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Download full textScholl, Kathleen K.; And Others – Family Economics Review, 1982
Compiled to give readers information on current research in household production, this special issue focuses on the family as a provider of goods and services. It includes five feature articles, a summary of a survey of American farm women, and a brief analysis of sources of time-use data for estimating the value of household production. Covered…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Costs, Data Collection, Demography
Leipzig, Gloria – 1980
Drawing from 1970 census data and other sources of information, this report provides a socio-economic profile of the service area of Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC). Following an introduction, Part I analyzes the total service area in terms of population growth and density; racial composition; ethnicity; age and sex distribution;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age, College Planning, Community Characteristics
Chung, H. C. – 1983
A study assessed the employment and training needs of Hispanics in Connecticut. As part of a research project entitled the Survey of Hispanics in Connecticut, trained bilingual interviewers surveyed 500 randomly selected Hispanic households in seven major cities in Connecticut. This survey sample represented approximately 1.5 percent of the total…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Communication Problems, Dropout Rate
Stewart, Betsy – 1979
In order to determine community needs and preferences with regard to vocational education, the Cerritos Community College District surveyed 1,386 Cerritos College students, 896 students in area adult schools, 126 participants in regional occupational programs, and 258 community residents. A 46-item questionnaire focused on: (1) preferences for…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Age
Hofferth, Sandra L. – 1980
A study examined the differential effects of experiences prior to labor force entry, primarily in high school, on the later sex-typicality of occupations and earnings of non-college-bound men and women. The study analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of the Labor Market Experiences of Young Men and Women. (These surveys lnvolved…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Choice, Demography, Educational Background
2002
This document contains three papers from a symposium titled "Competence: Fuzzy Concepts to Context.""Sales Superstars: Defining Competencies Needed for Sales Performance" (Darlene Russ-Eft, Edward Del Gaizo, Jeannie Moulton, Ruth Pangilinan) discusses a study in which an analysis of 1,688 critical incidents revealed 16…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Competence
Ahren, Nancy C.; Scott, Elizabeth L. – 1981
A study analyzed the career outcomes of men and women Ph.D.s Based on a sample survey of approximately 50,000 Ph.D scientists, engineers, and humanists, conducted in 1979 by the National Research Council, the study examined 5164 triads consisting of one woman and two men who were matched as nearly as possible according to selected background…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Behavioral Sciences, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation and Research (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This factbook on youth employment contains 58 graphs and tables of data concerning social and economic indicators of the employment and employability development of youth aged 14 to 24 as per 1979. Indicators examined are population growth and distribution, marital and family status, educational status, labor force and employment status by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Crime, Delinquency
Thomas, Joan – 1984
"Choosing the Future: College Students' Projections of Their Personal Life Patterns" is a machine-readable data file (MRDF) prepared by the principal investigator in connection with her doctoral program studies and her 1986 unpublished doctoral dissertation prepared in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. The…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Students, Expectation, Family Characteristics
Freeman, Richard B.; And Others – 1980
This collection of papers on the youth employment problem consists of 15 papers that cover the dimensions, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment and that also focus on problems in measuring the extent of the problem, the dynamic aspects of youth labor force participation, and problems associated with adequately assessing the consequences…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Demography
Slark, Julie – 1980
Utilizing the responses of 385 women to a district-wide community needs assessment conducted in March 1980, as well as information gathered from personal interviews with 400 women students, Santa Ana College (SAC) conducted a project to increase the awareness among women of SAC's programs and services and to determine: (1) women's degree of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students, Community Attitudes
Social Science Research Council, Washington, DC. Center for Coordination of Research on Social Indicators. – 1978
This report of the Social Science Research Council's Conference on the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience (NLS) begins with a description of the rationale and background for the conference. In the first of four parts, the conference objectives are stated: (1) review previous research based on the National Longitudinal Surveys…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Blacks, Career Change, Child Rearing
Hillman, Kylie J.; Marks, Gary N. – 2002
Four Australian cohorts (born in 1961, 1965, 1970 and 1975) were studied between 1980-2000. The life transitions study focused on these three traditional markers of adulthood: (1) moving out of the parental home; (2) establishing an intimate relationship; and (3) buying a home. Incidence of these transitions was analyzed in terms of their…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Children, Attrition (Research Studies), Cohort Analysis
