Womens roles in the work force have increased, however, womens positions in the household have not changed greatly (Lennon & Rosenfield, 1994). While paid work research has focused significantly on the qualities of roles, household work research has not (Janzen & Hellsten, 2007). As the few existing instruments that do measure the quality of household work roles lack psychometric evidence (Janzen & Hellsten, 2007), a new instrument assessing all aspects of the quality of household work roles and possessing evidence of validity and reliability is required. The first step in the instrument development process is the identification and definition of relevant constructs. Thus, the main purpose of the study was to identify household work themes. Four focus groups of triple role women were performed with a total of 20 participants. A snowball sampling technique was used to recruit participants. Thematic analysis of the transcripts identified eight themes: No End Result, Scheduling, Time Constraints, Psychological Strain, Equality in Work, Value, Money, and Reward. The results found women to enjoy certain aspects of household work, but that they lead busy and hectic lifestyles. The themes created in the study were placed into a table of specifications this is to guide future instrument development research in which items can be included for each of these eight themes.

The company A in this article is a Household Service company. The industry in Taiwan presents a perfect competition. It¡¦s very difficult to compete in this situation. The Household Service of Taiwan is an emerging industry in the past decade and there were only few studies on it. In this study, I will try to discuss Household Services of Taiwan through the marketing and competition strategies. This study is using case study, the results are listed below: 1.The Household service industry in Taiwan mostly concentrated in three major metropolitan areas, especially in Taipei. 2.The ¡§Training¡¨ is the core competence of all the Taiwan¡¦s Household Service companies. 3.The overall company¡¦s marketing capabilities in Taiwan Household Service Companies, as opposed to the Japan¡¦s Household Service Companies is relatively insufficient. 4.The suggestion to the company is the need to take more cooperation with other industrial sectors, and the development of the new products (services).

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of conducting multiple household food inventories over the course of 30 days to examine weekly food variability. Household food availability influences the foods individuals choose to consume; therefore, by assessing the home food environment a better understanding of what people are eating can be obtained. Methods of measuring home food availability have been developed and tested in recent years; however most of these methods assess food availability on one occasion only. This study aimed to capture "usual" availability by using multiple assessments. After the development and pre-testing of the 171-item home observation guide to determine the presence and amount of food items in the home (refrigerator, freezer, pantry, elsewhere), two trained researchers recruited a convenience sample of 9 households (44.4% minority), administered a baseline questionnaire (personal info, shopping habits, food resources, and food security), and conducted 5 in-home assessments (5-7 day interval) over a 30-day period. Each in-home assessment included shopping and fast food activities since the last assessment and an observational survey of types and amounts of foods present. The final in-home assessment included an audio recorded interview on food habits and beliefs. Complete data were collected from all 9 women (32.8 y +/- 6.0; 3 married; 4 +/- 1.6 adults/children in household; 4 SNAP; 6 food insecure) and their households. Weekly grocery purchases (place, amount, and purpose) use (frequency) varied from once (n=1) to every week (n=5); 4 used fast food 2-3 times/wk for 4 weeks. Quantity and types of fresh and processed fruits and vegetables varied by week and by family. The feasibility of conducting multiple in-home assessments was confirmed with 100% retention from all participants. This methodology is important in that it provided detailed information on intra-monthly variation in food availability. The findings suggest the inadequacy of a single measure to assess food availability in the home.

After the reformation and opening, China moves from planned economy towards market economy. Active development of merchandise market and affection of loose household register system promotes the enormous population flow between town and country. However, the research found out that there are deep problems existed in population movement that need to be solved. These problems included the shifting of labor force from farming industry, the employments, managements and services of floating population in urban areas, as well as the reforms and innovations on the duality household registration system in the urban and rural areas. Particularly, it would be a good proposal to solve the ¡§Tri-Agricultural Problem¡¨ and city development at this particular period. This research probed into the increasing factors and development features of the floating population and emphasized mainly on the analysis of positive and negative influences to economic and society development. How to properly plan the population movement towards the modernized development aim of China is what this research about to discuss. The research is to discuss theories related to population flow. However, push and pull theory is commonly used in the world. In accordance with the idea of ¡§Equal emphasis on agriculture and industry, equal development of town and country¡¨ of developed economy M. Todaro Model, lifting agricultural productivity, improving rural life conditions, and shortening difference between town and country will ultimately make duality disappear and is practicable to the economic development with Chinese characteristics.

The globalization and frequent contact with other nations not only change the private enteritis but also the governments. Government offices related to the public service are seeking ways to improve their efficiency and quality of service in order to boost the competitive advantage of the country. Household Registration Offices is one of the department in the government that closely connect to people¡¦s daily life and its performance represents a part of the government performance, too. Therefore, how to improve the efficiency of administration and service quality of Household Registration Offices is one of the hottest issues currently. The goal of this paper is to investigate how to improve the service quality and satisfactions of the Household Registration Offices in communities of the Kaohsiung county area. This research is based on the survey conducted in the communities within the Kaohsiung County, Taiwan. The design of the survey employs the modified SERVQUAL measure in the PZB service quality concept model combining with 5 major aspects of the Household Registration Offices : ¡§reliability¡¨, ¡§the ability to response¡¨, ¡¨availability¡¨, ¡§assurance¡¨ and ¡§carefulness¡¨ and the other 26 attributes to measure the difference between the service quality providing to the public and the services quality expected from the communities. Moreover, we have conducted deviation analyses on the service quality awareness and satisfaction of the Household Registration Offices according to the population variables in the communities. The analyses include statistic analyses such as description analysis, T test and ANOVA. The conclusion obtained is listed as following points: 1. The expectation to the service quality of the Household Registration Offices from the communities is between important and very important. 2. The actual satisfaction of the communities reports that the service quality provided by the Household Registration Offices is above the satisfy level. 3. The analyses show that the actual service quality observed by the communities and the expected service quality is significantly different. In general, the actual service quality provided is less than the service quality expected. 4.The statistical analyses show that variables such as ¡§gender¡¨, ¡§age¡¨, ¡¨education¡¨, ¡§Household Registration Offices district¡¨ and ¡§overall satisfaction¡¨ has significant differences in the awareness of the service quality. 5. The statistical analyses show that the ¡§age¡¨, ¡§Household Registration Offices district¡¨ and ¡§overall satisfaction¡¨ variables have significant differences in the level of satisfaction. Finally, base on the conclusion of the paper, we also provide suggestions on how to improve the service quality of the Household Registration Offices and its satisfaction rate. We hope our suggestions can be served as the reference for the future studies as well as the guidelines for the government departments.

This study illustrates the use of ACNielsen Homescan Panel (HSD) in three separate demand analyses of dairy products: (1) the effect of using cross-sectional data in a New Empirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) study of ice cream firm mergers in San Antonio; (2) the estimation of hedonic price models for fluid milk by quart, halfgallon and gallon container sizes; (3) the estimation of a demand system including white milk, flavored milk, carbonated soft drinks, bottled water, and fruit juice by various container sizes. In the NEIO study a standard LA/AIDS demand system was used to estimate elasticities evaluating seven simulated mergers of ice cream manufactures in San Antonio in 1999. Unlike previously published NEIO work, it is the first to use crosssectional data to address the issue associated with inventory effects. Using the method developed by Capps, Church and Love, none of the simulated price effects associated with the mergers was statistically different from zero at the 5% confidence level. In 1995 Nerlove proposed a quantity-dependent hedonic model as a viable alternative to the conventional price-dependent hedonic model as a means to ascertain consumer willingness to pay for the characteristics of a given good. We revisited Nerlove’s work validating his model using transactional data indigenous to the HSD. Hedonic models, both price-dependent and quantity-dependent, were estimated for the characteristics of fat content, container type, and brand designation for the container sizes of gallon, half- gallon, and quart. A rigorous explanation of the interpretation between the estimates derived from the two hedonic models was discussed. Using the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), a matrix of own-price, crossprice, and expenditure elasticities was estimated involving various container sizes of white milk, flavored milk, carbonated soft drinks, bottled water, and fruit juices, using a cross-section of the 1999 HSD. We described price imputations and the handling of censored observations to develop the respective elasticities. These elasticities provided information about intra-product relationships (same product but different sizes), intrasize relationships (different products same container size), and inter-product relationships (different products and different sizes). This container size issue is unique in the extant literature associated with non-alcoholic beverage industry.

Abstract Since the peasant laborer community are the special social stratum which mainland China reform in system reforming has appeared, the so-called peasant laborer who on the occupation activities non-agricultural production in the rural enterprise or the cities, but the registered permanent address still in the countryside, the status was still farmer's worker. At present peasant laborer's scale has surpassed 140,000,000 populations, and forms a fixed social stratum in mainland China. These belong to the countryside labor force originally, along with the reform advancement, get out the countryside, places oneself row of in the city workers, also the population grows day by day. The labor force massive flowing bring popular rising problems, no matter it will be paying the more social cost to the city or the village, if the popular uprising question want to have the basic solution, not only need the law, but also promote the labor market to be perfect, enables the labor force the flowing to move towards outside the standardization, needs to begin to relieve exists since long ago in China's city and countryside dual system. The city farmer worker social security systems establishment is a project which an item so complex, not only it involves to the city and countryside many original system reforms and the innovation, but also involves to the social benefit and resources redistributing.Needs the conformity country, the society and individual strength. Farm labors, working in the cities as well as employed by industrial manufacturers, and have to face the same living standard and vocational risks as urban citizens, but they can¡¦t obtain the same social security welfare. When they had profession injury, illness or being unemployed, mostly they would face poverty and the deterioration of basic living standard. If farm labors¡¦ social security can implement in China will relate to the China stability, growth, and transformation and establishment of harmonized society.

Project (M.P.P.) - Simon Fraser University, 2006. / Theses (Master of Public Policy Program) / Simon Fraser University. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis--Auburn University, 2009. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references (p.115-122).

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