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PUMA symposium: Data in action
On 12th October 2018, the Platform for Surveys, Methods and Empirical Analyses (PUMA) presented the results of its survey studies above the rooftops of Vienna.
Would more flexibility in working hours extend people’s working lives?
Moritz Hess, Jurgen Bauknecht and Sebastian Pink explore whether working lives could be extended if there was more flexibility in the hours people work later in in their lives.
Thinking geographically about ethnic and socio-economic segregation
Richard Harris discusses a different approach to measuring ethnic and socio-economic segregation and fitting a multilevel index of segregation to census data in R.
Does drinking during pregnancy have a link to autism?
Roisin Ryan explores data from the Millennium Cohort Study to understand if there is evidence of a link between drinking during pregnancy and autism in their child.
Housing affordability for single people in independent households and houses of multiple occupation
Drawing on the Family Resources Survey (FRS) and other datasets, Chihiro Udagawa estimates and compares income distributions of single people in independent households and those in a house in multi...
How does poor health influence people’s energy use?
Do some groups of people might find it difficult to change their behaviour and save more energy due to their life circumstances such as poor health? Dr Milena Buchs discusses her findings from anal...