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Strange, Marty; Johnson, Jerry; Showalter, Daniel; Klein, Robert – Rural School and Community Trust, 2012
"Why Rural Matters 2011-12" is the sixth in a series of biennial reports analyzing the contexts and conditions of rural education in each of the 50 states and calling attention to the need for policymakers to address rural education issues in their respective states. While it is the sixth in a series, this report is not simply an…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, Educational Policy, Annual Reports
National Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1980
The booklet presents a report on the operation and use of person numbering (PN) systems for vital and health statistics in Israel and Scandinavia. A PN system involves assigning a different number to each individual within a given society and using that number for commercial, governmental, and military identification. The purpose of the report is…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Government Role, Health Services
Cheng, Chin-Chuan – 1986
A study of the relationships between Chinese dialects based on a quantitative measure of dialect affinity is summarized. First, tone values in all the dialect localities available in the early 1970s were used to calculate the dialectal differences in terms of tone height with respect to the "yin and yang" split. In the late 1970s, calculations of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Le Bras, Herve – 1979
This study of early childhood and the family in member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) employs two statistical approaches to the problem of providing an accurate picture of modern conditions of family life. A classical demographic approach to population studies is initially used, then is critiqued,…
Descriptors: Classification, Demography, Extended Family, Family Characteristics
Bonner, H.R. Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Previously, the statistics of nurse training schools were included with those of theology, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and veterinary science in the chapter of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education devoted to professional education. This year (1918), the statistics of the other professional schools are included in the chapter…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Nurses, Nursing Education, Educational Methods
Mediax Associates, Inc., Westport, CT. – 1980
The second of three volumes, this document provides a description of the coding system, the rules and the procedures followed in interpreting and classifying 4,896 statements of desired program effects on Head Start children. The statements had been identified and rated by parents, staff and teachers in Input Workshops conducted by the Head Start…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Classification, Cognitive Development