This article uses the panel survey developed for the Health and Retirement Study to evaluate whether Hurricane Andrew in 1992 altered longevity expectations of respondents who lived in Dade County, Florida, the location experiencing the majority of about 20 billion dollars of damage. Longevity expectations have been used as a proxy measure for both individual subjective risk assessments and dis...

In the framework of a new program on housing and health, the World Health Organization has undertaken a field survey on panel block housing estates in Eastern Germany, Lithuania and Slovakia aiming at a preliminary assessment of housing conditions in Eastern European countries and their potential health consequences. It also aimed to highlight housing and health problems of Eastern European tra...

Feuer and Kessler (1989) generalized the McNemar test (1947) to a two sample situation where the hypothesis of interest is that the marginal changes in each of two independent sample's tables are equal. We show two refinements of this test for complex survey data, which require different estimates of variance. In particular, we present these tests along with applications from the Current Popula...

We describe and analyse the portfolio structure of Dutch households using micro panel data from the CentER Savings Survey, 1993-1998. The data allows for a distinction between many types of assets. Moreover, we have information on mortgage debt, consumer debt, etc. We analyse the composition of household portfolios and the level of portfolio diversification, and its relation to age, birth cohor...

Recently, economists, sociologists and other social scientists have become increasingly interested in longitudinal studies and their analysis, in their attempts to understand the dynamics of economic and social processes. Previously, single time cross-sectional surveys and their analysis formed the primary basis for empirical investigations in the social sciences. Longitudinal studies, in which...

This study examines reluctance to respond to the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is administered to a household for four consecutive months, followed by a break of eight months, and then administered for another four consecutive months. These eight interviews (panels) form the basis of this analysis. The respondents concerns and contact issues during the first panel were summarized usi...

BACKGROUND Invasive differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is relatively frequent, yet there is a paucity of specific guidelines devoted to its management. The Endocrine Committee of the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS) convened a panel to provide clinical consensus statements based on review of the literature, synthesized with the expert opinion of the group. METHODS An expert panel, selec...

We provide criteria for a set of observed choices to be generated by a quasi-linear preference relation. These criteria are valid if choice sets are compact and downward closed and do not require preferences to be convex. We show that under the added assumption that choice sets can be represented by linear budget sets, our condition also implies the existence of a quasi-linear utility represent...

In many situations information from a sample of individuals can be supplemented by population level information on the relationship between a dependent and explanatory variables. Inclusion of the population level information can reduce bias and increase the efficiency of the parameter estimates. Population level information can be incorporated via constraints on the model parameters. In general...

This paper firstly highlights areas that have the potential to influence or directly affect the final outcome of Quality of Service (QoS) levels and the effectiveness of security in a wireless network environment. A Delphi methodology survey was then carried out by selecting a panel of experts with first-hand knowledge in this area. This research methodology process was conducted over three sep...