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Download full textParr, Joyce; Green, Sara – 1986
For members of the elderly housing industry, important questions concern how people decide to become residents of a particular senior community, how they function after they move in, and how they feel about their experience in the community. Scientists can design and conduct research to answer these questions. In an elderly housing facility,…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Consultants, Housing, Life Satisfaction
Peer reviewedMyers, Dowell – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1987
Efforts to measure the quality of life in cities have emphasized comparisons among different places. This is useful for citizens and businesses but not for communities. The advice of local residents must be sought to develop community-oriented measures which define the quality of life in terms of the local context. (VM)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Community Problems, Community Surveys
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Early Childhood Programs. – 1986
In compliance with the Massachusetts Public School Improvement Act of 1985, this report provides information in the following areas: research findings; national and state demographics regarding children and families; services for children and families in Massachusetts; high quality early childhood programs; and the emerging role of public schools…
Descriptors: Children, Community Surveys, Demography, Early Childhood Education
Ministry of Education and Social Affairs, Stockholm (Sweden). – 1979
A Swedish report on day care for children between the ages of 7 months and 3 years is summarized in English in this document. Preparation of the original report involved reviewing Swedish and foreign research concerning day nursery for the very young and conducting exploratory and evaluative studies of small children in day nurseries. Chapter by…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Cognitive Development, Community Characteristics, Community Surveys
Washington State Office of Financial Management, Olympia. – 1984
As of April 1, 1984, Washington's population was estimated at 4,328,100, an increase of 43,000 over last year's population. This report provides data pertaining to the: official April 1, 1984 population and housing estimates for cities, towns, and counties and components of population change. The following special reports are also presented:…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Birth Rate, Blacks
de Clerck, Marcel – 1990
An operational seminar is an in-the-field demonstration for those involved in the process of change that all community development projects require. It does not require previous theoretical exposure of any kind. On the basis of the analysis of a specific milieu, the seminar participants put together a program of activities, choosing appropriate…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Change Agents, Community Action
