For the pre-expansion survey, this yielded a total sample size of 285, of which 65% were HSAs and 35% were CBDAs.
Economic growth in the third quarter, at 0.8 percent, was slower than the 1.2 percent rate for the April to June period, but was double the 0.4 percent expansion economists surveyed by Reuters and Bloomberg expected.
BEIJING — Growth in the giant China manufacturing sector in February withdrew from the highest point in nearly two years despite a fourth consecutive month of expansion, a private survey showed Monday, as foreign demand remained unsteady.
The bulk of the requested increase, some $7.5 million, is slotted for an expansion of the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR).
Survey expansion weights were used to provide prevalence estimates representative of the population.
Prevalence estimates representative of the population for each variable were calculated based on survey expansion weights provided within the CCHS dataset.
As with expansion estimators in survey estimation [ 15], weighing each observation by its inverse sampling fraction, roughly, yields an estimate of the number of individuals representative of the "study base" [ 16].
*OR is statistically significant when 95% confidence interval does not include 1.0; ordinal logistic regression, with survey expansion weights, modeled for the effect of being female compared with male.
The report was a follow-up and expansion of a similar survey conducted in 2009 by the same institute.
The PMI survey found expansion across the three main construction sectors of housing, commercial building and civil engineering.
Indeed in the recent BTO Bird Atlas, Cetti's warbler came top of the list of species with the greatest range expansion since the original survey in 1968-72.
