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Download full textBoser, Ulrich – Center for American Progress, 2014
In 2011, a study by the Center for American Progress (CAP) found that the demographics of the teacher workforce had not kept up with student demographics and showed that students of color made up more than 40 percent of the school-age population. In contrast, teachers of color were only 17 percent of the teaching force. Since this time, the nation…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, National Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education
National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
In 2011-12, graduate students received a total of $51.7 billion in federal loans and grants, institutional grants, employer support, and financial aid from other sources. In 2007-08, this figure was $36.7 billion (College Board 2008, 2012). The data presented in these Web Tables were collected through five administrations of the National…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Graduate Students, Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid
Lai, Horng-Ji; Wu, Ming-Lieh; Li, Ai-Tzu – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
This study investigated the informal learning experiences expressed by Taiwanese adults (aged from 16 to 97) and examined their involvement related to selected socio-demographic characteristics. Data of the 2008 Adult Education Participation Survey in Taiwan and Fujian Area were used to look at different variables of adults' demographic…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Background
Siebens, Julie; Ryan, Camille L. – US Census Bureau, 2012
This report provides information on fields of bachelor's degrees in the United States using data from the 2009 American Community Survey (ACS). It includes estimates of fields of bachelor's degree by demographic characteristics including age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, nativity, and educational attainment. This report also looks at geographic and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Educational Attainment, College Graduates, Community Surveys
Direct linkLin, Jin-Ding; Lee, Tzong-Nan; Loh, Ching-Hui; Yen, Chia-Feng; Hsu, Shang-Wei; Wu, Jia-Ling; Tang, Chi-Chieh; Lin, Lan-Ping; Chu, Cordia M.; Wu, Sheng-Ru – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Little explicit attention has been given to the generic health profile of staff working for people with intellectual disability in institutions. This study aimed to provide a profile of physical and mental health of staff working in disability welfare institutions, and to examine the possible demographic and organizational factors that explain an…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Health Conditions, Mental Health, Foreign Countries
Greenlee, Bobbie J. – Planning and Changing, 2010
This study examines the demographics of SACs and the schools they serve, and proposes that demographic similarity with the school principal influences the SAC membership. The findings draw attention to the likelihood that appointment to SAC chair may be contingent on an individual's demographic similarity with the school principal. Principals also…
Descriptors: Demography, Principals, Group Dynamics, School Councils
Herbst, Chris M. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
This paper uses March Current Population Survey data from 1985 to 2004 to explore whether social policy reforms implemented throughout the 1990s have different impacts on employment and welfare use depending on economic conditions, a topic with important policy implications but which has received little attention from researchers. I find evidence…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Public Policy, Use Studies, Welfare Services
Blachman, Dara; Laughlin, Lynda; Lukacs, Susan; Pastor, Patricia; Howie, LaJeana; Sonnenberg, William; Axelrad, Daniel; Steffen, Barry; Baum, Katrina; Lopez, Marsha; Jekielek, Susan; Nord, Mark; Morisi, Teri; Avenevoli, Shelli; Singleton, James; Colpe, Lisa; Fungwe, Thomas; Ghandour, Reem – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2009
"America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being" provides annual updates on the well-being of children and families in the United States across a range of domains. A more detailed report alternates every other year with a condensed version that highlights selected indicators. This year, the Forum is publishing the full report…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Well Being, Social Environment, Physical Environment
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. Population Div. – 1973
The fourteen statistical tables compiled in this report were obtained from questionnaires from the 1970 population census and followup phone calls and personal visits. In considering persons with work disabilities, the following variables were used to arrange the data tables: duration of work disability, type of residence, race, Spanish origin,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, National Surveys, Physical Disabilities
Peer reviewedJanicki, Matthew P.; Jacobson, John W. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1982
The Developmental Disabilities Information Survey was used to derive information about 36,334 developmentally disabled persons (34 percent children and 66 percent adults) in New York. Among findings were that 24 percent of children and 45 percent of adults were in institutions, that most were retarded, and that half had self-care skills.…
Descriptors: Demography, Developmental Disabilities, Incidence, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedCraig, Patricia A. – Journal of Education Finance, 1976
Examines some factors that have hindered development of comparable data on the prevalence of handicaps among school-age children, reviews and evaluates some popular prevalence studies, and discusses the potential value of a national survey of the school-age population recently completed by the National Center for Health Statistics. (Author/JG)
Descriptors: Demography, Handicapped Children, Incidence, School Statistics
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation. – 1987
Drawing on the 1982 English Language Proficiency Survey, where the English skills of students from language-minority households were compared with the skills of students from homes where only English was spoken, and on special tabulations of the 1980 census, this report presents estimates of national and state levels of the English proficiency of…
Descriptors: Demography, English (Second Language), Identification, Language Proficiency
Naidoo, J. C. – 1978
The abstract of a scholarly research paper on the status of South Asian women in Canada and tables based both on surveys and questionnaires are contained in this report. In the survey samples, selected cultural, religious, and attitudinal beliefs of South Asian and Anglo-Saxon women living in Canada are presented. Demographic data for participants…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Attitudes, Cultural Traits, Culture Conflict
Westinghouse Learning Corp., Bladensburg, MD. – 1971
This report presents the technical details of the sample design used for the day care survey conducted by Westat Research, Inc. under subcontract to Westinghouse Learning Corporation. It follows the recommendations of the preliminary report on sampling design (available as ED 051 880) submitted on August 15, 1970. That report presented the merits…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Day Care, Demography, National Surveys
Lull, James T.; And Others – 1978
A radio audience survey of 110 sample geographic clusters in the Santa Barbara, California, area served a twofold purpose: the construction of a demographic profile of audience types according to radio format choices, and the identification and analysis of various audience subgroups. A skip interval technique of these geographic clusters resulted…
Descriptors: Audiences, Demography, Educational Background, Listening Groups
