Strengthening artisanal mining research and policy through baseline census activities

Over the past 10-15 years, several governments have implemented an array of technology, support-related, sustainable livelihoods (SL) and poverty-reduction projects for artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). In the majority of cases, however, these interventions have failed to facilitate improvements in the industry's productivity and raise the living standards of the sector's subsistence operators. This article argues that a poor understanding of the demographics of target populations has precipitated these outcomes. In order to strengthen policy and assistance in the sector, governments must determine, with greater precision, the number of people operating in ASM regions, their origins and ethnic backgrounds, ages, and educational levels. This can be achieved by carrying out basic and localized census work before promoting ambitious sector-specific projects aimed at improving working conditions in the industry.

Median Household Income in Maine by Census Tract

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April 2012: 1940 Census Release

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January 2011: 2010 Census Data

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January 2010: United States Census

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CENSUS HISTOGRAMS: A SIMPLE FEATURE EXTRACTION and MATCHING APPROACH FOR FACE RECOGNITION

Most face recognition approaches require a prior training where a given distribution of faces is assumed to further predict the identity of test faces. Such an approach may experience difficulty in identifying faces belonging to distributions different from the one provided during the training. A face recognition technique that performs well regardless of training is, therefore, interesting to consider as a basis of more sophisticated methods. In this work, the Census Transform is applied to describe the faces. Based on a scanning window which extracts local histograms of Census Features, we present a method that directly matches face samples. With this simple technique, 97.2% of the faces in the FERET fa/fb test were correctly recognized. Despite being an easy test set, we have found no other approaches in literature regarding straight comparisons of faces with such a performance. Also, a window for further improvement is presented. Among other techniques, we demonstrate how the use of SVMs over the Census Histogram representation can increase the recognition performance.

Towards an information society measurement instrument for Latin America and the Caribbean: getting started with census, household and business surveys

Includes bibliography

Experimental census of Costa Rica: preliminary report

Includes bibliography

The census sample operations programme (OMUECE) of the Latin American Demographic Centre (CELADE)

Includes bibliography

The Census Sample Operation programme (OMUECE) of the Latin American Demographic Centre (CELADE)

Includes bibliography

Small-area census data services by microcomputer applications of the REDATAM system in Latin America and the Caribbean

Analiza las facilidades que ofrece el sistema REDATAM (recuperación de datos de áreas pequeñas por computador) para los censos de 1990 en América Latina y el Caribe.

Microcomputer software for creating statistics from population census microdata for GIS planning applications (with a description of the REDATAM software)

Includes bibliography

Virtues and limitations of census maps for identifying critical deficiencies

Includes bibliography