Characteristics of professional school personnel are presented in this compilation of data for 1967-68 submitted by New York public school districts. Detailing the number of positions, the salary, the education level, the certification status, the experience, and the age distribution of these personnel, statistics are presented within the…

CO-SPONSORED BY THE STATE LIBRARIES OF ILLINOIS, INDIANA, AND MISSOURI, THIS STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL OF STATE LIBRARIES IN THE EXPANSION OF THEIR ROLE AS COLLECTORS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF LIBRARY STATISTICS ON A REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SCALE, AND TO OBTAIN SOME IDEA OF THE USES AND USERS OF CURRENTLY PUBLISHED STATISTICS AS…

The question of training priorities is of importance to all who have the responsibility of planning education and training programs. The purpose of this study was to develop projections of occupational manpower requirements for Iowa for 1975. Using 1960 Iowa census data as a starting point a matrix of 165 occupations and 64 industries was…

To meet the needs of librarians and others for information on libraries in Wisconsin, Part I, a statistical section divides institutions according to control - whether public or private - then by type of institution, and then lists institutions alphabetically. Part II, an academic library directory, lists the name of the institution, address,…

A study of retirement systems not under the Federal program is presented. It contains a discussion of the systems' provisions governing retirement for age and service, disability retirement, and death benefits. Also included is information about early retirement, automatic increases, and the vesting of benefit rights. A separate analysis is…

As data were acquired in response to the finance questionnaire of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) for 1966-67 and 1967-68, it became obvious from the responses and from the questions of the users of the data that the data on the endowment funds required more extended review and discussion. Therefore, this discussion of…

This is a compilation of abstracts of statistical data from the annual reports of selected American public libraries, covering the report year which ended anytime in 1971. Those reports were abstracted which came to the desk of the editor. This is admittedly a very sample of the total of such reports, and public libraries are invited to send…

From 1973-1975 public librarians fared worse economically than public libraries. (Author)

Describes the Domestic Information Display System, which uses interactive color graphics to provide decision makers with a tool for analyzing statistical data. Examples of its use are included. (Author/MBR)

Public awareness activities of Wisconsin's Statewide Child Identification Project are described; and data on distribution of public awareness materials are presented along with statistics on the number, ages and exceptional educational needs of previously served and unserved children. (CL)

Data for 72 major metropolitan newspapers are analyzed relating structural differentiation of news organizations to their metropolitan environments. One finding is that when competition is absent, the relationship between newspapers and consumer markets becomes attenuated. (Author/IRT)

Tree representations of similarity data are investigated. Hierarchical clustering is critically examined, and a more general procedure, called the additive tree, is presented. The additive tree representation is then compared to multidimensional scaling. (Author/JKS)

Descriptive quantitative data on various aspects of CAI are reported, including subject matter, author languages, instructional strategies, level of instruction, sources, and central processors. (Author)

Reports the results of a study of suicide among 35 members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The average annual rate (14.1 per 100,000) of suicide in this force was approximately one-half that of the comparable general population, and the most common means of suicide was by service revolver (77% of cases).

The Surgeon General?s report on youth violence, released in January 2001, notes that youth violence is a serious public health issue that affects millions of children and their families. A shared commitment to ending youth violence has led to a strong partnership between the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Centers…