The "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" is a companion report to the "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium." The "Supplement" presents statistics on the same topics as the "Compendium," with additional categorizations by demographic characteristics including age, gender and race/ethnicity. In…

The "2015 Disability Statistics Annual Report" is a companion volume to the "2015 Annual Disability Statistics Compendium." The "Compendium" presents many tables of data, including state and national values and trends over time. The "Annual Report" presents statistics from the "2015 Annual Disability…

An analysis of media utilization, attitudes, and significant deomgraphic characteristics of Spanish-Language-Only Television in Los Angeles County was conducted. (NQ)

A community and school survey was made of the Glendale Union High School District to determine the need for a health occupations program at the high school level. Procedures consisted of a literature review , visits to local health occupations and career programs, and administration of needs assessment instruments to high school students, Glendale…

In the interest of providing accountable and responsive service, the Columbus Public Library undertook a survey of business community use of the library's Business and Technology Division. The survey was directed at manufacturing, service, professional, trade, and retail firms in the central Ohio area. A one-page questionnaire was devised to…

Sample selection methodology and findings are described for a telephone survey of residents of the six Hawaiian Islands to identify library users and their characteristics as well as patterns of use. Findings are reported for demographic patterns of use, user and non-user attitudes, leisure time activities, levels of awareness and interests in…

A compilation and categorization of adult and child interests in the various educational activities and programs of the Brandywine School District (Michigan), the study has implications for improvement of the Brandywine adult education program. A lack of participation in the adult education program has created a need for revision. A questionnaire…

An interrelationship exists between economic development and social change in Montana. The community's social life is affected by outside intervention or investment in the local economy, industrialization in the community, and technological changes in agriculture. The basic developments affecting these areas of social change are discussed in the…

The general thrust of this report is to examine the impact of school closures on the following clusters of variables: population and land use trends--including changes in age structure, birthrates, racial composition, social and economic characteristics, demolitions and new structures, and occupancy rates in residential and commercial structures;…

This document offers the results of an education survey taken in the Dayton, Ohio, area in August 1998. The survey included telephone interviews with some 824 area residents. The principal results are presented first, organized under nine major headings: satisfaction level; problems in the schools; proposals for improvement; parental choice;…

A survey designed to identify perceived educational needs in a large suburban school district was administered to a representative sample of elementary teachers, junior high teachers, senior high teachers, special education teachers, junior high students, senior high students, and parents. Intercorrelation and factor analysis of the data revealed…

In March 1973, a door-to-door District census was directed by the Olympia Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Project Office (Illinois). Assisted by the Olympia Citizens Advisory Council and over 300 volunteers, the ESEA Office obtained population data from the census for the rural area. At the same time, a questionnaire to…

This report is intended to provide government managers with some perspective on the nature and implications of sample surveys, their likely costs, and what can be expected from them. The authors discuss sample surveys less from the technical side than from the perspective of the officials who will make management decisions about an overall survey.…

This publication discusses the difficulties of calculating reliable income estimates for particular groups of people and presents a methodology for overcoming those obstacles. Basically, the procedure involves setting up cumulative distributions of housing values, rental values, and family incomes for each census tract. Average housing values and…

The results are presented of a survey made to determine the communication patterns by which the area population learned of KOCE (a public UHF television station of the Coast Community College District) during its first year of operation, and how active viewers of the TV station perceived it in terms of desirable and actual service. The survey was…