Examines spatial and social variations in preschool education in Nassau County, New York. Analyzes how the preschool operation relates to publicly supported primary education. Describes processes influencing historical changes in the number and distribution of preschools. Points out that the location and provision of preschool education is a…

This report presents a statistical portrait of the demographic aspects of aging and the older population in the Unites States. Most of the estimates are based on data from decennial censuses, the program of nonsurvey population estimates and projections carried out by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the Current Population Survey, and other census…

According to estimates prepared by the Bureau of the Census and the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, the 1982 farm population of 5,620,000, or 2.4% of the national population, continued a long downward trend. About 45% of farm residents lived in the North Central region, 35% in the South, 13% in the West,…