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Institute for Policy & Social Research: Recent submissions
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DDI Extensions for Qualitative Data
(2013-04-02)DDI's origins lie in structuring metadata for quantitative data, data represented by numbers or by a set of values that can be tabulated. Many researchers though, generate or analyze unstructured data, text documents, ... -
Generic Statistical Information Model (GSIM)
(2013-04-03)Across the world statistical organizations undertake similar activities. Each of these activities use and produce similar information (for example all agencies use classifications, create data sets and publish products). ... -
DataForge: A DDI-Enabled Toolkit for Researchers and Data Managers
(2013-04-02)Statistical data exist in many different shapes and forms such as proprietary software files (SAS, Stata, SPSS), ASCII text (fixed, CSV, delimited), databases (Microsoft, Oracle, MySql), or spreadsheets (Excel). Such wide ... -
Michigan Questionnaire Documentation System (MQDS)
(2013-04-03)The Michigan Questionnaire Documentation System (MQDS) is a powerful tool used to help create questionnaire documentation, with or without summary statistics, and other documentation based on the Blaise data model for a ... -
Data and Metadata Harmonization for the RAND Survey Meta Data Repository
(2013-04-17)The RAND Survey Meta Data Repository aims to help researchers use data and metadata from the HRS-family of surveys on aging, including studies from the US, UK/Europe and Asia. The project consists of 3 major parts: 1) ... -
Kansas Conference on Slavery and Human Trafficking: Research Needs, Policy Gaps, Institutional Changes
(2013-04-09)The Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas hosted a conference on Slavery and Human Trafficking on January 31-February 1, 2013, in coordination with the Office of the Chancellor, Gov. Sam ... -
KU Libraries Digital Data Services Strategy
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Indigenous Knowledges Driving Technological Innovation
(UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2011-09)This policy brief explores the use and expands the conversation on the ability of geospatial technologies to represent Indigenous cultural knowledge. Indigenous peoples’ use of geospatial technologies has already proven ... -
Kitchen Table Discourse: Negotiating the “Tricky Ground” of Indigenous Research
(University of California, 2008) -
Spatial distribution of the risk of dengue fever in southeast Brazil, 2006-2007
(Biomed Central, 2011-05-20)Background Many factors have been associated with circulation of the dengue fever virus and vector, although the dynamics of transmission are not yet fully understood. The aim of this work is to estimate the spatial ... -
Kansas Statistical Abstract 2010 (45th Edition)
(2011-10-18)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, ... -
How Heavy? Assessing the Burden of Taxation in Kansas
(Policy Research Institute, The University of Kansas, 2004) -
The Costs and Benefits of Growth: Lawrence, Kansas, 1990-2003
(Policy Research Institute, The University of Kansas, 2005)Since 1990 employment in the city of Lawrence, Kansas has grown by 34 percent, nearly three times as fast as the state as a whole. Such rapid growth both creates economic benefits for residents and increases the cost of ... -
Consumer Demand for Digital Video Products
(Policy Research Institute, The University of Kansas, 2001) -
Thinking About the Future: Education and Training Needs for the Workforce of the Future
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Kansas Statistical Abstract 2009 (44th Edition)
(2011-03-02)The Kansas Statistical Abstract contains state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on agriculture, banking and finance, business and exports, climate, communications and information, crime, education, employment and ... -
Kansas Statistical Abstract 2008 (43rd Edition)
(2009-09-21)The Kansas Statistical Abstract contains state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on agriculture, banking and finance, business and exports, climate, communications and information, crime, education, employment and ... -
Kansas Statistical Abstract 2007 (42nd Edition)
(2008-10-21)The Kansas Statistical Abstract contains state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on agriculture, banking and finance, business and exports, climate, communications and information, crime, education, employment and ... -
Kansas Statistical Abstract 2006 (41st Edition)
(2008-10-21)The Kansas Statistical Abstract contains state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on population, vital statistics and health, housing, elections, education, business and manufacturing, exports, employment, income, ...