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Download full textGates, William A.; Witt, Barbara – 1986
The PUS801000 (Public Use Samples) database was created as a subsample of the Census Bureau's 1980 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for the purpose of meeting the needs of demographics research. PUMS needed to be reorganized along relational lines by identifying the variables most widely used by researchers and constructing proper relations…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Database Management Systems, Databases, Demography
Epps, Edgar G. – 1977
The major obstacles to metropolitan school desegregation appear to be political rather than economic or educational. There are readily apparent economic and educational advantages to be obtained through interdistrict cooperation. In addition to increasing racial and ethnic contact and reducing minority isolation, other advantages involve…
Descriptors: Court Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdistrict Policies, Metropolitan Areas
Taylor, William C. – 1977
The most intractable problems of racial segregation in public schools are those that currently exist in the nation's largest metropolitan areas. The impact of black migration to the cities from the rural South and of white flight from central cities to the suburbs have created not simply racially segregated schools, but segregated school…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities
Fernandez, Edward W.; And Others – 1978
In March 1978 there were 12 million persons of Spanish origin in the United States: about 7.2 million of Mexican origin, 1.8 million of Puerto Rican origin, 700,000 of Cuban origin, 900,000 of Central or South American origin, and about 1.5 million of other Spanish origin. Of these, 85% resided in metropolitan areas. About 42% were under 18 years…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Census Figures, Cubans
Katzman, Martin T. – 1978
The emphasis in this report is on how public service quality affects urban decline and middle-class flight. It is pointed out that the key role in decline is played by neighborhood "external diseconomies," which result from the way municipal services are financed, produced, and distributed in metropolitan areas. It is also pointed out…
Descriptors: Blacks, Declining Enrollment, Desegregation Effects, Housing Opportunities
ALEXANDER, FRANK K. – 1968
COMBINED DATA ON THIRD AND FOURTH CYCLE LESSONS OF THE CLINTON COUNTY FAMILY SERVICE PROGRAM WERE USED TO STUDY THE SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PARTICIPANTS AND TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF TEACHING. PLACE OF RESIDENCE, HOME OWNERSHIP, AGE, EDUCATIONAL LEVEL, MARITAL STATUS, FAMILY COMPOSITION, EMPLOYMENT, MOBILITY, INCOME, AND…
Descriptors: Age, Educational Background, Employment, Extension Education
Abou, Selim – 1977
This study, the result of interviews conducted in Quebec and Montreal in the spring of 1975, deals with the adaptation, integration, and acculturation of the Lebanese immigrants in Quebec since the end of World War II. This new immigration wave is contrasted with the one that took place around 1880. Generally speaking, the situation in both the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Voss, Paul R.; Fuguitt, Glenn V. – 1977
Utilizing 1970 census data on a 45-county area in the northern Upper Great Lakes Region, the following questions were addressed: (1) In what ways do recent migrants to this nonmetropolitan region differ from those "nonmigrants" who resided in the region in both 1965 and 1970? (2) To what extent do the recent migrants from metropolitan…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Migrants
Fernandez, Edward W.; And Others – 1977
The report presents advance data from the March 1977 Current Population Survey on selected demographic, social, and economic characteristics of persons of Spanish origin. Persons of Spanish origin are divided into the subcategories of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, and other Spanish origin. Data pertain to such population…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Census Figures, Cubans
Harvey, David – 1972
Theoretical concepts of spatial organization appropriate to bringing about humanizing social change are identified. This resource paper is part of a series designed to supplement existing texts and to fill a gap between research and accessible materials in geography. Part 1, societies and cities, introduces three basic forms of society:…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Futures (of Society), Geography, Higher Education
Dawson, James I. – 1976
The effectiveness of a leadership development program for rural lay leaders on promoting community improvement in Lawrence County, Alabama was evaluated. The sample consisted of 16 disadvantaged rural lay leaders who participated in the 2-month program and 24-month follow-up activities; 60 disadvantaged rural lay leaders who only participated in…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Change Agents, Community Development, Community Involvement
Darden, Joe T. – 1976
This study presents quantitative evidence that the inability of blacks to pay for housing in white residential areas in Flint, Michigan is not the major cause of black residential segregation. The following questions are asked: (1) Has black residential segregation in Flint remained at a high level from 1950 to 1970? (2) Has the trend in black…
Descriptors: Black Housing, Demography, Economic Factors, Housing Discrimination
Guthrie, Harold W. – 1975
This paper focuses on partial models for solving urban problems to contrast our achievements as social scientists with our aspirations as prescribers of public policy. The objectives of this paper are (1) to review some of the reasons that an ideal set of solutions for urban problems has not been produced by social scientists and (2) to describe…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Metropolitan Areas, Migration Patterns, Models
Stuart, Nina G.; Dunkelberger, J. E. – 1974
Composed entirely of statistical tables, this report documents historical change in the residential projections of Northeast Alabama youth. Comparing 1968 data with 1972 data, tabulations are presented by race (black and white), sex, and place of residence (large city, small city, town and village, open country nonfarm and farm) for the following…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attitude Change, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Yinger, John – 1975
This paper focuses on designing policies to eliminate discrimination in the sale of single-family houses by analyzing the behavior of the agents who actually do most of the discriminating, namely real estate agents. Discriminatory practices are said to be supported by policies of house builders, lending institutions, and government, and by the…
Descriptors: Black Housing, Civil Rights, Economic Factors, Economic Opportunities
