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Institute for Policy & Social Research: Recent submissions
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Economic and Demographic Data on the Hispanic-Owned Businesses and Hispanic Population in Kansas
(Institute for Policy & Social Research, 2009-04)The following report briefly highlights some of the trends in Hispanic-Owned businesses and the Hispanic population for Kansas and includes the Kansas City, MO-KS MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area). These are important ... -
An Evaluation of Community College Enrollments
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Economic Costs to Kansas Due to State’s Failure to Expand Medicaid
(2022-05)Kansas is one of only 12 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, despite the federal government covering more than the cost with additional Biden administration incentives. This report compares ... -
The Unexpected Costs of Not Expanding Medicaid in Kansas
(2022-05)A 2022 study conducted by researchers at the University of Kansas Institute for Policy & Social Research examined and quantified the economic costs of the Kansas government’s decision to forgo Medicaid expansion under the ... -
Association of Mask Mandates and COVID-19 Case Rates, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in Kansas
(American Medical Association, 2021-06-23)This study examined the association between mask mandates in Kansas counties and COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. The Kansas executive order that took effect on July 3 was adopted by only 15 counties, and 68 ... -
Mentoring Our Own Native Scientists: 2021 MOONS Workshop Report
(University of Kansas, The Center for Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology, 2021-08-25)The goal of the MOONS workshop was to inform the Facilitating Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Network of scholars, and other Native scientists, currently working on these issues with innovative ideas ... -
Bridging Indigenous and science-based knowledge in coastal and marine research, monitoring, and management in Canada
(BMC, 2019-11-14)Background Drawing upon multiple types of knowledge (e.g., Indigenous knowledge, local knowledge, science-based knowledge) strengthens the evidence-base for policy advice, decision making, and environmental management. ... -
EAGER: Data Infrastructure to Enhance Research on the Scientific Workforce
(2019-11)The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) at the National Science Foundation collects high-quality data on the scientific workforce, but these data are not as widely utilized by the larger Science ... -
Kansas Statistical Abstract 2018 (53rd Edition)
(Institute for Policy & Social Research, 2019-09)The Kansas Statistical Abstract contains the latest available state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on population, vital statistics and health, housing, education, business and manufacturing, exports, employment, ... -
Mapping DDI2 to DDI4
(2019-05-06)This poster describes the effort to add a DDI-Codebook (DDI-C) import function into the DDI4R R package. The DDI4 Codebook Group did a lot of the modeling of one section of DDI4 using a spreadsheet mapping DDI-C elements ... -
DDI4 in R – New Possibilities Operations on Metadata
(2019-05-06)We have been working on a representation of the DDI4 model in R, realized as a package. We now have an R object oriented class for each DDI4 class with associated functions to validate and print objects, manage a registry ... -
Kansas Statistical Abstract 2017 (52nd Edition)
(Institute for Policy & Social Research, 2018-09)The Kansas Statistical Abstract contains the latest available state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on population, vital statistics and health, housing, education, business and manufacturing, exports, employment, ... -
Kansas Statistical Abstract 2016 (51st Edition)
(Institute for Policy & Social Research, 2017-09)The Kansas Statistical Abstract contains the latest available state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on population, vital statistics and health, housing, education, business and manufacturing, exports, employment, ... -
Kansas Statistical Abstract 2015 (50th Edition)
(Institute for Policy & Social Research, 2016-09)The Kansas Statistical Abstract contains the latest available state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on population, vital statistics and health, housing, education, business and manufacturing, exports, employment, ... -
Implementing the DDI4 Model in the R Language
(2018-12-04)Model based DDI4 lends itself to a representation in a language with object oriented structures. This presentation describes an ongoing project implementing the complete DDI4 model in R. We currently have the complete ...