The MDS contains items that measure physical, psychological and psycho-social functioning characteristics of the resident. See the Chapter 3 of CMS's RAI Version 2.0 Manual for a description of the data elements collected in the MDS. Note, not all assessment types collect the same data. For example, questions relating to a living will or back pain are only reported on full assessments, not on quarterly assessments.

When an establishment is selected to participate in the PPI survey, it is visited by a field economist who solicits the firm's voluntary cooperation and informs the firm of the strict confidentiality rules that will safeguard the information being requested. Once cooperation is obtained, the field economist uses the disaggregation technique (see question 8) to select the specific goods or services for which prices will be reported.

The data in GIDEON are accessed and collated through a system of computer macros and dedicated source lists developed over the past 15 years. A monthly search of Medline is conducted against a listing of all GIDEON key words, and titles / abstracts of interest are reviewed. All available national Health Ministry publications [print and electronic] are scanned, as are standard publications of WHO and CDC.

This survey is taken primarily to assure full coverage and high quality of other statistical programs, and does not routinely provide data products for public use. Please note however, this survey is a major source of information for the County Business Patterns reports and as a resource in responding to requests for a variety of special reports and reimbursable tabulations.

The data is used to update the Census Bureau's list of businesses and provides key source data for County Business Patterns and other statistical series. Businesses use the data for analyzing market potential, measuring effectiveness of sales and advertising programs, setting sales quotas, and developing budgets.

In general all PSLC LiDAR data is collected during the winter/leaf-off season from December to Early April. For a range of dates of when your data was flown reference the metadata. For the exact date and time when a particular area was flown you will need to access the All-returns ASCII data. Each return in the All-returns ASCII data has a time stamp.

In theory, almost anything. The only constraints are performance (database queries), server capacity (for possible caching) and the fact that all data is stored in a compressed form. That means that player data is stored in sessions and the information about the evolution of a player's score within a session cannot be extracted. Without this compression (which saves about 95% of storage space), the servers storage would be exhausted too quickly.

The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago conducted the data collection. NORC is a research organization with an excellent reputation, developed over half a century, for nonpartisan data collection and analysis.

Publication will begin in early 2005. the most widely used numbers are available free through the Census Bureau's web site http://www.census.gov

Yes. Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries reports provide industry statistics for the U.S. about 12 months after each year. Data include industry shipments, value added, inventories, materials, employment, hours and payroll. Value of Product S