This study examines time with children among women who remain childless in young to middle adulthood. The authors identify biologically childless women aged 25 to 44 years in the June 2004-2008 Current Population Survey, and use their subsequent time use diaries in the 2004-2009 American Time Use Survey to measure their time with children. The…

This study examined need, predisposing, market, and regional factors that predicted the likelihood of individuals with developmental disabilities living in state developmental centers (DCs) compared with living at home, in community care, or in intermediate care (ICFs) and other facilities. Secondary data analysis using logistic regression models…

This paper provides new evidence on the mechanisms by which school desegregation in large urban districts led to public enrollment declines for whites and increases for blacks. The authors demonstrate that white enrollment declines in southern central districts were primarily the product of out-migration while enrollment declines in districts…

Examines the relationship between mobility and fertility among women in a low income urban neighborhood, comparing recent movers with long-term residents in one neighborhood in Bronx, New York with a view toward clarifying the relationship between fertility and intra-urban migration or mobility; movers are found to have lower fertility than…

A phone survey of 1,007 male and female college students revealed that 1.1 percent of the women and 0.2 percent of the men were bulimic according to the revised (DSM IIIR) diagnostic criteria. At 2.2. percent, bulimia was most prevalent among undergraduate women living in group housing on campus. (Author/BJV)

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, focuses on the demographic changes in the City of New York and expressly tries to point out some of the areas relevant to integration and its applicability in New York City over the next 10 to 20 years. (Author/JM)

Reports on the results of applying a multivariate regression model of living arrangement choices to census data on the 1970 U.S. population of nonmarried, nonparenting adults. The central finding was that no special role for the elderly in living arrangement choices existed. (Author)

Two studies of 7-, 8- and 9-year-olds assessed the effect on cognitive development produced by varying degrees of physical isolation of family dwellings and the consequent variation in the amount of verbal communication children had with peers and adults. (JMB)

This report consolidates U.S. Census information from 1900-2000 to illustrate population changes over the 20th century. The population more than tripled, from 76 million in 1900 to 281 million in 2000. It grew increasingly metropolitan each decade. In 1900, half of the population was under 22.9 years old. By 2000, half of the population was over…

Examines the importance of place of birth on the internal migration and spatial redistribution patterns of the foreign-born population in the United States for 1965-70 and 1975-80, relying mainly on the Public Use Microdata sample. Age patterns of migration are also analyzed for different groups. (SLD)

The results of an analysis using indirect standardization provided more support for an ethnic-status explanation of residential dissimilarity than for one emphasizing social class. In particular, mother tongue accounted for a much greater proportion of ethnic, intergenerational residential dissimilarity than did age structure or three common…

This publication reports findings from the 1980 Census and from Current Population Survey studies conducted in 1981 and 1982 by the United States Bureau of the Census regarding characteristics of the 12,320,000 noninstitutionalized disabled Americans between 16 and 64 years of age. Tables, figures, and text provide information on age distribution,…

This publication reports findings from the 1981 and 1982 Current Population Survey studies conducted by the United States Bureau of the Census regarding characteristics of the 6,319,000 noninstitutionalized handicapped women in America between 16 and 64 years of age. Tables, figures, and text provide information on age distribution, educational…

This publication reports findings from the 1981 and 1982 Current Population Survey studies conducted by the United States Bureau of the Census regarding characteristics of the 2,280,000 noninstitutionalized disabled blacks between 16 and 64 years of age. Tables, figures, and text provide information on age distribution, educational attainment,…