This guide describes estimates of the cost of raising a child made by the Family Economics Research Group of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The guide starts with a description of what estimates are available, giving short profiles of the cost of raising urban, rural nonfarm, and rural farm children. The next section defines…

Three longitudinal studies of student achievement test data were conducted to examine the extent to which the variation in student achievement can be explained by differences in student background (including socioeconomic and prior achievement data) and school resources. This model assumes that achievement test performance may be predicted by…

This volume contains analyses of data from the first eight waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The first part of this volume attempts to evaluate the relative importance of family composition changes, labor force participation decisions, and changes in earnings for the black and white families studied. The second part deals with a variety…

A COMPARATIVE SOCIOECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF 18,378 PROSPECTIVE COLLEGE STUDENTS (10,073 MEN AND 8305 WOMEN) TABULATES PERCENTAGES FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS WITH DIFFERENT FAMILY INCOMES AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, FARM OR RURAL HOMES, MARITAL OR DATING STATUS, COLLEGE GOALS, REASONS FOR COLLEGE CHOICE, EXPECTATIONS CONCERNING COLLEGE,…

The text is of a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor in which House Concurrent Resolution 84 was discussed. The resolution called for disapproval of regulation pertaining to family contribution schedule for use during 1979-1980 award period under the Basic Educational Opportunity…

This statement by the deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Student Financial Assistance of the Office of Education discusses the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program and proposed changes in the Family Contribution Schedules for the 1978-79 academic year. Progress of the BEOG program during its four years of operation is reviewed, and tables…

This collection of seven abridged symposium papers discusses contemporary social conditions which affect the nuclear family and suggests directions for intervention. The introduction declares that the family remains the single most important unit in civilized society. Its destruction is seen to be the destruction of society as we know it. The…

THE FIRST PART OF THIS PROGRESS REPORT ON FEDERALLY FUNDED ADULT BASIC EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA INDICATES PROGRAM OBJECTIVES, COMPONENTS, AND APPROPRIATIONS. NEXT, PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS DATA ARE TABULATED ACCORDING TO CUMULATIVE AND ACTIVE ENROLLMENTS, DROPOUTS, AND COMPLETERS, PARTICIPANT CHARACTERISTICS (SEX, AGE, ETHNIC GROUPS, EDUCATIONAL…

States are ranked on 117 items of data that may be used to understand, explain, interpret, and evaluate various aspects of State school systems. The general categories of the listings are (1) population, (2) enrollment and attendance, (3) teachers, (4) educational attainment, (5) financial resources, (6) governmental and school revenues, (7)…

The passage of S. 2539, the College Opportunity Act of 1978, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the basic educational opportunity grants program, is recommended in this Senate report from Senator Claiborne Pell. The bill provides for: (1) a rate no higher than 10.5 percent in determining a family's expected contributions from…

The assumptions underlying the student financial need analysis performed by York College of Pennsylvania, and by the majority of post-secondary institutions nationwide, are that parents have a moral obligation to assist their children in obtaining an education and that they should do so to the degree they are able. This study was designed to…

Characteristics which distinguished patients at federally funded rural community mental health centers in 1971 from those at part rural and non-rural centers were explored. Variables examined were: demographic composition (age, color, and sex), socioeconomic characteristics (annual family income, educational attainment, and marital status),…

Utilizing data compiled from the 1970 U.S. Census of Population, this statistical analysis presents a comparison of the socioeconomic characteristics of growing and declining nonmetropolitan U.S. counties. In addition, separate analyses are presented for whites and racial minorities and for South and nonsouth regions (since analysis is limited to…

The stated objectives of this study were to determine: (1) the differences in knowledge of nutrition, of income, and of family size in the upper and lower strata families; (2) the shopping practices of families; (3) average weekly food expenditures; (4) mean educational level; and (5) differences in the mean weekly food expenditures -- a…

This paper is concerned with research issues that must be faced in assessing the potential subnational effects of proposed income maintenance programs. The paper is divided into discussions of four major tasks that must be performed by policy analysts. The first is simply to list program provisions that may have important subnational effects,…