PRINCIPLE Although intensive care units (ICUs) with higher overall patient volume may achieve better outcomes than lower volume ICUs, there are few data on the effects of increasing patient loads on patients within the ICU. OBJECTIVES To examine the association of ICU occupancy with the patient outcomes within the same ICU. METHODS We examined 200,499 patients in 108 ICUs using the Acute Ph...

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...

The net undercount of the population by the decennial census arises from the balance between: (1) omissions of persons the census should count but misses, and (2) erroneous enumerations the census incorrectly includes. Duplication is a form of erroneous enumeration; typically a duplicated person is counted correctly where they should be but also incorrectly elsewhere. Coverage measurement surve...

For member states without a vital registration system as is Malawi, WHO uses other sources of adult mortality such as survey and census data to estimate the level of adult mortality. For under-five mortality, again, all available survey and census data are assessed, adjusted and averaged to estimate the probable trend in child mortality over the past few decades. For Malawi WHO used data from C...

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau (2010), the demographics of the United States will change dramatically in the next 50 years. Non-Caucasians will more than double from 116.2 million in 2012 to 241.3 million by 2060, representing 57% of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). The Asian population also is expected to double in the next five years and comprise 8% of the U.S. p...

We describe how to accurately estimate poverty rates using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) because changes in the PSID over its 40-year history have created confusion for researchers. We benchmark a new PSID poverty estimate with published rates from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Surveys (CPS). We demonstrate that our PSID poverty estimates comprise a consisten...

OF THE UNITED STATES, 1989, at 176-77 (1989) [hereinafter 1989 CENSUS]. 8. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1978, at 187 (1978) [hereinafter 1978 CENSUS]; 1989 CENSUS, supra note 7, at 173. 9. A Scoreboard for the Anti-Drug Campaign, Boulder Daily Camera, Aug. 29, 1989, at 3, col. 1 (quoting statistics from the FBI Uniform Crime Repor...

A humanity has begun to explore Mars, we are still colonizing our home planet. The 70 percent of Earth beneath the oceans is twice the area of Mars and the moon combined, but it is not nearly as well mapped. Ninety-five percent of Earth’s biosphere volume is in the oceans, where life has thrived for billions of years. At the genetic level, the oceans contain the vast majority of Earth’s biodive...

Following a critique of the 1990 decennial census procedures, we conducted a field study among low-income, inner-city residents in 1991 to examine how they conceptualized and managed the civic task of census response. Interpretations about the purpose and meaning of the census, about commitment to the task, and about connection to government, singly and together with literacy skills (e.g., read...

This article outlines procedures for taking the US census, making adjustments, and evaluating the results. The census turns out to be remarkably accurate. Statistical adjustment is unlikely to improve on the census, because adjustment can easily put in more error than it takes out. Indeed, error rates in the adjustment are comparable to if not larger than errors in the census. The data suggest ...