The first publication on the consumption of households in Sweden was in 1961 by Statistics Sweden. Since then, Family Expenditure Surveys or Family Food Expenditure surveys have been carried out in 1969, 1978, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, and 1996. The most recent publication is the Household Budget Survey (HBS) expenditure and income report in 2003. However, data on quantities of food purchas...

The population of refugees in the UK is expanding and will expand further given the UK Government’s response to the European refugee crisis. This paper breaks new ground by undertaking a gender analysis of integration outcomes across a range of areas, namely social networks, language proficiency, health, education, employment and housing, that are highly relevant for social policy. Using the UK...

in this paper i develop a proxy means tests (pmt) model and examine several targeting lines based on 2008 household survey data to identify beneficiaries for a targeting subsidy scheme in iran. based on the findings of this study, setting a cut-off percentile of 40% is expected to provide compensation for almost 70 percent of the poorest households. this will result in the highest accuracy main...

When evaluating of the senior manager’s performance is based on the achieving to budget and they have responsibility to report the capacity of resources which are in their part too; it is possible to create budget slack and effect on their performance evaluation by providing pessimistic and conservatively estimates or manipulated information of income and expenses. So, Senior Manager and Budget...

This article investigates the Greek household travel demand for domestic interurban public transportation using cross-sectional micro-data from a countrywide Household Budget Survey. A number of limited dependent variable models, including the Heckit, Two-Part, and Double-Hurdle models, are implemented to jointly estimate the probability of selecting a specific mode and the amount of using it. ...

Load curve data in power systems refers to users’ electrical energy consumption data periodically collected with meters. It has become one of the most important assets for modern power systems. Many operational decisions are made based on the information discovered in the data. Load curve data, however, usually suffers from corruptions caused by various factors, such as data transmission errors...

During the U. S. Civil War (1861-65) surgeons performed a vast number of surgical procedures. The efficacy of surgery has been continually debated since the war began, in part because of lack of evidence for the (in)effectiveness of surgery. I analyze data gathered by Dr. Edmund Andrews, a surgeon with the 1st Illinois Light Artillery. The data can be arranged as observational data on surgery a...

Note This Facility is funded by the Rural Livelihoods Department of UK DFID. However, please note that the views expressed are not necessarily those of DFID or ODI. 1. Abstract: Household economy approaches in sub-national and national decision-making John Seaman In 1992 Save the Children UK (SC UK) entered a collaboration with the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System to see if an ap...

1 Anindya Deb, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India [email protected] Abstract  An automobile is amongst the foremost of products ever designed contributing greatly to the progress of mankind. Although an automobile, in essence, is a collection of mechanical, structural, electrical and electronic sub-systems, it is judge...