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2013 Dataone Working Group Survey, Alison Specht

DataONE Sociocultural and Usability & Assessment Working Groups

No abstract provided.

Fertility Rate For All Races By State: 2007 Final Versus 2013 Final, National Center For Health Statistics (Nchs)

Archived Publications

Sources: Table 11, Births: Final Data for 2007 released 8-9-2010; Table 12, Births: Final Data for 2013 released 1-15-2015, NCHS @ CDC

Fertility Rate For All Races By State: 2007 Final Versus 2013 Final, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Archived Publications

Fertility rates are births per 1,000 women aged 15-44 years. The 2013 U.S. fertility rate was the lowest ever recorded, going back to 1920. 2007 was a recent peak in fertility.

Median Household Income In The Past 12 Months (In 2012 Inflation-Adjusted Dollars): 2008-2012 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Archived Publications

Supporting documentation on code lists, subject definitions, data accuracy, and statistical testing can be found on the American Community Survey website in the Data and Documentation section.

Sample size and data quality measures (including coverage rates, allocation rates, and response rates) can be found on the American Community Survey website in the Methodology section.

Although the American Community Survey (ACS) produces population, demographic and housing unit estimates, it is the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program that produces and disseminates the official estimates of the population for the nation, states, counties, cities and towns and estimates of housing units for states …

Patent Research, Suzanne L. Reinman, Jan Comfort

Jan Comfort

No abstract provided.

Metodología Para Generar Información Regional. Aplicación A La Industria Mexicana, Vicente German-Soto

Vicente German-Soto

Public Health Return-On-Investment Template - Demonstration Version, Glen Mays

Glen Mays

The Public Health Return on Investment (ROI) Template is designed to help public health organizations estimate the economic returns from investments made in strategies that enhance public health service delivery, including quality improvement (QI) interventions. Depending on data availability, the template can be used to support retrospective analyses of actual investments as well as prospective analyses of potential future investments. The tool is designed to analyze economic returns realized through one ore more of the following pathways: (1) Reductions in routine operating costs; (2) Increases in revenue streams; (3) Increases in the outputs produced through agency services/functions; (4) Reductions in …

Selecting Measures Of Public Health Service Delivery: Results From A Delphi Survey For The Mprove Study, Glen Mays

Glen Mays

This database contains detailed, sortable results from the expert panel Delphi survey used to rate candidate measures of public health service delivery to be used in the Multi-Network Practice and Outcome Variation Examination Study (MPROVE), conducted by the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRN) Program.

Inventory Of Public Health Service Delivery Measures: The Mprove Study, Glen Mays

Glen Mays

This database contains a searchable inventory of measures of public health service delivery that have been recommended as candidates for use in the MPROVE study of geographic variation in local public health service delivery.

Mprove Measure Submission Form, Glen P. Mays

Glen Mays

This instrument allows participating public health PBRN networks to submit candidate measures for the Multi-Network Practice and Outcome Variation Examination (MPROVE) study.

Monograph Expenditures Summary, Andrée J. Rathemacher

University Libraries Reports & Statistics

This is a spreadsheet of library expenditure data prepared for NEASC's five-year accreditation visit to the University of Rhode Island in fall 2012. It presents time series data from 1995/96 to 2010/11 on total expenditures on monographs (books), total number of monographs purchased, total gift volumes added, expenditures on monographs as a percentage of total materials expenditures, and purchasing power of the library's monograph budget calculated by deflating monograph expenditures by the U.S. College Books price index to 1995 dollars.

Serials Expenditures Summary, Andrée J. Rathemacher

University Libraries Reports & Statistics

This is a spreadsheet of library expenditure data prepared for NEASC's five-year accreditation visit to the University of Rhode Island in fall 2012. It presents time series data from 1995/96 to 2010/11 on total library serials expenditures (for periodical and database subscriptions), number of serials purchased (total and online-only), expenditures on serials as a percentage of total materials expenditures, and purchasing power of the library's serials budget calculated by deflating serials expenditures by the U.S. Periodicals Price Index to 1995 dollars.

One Year In - Top Downloads Of Documents From The Keep In The First Year Of The Repository, Todd Bruns

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

This document compiles the total full text downloads of documents in The Keep. The time period covered is the first full year of operation of The Keep, December 2011 through the end of November 2012.

Elusive Documents Master List, John W. Walters

Elusive Documents

Master list of elusive government documents, as identified by John Walters. These documents are important to the Utah State University community, the State of Utah, or the region in general. Please contact John to request the digitization of individual titles.

One Year In - Top Downloads Of Documents From The Keep In The First Year Of The Repository, Todd Bruns

Todd A. Bruns

This document compiles the total full text downloads of documents in The Keep. The time period covered is the first full year of operation of The Keep, December 2011 through the end of November 2012.

Excel Calculator For Assignment/Article "Compound Interest And The Power Of Saving", Richard H. Serlin

Richard H. Serlin

No abstract provided.

Tenn-Share: Interlibrary Loan Volume And Usps Cost Calculator, David P. Atkins

David P Atkins

Don’t know how much you spend on interlibrary loan shipping? Now there’s a simple way to find out. Use this free and easy spreadsheet to estimate your ILL shipping expenses via United State Postal Service. All you need is your borrowing and lending volume; the number of items you ship via USPS. Plug in those numbers and the spreadsheet does all the math comparing Library/Media and 1st Class/Parcel Post rates.

While not as accurate as having an itemized accounting of everything you ship, this calculator will provide a good, conservative estimate based on average material weights (1 pound for books …

Research Dataset - Asking For Permission: A Survey Of Copyright Workflows For Institutional Repositories, Ann Hanlon, Marisa Ramirez

Library Scholarship

In October 2009, survey invitations were emailed via the OpenDOAR email service to 778 Institutional Repositories that met the OpenDOAR parameters of "content type=articles" and "repository type=institution". One hundred twenty-one completed online survey responses were collected from October 12 - November 12, 2009 using the SurveyMonkey tool. Please refer to the related publication for additional details and published findings.

An Excel Worksheet For Proportion-Judgment Analyses On Number-Line Data, Emily Slusser, Hilary Barth

Emily Slusser

No abstract available.

An Excel Worksheet For Proportion-Judgment Analyses On Number-Line Data, Emily Slusser, Hilary Barth

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Business Cycle Program B, Howard J. Sherman

HOWARD J SHERMAN

Readers who wish to see how the business cycle calculations for this book were done, as well as how to create their own spreadsheet and graphs, can use the attached program. You need only paste the series into the appropriate date on the spreadsheet.

• The users need only paste their data at the first quarter 1970.
• The “cycle base” is the average of a variable over the whole cycle.
• The “original data” are your series, divided into nine stages of the cycle. Stage 1 is the initial trough, stages 2, 3, and 4 are the expansion; stage 5 is the …

Business Cycle Program C, Howard J. Sherman

HOWARD J SHERMAN

This spreadsheet shows exactly the same program as Program B, but it is filled in to show the behavior of Gross Domestic Product. Readers who wish to see how the business cycle calculations for this book were done, as well as how to create their own spreadsheet and graphs, can use the attached program. You need only paste the series into the appropriate date on the spreadsheet.

• The users need only paste their data at the first quarter 1970.
• The “cycle base” is the average of a variable over the whole cycle.
• The “original data” are your series, divided into …

Digital Asset Management (Dam) Planning/Implementation Survey (8/1/10 - 8/31/10), Michael J. Bennett

Published Works

An online survey conducted from 8/1/10 through 8/31/10 to better assess the current landscape of Digital Asset Management systems (DAM) among cultural heritage institutions. Questions posed attempted to gauge the perceived overall DAM needs and the success and/or failure of current software systems in providing for such features. Topics touched upon by respondents also included institutional buy-in and overall scope planning.

Real And Nominal Effective Exchange Rates Data For Bangladesh, Nusrate Aziz

Dr. Nusrate Aziz

Data for effective exchange rates were unavailable in national (e.g., Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Bangladesh Bank) or international (e.g., IMF, World Bank) data sources while I was developing this dataset in 2008-2010. Many PhD students and academic researchers requested me to upload this dataset, so that they can do more research on Bangladesh exchange rates. It would be my pleasure indeed, if anyone finds it useful.

Digital Project Staff Survey Of Jpeg 2000 Implementation In Libraries, David Lowe, Michael J. Bennett

Published Works

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Hispanic Poverty Rates And Rankings For States: 2000 Census Vs. 2009-13 American Community Survey, David Drozd, Jerry Deichert

Archived Publications

Sources: Table P159H, 2000 Census (SF3); Table B17001I, 2009-13 ACS; U.S. Census Bureau

Unexpected Events In Interstate Wars, Zachary C. Shirkey

Publications and Research

This is the data for unexpected events on interstate wars associated with Is This a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join? The Spread of Interstate War. Please see that work for a description of the coding and please cite that work when using this data.

Institutional Repository Workflow From Initial Inquiry To Repository Upload, Michael J. Bennett

DigitalCommons@UConn Documents

A workflow flowchart on the verification steps involved in preparation to uploading assets to the University of Connecticut's institutional repository (http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu). This flowchart is geared towards assisting subject liaisons who also serve as series administrators for UConn@DigitalCommons.

2006 Economic Analysis Example, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

No abstract provided.

Frequency And Occurrence Seriation Excel Macros, Carl P. Lipo, Timothy D. Hunt

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

These Microsoft Excel based worksheets include macros for creating frequency and occurrence seriations. They are do provide solutions to seriation but offer graphical depictions of the relative frequencies/occurrence for assemblages that can be manipulated in a manner consistent with Ford based approaches.