census tract
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcensusandtract
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census
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.səs/us/ˈsen.səs/
a count for official purposes, especially one to count the number of people living in a country and to collect information ...
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tract
noun[C]
uk/trækt/us/trækt/
a short piece of writing, especially on a religious or political subject, that is intended to influence other ...
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(Definition ofcensusandtractfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The entirecensustractpopulation will be included only if the centroid is included in the cylinder.
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Geocoding patients' addresses provides thecensustractof residence.
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There are two reasons we used thecensustractsummed counts rather than the exact locations.
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Trained ethnographers matched with the predominant ethnicity of eachcensustractconducted the research.
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Students were selected proportionate to the resident arrest rate of thecensustractin which they lived at the beginning of the study.
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We are able to locate individuals in 'space' because our data identify thecensustractin which the individual resides.
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The second adjustment includes all the effects of the date adjustment, but also takes into account the differing baseline risk in eachcensustract.
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Factor scores were calculated for eachcensustractfor each of the dimensions of community structure.
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This means that we treat all individuals as if they live at the centroid of theircensustract.
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There were not enough youth percensustractin this data set to permit analyses accounting for intra-class correlations within neighborhoods (hierarchical linear modelling).
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In this study, we define neighborhood to mean thecensustractof children's residence.
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Second, we consider using the number of individuals in eachcensustractwho are eligible to appear in the surveillance system.
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This calculation was made from the centroid of acensustractto the centroid of other census tracts.
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Community poverty is based upon the percentage of people in thecensustractof residence (1980 census data) who had incomes below the poverty level.
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Names of thecensustractare fictitious.
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Such cohesive community of friends and acquaintances sometimes exist, but they are tangential to the present argument, and they cannot be measured withcensustractdata.
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The area was chosen based oncensustractdata showing approximately equal percentages of black and white children with the least degree of income and occupational disparity between the groups.
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In terms of neighborhood assessments, one way to facilitate this is to balancecensustractdata with other methods of systematic observation of evaluating neighborhood conditions.
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