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Johnson, Charles E., Jr. – Industrial Gerontology, 1974
Descriptors: Demography, Futures (of Society), Older Adults, Population Trends
PDF pending restorationLowe, Eugene T.; Taylor, William L. – 1977
This report presents a detailed picture of trends in the segregation of Hispanic children in American urban public schools from 1970 to 1974. A companion volume reports on trends in black school segregation from 1970 to 1974. This volume shows both the broad regional and national trends of segregation of the nation's second largest minority group,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Demography, Geographic Regions, Public Schools
Download full textGrasso, John T. – 1977
Issues regarding the relationship between schooling and labor market success are examined in this paper through review of previous research and consideration of additional data. The review of existing evidence on the changing labor market position of college graduates focuses on the work of Margaret Gordon and Richard Freeman with some attention…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Economic Change, Economic Research, Educational Benefits
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1987
The House Subcommittee on Select Education asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to study the condition of information on education in the United States during selected years between 1973 and 1986. The resulting report covers three areas: (1) the nature and amount of federally sponsored information on education; (2) the quality of such…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance, Educational Research
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT), Washington, DC. – 1975
A nationwide systematic approach to assess the developments and achievements of highway safety activities was conducted to measure program outputs from 1969 through 1974 using key indicators of performance such as ratios and percentages. A sample of 10 states was selected with overall sample of 105 local jurisdictions which would provide estimated…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Alcoholism, Driver Education, Law Enforcement
United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY. – 2001
One of the strengths of the 1990 World Summit for Children was its emphasis on goals to drive development and shape actions, and on the need to monitor progress, thereby transforming the way the world collected and processed data on children and women and creating a vital base and baseline for progress. In 2000, an exhaustive end-decade review of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Literacy, Birth Weight, Breastfeeding
Upjohn (W.E.) Inst. for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI. – 1982
Social statistics may exaggerate the degree of hardship caused by labor market problems. Yet, in many ways social statistics underestimate the degree of hardship caused by extended unemployment, underemployment, and low wages. Therefore, new measures are needed to reassess long-term and cyclical labor market developments, the changing status of…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Data Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
Campbell, Angus – 1977
Economic analysis of the quality of life in America must consider personal values and social indicators as well as economic indicators. Although the technical procedures and statistical techniques of economic research are constantly improving, the validity of the research is hampered by problems of definition and measurement. Definition and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Decision Making, Definitions, Economic Climate
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. – 1980
Like its predecessors ("Social Indicators" 1973 and 1976), this report contains statistical information describing current social conditions and trends in the United States. Eleven chapters examine major social areas: population and the family; health and nutrition; housing and the environment; transportation; public safety; education…
Descriptors: Crime, Culture, Education, Educational Trends
Brown, Brett V.; Botsko, Christopher – 1996
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.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Birth Weight, Census Figures, Child Abuse
