The report describes the initial design and the preliminary background exploration, subsequent development, and feasibility testing of methods for conducting a continuing National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). Selected feasibility study findings are presented to illustrate collected data and suggest kinds of information that may be…

This document presents a compilation of facts and trends on American philanthropy for the year 1973. Emphasis is placed on donors, recipients, sources of philanthropy (individuals, bequests, foundations, and corporations), and areas of philanthropic opportunity (religion, education, health and hospitals, social welfare, arts and humanities, civic…

The California study, based on data from a national survey, compared accuracy and completeness of information on 7,182 chronic health conditions of persons, 17 years of age or older, given in household interviews with diagnostic information given by group medical plan physicians. Overreporting referred to conditions reported in the interview which…

Results of a follow-up study of the graduates of Hagerstown Junior College during its existence (1948-1973 inclusive) are provided. During the 26-year period, 1,797 people received either a degree or a one-year certificate from the college. Questionnaires were mailed to all graduates, and 1,359 (77%) were returned. The data are tabulated as to…

This report discusses the development of a rational process for making decisions about current operations and managing change to secure future goals. The first section describes the seven basic approaches to budgeting, distinguishes between them, and identifies the principal advantages and disadvantages. The section closes with an overview of a…

The five appendixes to Results Report 1, Report 2 of the Maine Assessment of Educational Progress are provided. These appendixes are: A. Analysis Grouping Variables within Maine; B. Descriptive Data for the Sample by Region and Size of Community; C. Exercise Texts and Results Codes; D. Maine Subgroup P-Values and Standard Errors, State-to-Subgroup…

A comprehensive statement and presentation of data pertaining to fifteen Iowa health manpower occupations are made for units of State and Federal Government, health and professional organizations, health planners, and lay groups involved in health and other socioeconomic planning activities. The industrialization of Iowa with attendant decline in…

This report, the first of a series based on the findings of Resident Places Survey-3, describes the education and training of nursing and personal care home administrators on the basis of information obtained by questionnaire from the administrators. The data on education and training are given by characteristics of administrators (age, employment…

Major trends in the educational status of Georgia's population were studied. These included recent changes in school enrollment of farm and nonfarm youths, and in adult educational attainment. Trends in school enrollment were studied for statewide, county, and regional differentials; and high school dropouts. Trends in educational attainment were…

This study of doctoral needs in New York State indicated: (1) In 1970-71 New York graduated about 11% of the Nation's doctorates. (2) New York's system of doctoral education has many individual institutions and programs of high quality. (3) With a few notable exceptions, there has been little significant sharing of resources or interinstitutional…

This second volume of the series of the Albany Regional Medical Program represents a condensation of the collected data relating to the health manpower inventory of the Region and the presently available educational facilities for training health care personnel. Six sections of this volume include: manpower directions in New York State: 1965-1975;…

The new approach to educational renewal in the Office of Education involves the key element of concentration. Instead of giving piecemeal grants, all discretionary funds within OE have been concentrated in one division in order to assist a limited number of school systems to install totally new programs involving all aspects of the school. Each…

This booklet is a programmed self-instructional guide for the computation of arithmetic mean. Developed to serve the needs of public health professionals, it is not an exhaustive or technical treatment of statistics. It is limited, first, to descriptive statistics (tables, graphs, descriptive ratios, measures of central tendency, and measures of…

The problem under investigation in this report was the low achievement level of some students in the ESEA Title I Schools in Kansas City, Missouri. It was felt that part of this low achievement was due to a negative feeling among some teachers regarding the ability of the children to achieve. Kansas City mental health professionals and educators…

The three parts into which this paper is divided are: (1) Library statistics, (2) Statistics on book production and (3) Statistics on mass media. The following main topics are discussed: (1) Organization, methodology and use of national statistics on culture and mass communication: (a) libraries, (b) book production, (c) newspapers and other…