This document presents statistical data covering various higher education activities in North Carolina. Highlights of the statistical information indicate: (1) In the fall of 1974 a total of 157,678 full-time and part-time students were enrolled in North Carolina colleges and universities. (2) The total 1974 college enrollment increased by 4.9…

The volume is the second of two and presents additional statistical analyses of data discussed in the first, which presented 1960 and 1961 census data from 53 countries in an attempt to identify and quantify factors which determined the occupational and educational structure of the labor force. The second volume consists of eight chapters: (1) a…

This report summarizes the characteristics of the teachers participating in the Social Learning Curriculum. Characteristics covered here are teacher age, sex, years of teaching experience, educational background, and the type and amount of supervision, with each item broken down into several subcategories for frequency counting. The data are…

This report summarizes the characteristics of the students participating in the Social Learning Curriculum. The information on these educable mentally retarded students includes: sex, age, IQ, tests upon which intelligence estimates are based, year of test administration, physical or emotional handicaps, and the number of children considered…

A basic methodological approach in developmental studies is the collection of longitudinal data. Behavioral data cen take at least two forms, qualitative (or discrete) and quantitative. Both types are fallible. Measurement errors can occur in quantitative data and measures of these are based on error variance. Qualitative or discrete data can…

The purpose of this study was to determine for a sample of Montana families if a positive relationship existed between the family's socioeconomic status and its medical initiation behavior, and then, controlling for socioeconomic status, to determine if a relationship existed between initiation of professional medical care and a number of…

The report provides statistical data useful to persons responsible for providing special education and related supportive services in Illinois for the mentally retarded and the emotionally disturbed. The data concern children and adolescents in these categories, aged 5-20 years, who are receiving special education services primarily in Department…

This is a statistical report on programs and student enrollments of organizations affiliated with the Association of University Evening Colleges (AUEC) and the National University Extension Association (NUEA). Programs and registrations are listed by institutions under classes, conferences, correspondence, and total registrations, and registration…

Statistics of mental illness in Maryland are provided in the areas of diagnostic distribution of admissions and resident patients, size and nature of patient population, percentage change in daily cost per patient, employee-patient ratios, length of hospitalization, diagnostic treatment trends, patient mortality, and Baltimore's specific problems…

A report is presented of the total number of classes, class hours, and students in adult education programs conducted by Colorado public schools during the 1967-68 fiscal year. Adult basic education, high school completion, arts and crafts, commercial and business education, homemaking and family life education, hobbies, trade and industrial…

This study focused on the measurement and interpretation of income gains resulting from the improved education of poor persons. Several kinds of education (job retraining, dropout prevention, compensatory education, preschool programs, increased expenditures per pupil) were examined in terms of efficiency (average cost versus average returns) in…

A compilation of statistical tables on adult basic education in the United States includes data on the following, broken down by region and state: number of students; number of students by grade level; number of students completing programs; number of students by sex, ethnic group, race, and age; selected hours membership statistics; hours of…

The Office of Education Guidance and Counseling Project for Adult Basic Education in Region VII includes five state programs, each run somewhat autonomously, in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, for which joint training preparations were made. In Phase I of the Project the central staff gathered statistical data on students,…

The Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) yields raw scores, standard scores, and percentile scores for reading skill, spelling skill, and arithmetic computational skill, and is applicable for determining student competence in these areas for pre-kindergarten through college level. Because national norms on the 1965 revised WRAT are not, however,…

Backgrounds of rural medical doctors were compared with those of osteopathic doctors, metropolitan medical doctors in general practice, and metropolitan doctors in specialties in order to establish factors contributing to the unbalanced distribution of physicians in society. Interview data were obtained from all physicians in a 20-county rural…