About 93.1 million workers were covered under workers' compensation laws in 1988--an increase of 11 percent from the 1984 total. Benefit amounts totaled $30.7 billion--an increase of about 56 percent since 1984. Of the total payments made under the workers' compensation program, $17.6 billion went to disabled workers, $1.6 billion to their survivors, and $11.5 billion for medical care. The Soci...

Most surveys used in monitoring undergo periodic changes by adding or deleting respondents, questions or calculations used in deriving estimates. The results of such "interventions" need to be considered when one analyzes time-series data generated from such surveys. This paper addresses the applicability of Cumulative Transitional State Score (CTSS), Transitional Scores (TS) and Cumulative Sum...