Despite having higher poverty rates, higher unemployment, and lower educational attainment, rural counties have lower welfare participation rates than urban counties. Analysis of all U.S. counties indicates that population density is a major factor linking to high welfare participation. Contains 30 references. (SV)

Simulated population data were used to compare relative performances of the modification index and C. Chou and P. M. Bentler's Lagrange multiplier test (a multivariate generalization of a modification index) for four levels of model misspecification. Both indices failed to recover the true model except at the lowest level of misspecification. (SLD)

The "29th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2007" focuses on key state performance data in accordance with recommendations of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education. Volume 1 focuses on the children and students being served under "IDEA"…

This article presents Zero Population Growth - Canada's recommendations on immigration policy. It suggests that immigration be used to stabilize population by establishing a ceiling and specifying a selection procedure. Also Canada should not base its economy on imported skilled and nonskilled labor and employers should not hire illegal…

This population profile summarizes the wide range of demographic and socio-economic data collected from the Current Population Survey during 1984 and 1985. The report contains information on the following areas: National Population Trends; National Population Projections; Fertility; State Population Trends; The Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan…

More than two-thirds of New Mexico's population live in places classified as urban by the Bureau of the Census. The state remained rural longer than did the United States as a whole, but by 1970 the proportion of the total population living in urban areas in New Mexico had increased to 69.8%, not much below the national percentage of 73.5.…

This document contains output from a computerized bibliographic database. This issue is divided into four parts. Part I consists of titles that address various aspects of population education and is arranged by country in the first section, and general materials in the second section. Part II presents knowledge base information and consists of…

The Task Force attempted to answer the following questions: What is occupational therapy? What is an occupational therapist? How can we best organize and structure ourselves during the next three years so that we can operationalize the objectives derived from this report on target populations? (JA)

A look at a study funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development which is attempting to demonstrate that imaginative applications of telecommunications will enable business units'' to operate effectively over wide distances and thus prevent migrations from rural areas. (Author/AK)

Explores whether sampling is better than head count for census taking and if there is a genuine undercount distinct from "floating" populations. Discusses whether the census should accommodate the various interests who have addressed the question of the quality of enumeration, as well as the larger responsibilities of demographers for…

Considers state population counts, congressional apportionment, and how much deviation from "one man, one vote" can be tolerated in census counting. Also presents and discusses the results of an exercise using the methods of Equal Proportions and Major Fractions as applied to apportionment population data for the U.S. states for 1990 and…

In the 1990s, studies have documented widespread growth of immigrants in U.S. communities not known as common destinations in the past. This trend has fueled population growth in some nonmetropolitan areas and offset population decline in other areas. In this paper, we examine the implications of recent foreign born in-migration for rural America.…

In 1845 a battle between the Crows and the Small Robes (Piegans) severely diminished the population of the latter. (JC)

Using Canadian census tract data, the relationship between population density and social pathology is explored. When effects of income and national origin have been removed building type is found to be a significant predictor of variation in social allowance and delinquency. It is argued that the number of individuals per unit space is less…

This paper uses 1980 Census data to assess the patterns of population redistribution and migration of Asian Americans. Analyzing migration flows, it argues that Asian Americans who immigrated to the United States before 1975 followed a national trend of regional population shift from the Northeast and the North Central to the West and South.…