The major premise of this paper is that career and educational counseling for women, and particularly for black women, needs to be based on an understanding of their market position. Data on black women's options and choices in a discriminatory market, on their occupational and educational aspirations, and on the role of expectations in their work…

A compilation of "think papers" designed to identify data needs for policy-making related to allied health professions schools, this report is directed toward policy-makers and scholars involved in allied health professions education. The papers were solicited from selected representatives among allied health educators, state and national health…

The great disparity in the geographic and specialty distribution of health manpower, particularly physicians, and strategies to resolve the maldistribution problems are addressed. Rural areas do not have an adequate supply of qualified health manpower, and almost one-third of the nation's critical health manpower shortage areas are in southern…

A small-sample exploratory investigation is reported that attempted to develop some initial insights regarding the uses of manpower and labor market data in new planning, the needs for new types and forms of data, the nature of program changes generated, and the needs for further research and development. Planning models and program change data…

Tanzanians feel that their educational system, inherited from the colonial past was mainly serving the interests of the elite and inducing in them attitudes of superiority and of disdain for manual occupations and skills. Tanzania's new educational policy demands that the educational effort be directed at the needs of the society, the nation and…

A review of the current literature addresses the questions: What is the extent of placement difficulty or unemployment among the recent crops of Ph.D.'s? What are the causes and explanations given for whatever market imbalance exists?; What are the long-term employment market projections for Ph.D.'s?; and What employment-promoting steps can those…

Prepared cooperatively by the Bureau of the Census and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. DeparLment of Agriculture, this document presents narrative and tabular data on: demographic and social characteristics of the farm population; economic characteristics of the farm population; revision of farm population processing procedures; and…

Intended primarily for educators participating in already established local apprenticeship programs, the handbook provides information on the laws and agencies of apprenticeship, its traditions and practices, and administrative alternatives implemented in various programs. Modern apprenticeship programs are defined as combining on-the-job training…

The objective of the research is to examine how vocational proprietary schools in the Chicago area function by analyzing the schools as an industry and by treating the proprietary school as an economic entity. Several aspects of proprietary schools are analyzed: the stability, profitability, and general fiscal characteristics of the industry; the…

Based mainly on Current Population Survey 1969-1974 data, the report examines recent trends of overtime work, the impact of overtime work on earnings, and the current and past composition of the overtime force. In May, 1974 about 16.1 million workers, one out of every five employed persons, reported working more than 40 hours in his/her principal…

Intended to present up-to-date information on changing trends and current practices related to hiring and training beginning office workers, the monograph offers analyzed and tabulated data useful in making comparisons of job classifications, salaries, job requirements, and in learning of problems encountered with beginning office workers. The…

The book represents an effort to assess the performance, structure, and direction of the Job Bank Program of the Public Employment Service, a program meant to improve the functioning of the labor market information system in the United States. The research had three goals: to assess the relative goal achievement of job banks; to determine its…

The following are some of the findings based on the results of the annual survey of marital and family characteristics of workers: (1) about 27.6 million of 62.7 million children had mothers in the labor force (over 2 million more than in March 1970); (2) 1.1 million of 6.5 million children under six were in families headed by women (71 percent…

Serving primarily as a policy group for local Rural Development Panels, the North Carolina Rural Development Committee's major objective for 1976 is to work with local leaders, private businesses and governmental agencies at all levels in planning and implementing comprehensive rural development programs. Specifically, the Committee's objectives…

The report contains eight conference presentations made by professional vocational-technical educators as they considered decisions necessary to occupational education program development in a period of rapidly changing times. The speakers' topics were related to decisions concerned with changes in society, competency based teacher education, new…