The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program develops geographic data to help policymakers, program administrators, and the public understand relationships between educational institutions and the communities they serve. One of the commonly used geographic data items is the NCES…

To commemorate International Women's Day on March 8, 2015, GMAC prepared this Data-to-Go brief as a summary of current GMAT test taker and research data about women in the business school pipeline. Findings in this Data-to-Go report are derived from several sources of GMAT test taker data and GMAC surveys conducted in 2014 and 2015. In testing…

While a majority of charter schools nationwide operate in urban and suburban areas, charter schools exist in all corners of the nation, and are expanding into all types of communities. This "Details from the Dashboard" report presents statistics on the number of charter schools and students enrolled in charter schools by the four geographic…

This brief will discuss patterns of science and engineering educational attainment within the foreign-born population living in the United States, using data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS). The analysis is restricted to the population aged 25 and older, and the results are presented on science and engineering degree attainment by…

This report presents the results of the annual survey of geographic origins or permanent residence of all first-time credit course students attending the institutions of the State University of New York during the 1972 fall term. Following summary tables of first-time students by institution and permanent residence of first-time students, Part 2…

Conditions and characteristics underlying the spatial distribution of Negroes in rural Southwestern Michigan are studied in this document. The migration of Negroes is traced into the area, the demographic composition is analyzed, and social and economic ties are compared with those of the white population. Census data and household interviews in 4…

Of an estimated 11.2 million persons in the United States identifying themselves as being of Hispanic origin in spring 1976, 3 out of 4 were native born. As a group, they had a high degree of Spanish-language maintenance. The degree of current Spanish-language usage was much lower among those born in the United States than among those born in a…

Presenting statistical data on the American Indian Population 55 years of age and older, this report presents the following tables: (1) Total and American Indian Resident Populations, All Ages and 55+, by State, 1970; (2) American Indian Resident Population, 55+ and Selected Age Groups, by State and Sex, 1970; (3) American Indian Resident…

This paper describes physician and physician extender (i.e., a person who renders services under the supervision and responsibility of a physician) supply and distribution and provides projections of the supply. It addresses inequities of access to health care by examining the relationship to disparities in physician distribution by specialty and…