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Smith, Kevin Burt – 1976
A theoretical model based on path analytic logic was used to examine the relative influences of social origin and significant other influences on marital, fertility, and educational plans. Parents' education and the major family income-earner's occupation were used as measures of social origin; perceived encouragement by parents, teachers,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Family Planning, Females, High School Students
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. Population Div. – 1975
This report presents a statistical portrait of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of American youth, ages 14 to 24 years old, between the late 1960's and the early 1970's. Data are included on population growth, racial composition, distribution, and mobility; education; marital status and family composition; fertility; labor force…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Census Figures, Crime, Demography
Tuskegee Inst., AL. School of Applied Sciences. – 1969
This research investigated whether low income rural functional illiterates could be motivated to learn by a prorated stipend given on the basis of academic performance. Fifty control subjects received a flat $15 weekly; 50 experimental subjects received the $15 plus stipends. Participants eligible for stipends were those in the upper third of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Age Differences
Dornish, J. Robert – 1969
This Pennsylvania study investigated whether functionally illiterate adults in a face-to-face adult basic education (ABE) program using instructional television (ITV) show greater achievement gains than those in similar programs without ITV. Achievement data were drawn from raw scores on Level I, Form A (pretest), and Level I, Form B, (posttest),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Age Differences
Greene, Mark R.; And Others – 1969
This study analyzed relationships between successful adjustment to retirement, preretirement counseling, and the psychological, economic, and other background characteristics of individual employees. A preliminary study in the western states showed no small companies, and relatively few other, with preretirement counseling programs of any…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Counseling, Analysis of Variance, Attitudes
Phillips, G. Howard; Bartlett, Kaye F. – 1976
A self-reporting questionnaire (57 items) was administered to all high school sophomores (599 completions) in 3 rural Ohio high schools for purposes of identifying correlations between selected social factors and acts of vandalism. The variables examined and the student responses indicated: 52% had committed 1 or more acts of vandalism; 37% were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Correlation, Drug Abuse, Environmental Influences
Waite, Linda J. – 1976
This report presents data on daytime care arrangements for children aged 3 to 13 of working and non-working mothers. Presented by age, race and school enrollment of the child, marital status of the mother and family income, data were collected through two surveys: one of day care arrangements for children aged 3 to 6 and another for children aged…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Child Care, Day Care, Demography

Bokemeier, Janet L.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1983
Identifies socioeconomic correlates of labor force participation by 5,580 Kentucky metropolitan, nonmetropolitan, and farm women. Data (personal/socioeconomic/family characteristics, occupations/industries of women in labor force) indicate family and status are most influential correlates of metro/nonmetro women's labor force participation; status…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Employment Patterns
Mason, Patrick L. – 1996
This literature review examines evidence on the relationship between African American male economic potential in the formal sector of the economy and transitions in African American family structure and marital stability. This review also provides insight into the crime, unemployment, family structure, and race debate. Competing theoretical…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Black Family, Crime, Demography

Potts, Marilyn K. – Journal of Social Work Education, 1992
A survey of 194 social work graduate students investigated the effects of part- or full-time enrollment status, employment status, marital status, and other roles on psychological adjustment. Results are discussed in light of scarcity and expansion hypotheses derived from role theory, and practical implications for social work education are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employment Patterns, Extracurricular Activities, Full Time Students
Leatherman, Courtney – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1993
An annual survey of 2,423 college presidents resulted in a profile of administrator characteristics, including gender, age, race, marital status, religious affiliation, tenure, faculty status, educational background, and employment history. Results suggest that progress in diversifying higher education's leadership is slow. Survey data are…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Age, College Faculty, College Presidents
Davis, Nanette J. – Journal of Education Finance, 2005
This article identifies typical life course situations that women experience, which contribute to a cycle of discrimination or a recurrence of disadvantages simply because of their sex, race, or age. Although men suffer social, health, psychological, and economic disadvantages as they age, this article focuses primarily on women as a more deprived…
Descriptors: Females, Social Class, Retirement, Males
Zikopoulos, Marianthi, Ed.; And Others – Open Doors, 1992
This report provides statistical data on 419,600 foreign students from over 200 countries studying at U.S. higher educational institutions. The report identifies trends in student mobility and migration, national origin, sources of financial support, fields of study, enrollments, and rates of growth. The book's extensive tables and analyses are…
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment
Current Population Reports, 1989
A wide range of information on demographic, social, and economic trends is brought together in this report. Nineteen sections present statistical information on such topics as population trends, geographic mobility, educational attainment, fertility, poverty, blacks, Hispanics, and the elderly. Sources of data and a subject specialist who can…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Employment
Lyson, Thomas A.; Stover, Penny W. – 1982
The bulletin presents an overview of what has been learned to date about the various paths 170 South Carolina young adults have taken since they were originally interviewed in 1967, their sophomore year in high school, then again in 1969 and 1979. Data, organized and presented by four race and sex categories, cover: white males (N=62), black males…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attitude Change, Blacks, Educational Attainment