Sentence examples for contiguous county from inspiring English sources
It would set up an independent commission to draw political districts based on nationally established criteria — such as near-equal numbers of people per district, contiguous county or community lines and minority rights — all without regard to the party registration of voters.
Table 3 Mean synthetic control weights per county for contiguous and non-contiguous counties, county-level QCEW data, 1990 2006:Q2 Mean synthetic control weight per contiguous county Mean synthetic control weight per non-contiguous county Matched on: Residual Residual, 0 MW effect Rest. empl.
These six regions, which we adapted from the U.S. Climate Divisions for California (Earth System Research Laboratory 2008), describe more-or-less contiguous county groups except in the case of the Central Valley region, which included Placer County, because most of its population resides in the western portion of the county.
Across six contiguous counties from Manatee to Monroe, the food stamp rolls have more than doubled.
Two other hospitals in the region might follow suit, potentially leaving 16 contiguous counties without obstetrics.
"I think it's important for district attorneys of contiguous counties to have a solid relationship," Mr. Spota said.
Trustee of the Sweeney Scholars at NYU providing scholarships for worthy applicants of the contiguous counties to New York whose families had never been to college.
Help from the Small Business Administration is available for homeowners, renters and businesses in Westchester and contiguous counties affected by the fire at the Charter Circle apartment complex in the Village of Ossining on Dec. 29.
Messrs Card and Krueger moved on to other work, but Arindrajit Dube at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Michael Reich of the University of California at Berkeley have generalised the case-study approach, comparing restaurant employment across all contiguous counties with different minimum-wage levels between 1990 and 2006.
Here, there is even more compelling evidence that contiguous counties are not better controls, as the per-county synthetic control weight is generally larger for non-contiguous counties.
The new method compares economic performance of pairs of contiguous counties separated by state borders, where on one side restrictions on statewide branching were removed relatively earlier, to create a natural "regression discontinuity" setup.
