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Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1986
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes the official unemployment rate on the first Friday of each month based on a sample survey of 59,500 households called the Current Population Survey. Unemployment data for states and local areas are published monthly by the BLS in cooperation with the state employment security agencies. The primary…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Dislocated Workers, Employment Patterns
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1977
The methodologies, instruments, and procedures that were used by Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in conducting its part of the Safe School Study are described in detail. The report focuses on methods, the rationale for their selection, and their implementation. It also addresses various practical problems encountered. The sample design is…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Techniques, Methods
Center for Education Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1987
This notebook contains 21 standards established by the Center for Educational Statistics (CES); CES legislation; and a description of the CES publication and publication review processes. The publication clearance procedures and the external advice and peer review policies are established by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Codification, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. – 1986
Testimony on the need for building an information base on the changing demographics of an aging society in order to make intelligent policy decisions is presented in this Senate committee hearing. Opening statements by Senators Charles Grassley and John Glenn are provided. Jacob A. Brody, dean of the School of Public Health, University of Illinois…
Descriptors: Demography, Federal Programs, Hearings, Older Adults
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Congressional Budget Office. – 1987
This report analyzes possible causes of current trends in educational achievement and discusses implications for policy. It uses data described in the publication "Trends in Educational Achievement," a Congressional Budget Office study released in April 1986, which assessed data about trends in test scores. This report begins with a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
This documentation has been prepared to guide the analyst who intends to analyze the data collected for the Safe School Study. Along with the Volume 2 Methodology report, its objective is to serve as a reference guide to the distributed data files. Together, these two volumes describe the data, the techniques utilized in their collection, and the…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys
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Gray, Mary W. – Academe, 1987
Recent federal court rulings concerning the burden-of-proof standards for complex employment discrimination cases involving the use of statistics have brightened the prospects for faculty plaintiffs in sex discrimination cases. The cases deal with salary differentials and race, promotions, and seniority. (MSE)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Court Litigation, Data Interpretation
Datta, Lois-ellin – 1989
This report concerning information on education in the United States addresses three questions: (1) what has happened over the past 15 years? (2) what are some reasons for the decline that has taken place in information gathering activity? and (3) how far does the problem in information gathering extend? Federally sponsored research and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Role, Data Collection, Educational Finance
Morris, J. David; Wood, Linda B. – 1980
This report examines the status of women and the laws that have been enacted to protect women from discrimination in employment. Written in lay language, it examines employment and occupational statistics for women in the United States and in Kentucky. Following an introduction in Chapter 1, the report presents four chapters surveying the problem,…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Civil Rights Legislation, Employed Women
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
The Safe School Study was mandated by Congress to determine the frequency, seriousness, and incidence of crime in elementary and secondary schools in all regions of the United States; the cost of material replacement and repair; the means used in attempting to prevent crimes in schools; and means by which more effective crime prevention may be…
Descriptors: Alarm Systems, Case Studies, Community Characteristics, Educational Environment