Publications by Anthony Damico
how to provide a variance calculation on your public-use survey data file without disclosing sampling clusters or violating respondent confidentiality
this post and accompanying syntax would not have been possible without dan oberski. read more, find out why. thanks dan.dear survey administrator: someone sent you this link because you work for an organization or a government agency that conducts a complex-sample survey, releases a public-use file, but does not correspondingly di...
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seeking altruistic social scientists, demographers, survey researchers
hi everyone, please share this: if you are an experienced user of a publicly-available survey data set from any country or international organization, let’s work together on some user-friendly code and a short blog post for http://asdfree.com. though i cannot provide any financial compensation, this collaboration would give you ...
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analyze the public libraries survey (pls) with r
each and every year, the institute of museum and library services coaxes librarians around the country to put down their handheld “shhhh…” sign and fill out a detailed online questionnaire about their central library, branch, even bookmobile. the public libraries survey (pls) is actually a census: nearly every public library i...
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analyze the social security administration’s national beneficiary survey (nbs) with r
above and beyond its namesake roosevelt-era retirement safety net, the social security administration oversees two federal programs – social security disability insurance and supplemental security insurance. currently covering more than ten million disabled americans (many far younger than retirement age), the quants in the woodla...
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analyze the national incident-based reporting system (nibrs) with r and monetdb
in 2012, more than one quarter of the united states population lived in the jurisdiction of a police department that submitted details about every crime to a central repository maintained by the fbi. a production of the uniform crime reports (ucr) program, the national incident-based reporting system (nibrs) compiles statistics from...
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analyze the national longitudinal surveys (nls) with r
as the oldest panel survey out there, the bureau of labor statistics‘ national longitudinal surveys (nls) have been operating so long that justin bieber’s grandparents might be too young (and also too legally canadian) to have participated in the initial cohorts. don’t let the panel study of income dynamics people tell you oth...
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maps and the art of survey-weighted maintenance
introducing swmap: cartography with complex survey data. this collection of publicly-available r syntax implements granular geographic variation visualizations similar to those seen in the popular press without compromising on survey methodology.thanks to david rae, paul regular, joseph larmarange, djalma pessoa, hadley wickham, thoma...
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all syntax to download and analyze publicly-available survey microdata confirmed to work on windows, macintosh, and unix systems
the creators of monetdb at centrum wiskunde and informatica generously provided me with a unix shell account to test out each of the scripts in the repository. much of my code already worked across platforms, but i have finished tweaking and testing, and can confirm that every script now works without changes on all three platforms....
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analyze the pesquisa nacional por amostra de domicilios continua (pnadc) with r
the next generation in brazilian employment statistics has arrived. the pesquisa nacional por amostra de domicilios continua (pnadc) permits economists and social scientists of every stripe to examine employment patterns and trends for all twenty-seven states in the nation. the brazilian government’s institute of geography and s...
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analyze the progress in international reading literacy study (pirls) with r
an uncharted world of international reading comprehension information, the progress in international reading literacy study (pirls) would make any ets executive blush. testing the educational chops of more than 300,000 students from nearly fifty countries, this survey will tell the enterprising statistician (that’s you) everything ...
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