OBJECTIVE To evaluate progress in timely vaccination coverage associated with low-income households. DESIGN The US National Immunization Survey. PARTICIPANTS Children aged 19 to 35 months living in low-income households who were sampled between 1995 and 2007 (N = 232 318). Low-income households had an annual income that was 133% or less of the federal poverty level, and high-income househol...

the study was designed to investigate the comparative analysis of agricultural credit users and non-users among cassava farmers in ohafia local government area of abia state. a sample of 50 credit users and 50 non-credit user cassava-based farmers were selected by multistage random sampling technique. data were collected with a well structured questionnaire administered to a total of 100 random...

Integration of energy crops into agricultural landscapes could promote sustainability if they are placed in ways that foster multiple ecosystem services and mitigate ecosystem disservices from existing crops. We conducted a modeling study to investigate how replacing annual energy crops with perennial energy crops along Wisconsin waterways could affect a variety of provisioning and regulating e...

This article uses survey data to estimate non-cash income from imputed rents, using a consistent methodology for all countries assemble comparable statistics that allow valid inter-country comparison. We can confirm significant impact of and find an inequality-decreasing effect the unconditional distribution which highly correlates with proportion owner-occupiers in respective countries. Howeve...

    Beekeeping as a technology package disseminated to target farmers in Nigeria seems to suffer setbacks ranging from negative perception of farmers about the technology to technical contents of the package. This study therefore analyzes the technology attributes that influence non adoption of apiary technology packages in Cross River State, Nigeria. Purposive and multist...

For each quartile of income per consumption unit, annual time-series have been estimated from panel surveys, with annual waves of observations since 1974: INSEE Households' Continuous survey from 1974 to 1994, Sofres “Parc-Auto” panel survey since 1994. In these data sources, household behaviour is described through: car ownership (percentages of households with at least one car, and of multi-c...

Over the last fifty years, the income gap between rich and poor countries has grown. Between 1950 and 2000, annual per capita income in OECD countries tripled from US$7,300 to US$23,000, while income in Latin America only doubled, from US$3,000 in 1950 to US$6,200 in 2000. This is largely due to widening gaps in knowledge and technology. The North has continued to generate new technologies that...

Many observational studies have shown an association between income and health. However, much less research has assessed how changes in income influence health over time. This could help illuminate the issue of whether income is causally related to health, if longitudinal survey data were analysed with methods to account for bias from both measured and unmeasured time-invariant confounders. The...