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WATER MARKETS - ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS TO MANAGE SCARCITY Henning Bjornlund Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis, University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia. Email: email@example.com and University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. ABSTRACT Australia has aggressively pursued water markets as an integral part of water policy reforms. Compared to most other countries, relatively active water markets have therefore emerged. Consequently, Australia provides a unique opportunity to study how markets have been introduced and adopted and their role in managing demand and scarcity. This paper discusses: a) how water markets have evolved in Australia, b) prices paid and volumes traded in water markets, and c) the increase in market participation. During periods of drought, scarcity is the main driver of price and market participation. Irrigators do not buy water to maximize their profits due to good commodity prices. Farmers with significant investments in long-term assets purchase water to protect their assets against long-term losses due to inadequate watering. This behavior drives prices to levels where no other agricultural users can compete. The price of water entitlements fluctuates with the price of water allocations but irrigators do not capitalize scarcity driven, short-term increases in allocation prices into the price of entitlements. INTRODUCTION The use of economic instruments to manage demand for water within an environment of scarcity has, since the early 1990s, increasingly been promoted by international organizations. Australia has aggressively implemented market policies since 1994. Compared to most other countries, markets in water allocations (the right to short term use of water) have developed to a high level of maturity whereas markets for water entitlements (the long term right to access water) have been more subdued. Analyses of water market prices to establish the factors impacting on irrigators willingness to pay and accept prices are few and far between due, in part, to the paucity of water pricing data (Brookshire et al., 2004), the thin markets in many areas, the private nature of price information and the relatively short time period during which active markets have existed. Thirteen years of pricing and market data are now available for water markets within the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District (GMID) in Victoria, Australia on the basis of which cross-sectional and time series analysis can be conducted. Australia therefore provides a unique opportunity to analyze water market data to identify what factors influences market prices and activities and markets' ability to manage scarcity. This paper first discusses the evolution of water markets in Australia. It then outlines the methods and data used for the analysis. The following four parts discuss the outcome of analyses of prices and volumes traded in the allocation and entitlement markets based on papers previously published by the author while the final two parts provide previously unpublished findings regarding the impact of allocation markets on water use and the increase in farm businesses' participation in water markets. The evolution of water markets in Australia Markets for water entitlements and allocations first formally emerged in South Australia in 1983 without any direct legislative provisions. This was provoked by early scarcity, created by a moratorium on new licenses and a reduction in existing but unused or underused licenses already in the 1970s. When demand started to increase from new high value users such as horticulture and viticulture in the early 1980s the pressure was on to create alternative means to provide water for these ventures. Trading in allocations was introduced in New South Wales (NSW) the same year and in Victoria the first trial allocation markets were introduced in 1987. Markets for entitlements were introduced by legislation in both these states in 1989 but in Victoria the regulations controlling trading were not passed until September 1991 and the first trades not registered until January 1992. Informal water trading was taking place earlier than this during periods of severe scarcity, by allowing transfers between entitlements in same ownership, through the purchase and amalgamation of irrigated land, and in some instances water authorities allowed water bailiffs to redirect water between neighbors (Turral et al., 2005). Water markets were made compulsory within all states as part of the new water policy reform initiated by the Council of Australia Governments (CoAG) in 1994. Initially, trading in both markets was thin (Turral et al., 2005, Bjornlund, 2003a). Irrigators soon became familiar with the allocation market, whereas the use of the entitlement market has, for a number of reasons, remained low (Bjornlund, 2004a). For a discussion of how irrigators have used markets to manage supply risk and the process of structural change see Bjornlund (2002, 2004b, in print). As the use of the allocations market increased, irrigators demanded more and more efficient market mechanisms to allow them to purchase water instantly when factors of supply and demand changed. Consequently, in 1998 a weekly water exchange was introduced within the GMID to ease the administrative pressure on the authorities and facilitate faster and cheaper transactions (Bjornlund, 2003b). In 2003 CoAG reviewed the 1994 reform program and found that good progress was being made, but that existing market mechanism still prevented water markets from achieving their most beneficial outcomes. In 2004 CoAG therefore introduced a new National Water Initiative. Among other things it aimed at improving the operation of water markets and the emergence of markets in more sophisticated derivative water products by providing: a) better specified and nationally compatible water entitlements, defined as shares of the available resource rather than in volumetric terms; and b) secure water entitlement registers. The policy process of evolving more efficient and sophisticated water markets is thus still ongoing and the ambitions of establishing derivative markets in order to achieve the potential efficiency gains experienced from such markets in other commodities are in their infancy (ACIL, 2003). METHODS AND DATA The analyses in this paper are based on thirteen years of market data from within the GMID. Data related to the price paid for water in the market for water allocations and in the market for water entitlements were collected. Allocation prices were obtained from Plan Right, the largest water broker in the district, for the period 1991-98 and from WaterMove, the water exchange operating on a weekly basis, for the period 1998-2004. Entitlement prices were obtained from surveys conducted by the author for the period 1992-96 and from Plan Right for the period 1997-2004. Data related to volumes of water traded on a monthly basis were obtained from the records of Goulburn-Murray Water (GMW) the Authority managing the GMID. The data have been analyzed using time series analysis of mean monthly prices and monthly volumes traded as well as cross sectional regression and correlation analysis also using mean monthly prices and monthly volumes traded as dependent variables and measures of scarcity, commodity prices and macro-economic factors as independent variables. The objectives of these analyses were to identify: 1) trends in water prices and volumes traded; 2) factors determining irrigators' willingness to pay and accept prices for water; 3) factors determining volumes traded in the market; and, 4) the relationship between prices paid in the allocation and entitlement market. The outcome with respect to the allocation market has been published in Bjornlund and Rossini (2005a); the outcome with respect to the entitlement market in Bjornlund and Rossini (2006), and the comparison of the allocation and entitlement prices in Bjornlund and Rossini (2005b). The discussions in the next two sections are based on this literature and the reader is referred to these papers for a comprehensive discussion of the actual equations, statistical details, and full discussions of the outcomes. This paper will concentrate on discussing aspects of the analyses which assist our understanding of how water markets have been used as an economic instrument to manage water scarcity and how scarcity has driven prices and activities in water markets. The last part of the paper draws on an analysis of the water entitlement and water trading registers, as well as water use data from the GMID, to establish how farm businesses have adopted water markets over the first 13 years of operation and how this relates to water scarcity. Increases in water trading based on volume traded has previously been reported in papers such as Turall et al. (2005) and Bjornlund (2004b), but a proper analysis of the extent to which farm businesses have adopted water trading has not previously been conducted1. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS The market for water allocations – factors driving market prices Initial expectations were that the allocation market would allow irrigators to adjust to short-term fluctuations in supply and demand for water as well as in commodity prices. 1 To facilitate the most meaningful analysis water entitlements were first consolidated into farm businesses. This was done by sorting the entitlement register by surname and address, and then consolidating all entitlements in the same ownership into one farm business. This process reduced the original number of 17,125 service numbers in the entitlement register to 14,384 farm businesses. Next, farm businesses without a tradable water entitlement were eliminated. This reduced the number of farm businesses to 10,011. The trading registers were then merged with the entitlement register to identify which farm businesses participated in which kind of trading during each of the 13 irrigation seasons and identifying which farm business had participated in some kind of trading from the start of trading to the end of each season. Analyses of prices and volumes traded in the allocation market suggest that the main driver of market activities and prices is scarcity (Bjornlund and Rossini, 2005a). Correlation analyses suggest that allocation prices have not been driven up by irrigators pursuing profit maximization as commodity prices increase. Most commodity prices have a significant but negative correlation with allocation price. It is especially noteworthy that this is the case for dairy products since historically, within the GMID, the dairy industry has been the main high value water user and the main buyer of water allocations and entitlements. Hedonic analyses show no significant causal relationship between the price of dairy products and the price of water allocations. However, there is clear evidence that when the price of feed for dairy cattle rises, the willingness to pay for water to grow grass increases. This supports anecdotal evidence that dairy farmers, during periods of drought and when the price of water allocation are high are, to some extent, substituting buying water to grow grass with buying feed (Bjornlund, 2003b). It was also found that when seasonal allocations are low the price of allocations go up2. Seasonal allocations go down due to low precipitation in the catchments of the major reservoirs. This decreases the supply to irrigators and therefore increases demand in the allocation market, resulting in a higher willingness to pay for water allocations. Finally it was found that as evaporation increases the price of water allocations go up. This is because more evaporation increases water use; as irrigators need to apply water not only to support plant growth but also to replace the loss of soil moisture due to evaporation, which in turn results in higher demand in allocation markets and higher market prices. 2 The seasonal allocation is set by GMW as a percentage of entitlement at the beginning of each season depending on water availability in the reservoirs and is then revised fortnightly depending on inflows into the storages (that is dependent on precipitation in the catchment) In conclusion, prices in the allocation market are driven by scarcity rather than by commodity prices. Irrigators' willingness to pay is driven by their effort to reduce losses due to inadequate watering. When prices on the allocation market have increased to A$500/ML this has been driven by horticultural farmers protecting their long-term investments in plantings, and at prices up to around A$300/ML by dairy farmers protecting their long-term investments in dairy herd and milking equipment. If farmers are unable to feed dairy cattle they will be forced to sell at a time where the market is depressed and cattle prices are low. It also takes many years to build up a dairy herd to be productive. Further, if cattle are sold off, or sent out to pastures in areas not affected by drought, milking volumes will decrease reducing farmers' ability to service their debt. In short, they pay more for water than is profitable, in order to stay in business. There is anecdotal evidence of banks supporting this approach by lending money to buy water at loss-making prices. The market for water allocations – factors driving market activity Hedonic analyses using monthly volumes of water traded as the dependent variable also show that it is scarcity that drives market activity. This is true both immediately and as a delayed reaction. First, if evaporation is high during a given month, the level of trading is also high, as irrigators need to apply more water to keep meeting plant need. Second, as the deficit between precipitation and evaporation accumulates over a three month period, the volume of water traded increases. This deficit represents the volume of water that the irrigators have to apply in addition to plant needs. This finding supports anecdotal evidence (Bjornlund, 2003b). Irrigators receive their seasonal allocation at the beginning of the season and there is no rule that they have to space their use of the water. They can use it all in the beginning of the season and then rely on buying water later in the season. It has therefore been reported that some irrigators don't buy when scarcity first sets in; initially they use the part of their allocation that they know they will need later in the season. This is especially the case if prices in the allocation market are high. They hope that prices will decrease so that they can buy cheaper later or that it will rain later in the season so that demand will decrease or that inflows to the reservoirs in the catchment increase and allocations therefore go up eliminating the need to purchase water. It was also found that during the months of January to March, which covers the hottest and driest part of the year, the volume of water traded is significantly higher than during any other period. This reflects that irrigators have different management response to scarcity. Some risk-adverse farmers, with the financial ability to buy water, purchase what they need for their planned crops based on the opening allocation, providing them with peace of mind during the season. Others are more risk-takers, or do not have the ability to pay for water at the beginning of the season, and therefore postpone buying water until they have used up their seasonal allocation and find that the crop still needs water. They do this in the hope that prices will be lower later in the season (this has historically proven to be the case during most seasons (Bjornlund, 2003b)) or that opening rains come early so that they do not need to buy water to finish off their crops (Bjornlund, 2004c). Finally, it was found that as the price of allocations increase the volume of water traded decreases. This indicates that as scarcity drives prices up, irrigators buy smaller and smaller volumes to accommodate their cash flow, and in the hope that further purchases can be avoided; due to rain or increased allocation or that prices might go down again. The market for water entitlements – factors influencing price The activities in the entitlement market show less direct impact of seasonal scarcity caused by fluctuations in evaporation and rainfall. This is as expected, since the price of entitlements should reflect the long-term impact of scarcity rather than within-season fluctuations (Bjornlund and Rossini, 2006). Reflecting scarcity, the research found two main factors determining the price of water entitlements. First, the allocation level: since 1996 seasonal allocations have been drifting lower in response to scarcity due to drought and policies such as water trading, increased environmental entitlements and capping of water use within the Murray-Darling Basin. As allocations have decreased, prices of water entitlements have increased. In a sense this is illogical; as lower allocations mean that the entitlements yield less allocation each season; something which should result in a lower willingness to pay. Second, as the price of allocations increases, so does the price of entitlements. This is supported by a comparison of the cycle factors for allocation and entitlement prices (Bjornlund and Rossini, 2005b). It was found that the two cycle factors are almost synchronized. However, when extreme scarcity during 2002/03 caused a substantial increase in allocation prices, irrigators did not capitalize these increases into the price of entitlements. It was also found that although the cycle factors are almost perfectly synchronized, their magnitude is very different, with the allocation factor being twice as high as the entitlement factor. This suggests that entitlement prices are far more stable than allocation prices, and that irrigators do not capitalize extreme fluctuations in allocation prices into the entitlement price. Irrigators are aware when changes in allocation prices are due to short-term fluctuations in the underlying fundamentals rather than long-term factors. The market for water entitlements – factors influencing market activity The analysis of factors influencing market activities in the entitlement market was not nearly as conclusive as the previously discussed analyses. The level of unexplained variability in volume traded was very high. However some of the findings were quite interesting: 1) when the price of water entitlements increases the volume traded declines; and 2) when the price of water allocations increases the volume of water traded in the entitlement market also increases. This supports clear anecdotal evidence that while prices in the allocation market were low and water was readily available there was a trend among many irrigators to rely on purchases of water allocations (Bjornlund, 2003b). However, since the price of water allocations has gone up and scarcity has caused increased competition in the allocation market, many irrigators have showed an increased interest in buying water entitlements to provide a greater level of certainty of supply during periods of scarcity; and 3) as the price of dairy products increases dairy farmers become more confident and therefore are willing to buy more water entitlements despite the fact that there is a negative correlation between the price of water allocation and the price of dairy products. The impact of allocation markets on total water use This section analyzes water use data and total volume of water traded on the allocation market. Table 1 shows how big a proportion of total water use was generated by the allocation market since 1995 within the two main supply systems of the GMID: the Murray and the Goulburn System. As can be seen from the table, the Murray System has in more recent time had a higher allocation level than the Goulburn System. Irrigators within the GMID have a very high level of supply security. Their entitlements are designed to be delivered in full in 96 out of 100 years. In addition, irrigators in most years get access to additional water when the reservoirs contain more water than is needed for the current and the next season. In many years allocations are therefore well in excess of 100% of entitlement. However, this excess has declined considerably over the last 20 years from consistently being 200 percent or more to consistently being at 100% and in one season well below. This has caused scarcity among many irrigators because they have developed their properties to rely on the historically high allocations. Table 1: Relationship between seasonal allocations and extent of trade Goulburn System Murray System Season Allocation (%)1 % of trade2 Allocation (%)1 % of trade2 1995/96 150 7 200 3 1996/97 200 4 200 3 1997/98 120 9 130 13 1998/99 100 13 200 5 1999/00 100 14 200 8 2000/01 100 16 200 2 2001/02 100 18 200 5 2002/03 57 24 129 16 2003/04 100 16 100 18 2004/05 100 18 100 22 Source: Goulburn–Murray Water's Records 1 Maximum seasonal allocation; 2 total water trade for season as percentage of total water use It is apparent from table 1 that the allocation market has succeeded in transferring water between competing users in periods of scarcity. When allocations are at 200%, trading only accounts for 8% or less of water use; this level of trade reflects irrigators buying water to benefit from good commodity prices or high demand for their commodities. As scarcity increases, trade accounts for a higher and higher proportion of water use, up to about 20% with 100% allocations and as much as 24% when the allocation dropped to 57% in the Goulburn System. It is clear that trading within the Murray System did not accelerate until allocations in that system declined to close to 100%; something that occurred for the first time in 1997/98 and then consistently for the last three seasons. It is apparent from these data that the allocation market has had a significant impact on irrigators' ability to cope with scarcity, allowing high value producers with capital investments in plantings, herds and equipment to protect their investments and stay in business by paying low value producers not to produce (Bjornlund 2004b,c; 2003a,b). Figure 1: % of farm businesses trading annually 70.00 GMID Murray 60.00 GMID Goulburn West 50.00 GMID Goulburn East percentage 40.00 30.00 20.00 10.00 0.00 91/92 92/93 93/94 94/95 95/96 96/97 97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 0203 03/04 year Increase in market participation and scarcity This section analyses how farm businesses with the GMID have adopted water markets and how this adoption rate is influenced by scarcity. Figure 1 shows the proportion of farm businesses that participated in any kind of water trading during each season. That is, they bought or sold water in either the allocation or entitlement markets. The figure shows a significant increase in market participation over time. During the first six years, when allocations in both systems were in excess of 200% (except during 1995/96 when it was only 150% in the Goulburn System) the participation rate mainly stayed below 10%. The exceptions are that the participation rate: 1) peaked during 94/95 as trading rules were relaxed and trading was introduced between irrigation district irrigators and private diverters; 2) remained high within the eastern part of the Goulburn System as the allocation dropped to 150%; and 3) increased first to about 30% within the western part of the Goulburn System. This last event is because this area has the highest proportion of low-value broad acre cropping, grazing and mixed production farms with lower value water uses as well as large areas with significant soil degradation problems. This area therefore had the greatest potential for beneficial trade-offs between irrigators with high and low value crops and productive and unproductive soils. The level of market participation increased to close to 40% within both systems during 1997/98 when allocations were low in both systems (table 1). Following that year, allocations remained low in the Goulburn System resulting in steadily increasing market participation. The allocation level in the Murray System returned to 200% and the participation rate therefore declined to 10-20% until allocation levels dropped again during 2002/03. At that time the participation rate in that system reached the same level as within the Goulburn System, with 60% of all farm businesses participating in trading during that and the following season. Over the 13 years period market participation has thus increased from less than 10% of farm businesses per years, to about 60%. Figure 2 reveals the proportion of farm businesses that have participated in any kind of water trading from the beginning of trade to the end of each season. The figure reveals the same three jumps in market participation. It first increases from around 8% to 21% in 1994/95 when 13% of new farm businesses had their market debut. The next jump in the participation rate, to about 42%, took place in 1997/98 when allocations dropped within both systems (table 1) with another 21% of farm businesses entering water markets for the first time. Finally the participation increased considerably, to 80- 90%, during 2002/03 and 2003/04 with about another 43% of farm businesses entering the market. At the present time, less than 15% of farm businesses have not participated in any kind of market activity. Water trading now seems to be an instrument that farmers use routinely to manage scarcity. In drawing this conclusion it has to be recalled that there is a substantial difference in the way the entitlement and allocation markets have been adopted by irrigators. Whereas around 60% of farm businesses are buying and/or selling allocations each year only, 2.5% are selling and 2% are buying entitlements. F ig u re 2 : A c c u m u la t e d p e rc e n t a g e o f f a rm b u s in e s s e s wh ic h h a v e t ra d e d 100. 00 90. 00 GMID Murray 80. 00 GMID Goulburn West 70. 00 Percentage 60. 00 GMID Goulburn East 50. 00 40. 00 30. 00 20. 00 10. 00 0. 00 91/ 92 92/ 93 93/ 94 94/ 95 95/ 96 96/ 97 97/ 98 98/ 99 99/ 00 00/ 01 01/ 02 0203 03/ 04 ye ar CONCLUSIONS Within the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District in Australia there is clear evidence that water markets have been widely adopted during the first 13 years operation. The major driver of the increase in activity and willingness to pay has been water scarcity. During the worst drought years, 60% of all farm businesses were active in the market and almost a quarter of all water used was purchased in the market. The allocation market has played an important role in enabling irrigators to manage scarcity by allowing high value water users with substantial capital investments in plantings, dairy herds and milking equipment to buy water to retain their herds and keep their permanent plantings alive. In this process they compensated the low value producers selling their water by offering prices in excess of what these farmers could make from using the water. There is, however, still widespread reluctance in adopting the use of entitlement markets. Acknowledgement This research is part of a larger project funded by the Australian Research Council and six industry partners: Murray-Darling Basin Commission, Department of Natural Resources; Department of Sustainability and Environment, Goulburn-Murray Water, Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation and UpMarket Software Services. REFERENCES: ACIL Tasman (2003): Water Trading in Australia – Current and Prospective Products. 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Last week, Egg McMuffin inventor Herb Peterson died at age 89 in his Santa Barbara home.
This brought back a wave of nostalgia. For many years my idea of the perfect breakfast was a cup of black coffee, a granola bar and a Marlboro Light. Then I went through a phase where I started each morning with an Egg McMuffin. They're only 300 calories and so convenient: There's a McDonald's a couple of blocks from my house, and the employees at the drive-through window didn't seem to mind that I looked like the unshaven, bleary-eyed wrath of God as I paid for my fast-and-easy breakfast and got the hell out of there.
After a couple of weeks, I decided I didn't like Egg McMuffins either. The English muffins are too chewy (there were a couple of mornings I felt I was gnawing through jerky), the Canadian bacon is too salty and the fried egg tends to be rubbery. So I gave them up too.
But the news of Peterson's death made me crave one. I drove over to my neighborhood McD's and ordered one and ate it in the car. It was still terrible.
Later that morning, I got an e-mail from my college friend Slim, who was also waxing nostalgic about the McMuffin. We were sophomores the year that McDonald's rolled out the McMuffin concept to all of it national franchisees. Slim insisted that the sandwich wasn't just a great hangover remedy -- it never worked that way for me, by the way – but that it had been tastier back in the 1970s.
"I'm telling you that they were good then," he e-mailed me. "Now they taste like plastic."
This is the same friend who still insists that Twinkies tasted different during that era and that Hostess Sno-Balls were fluffier and that Long John Silver's fried fish was – in his words -- as good as anything you'd find on the streets of London.
"It's all the chemicals and artificial ingredients and processed stuff they put in everything now," he wrote. "Why else would everything have tasted better in the 1970s?"
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Dear Sir, my question is weather special allowance is counted for pf or not , with the Judgement . Regards Chandrakant Vishwakarma
sorry i donot agree with mr jitendra PF should be deducted on special allowance .you have to clarify the allowance ,what it is .if not clarified than Pf should be deducted on that .further clarification regarding judgement u will get very soon .
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sorry i donot agree with mr jitendra PF should be deducted on special allowance .you have to clarify the allowance ,what it is .if not clarified than Pf should be deducted on that .further clarification regarding judgement u will get very soon .
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Please send me the judgment if you have any regarding PF on special allowance, because in my company we are paying huge amount under special allowance. Send it to my id on
same was decided by calcutta high court in the case of provident fund commissiner WB
vs svivekanand vidya mandir in 2005.this judgement is given in LLR page no 399.
so special allowance is to be treated as basic wages for the purpose of PF deduction.
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Special allowance which is paid to all employees should be treated as part of remuneration and will form part of salary. At the same time, special allowance which is paid to a particular category of employees considering the special skill which is applied to to the work shall be treated as some thing 'special' and that which not form part of salary for the purpose of PF deduction.
The Madras High Court in R Ramanathan Chettiar Jewellers, Madurai vs. Regional PF Commissioner, Madurai 1988 (ii) LLJ 045, has held that where the special allowance is not paid under contract of employment, settlement or award but paid purely out of managements own will and pleasure then such special allowance would not be taken into account for the purpose of calculating contribution payable under the Act. This ruling lays stress that a payment which is not of a regular nature and is paid purely in the discretion of the management, would not be available for PF contribution.
In Associated Cement Company Ltd. and Ors. v. R.M. Gandhi, Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, Gujarat(1995-III-LLJ(Suppl.)-368), it has been held that ad hoc payments made to eligible employees and not to all employees under agreement does not form part of basic wages for PF contribution.
The Apex Court while giving verdict in Bridges and Roofs (India) Ltd Vs. Union of India [1963 (2) LLJ 490], has said that "it seems that the basis of inclusion in Section 6 (of Employees provident Fund and Miscellaneous provisions Act, 1952)and exclusion in Clause (ii) is that whatever is payable in all concerns and is earned by all permanent employees is included for the purpose of contribution under Section 6 but whatever is not payable by all concerns or may not be earned by all employees of concern is excluded for the purposes of contribution."
Therefore, special allowance (which is at par with DA in many states) should be treated as part of salary for the purpose of PF contribution.
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What percent overage of tile to order
Hi everyone. I am remodeling a bathroom for the first time. We are about to place the order for the wall and floor tile. How much overage should we order? If the tiled floor area is 27 sf, how many sf of floor tile should we order (we are using marble tile that comes on 1' x 1' sheets, if that matters). For the wall subway tile, we have an area of about 170 sf. Then there's a chair rail that should cover 26 linear feet and a pencil that will cover 12 linear feet.
The tile store sales person wrote on the order sheet: 45 square feet for the floor, 187 sf for the subway tile, 68 pieces EACH of the pencil and the chair rail (these pieces are 6" in length). Other than the subway tile, this seems like a lot of overage.
My bathroom floor is 27.5 sq ft and my tile guy has me ordering 40 square feet of marble basketweave on 1x1 sheets to cover it. Your tile person might be adding more if you're a first time DIYer (thinking that you'll make mistakes) or they might be padding the sale.
I think you have more wall space than I do...I'm getting 110 sq ft of marble subway, 45 linear feet of chair rail, and 12 linear feet of baseboard.
An idea: post an add on Craigslist looking for a tile guy to just come over and do the measurements for you. Work is slowing down in many places (esp for the holidays) and I bet one would be happy to come by and do the measuring and give you some tips for $20-$30. It can't take more than 20 minutes of their time. Just a thought. The fact that you're posting makes me think you are suspicious of the sales person's amounts.
Any chance you're doing carrara marble? If so, you might like seeing what I'm getting...is it similar?
If you're ordering from The Tile Shop, check my thread on page 3 about my experience with them.
Actually, it's not a DIY project. I have a contractor involved. I just can't believe that it would require so much floor tile, pencil, and chair rail. I expect to be talking to the tile store tomorrow.
I am using ming green basketweave.
If your tile has a pattern to it, as jeannine's does, I can see it, especially if there's going to be some cutting. Stone mosaics tend to break up when being cut, so it could conceiveably take more extra than normal. I would be willing to bet the tile comes in boxes of 15 feet per box, and 30 feet just would not be enough for your floor, and usually warehouses won't accept orders for partial boxes of field tile.
As for the subway tile, he added the standard 10%. As for the liner and chair rail, that's ridiculous, even if there's alot of cutting. That's 150% OVER actually footage. If your actuall footage is 26 linear feet, he shouldn't be ordering any more than 30- 32 feet of each. Are you sure he didn't order 34 feet of each? (34 feet of chair rail, and 34 feet of liner= 68 feet) That would make sense.
Thanks, Bill, for the explanation. I am sure about what the order is because it is written as number of pieces. The order sheet says 68 pieces of 1/2"X6" pencil trim and 68 pieces of 2"X6" chair rail. I didn't mention this above, but the order sheet also says 68 pieces of 3"X6" base cove tile --wouldn't that be too much for 26 linear feet of the room? Also, the order sheet says 64 pieces of bullnose. That also seems like a lot. The room is 6.83' X 6.08' (82" X 73").


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We know the kids love Demi Lovato, who sings the single version over Frozen's end credits. And as a (now former) X-Factor judge, she's more recognizable to a wide audience than Tony Award winner Idina. But we don't care, because Menzel is Queen Elsa. It's her interpretation of the song that took our breath away in theaters. And she will wear a fabulous dress and sing the crap out of it on the Oscar stage.
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Forum poll highlights need for skepticism
In the endless rumble over public opinion survey accuracy and elections, Lorne Bozinoff has become the latest punching bag.
Bozinoff is president of Forum Research, the Toronto polling company that failed spectacularly in its bid to predict the outcome of the federal byelection in Brandon-Souris.
In a survey last Sunday, Forum tracked Liberal Rolf Dinsdale with a 29-point lead over Tory Larry Maguire. When it was released to the media, the Brandon-Souris result seemed incredulous to just about everyone, including Liberals.
In the past 60 years, the Liberals have won that seat only once, and that win in 1993 required both a complete collapse by the Progressive Conservatives and a split of right-of-centre support with the Reform party.
On byelection day, the Liberal vote did surge, just as Forum had predicted, but so did the Tory vote. Maguire won, if only by a few hundred votes. The Forum result was so wrong Brandon-Souris is destined to be mentioned in the same breath as the worst election polling results of all time.
So, what happened?
Bozinoff said Forum is still studying the results to see where things went wrong. However, he said it's pretty clear his firm -- which employs Interactive Voice Response technology to gather its data -- did not accurately identify those people who were actually going to vote.
This is a key issue for all pollsters. You may get 100 people to say they are going to vote for a particular candidate, but the data don't mean much unless you can predict with reasonable accuracy whether they will show up to mark a ballot.
However, there are other factors Bozinoff believes were outside of Forum's control. These include an incredible effort by the Tories to get out their vote Monday. That last-ditch effort to squeeze every Tory vote out of the riding, motivated perhaps by the poll's huge Liberal lead, was not picked up in polling data, Bozinoff added.
Bozinoff is still defending his methodology despite claims from Brandon-Souris voters they were called as many as six times by Forum's automated IVR system. Bozinoff said it was possible an individual could be called in each of the four surveys conducted during the campaign. However, he said it was "impossible" for someone to receive six calls, or more than one call for any individual survey.
"I can tell you that didn't happen," Bozinoff said of the multiple-call allegation. "Look, we were the only firm that actually polled on this. People can say whatever they want but we were the only ones out there doing it."
While Bozinoff is searching for answers, his critics and competitors are sounding off. Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, was all over Twitter Wednesday assailing both Forum and the news organizations that published the outrageous results.
Bricker said there are best practices available to any polling company to avoid the problems Forum experienced. Failures of this magnitude cannot be explained by election-day ground game, electorate volatility or weather, Bricker said.
This was a badly constructed, badly executed poll, he added. The fact they got the other three races right does not erase the problems with Brandon-Souris. "(Forum) will tell you that they got most of the results right, but that isn't the real test here. Getting it right every once in a while is not the test."
Bricker said the truth could be revealed if Forum, like some other polling companies, published its raw and weighted data.
Bozinoff said he won't do that.
Still, the pollster was not the only target of criticism in the wake of the byelection results. News organizations that published the its poll, including the Free Press, were soundly thrashed.
For the record, the Free Press did publish the last poll with the 29-point lead but it was in a story questioning the methodology and quoting sources suggesting the result was not believable.
Bricker said it is acceptable to publish the results of a rogue poll as long as the news organization takes the time to include the proper background and context so readers know the results are suspect. Unfortunately, he said, not enough news organizations are doing that.
We know Forum's poll was flawed, but we still don't know why. And while we can't necessarily ensure bad polls won't happen in future, those of us in the news business can ensure all polls get the same treatment: healthy, respectful skepticism.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 28, 2013 A4
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