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Peer reviewedMcClure, Charles R. – Government Information Quarterly, 1985
Assesses the value of the Government Printing Office's 1983 "Biennial Survey" as a tool to support depository library planning and decision making. The survey data are evaluated in terms of reliability, validity, and utility, and recommendations are offered for improving the design, administration, and analysis of the survey. (CLB)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Depository Libraries
Download full textVernez, Georges; McCarthy, Kevin – 1995
This testimony summarizes in four propositions results from a review of recent estimates of the net federal, state, or local costs of immigration and is designed to explore why these cost estimates vary so widely and how to develop more credible cost estimates. First, the testimony proposes that various studies of the cost of immigration agree…
Descriptors: Accounting, Cost Estimates, Data Collection, Higher Education
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. – 1986
Hearings on the 1990 Decennial Census were held on May 1, 1986, and May 15, 1986. The May 1 session focused on data processing procedures. Speakers included John G. Keane, Daniel G. Horvitz, William Eddy, Judith S. Rowe, Benjamin F. King, and Stephen E. Fienberg. Topics included automation of address files and questionnaire check-in; dissemination…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Collection, Data Processing, Demography
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. – 1985
This hearing, which is the first of a series of hearings on the 1990 decennial census, focuses on automation activities, pretest preparations, and proposed residency rules. Gene L. Dodaro, associate director of the General Accounting Office, calls on the committee to use special purpose tests to adequately evaluate the following: (1) potential of…
Descriptors: Automation, Census Figures, Data Collection, Data Processing
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1986
A feasibility plan is presented for a California comprehensive student information study that would identify factors affecting students' progress through California's entire educational system. The feasibility plan identifies: (1) potential improvements, (2) the study design required to achieve them, (3) the cost of implementing the design,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Students, Data Collection, Databases
Center for Education Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1987
This notebook contains 21 standards established by the Center for Educational Statistics (CES); CES legislation; and a description of the CES publication and publication review processes. The publication clearance procedures and the external advice and peer review policies are established by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Codification, Data Analysis, Data Collection
