Large immigrant population may have confounded study

Suicide in Canada's immigrant population.

OBJECTIVES This article compares suicide in the immigrant and Canadian-born populations. DATA SOURCES The suicide data are from the Canadian Vital Statistics Data Base and the World Health Statistics Annual of the World Health Organization. The socio-demographic information used to determine denominators for suicide rates in Canada comes from the Census of Population. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES ...

Homeownership in the immigrant population ✩

This paper analyzes the determinants of homeownership in immigrant households over the 1980–2000 period. The study finds that immigrants have lower homeownership rates than natives and that the homeownership gap widened significantly during that period. The differential location decisions of immigrant and native households, as well as the changing national origin mix of the immigrant population...

An unfounded conclusion from a confounded study.

Confounded Expectations:

For TRECVID 2004, CMU participated in the semantic feature extraction task, and the manual, interactive and automatic search tasks. For the semantic features classifiers, we tried unimodal, multi-modal and multi-concept classifiers. In interactive search, we compared a visual-only vs a complete video retrieval system using visual AND text data, and also contrasted expert vs novice users; The ma...

Mental health of the ageing immigrant population

This article concerns the mental health of older people who have moved from their country of birth – the older immigrant population. In the UK, although the absolute numbers of ethnic elders are relatively small (about 6% of people aged 65 and over were born outside the country), there is a greater concentration of pensioners from ethnic minorities in deprived inner-city areas. Numbers are also...