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Parker, Emily; Atchison, Bruce; Workman, Emily – Education Commission of the States, 2016
This report highlights significant investments made by both Republican and Democratic policymakers in state-funded pre-k programs for the fourth year in a row. In the 2015-16 budget year, 32 states and the District of Columbia raised funding levels of pre-k programs. This increased support for preschool funding came from both sides of the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Aid, Annual Reports, Trend Analysis
Joan P. Sullivan Kowalski; Paul J. Porwoll – 1978
The purpose of this Information Aid is to alert school officials to changes and revisions in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), to familiarize them with differences between the former CPI and the new and revised indexes, to demonstrate how the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) computes changes in the CPI, to indicate appropriate uses of the CPI,…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Cost Indexes, Elementary Secondary Education, Statistical Data
Porat, Marc Uri; Rubin, Michael R. – 1977
This report series defines and measures the "information activity" within the national economy. "Information activity" is defined to include those specific industries and occupations whose primary function is to produce, process, or transmit economically valuable information. This volume consists of input-output tables showing…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Economic Research, Industry, Information Utilization
Porat, Marc Uri; Rubin, Michael R. – 1977
This report series defines and measures the "information activity" within the national economy. "Information activity" is defined to include those specific industries and occupations whose primary function is to produce, process, or transmit economically valuable information. Changes in the national labor force are analyzed…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Economic Research, Industry, Information Utilization
Porat, Marc U. – 1977
This report series defines and measures the "information activity" within the national economy. "Information activity" is defined to include those specific industries and occupations whose primary function is to produce, process, or transmit economically valuable information. Changes in the national labor force are analyzed…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Economic Research, Industry, Information Utilization
Porat, Marc Uri; Rubin, Michael R. – 1977
This report series defines and measures the "information activity" within the national economy. "Information activity" is defined to include those specific industries and occupations whose primary function is to produce, process, or transmit economically valuable information. Changes in the national labor force are analyzed…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Economic Research, Industry, Information Utilization
Halstead, D. Kent – 1977
This 1977 supplement presents higher education price index data for fiscal years 1971 through 1977. The basic study presents complete descriptions of the indexes together with the index values and price data for fiscal years 1961 through 1974. It includes a discussion of index number theory and computation, explains the uses and limitations of…
Descriptors: Colleges, Construction Costs, Cost Indexes, Educational Economics
Halstead, D. Kent – 1976
Higher Education price in index data for fiscal years 1971 through 1975 are presented. The supplement is published yearly shortly after the fiscal year to which the latest data refer, and the index values refer to the entire year, not any specific month of the year. The basic study, "Higher Education Prices and Price Indexes," presents complete…
Descriptors: Construction Costs, Cost Estimates, Cost Indexes, Educational Economics
Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1987
The Composite Indicator of Changes (CIC) in average salaries and wages paid by public school systems is a statistical measure based on data collected and reported annually for 28 of 32 public employee positions that gauges and compares salary changes and analyzes salary trends in individual school systems, groups of school systems, and nationally.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration), Cost Indexes, Economic Change
Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC. Bureau of Training. – 1974
The document responds to the recognized need for a central source of statistical and general information regarding Federal training activities. The report is divided into four major sections. Part one summarizes statistical data regarding the volume, types, sources, and costs of training provided to Federal employees during Fiscal Year 1973. The…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Cost Indexes, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Halstead, D. Kent; Hickson, Lenel – 1978
The 1978 supplement to the basic study, Higher Education Prices and Price Indexes, presents higher education price index data for fiscal years 1971 through 1978. A price index series measures the effects of price change, and price change only, on a fixed group of items. The indexes reported here measure price changes from 1967, the reference date.…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Construction Costs, Cost Indexes, Economic Change
Jolly, Paul, Ed.; Hudley, Dorothea M., Ed. – 1994
This 1994 version of an annual data book on United States medical education offers extensive data on 12 topics which are fundamental or most frequently requested. Data sources include the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, the National Institutes of Health, Health Care Financing…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Accreditation (Institutions), Biomedicine, Compensation (Remuneration)
Blackwell, Gordon W.; And Others – 1978
The South Carolina Impact Study, a formal research project designed to describe the effects of changing patterns of institutional and student financing on postsecondary enrollments, is described. It has as its objectives to: (l) examine the enrollment patterns and characteristics of the September freshman classes of 1972 and 1977; (2) relate…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Freshmen, College Students, Cost Indexes