The study was an attempt to obtain information about a variety of adult education programs in Nebraska by assessing the number of adult education programs or courses, the number of people being reached, and the number of professional or volunteer staff people involved. The document opens with a literature review of selected studies on growth of adult education in Nebraska and the United States. In addition the document presents the following: (1) a discussion of the procedures employed to collect the various data, (2) a brief description of the methods utilized in displaying information, and (3) a description of the analysis plan designed to examine the relationship of various findings over a period of time. The findings are presented in the form of graphs, tables on selected data in adult education courses, clientele, participants, instructional personnel, and time comparisons of selected data on per pupil cost/enrollments and instructional personnel/enrollments. A summary of the findings and five recommendations are briefly discussed. Four appendixes are included. (BP)