at quantification efforts from the point of view of minority language advocacy.


2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Paul Ito

Mirka (2009) has recently argued that the 18th-century metrical theories of Heinrich Christoph Koch can be revelatory for a reconstruction of contemporary ways of hearing Viennese high classicism. Koch’s claims revolve around interactions between the metrical placement of cadences and the articulation of specific beat levels, and these claims are most specific and testable for common time and 6/8. This paper reports two statistical surveys of works by Mozart that were designed to gauge the fit between the corpus and Koch’s theory. In the works examined, the theory was strongly supported for common time, strongly disconfirmed for 6/8, and weakly supported for the other meters encountered. It is argued that these results point toward caution regarding the use of Koch’s theories but not toward their outright rejection, and that unexpected statistical contrasts within the corpus indicate the need for a fine-grained approach to meter in music of the later 18th century.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-43
Author(s):  
Anna Skoropadskaya ◽  
Nikita Efremov

The article reveals the topical issue of the lack of teaching staff in the Republic of Karelia. Despite the fact that traditionally the education sector is one of the main in terms of the share of employed workers for the republic, the need for teaching staff remains high. At the federal and republican levels a number of socio-economic measures are being taken to level the situation: incentive payments and various kinds of allowances for teachers (including beginners), benefits, federal programs. The authors of the article propose to look at the personnel problem from the standpoint of the attractiveness of the teaching profession for applicants and students. The statistical surveys carried out within the framework of the study among the students of Petrozavodsk State University in the areas of training related to pedagogy, showed that students are not sufficiently interested in future employment in the studied specialty. This is largely correlated with the other existing studies. Based on the revealed fact that future students become interested in the profession of a teacher during the school period, the authors conclude that one of the ways to consolidate this interest is thoughtful career guidance, which should be carried out not only with schoolchildren but also with students.


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