This guide provides brief descriptions of the ever-increasing number of data and information resources available to those who work in the child and youth indicators field. It is a resource useful to the novice and the veteran, to those who work in governance, advocacy, research, and the media. Items covered include: books, journals, and other…

This bibliography identifies 134 resources about the use of social indicators in national, state, county, and city profiles. Most of the reports describe projects which (1) used a profile approach (presented a comprehensive view of an area by drawing together information on housing, crime, education, income, and employment), (2) had a policy focus…

This bibliography lists 804 journal articles, books, chapters in books, and reports dealing with ethnocultural communities in Canada and measures of their integration into Canadian society. The publication is divided into three major parts. Part 1, "Canadian Ethno-Cultural Communities in General," includes materials on issues concerning…

This review analyzes change and trends in the following areas: (1) population, (2) education, (3) psychology, (4) the family, (5) work, (6) construction, (7) security, and (8) values. The overview indicates complex changes will affect the career outlook for the 1980's and beyond. There are ample opportunities for counselors to participate in the…

This essay interprets the dynamics of suicide based on a view of life as an autonomous process of the unfolding of genetically determined potential. The life process does not require external incentives; it depends, however, on needs-satisfying exchanges between individuals and their physical and social environment. Social orders of human groups…

This annotated bibliography lists a variety of publications dealing with the general subject of social indicators. Entries are organized into a number of separate sections dealing with such topics as relevant legislation; general information surveys; health, education, and welfare surveys; mental health surveys; natural resources surveys; housing…

Designed for researchers and leadership trainers, this annotated bibliography reviews approximately 150 documents and journal articles on social indicators, future studies, and policy analysis published between 1970 and 1980. Social indicators and future studies references are organized within the following categories: general, theoretical,…

This fact book provides demographic, social, economic, and other statistical information of Italian immigrants in Canada. Based on the 1971 and 1976 censuses of Canada and on information from recent Italian and other Canadian sources, the fact book includes tables and figures on numbers of Italians in Canada by age, sex, and linguistic group;…

A great proliferation of literature has risen within the area of social indication. These works have been so diverse that an ordering system has become necessary. This bibliography makes such work accessible to all who are engaged in social indicator research. It is a selective collection of over 600 annotations from more than 1,000 cited sources.…

The annotated bibliography identifies 60 references about social indicators. It is published by Project SHARE, part of a national clearinghouse for improving the management of human services. The bibliography is intended to help social service administrators and planners identify and prioritize human needs as they are designing social service…

Educational indicators are a subset of social indicators. They are consistently measurable, conceptually based, policy relevant, and related to the educational process. They can be used to compare educational units, monitor change, test goals, and predict the effects of policy changes. Use of educational indicators requires identification of the…

The more than 500 items listed in this bibliography of the publications of the Cornell University Department of Rural Sociology for the period July 1, 1967 through October 30, 1979 consist of those published works of present and former staff members which appeared during their affiliations with the Department or were the result of research done…

Over the last several years there has been a steadily growing interest in the availability of data that can be used to track the well-being of children, largely due to national and state Kids Count projects. This report reviews 15 federal data sources from which child indicators can be assessed and tracked over time for many states and localities.…

To provide information on subjects of concern to those in planning, management, and delivery of human services, this journal presents 149 abstracts from literature in the human services field. The journal is divided into five parts: the abstracts themselves, arranged in alphabetical order by title, with bibliographic and availability information;…