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SAMHDA Site Updated files include revised mental illness variables that are based on a revised statistical model which predicts whether an adult NSDUH respondent had serious, moderate, mild, or no mental illness. The revised mental illness variables in the 2008 to 2011 NSDUH public-use data files are now comparable to the mental illness variables available in the 2012 NSDUH data file. For more information on the updated variables, users may refer to the "New and Corrected Data Since Last Release" section of the codebooks for each year.

Radical test prep April is test-prep month (apparently). So, what better use of my blog than to provide harried readers with some test-prep tips? But beware: the tips I am going to provide are very different than the thoughtless and passive-aggressive ones you get from most people offering such tips. “I’d love to teach for understanding, but there’s so much to ‘cover’ for the test.” Huh? You have to teach badly to raise test scores???

CSDC - Institute for Economic Advancement Created in April 1979, the Census State Data Center (CSDC) is the official representative of the U. S. Bureau of the Census in Arkansas. USHIK: United States Health Information Knowledgebase Meaningful Use Portal The Meaningful Use portal contains specifications, artifacts, downloads, search tools, and other resources for Meaningful Use, including Clinical Quality Measures, Value Sets, and Objectives for Stage 1 and Stage 2. GENDER EQUALITY Explorer Gender Equality Explorer provides free, 24/7, user-friendly access to data disaggregated by gender from the U.S. Census Bureau collected through the American Community Survey. The tool enables you to create your own tables, maps and reports to illustrate, analyze and understand the status of women and girls in your community. Gender Equality Explorer was created by the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota’s Center on Women and Public Policy to expand the availability of data on women and girls and the capacity of individuals and organizations to use data to advance equality for women and girls across the country.

New Americans in Arkansas The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in the Natural State ( Updated January 2012 ) Download the Infographic Download the Fact Sheet (2010 Census Data) Download the Previous Fact Sheet (2008 Census Data) Immigrants and their children are growing shares of Arkansas’s population. The foreign-born share of Arkansas’s population rose from 1.1% in 1990 , to 2.8% in 2000 , to 4.5% in 2010 , according to the U.S. Data Access - Data Linkage Activities - NHANES III Mortality Linkage Skip directly to local search Skip directly to A to Z list Skip directly to navigation Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options CDC Home CDC 24/7: Saving Lives. Protecting People Infographic of the Day: How Segregated is Your City? Recently, cartographer Bill Rankin produced an astounding map of Chicago, which managed to show the city's areas of racial integration. Eric Fischer saw those maps, and took it upon himself to create similar ones for the top 40 cities in the United States. Fisher used a straight forward method borrowed from Rankin: Using U.S. Census data from 2000, he created a map where one dot equals 25 people.

MPI | Immigration Data Hub Review U.S. Census data on immigrants and the native born based on demographics (population and country of birth, age, Hispanic origin, children/ families); language and education (English proficiency and educational attainment, languages spoken at home); workforce (immigrants' share of workers, top occupations and industries, skill underutilization of the college educated); and income (average incomes, poverty rates).

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