Drawing a probability sample of homeless adults in Los Angeles' Skid Row resulted in a sampling design meeting statistical criteria. The design uses data from meal centers, bed counts, and outdoor congregations; and allows unbiased estimates of prevalence of mental disorders and assessment of service needs of the homeless. (TJH)

Lithuanian refugees are analyzed 25 years after the termination of the Displaced Persons Act in terms of their acculturation and incorporation into the larger American society. Of special importance are questions of invisible ethnicity, urban networks, the cues, symbols and feelings that are part of the maintenance of group identity, and the…

Social network, an interesting theoretical concept, has suffered through difficulties in developing from it any operational devices suitable for use in ordinary social survey research. Here one such device is presented, and its utility is examined in the contrasting urban contexts of Hull and Los Angeles. Also, the role of kinship in the social…

This advance report highlights the findings of surveys taken in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia as part of the National Crime Panel, a new instrument for measuring levels of crime both nationwide and in selected large cities. Conducted for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the…

The Los Angeles Community College District Office of Research and Analysis has defined and mapped service areas for eght of the district's colleges on the basis of fall 1974 enrollment patterns. This report contains demographic summary data on the students and population as a whole living within each service area, thus allowing a profile of both…

Discusses the history and current status of the long-time Southern California community base of Japanese Americans, Los Angeles' Little Tokyo district. Focuses on the role that Los Angeles' urban renewal agency, the Community Redevelopment Agency, has played in that community. (Author/JM)

This is the second published volume of the House Committee on the District of Columbia's hearings and findings on the problems of urban centers in America and the Federal government role. The earlier volume focused on Washington, D.C. as a central model and viewed urban problems very broadly. Based on findings presented in the earlier volume, the…

The concept "Jewish Poor" is defined simply as Jewish households (viz. households containing one or more persons defined as Jewish) whose total household cash income (1969, comparable to U.S. Census) was under 4000 dollars. The data were obtained from four sources: (1) analysis of "Jewish Poor" drawn from Los Angeles phase of…

The purpose of this paper is to describe the character of small business among Koreans in Los Angeles, to examine the means by which Koreans are able to enter small business in an economy which clearly is moving in the opposite direction, and to consider why it is that immigrant small business should flourish within monopoly capitalism. Korean…

A random sample of 100 Hispanic women waiting to receive birth control services at a low-cost community health center in East Los Angeles was interviewed to learn more about the fertility behavior, attitudes toward family size, and contraceptive use of barrio Hispanic women. The respondents were: young (averaging 27 years old), poorly educated…

A special survey of South Los Angeles (predominantly Negro) and East Los Angeles (predominantly Mexican-American) was taken by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in November, 1965, and the results were compared with 1960 census statistics. Although total population declined in both areas, further "ghettoization" took place as percentages of…

This document is a study of the characteristics of selected Asian American communities in low-income urban areas and those populations' need for and use of health, education, and welfare services. Five groups in three cities were surveyed: the Chinese in New York City, the Philipinos in San Francisco, and the Japanese, Koreans and Samoans in Los…