Quality management can be considered to have four main components: quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement.[1] Quality management is focused not only on product/service quality, but also the means to achieve it. Quality management therefore uses quality assurance and control of processes as well as products to achieve more consistent quality.
Statistical Reference Document
Introduction: In their final report on the design of Census 2000, the Commerce Secretary?s 2000 Census Advisory Committee concluded: ?What everyone wants is as simple as A-B-C ... A Better Census.? But how will we know if we achieve a better census in 2000, and how will we build a better one for 2010? An important source for answering these questions will be the Census 2000 Testing, Experimentation, and Evaluation Program. Besides being used to assess Census 2000, this p...
Excerpt: In their final report on the design of Census 2000, the Commerce Secretary?s 2000 Census Advisory Committee concluded: ?What everyone wants is as simple as A-B-C ... A Better Census.? But how will we know if we achieve a better census in 2000, and how will we build a better one for 2010? An important source for answering these questions will be the Census 2000 Testing, Experimentation, and Evaluation Program. Besides being used to assess Census 2000, this progra...
Legal Reference Publication
Foreword: The Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides technical support to the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) program to support law enforcement and criminal justice in the United States. OLES?s function is to develop standards and conduct research that will assist law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. OLES is (1) subjecting existing equipment to laboratory testing and evaluation, and ...
Excerpt: The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (PL 92-500), the Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1977 (PL 95-217), and the Water Quality Act of 1987 (PL 100-4) explicitly state that it is the national policy that the discharge of toxic substances in toxic amounts be prohibited. The detection of chronically toxic effects, therefore, plays an important role in identifying and controlling toxic discharges to surface waters. This manual a third edition of the fr...
Excerpt: The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (PL 92-500), the Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1977 (PL 95-217) and the Water Quality Act of 1987 (PL 100-4) explicitly state that it is the national policy that the discharge of toxic substances in toxic amounts be prohibited. Thus, the detection of chronically toxic effluents plays an important role in identifying and controlling toxic discharges to surface waters. This manual is the second edition of the m...
The technical appendix preparation was coordinated by Sherry L. Murphy in the Division of Vital Statistics under the general direction of Harry M. Rosenberg, Chief of the Mortality Statistics Branch. The vital statistics computer file on which it is based were prepared by staff from the Division of Vital Statistics, Division of Data Processing, Division of Data Services, and the Office of Research and Methodology. The Division of Vital Statistics, Mary Anne Freedman, Dir...
Death and fetal-death statistics Mortality statistics for 1994 are, as for all previous years except 1972, based on information from records of all deaths occurring in the United States. Fetal-death statistics for every year are based on all reports of fetal death received by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The death-registration system and the fetal-death reporting system of the United States encompass the 50 States, the District of Columbia, New York ...
Mortality statistics for 1995 are, as for all previous years except 1972, based on information from records of all deaths occurring in the United States. The death-registration system of the United States encompasses the 50 States, the District of Columbia, New York City (which is independent of New York State for the purpose of death registration), Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. In statistical...
Excerpt: The oceanographic analyses described by this atlas series expand on earlier works, e.g. the World Ocean Atlas 1998 (WOA98), World Ocean Atlas 1994 (WOA94) and Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean. Previously published oceanographic objective analyses have proven to be of great utility to the oceanographic, climate research, and operational environmental forecasting communities. Such analyses are used as boundary and/or initial conditions in numerical ocean ci...
Preface: The oceanographic analyses described by this atlas series expand on earlier works, e.g. the World Ocean Atlas 1998 (WOA98), World Ocean Atlas 1994 (WOA94) and Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean. Previously published oceanographic objective analyses have proven to be of great utility to the oceanographic, climate research, and operational environmental forecasting communities. Such analyses are used as boundary and/or initial conditions in numerical ocean ci...