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The cost of powering Nigeria’s communications network rose by 34.57 per cent to N429.43bn in 2023 as diesel prices soared.

Award will fund three new waves of the TILDA project

How does the US Census Bureau collect and analyze data on firm revenues? Answer by Cristina Tello-Trillo, Senior Economist at U.S. Census Bureau

Background: Independently, malnutrition and delirium in older hospitalised adults is prevalent. However, there is limited evidence on the association between these two conditions in older hospitalised adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Objectives: To determine the association between malnutrition and delirium in older CKD patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU). Methods: This data linkage study utilised administrative data from New South Wales (NSW) hospitals in Australia between ...

Objective: This article reports on research undertaken to develop self-report disability questions for a patient registration form that may be implemented in general practices across Australia as part of a voluntary patient registration program. Methods: There were four research components: rapid review of approaches for capturing disability information; expert informant interviews (n=19); stakeholder consultation via virtual focus groups (n=65); and online survey (n=35). Findings from each comp...

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The newest edition of Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research discusses methodologies for measuring urban blight. This issue was guest edited by Alexander Din. Across the United States, communities struggle with blighted urban environments and associated negative outcomes, including reduced property values, increased criminal activity, and poor health of residents. Historically, blight has been difficult, labor-intensive, and expensive for researchers to measure. Eric Fesselm...

The UK House Price Index is a National Statistic that shows changes in the value of residential properties in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

This paper proposes an instrumental variable regression estimator of population totals using a sample, a set of links between the sample units and records on an administrative file, and a set of calibration totals calculated from the administrative file. This paper proposes a survey-weighted estimator of a population total that is valid when the survey non-response mechanism is non-ignorable and false negatives occur in the administrative-survey linkage. False negatives lead to measurement error...

Whether parents adjust their consumption after their children leave home has important implications for our understanding of retirement income adequacy.