The investigators used federal data to get an overall picture of compliance in a state or a region.
The Project on Student Debt, a research and advocacy organization in Oakland, Calif., used federal data to estimate that 206,000 people graduated from college (including many from for-profit universities) with more than $40,000 in student loan debt in that same period.
More than 1,200 DACA recipients live in Rhode Island, according to a statement from Raimondo's office, and Ortiz says the initiative used federal data to estimate that about 250 to 350 of those recipients are eligible to apply for renewal.
With the Texas drought forcing farmers to send their sheep herds to other states, wool and lamb buyers would normally use federal data to see where the animals went.
In our sensitivity analysis, we varied the factor used to convert the economic cost of anthropogenic methyl mercury exposure to the economic cost attributable to American sources from 18% (0.3 × 0.58 + 0.02 × 0.42, using EPRI's modeling) to 36% (using federal data on mercury deposition) (Seigneur et al. 2004).
This year, a look at all donations from overseas — civilian and military — shows Mr. Obama with a big edge: The president has raised $779,000 so far to $383,368 for Mr. Romney, the Center for Responsive Politics found, using federal data.
A recent study using federal data by Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that abstinence pledges among teens were in fact counterproductive.
Using federal data from the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Process, Valentine and his colleagues mapped out concentrations of hopane, a chemical component of crude oil that does not degrade over time, in sediment cores taken around the well.
The Violence Policy Center (VPC) recently released Firearm Justifiable Homicides and Non-Fatal Self-Defense Gun Use, which uses available federal data to determine that, despite the myths propagated by the firearms industry and gun lobby, private citizens rarely use guns to kill criminals or stop crimes.
He uses the federal data to name colleges that are charging high net prices — that is, even after taking into account financial aid – for low-income students.
FindTheBest used research compiled in 2012 from the Vera Institute of Justice, which analyzed the full cost of prisons to taxypayers in 40 states, and 2010 - 2011 information from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which used federal, local and state data to glean its results.
