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Wiener, Valerie – 1997
Parents across the nation are experiencing the phenomenon of adult children returning home to live with their parents after brief or extended excursions into independent living, or of adult children reluctant to move out until their financial or lifestyle expectations are guaranteed. Referring to these grown children as "nesters," this…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Child Rearing, Family Environment, Family (Sociological Unit)
Download full textCapps, Randy; Passel, Jeffrey S.; Perez-Lopez, Daniel; Fix, Michael – 2003
This guidebook is designed to help local policy makers, program implementers, and advocates use U.S. Census and other data sources to identify immigrant populations in their local communities (their characteristics, contributions, and needs). It lists relevant data sources, the information contained in each, where they can be located, and software…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, English (Second Language), Family Characteristics, Immigrants
Wilkinson, Gary H. – 1984
Demographic data based on the U.S. census of 1980 are presented and compared to data from the 1970 census. A series of charts, maps, graphs, and tables provide detailed statistical data on such things as population growth trends, population by race and age, educational achievement, number of people living alone, male and female occupations,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Charts, Educational Attainment, Employed Women
Growth Impacts on Public Service Expenditures: Some Questions for the Community. Coping with Growth.
Rimbey, Neil R. – 1979
Defining public services as the basic community/regional services which are provided to residents through tax receipts and service charges, this publication identifies variables for each service group and presents them in the form of questions that communities should find useful when analyzing impacts of growth. After listing questions dealing…
Descriptors: Community Planning, Coping, Costs, Educational Demand
Siegler, Theodore R. – 1979
The guide describes an assessment procedure that can be used by sparsely populated communities located near a potential development to help predict where the incoming population will choose to live and shop. First, a numerical model, the "gravity model," is presented which utilizes community size and the distance from the community to…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Services, Community Size, Coping
Tadlock Associates, Los Altos, CA. – 1978
This technical report analyzes community characteristics, projects growth, and suggests the development of educational delivery systems to meet Maricopa County Community College District's needs up to the year 2000. Assumptions in this planning effort include: (1) that the base components of the system will be regional campuses planned for 5,000…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, College Planning, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges
