Nature's Numbers responds to concerns about how the United States should make these measurements. The book recommends how to incorporate environmental and other non-market measures into the nation's income and product accounts.
The book discusses the many factorsâ€"family size, fluency in English, parent employment, acculturation, delivery of health and social services, and public policiesâ€"that shape the outlook for the lives of these children and youth.
This volume combines and updates these three reports into a single reference volume.
Reporting District-Level NAEP Data explores with various stakeholders their interest in and perceptions regarding the likely impacts of district level reporting.
Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities summarizes the workshop and addresses the following issues: (1) the nature and extent of crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities; (2) the risk factors associated with ...
The Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment, and Control convened a workshop on October 2, 1998, to explore issues related to educational performance, school climate, school practices, learning, student motivation and commitment to ...
The Committee and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened in September a workshop to discuss ways to foster greater collaboration and sharing of information among principal investigators of several longitudinal surveys of ...
The Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants was established at the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Night Vision: Current Research and Future Directions, Symposium Proceedings
Data Priorities for Population and Health in Developing Countries: Summary of a Workshop
The accuracy of the needs-based award process and the system of accountability required of the 8,000 institutional participants are the focus of this book.
The crucial data needed to assess the U.S. position are unavailable. This volume explores significant shortcomings in U.S. data on international capital transactions and their implications for policymakers.
... say and do (empathy, social sensitivity); the ability to maintain cooperative relationships with people (tact, diplomacy, conflict resolution skills); and oral communication and persuasive ability. A combination of specific technical ...
This third interim report relates directly to one of the contract tasks-review of the design, approach, and content of the DES, as proposed by SSA's contractor for the survey, Westat, Inc.
This volume summarizes data needs in four areas: immigration trends, assimilation and impacts, labor force issues, and family and social networks.
Perhaps most significant, the book documents how very early in life learning really begins.
This is the first book to comprehensively explore forced migration and mortality and it provides useful material for researchers, policy makers, and relief workers.
Health, Safety, and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States Committee on the Health and ... youth.” These criteria would be used by local groups to identify which employers would earn the designation and to ...
... edition DOT while they await publication of fourth edition worker trait information. Those involved in public disability compensation and/or rehabilitation programs argue that there is no source of sufficiently detailed occupational ...
This volume, the last in the series Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa, examines key demographic changes in Senegal over the past several decades.