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MONTGOMERY, JAMES R. – 1963
THIS SURVEY INVESTIGATES HOUSING PATTERNS AND PREFERENCES FOR MARRIED AND SINGLE GRADUATE STUDENTS ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE. DATA WAS OBTAINED FROM 126 MARRIED STUDENTS CONCERNING (1) TYPES OF LIVING ARRANGEMENTS, (2) HOUSING COSTS, AND (3) EMPLOYMENT FACTORS. PREFERENCES FOR HOUSING TYPES INCLUDED (1) 50.3 PERCENT IN FAVOR OF…
Descriptors: College Housing, Comparative Analysis, Design Preferences, Design Requirements
BALLER, WARREN R.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS STUDY LOCATED MENTALLY RETARDED, SLOW LEARNING, AND NORMAL SUBJECTS WHO HAD BEEN EVALUATED DURING THE 1930'S. THEIR PRESENT STATUS AND FUNCTIONING WERE REPORTED AND THE STUDY SEARCHED FOR REASONS FOR THE SUBJECTS' DIFFERENT LEVELS OF LIFE ADJUSTMENT. OVER 400 OF THE ORIGINAL SUBJECTS WERE LOCATED. THEY WERE IN THEIR MIDDLE FIFTIES AT THE TIME…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Case Records, Economic Status, Employment Level
Wutka, Patricia B. – 1977
The hypothesis that adolescent mothers have more negative attitudes toward child rearing than more mature mothers was investigated in this study. Twenty-one adolescent mothers between the ages of 13 and 19 years were compared to 12 mature mothers who ranged in age from 21 to 34 years. A 12-item questionnaire was administered to the subjects who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Black Mothers
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1968
Following the July 1967 riots in Detroit, 496 Negroes who had been arrested and imprisoned were questioned about their economic and employment status, family status, views about the riot and its causes, and rankings of Negro leaders. Negro interviewers conducted the survey at the prisons. Despite some stated shortcomings in the data collection…
Descriptors: Black Leadership, Blacks, Economic Status, Educational Experience
Johnson, Daniel M.; And Others – 1974
Migration is generally conceptualized in terms of "streams" and "counterstreams." A stream is a group of migrants having a common origin and destination in a given migration period. The movement in the opposite direction is called its counterstream. The latter is usually the smaller of the two. A counterstream can be divided…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blacks, Census Figures, Demography
Terry, Geraldine B.; Charlton, J. L. – 1974
Changes between 1960 and 1966 in the labor force characteristics of women in low-income rural areas of Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee were examined. Within a rural milieu, characterized by low income and high out-migration, the study determined the: (1) scope, social characteristics, and nature of mobility and its effects on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
Rittenhouse, Carl H. – 1967
This study was undertaken to describe any special barriers to the transfer of engineers from defense to commercial work, and to evaluate retraining and reorientation techniques that might help ease the transfer. Interviews and questionnaires were used to obtain data from about 2,100 engineers and 100 managers in 14 industries. Characteristics,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Age Differences, Attitudes, Career Change
Suter, Larry E.; And Others – 1974
New information is presented in this report on recent changes in rates of school participation in the United States by age, sex, marital status, race, and income, and changes in field of study of college students. Included also for the first time is information on the enrollment status of persons 35 years old and over, and on the enrollment level…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Charts, Enrollment, Enrollment Rate
Employment Standards Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Women's Bureau. – 1973
Decisions by individual women to seek employment outside the home are usually based on economic reasons. Most women in the labor force work because their families need the money they can earn--some work to raise family living standards above the low-income or poverty level; others, to help meet rising costs of food and education for their…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Status, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women
Holland, David Lee – 1972
The study examined the hypothesis that occupation and residence patterns present after high school graduation are generally predictable. The data come from a homogeneous, all white central Minnesota farming community with a 1961 population of 3,300. The study population is the 1961 high school graduating class, who were surveyed by questionnaire…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blue Collar Occupations, Farmers, Females
Goldstone, Seymour; Schiffel, Dennis – 1971
The report presents the results of a study which indicate that demographic comparisons of labor force participation rates are most fruitfully made on the basis of sex, age, educational attainment, presence of small children, race, and marital status. Also that the most important demographic comparisons of groups employment (unemployment) rates are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Demography, Economic Research
Wolfe, Helen Bickel – 1969
To provide research about women's work values and how these values may be related to specific demographic variables, questionnaires were mailed to 4,003 women in New York State. The six work values under investigation were identifiable psychological needs: (1) dominance-recognition, (2) mastery-achievement, (3) economic, (4) independence, (5)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Price, Daniel O. – 1969
The purpose of this monograph is to examine the major changes that have taken place in the Negro population as they are reflected in census data since 1870. The 1960 Census of Population provides the most recent data used except in Chapter VII where data for 1965 were available. The distribution of the Negro population since 1870 by regions and by…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Career Change, Census Figures

Weingarten, Helen; Bryant, Fred B. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1987
Investigated the impact of marital status on how people organize and interpret subjective experience, comparing national survey responses of first-married, divorced, and remarried adults. Found the way that respondents structured their subjective evaluations differed significantly not only from one another but also, except for first-married…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Affective Measures, Divorce

Kotrlik, Joe W.; Malek, A. P. – Journal of the American Association of Teacher Educators in Agriculture, 1986
Describes a study conducted to determine if selected demographic variables were related to job satisfaction of vocational agriculture teachers in the Southeast United States as measured by the Job Descriptive Index. The research procedures and findings are presented, along with the authors' recommendations. (CT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Agricultural Education, Class Size