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Epistemic doubt and affective certainty: counting homotransphobia in Brazil
Statistics circulate with ambivalence in governance settings and mass publics—both extolled as authoritative knowledge and the object of distrustful...
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Crowd counting: a behavioural economics perspective
Developments in technology have facilitated the emergence of new crowd counting organisations. Some of the organisations have established platforms...
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Counting pupils moving between elusive schools: between-school pupil mobility in the Flemish primary education market
The intensity of between-school pupil mobility in Flemish regular primary education is measured for the first time, using enumerative data about a...
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An Ontological Approach
Human life is messy. Lived experience is not merely an accumulation of acts that affected an individual’s well-being but reflects the ebb and flow of...
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Counting on the Stars
The international community can rely on celebrities to solve graciously any problem. Danny Kaye’s legacy, appointed as Unicef’s first Goodwill...
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Not Simply ‘Counting Heads’: A Gender Diversity Index for the Team Level
This article proposes a new composite measure of gender diversity for research teams that goes beyond simply ‘counting heads’. This measure adopts a...
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The derivative-based approach to nonlinear mediation models: insights and applications
Traditional mediation analysis has been developed in the context of linear models, enabling the estimation of indirect effects through the product of...
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The ‘Double Fuzzy Set’ Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: With a Focus on the Health Dimension
In more recent times, there is an increasing consensus in the field of development study to view poverty as a multidimensional deprivation beyond the...
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Gender Differences in Multidimensional Poverty in Brazil: A Fuzzy Approach
This study aims to improve the measurement of multidimensional poverty for the purpose of analyzing gender differences while considering the...
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Approach and Methodology
The chapter illustrates the background, rationale and approach of the Interreg trAILs project, focusing on four key aspects: principles of...
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Indigenous and Mexican Identities in Census Counting
The Mexican census attempts to identify the country’s indigenous population based on the criteria of self-ascription and “use of language.” This...
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The Importance of Counting for Qualitative Research
Counting can be used to produce new forms of information and provide checks against previously gathered evidence. It also blends easily with other...
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Social Connection Constellations and Individual Well-Being Typologies: Using the Loglinear Modeling Approach with Latent Variables
Despite a well-established association between social connection and well-being, it is unclear which aspects of social connection link to well-being...
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Impact Weaving: An Approach to Strengthening the Plausibility of Anticipated AR4D Impact Pathways
The complex nature and multilevel scale of the challenges faced by agricultural research for development (AR4D) call for appropriate design and...
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Counting the Nonreligious: A Critical Review of New Measures
The rise of the “nones”—individuals who are variously nonreligious—has recently piqued the interest of social scientists, not least because levels of...
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Household Level Non-Monetary Poverty in Ethiopia and its Driving Factors: a Multidimensional Approach with Panel Estimation
By employing Alkire and Foster (J Public Econ 95(7–8):476–487, 2011a) counting approach and Cerioli and Zani (A fuzzy approach to the measurement of...
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Moral rhetoric in discrete choice models: a Natural Language Processing approach
This paper proposes a new method to combine choice- and text data to infer moral motivations from people’s actions. To do this, we rely on moral...
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Firm Location: A Spatial Point Process Approach
We propose an application of spatial statistics to model the location patterns of new firms in the city of São Paulo. In this paper, we assume that...
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Prehistory to History: A New Archaeological Approach to Knowledge Transmission and the Inception of Literacy in Central Europe
This paper reviews archaeological research on the transmission of writing knowledge between literate and pre-literate societies. It proposes the use...
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Ethno-Realistic Mathematics Education: The promising learning approach in the city of culture
Freudhental's idea of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) and D'Ambrosio's idea of Ethnomathematics must share some common principles. Both aim to...
