A twenty-five-year follow-up study was conducted to determine the occupational, educational, marital and armed forces experiences of the graduating class of 1953 from the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical high schools located in New Brunswick, Perth, Amboy, and Woodbridge, New Jersey. Data, in the form of questionnaire responses, were…

A sample of 1,190 transfer and occupational students enrolled in four community colleges were administered the Rotter Internal-External Scale (I-E Scale) and asked to report their college program (transfer or occupational), their sex, their age (below 20, 21-25, and above 25), and their marital status (married or single). The I-E Scale measured…

A study was conducted to examine the influence of a job applicant's sex, marital status, and parental status on evaluation of competence. One hundred eighty-four female and one hundred eighty-four male college students were given a completed job application and an article written by an applicant. The job applicant was described to the subjects in…

A study was conducted on the factors which influence young women to marry or have their first child at a given age. The data used were taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women conducted by the Center for Human Resource Research at Ohio State University, during which a sample of 5,159 young women aged 14 to 24 in 1968 were…

The deleterious effects of childrearing out of wedlock were explored in this study to see if the disadvantages reported at an earlier time still exist. The relationship between the mother's marital status at the time of the baby's birth, her age and other maternal characteristics, experiences and attitudes, and the subsequent well-being of mother…

A study was undertaken in northwestern Wisconsin in 1974 to investigate whether the population turnaround in the 19-county area was an indication of people moving according to residential preference, as might be assumed from national surveys showing desire for urban to rural migration and higher rate of population growth in nonmetropolitan areas.…

This study covered personal and social characteristics, organizational objectives, sponsorship, formal meeting procedures, value concepts, and other factors associated with participation in formal voluntary organizations by a sample of 170 adult Ojibway Indians in three culturally similar communities in northern Ontario. Subject centered interview…

In March 1975, there were about 11.2 million persons of Spanish origin in the United States. This advance report presents data on a variety of social, economic, and democratic characteristics for these people. Subcategories of Spanish origin are: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central and South American, or other Spanish origin. Collected in the…

The 1970 United States census counted a female population of 104,299,734. Of all the nations in the world, only three have larger female populations: China, India, and the Soviet Union. Females made up 51.3 percent of the United States population. Over 70 million American women are of voting age--that's nearly seven million more than the number of…

This paper describes the first part of a study concerned with student success in a practical nursing course offered in the British Columbia Vocational School in Nelson. The study resulted from a concern about the increased number of students who did not complete the training during the year 1969. The procedure involved transfering student data…

A study was made of career orientation differences between 200 career women and 200 noncareer women. Subjects were categorized by locally devised definitions and by scores on a scale of career and homemaking orientations and attitudes, then were administered Form M of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) and a background data sheet, and…

QUESTIONNAIRES (1,000) WERE MAILED TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE 50 STATES. THE FINAL SAMPLE GROUP CONSISTED OF 350 USABLE RESPONSES. THE STUDY DEALT WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. PERSONAL INTERVIEWS SUPPLEMENTED THE QUESTIONNAIRES. THE MAJOR TOPICS OF INQUIRY WERE (1) FREEDOM OF…

Results of a campus study of (1) the relationship between students' perceived stress level and two possible support indicators (marital status and living arrangement), (2) sex differences in this relationship, and (3) the effect of marital status and gender on students' preferences for support services are reported. (MSE)

Examines to what extent school absenteeism and dropout status as an adolescent have implications for performance of other roles subsequently in the life cycle. Domains of adult functioning studied among former truants and dropouts include occupational and educational attainment, health status, delinquency, and patterns of drug use. (GC)

This report previews the Self-Sufficiency Project's (SSP's) longer-term effects by looking at these four related issues: wage progression, job retention, marital status, and attitudes toward work. A companion report, available separately, examines SSP's effects on children. Chapter 1 discusses the SSP research and demonstration project that…