2002 Russian Population Census: Characteristics of its Questionnaires

P2P Decentralized Population Census

We describe a framework and investigate techniques for running decentralized census processes that enable observers to independently verify governmental data. Census is a process impacting important issues such as the amount of funding that a community will get from a central government and its representation in the Congress. Correct census is essential for detecting vote stuffing. Census has b...

The 2002 U.s. Census of Agriculture Data Processing System

In 1997 responsibility for the census of agriculture was transferred from the Bureau of Census (BOC) to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Due to time constraints, the data processing system for the first NASS conducted census, the 1997 Census of Agriculture, remained essentially identical to that used by the BOC. The 1997 system emphasized ef...

Spatial Distribution Of Iranian Population In Canada: A Portrait Using The 2001 Census Data

Acoustic characteristics of surprise in Russian questions

This paper reports the results of an experimental phonetic study investigating the production of neutral and surprised interrogatives in Russian. The paper describes F0 and duration parameters of 22 one-word three-syllable ‘yes/no’ questions with the lexical stress on the penultimate syllable pronounced by five speakers of Russian. The speakerindependent differences between the parameters of ne...

Evidence from the Brazilian Population Census

This paper uses micro data from the 1980, 1991 and 2000 population censuses to investigate the role of changes in the industry mix in accounting for the differential trends in the incidence of child work (ages 10-15) across Brazilian states. We find that exogenous compositional changes account for around 20% of the observed fall in child employment in rural areas.