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| The Challenge of Measuring Crime Internationally | |
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| The need of better crime diagnostics | |
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| The uses of international crime statistics | |
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| International crime statistics: the sorry state of the art | |
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| Crime as a social construct | |
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| International crime statistics as controversial knowledge | |
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| Twenty years of thwarted efforts | |
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| ICVS: bringing the bad news | |
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| Breaking the silence | |
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| Summary points/in conclusion | |
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| Mismeasuring Crime | |
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| International crime figures available | |
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| A crime is a crime ? | |
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| Recording practices of the police | |
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| Reporting patterns | |
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| The breakthrough of crime victimization surveys | |
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| Victim satisfaction and trust levels | |
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| The more recorded crime, the less crime ? | |
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| Police recorded crime and victimization rates compared | |
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| Other uses of police recorded crime statistics | |
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| Police figures as trend indicators | |
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| A moratorium on police figures? | |
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| The political context of crime surveying | |
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| Summary points/in conclusion | |
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| Common Crimes Across the World | |
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| The burden of property crime | |
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| Over all levels of crime | |
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| Five year victimization rates | |
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| Alternative measures of the crime burden | |
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| Victimization by property crime | |
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| Burglary | |
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| Theft and frauds | |
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| Consumer fraud | |
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| Car crimes | |
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| Car theft and joyriding | |
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| Car hijacking | |
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| Robbery | |
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| Kidnapping | |
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| The heavy crime burden of the business sector | |
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| Costs for businesses | |
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| Summary points/ in conclusion | |
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| Patterns of violent crime | |
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| Homicide | |
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| National homicide rates | |
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| Assault | |
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| Hate crimes in Western Europe | |
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| Sexual assault/ rape | |
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| Violence against women revisited | |
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| Towards further standardization | |
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| Child abuse and the cycle of violence | |
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| Summary points/ in conclusion | |
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| Determinants of common crimes | |
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| Comparative perspectives | |
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| Urbanization and crime | |
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| Regional patterns and future trends of urbanization | |
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| Demographics and crime | |
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| Future demographic trends | |
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| Affluence and crime | |
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| Mass transportation and crime | |
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| Patterns of vehicle theft at second sight | |
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| More affluence-less crime? | |
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| Development and crime revisited | |
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| Poverty and inequality | |
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| Criminal victimization and gender inequality | |
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| Drugs and alcohol abuse | |
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| Alcohol abuse and violence | |
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| Trends in alcohol consumption | |
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| Availability of guns | |
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| Firearms and violent crime | |
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| Guns and violence in developing countries | |
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| Summary points/in conclusion | |
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| Global crime trends | |
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| Global trends in common crimes | |
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| European trends in focus | |
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| Trends in police recorded crimes | |
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| Explaining the drop in crime | |
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| Responsive securitization and the drop in crime | |
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| The growing North-South security divide | |
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| Crime and conflict | |
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| Latin America: the price of democracy | |
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| Summary points/in conclusion (part II) | |
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| Emerging Global Crime Threats | |
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| Assessing organized crime | |
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| The new crime threats | |
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| The changing nature of organized crime | |
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| Illicit markets | |
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| Defining organized crime | |
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| Measurement issues | |
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| The alternative of victimization surveys among the business community | |
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| Towards an organized crime perception index | |
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| Other "markers" of organized crime presence | |
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| Instrumental violence | |
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| The organized crime-corruption complex | |
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| Other "markers" of organized crime: money-laundering and the black economy | |
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| Composite organized crime index | |
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| Country scores | |
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| Trends in organized crime | |
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| Participation of national organized crime groups in criminal markets | |
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| Trafficking in persons | |
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| Organized car theft | |
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| The intercorrelates of crime | |
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| Tentative transnational responses | |
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| The US report on trafficking in persons | |
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| Summary points/in conclusion | |
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| Other global security threats: corruption, terrorism and cyber crime | |
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| Defining corruption | |
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| Corruption indicators : perceptions and experiences | |
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| Assessing the merits of objective and subjective indicator | |
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| Corruption victimizations in the corporate world | |
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| Business crime surveys | |
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| Patterns and trends in terrorist crimes | |
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| The incidence of terrorism | |
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| Correlates of terrorism | |
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| Terrorism and organized crime | |
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| Cyber crime : trends in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) crimes | |
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| Computer-facilitated crime | |
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| No Asian exception | |
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| Computers, organized crime and terrorism | |
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| Summary point/in conclusion: redrawing the global crime map | |
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| International Trends in Criminal Justice | |
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| Law enforcement, crime prevention and victim assistance | |
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| Trends in criminal justice resources | |
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| Allocation of resources to law enforcement and criminal justice | |
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| Human resources for police and private security | |
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| Police workloads | |
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| The private security industry | |
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| Trends in private policing | |
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| More police-less crime? | |
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| Homicide conviction rates as performance measure | |
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| Towards a composite index for police performance | |
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| Resources, performance and integrity | |
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| Victim empowerment and support | |
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| Victim reception by the police | |
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| Trends in victim satisfaction | |
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| Victim support services | |
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| Implementing the UN Victims Declaration | |
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| International best practices in crime prevention | |
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| Guidelines for the prevention of crime | |
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| Evidence-based approaches | |
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| Planning and implementation | |
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| Summary points/in conclusion | |
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| Courts and sentencing | |
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| Judges and magistrates | |
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| Gender balance in the courts | |
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| Perceived independence and integrity of the judiciary | |
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| Towards an international code of conduct for judges | |
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| Public attitudes towards sentencing | |
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| In conclusion | |
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| Corrections: a global perspective | |
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| Trends in prisoners rates | |
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| National prison populations | |
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| Expanding use of imprisonement | |
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| Interpreting prisoners rates | |
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| Costs and limits of imprisonment | |
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| The search for alternatives | |
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| Benchmarking prisoners rates | |
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| An index of punitiveness | |
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| Summary points/in conclusion | |
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| International Perspectives on Crime and Justice | |
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| Security, rule of law and sustainable development | |
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| Introductory remarks | |
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| Legal institutions and the level of non-conventional crime | |
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| Rule of law and terrorism | |
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| Trafficking in persons and police performance. | |
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| Good governance and development | |
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| Good governance, development and the rule of crime | |
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| Organized crime as Troian horse | |
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| Vicious crimino-economic circles | |
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| Summary points/in conclusion | |
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| Crime and justice: the need of global reform | |
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| Diagnosing crime | |
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| A culture of lawfullness | |
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| Country profiles at a glance | |
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| Costs of crime: the global crime bill | |
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| Lawfulness and human development | |
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| The North- South 'security divide' | |
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| The 'justice deficit' | |
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| Security and justice reform first | |
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| The UN Millenium Development Goals | |
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| A more secure world | |
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| Datasources and data | |
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| International Crime Victim Surveys (ICVS) | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Technical note on ICVS data presentation | |
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| The International Crime Business Survey (ICBS) | |
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| The International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS) | |
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| The United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems | |
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| Definition of terms | |
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| Some Other Techincal Matters | |
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| Method for construction of composite indexes | |
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| Method for constructing scatter plots | |
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| Method for constructing bar charts | |
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| Appendix B Data tables | |
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| Index | |
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| References | |
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| Data tables | |
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| Index | |
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| References | |