An estimated 27,700 private elementary and secondary schools were operating in the United States in fall 1983. Of these schools, 35 percent were Catholic, 36 percent other religious affiliation, and 29 percent not affiliated. The source of these data is a sample selected from a list of 27,000 schools and an area sample. The response for the list…

In 1980 a survey was conducted of 600 hospital libraries within the Kentucky-Ohio-Michigan Regional Medical Library (KOMRML) Network (Region V of the National Library of Medicine's RML Program) in order to gather managerial information on library users; facilities; holdings; procedures; services; administration; personnel; budget; expenditures;…

This report is designed to supply school management with data for the school year between the regular biennial reports, the last of which was published for the school year 1977-78. The school staffing ratio data included here are intended as a supplemental update of the 1977-78 report and should be used in connection with that report, which…

To help meet the needs for manpower information, the interim manpower projections program was designed to provide detailed industry and occupational employment and manpower requirement projections for the States. This report presents the projections for the State of Georgia and includes: (1) population and civilian labor force projections; (2)…

This report is intended to provide government managers with some perspective on the nature and implications of sample surveys, their likely costs, and what can be expected from them. The authors discuss sample surveys less from the technical side than from the perspective of the officials who will make management decisions about an overall survey.…

This publication is the fifth annual statistical report on pupils and staff members of local school systems throughout the United States. The data presented here were current as of fall 1971, and were collected from a representative sample of 2,551 local public school systems from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Most of the information…

This report describes a study that examined the characteristics of school public relations (PR) programs in Virginia in terms of their organization and administration. Specifically, the study sought to determine the number of school districts with established PR programs, to determine the number of school districts employing full-time or part-time…

This report contains data regarding the status of automatic data processing services in New Jersey's 581 operating public school districts during the spring of 1973. The survey was conducted through the use of a questionnaire that was developed in cooperation with the New Jersey Association for Educational Data Systems. It presents data in a…

In a followup study to collect data which could be used for the evaluation and improvement of secondary occupational education programs in agriculture in New York State, questionnaires were sent to respondents of the original survey (agricultural graduates from the classes of 1968 and 1970 and their employers). From the 1968 class, questionnaires…

This report is a supplement to the Educational Research Service "National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools, 1974-75." It contains data on salaries of public school counselors, librarians, and nurses in 1974-75. For the purpose of comparison, data are also reported on the salaries of classroom teachers. Included in the report are data…

Preceding the body of the report, a brief review of the literature is provided to acquaint the reader with similarities and differences between national and local trends regarding the demographic characteristics of the physician population. The goal of the statewide residency study was to develop a strategy for the design and allocation of…

Chief administrators of 218 institutions throughout the U.S. and Guam were surveyed regarding the evaluation of college and university administrators. The need for administrative evaluation in higher education was addressed, along with the purposes of and processes for such evaluation. Recommendations and cautions are offered. If evaluation is to…

Reported are the results of the National Speech and Hearing Survey conducted to estimate the prevalence of speech and hearing disorders in the public school populations, grades 1-12, in coterminous United States, and to obtain descriptive information about normal and abnormal speech and hearing behavior. Results of the survey, involving…

This study is the third in a series (EJ 068 961, EJ 130 474) of state surveys of middle schools in the upper midwest states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The total data cover the period from 1970-1977. Presents some of the composite findings regarding organizational, curricular, and instructional practices. Methods of pupil…

Presents a national compilation of statistical data pertaining to secondary level aviation and aerospace education for the 1977-78 school year. Data include trends and patterns of course structure, design, and operation in table form. (SL)