MICS are an excellent source of data because they are compiled through a household interview process, which means the surveys reveal what families actually use as they seek to meet their needs – where they get their water or what medical assistance they access -- rather than what officials or service providers indicate is available to them.
A new study by Barclays Capital suggests that hedge fund indexes, because of flaws in they are compiled, may be overstating returns by as much as one to six percentage points a year.
They are compiled once and for all.
They are compiling a Rich List.
Because the documents were compiled as the Watergate investigation was gathering steam, the agency's concern about the extent that it could be tied to the crimes of the Nixon administration is palpable throughout.
Even Godan (Godan 1979), recognizing the presence of A. lusitanicus as pest, mentions only A. rufus and A. subfuscus in the detailed lists of pest species and their impact, perhaps because these lists were compiled before the common recognition of A. lusitanicus.
Because the "family jewels" were compiled as the Watergate investigation was gathering steam, the C.I.A.'s concern about the extent that the agency could be tied to the crimes of the Nixon administration is palpable throughout the documents.
In hindsight, that could be because their impressive statistical rankings were compiled against generally weaker competition.
According to Sterling, the document was known as the "Hell Sheet" because it was compiled by a bookkeeper named Helene.
Perhaps most notably, it cannot use a 13-million-person e-mail list that Mr. Obama's team developed because it was compiled for political purposes.
Mr. Trichet suggested on Thursday that the data might provide an overly pessimistic picture of lending, because it was compiled from mid-June to mid-July when confidence in financial markets was lower than it is now.
