The function of a statistical map is to provide readers with a visual impression of the data so that they may be able to identify any geographic characteristics of the displayed phenomena. The increasingly important role played by the computer in the production of statistical maps is manifested by the varied examples of computer maps in recent…

Index values for American public library circulation and expenditures are presented in five statistical tables. The circulation index values are given for each year from 1939 through 1974, and expenditure index values are given for 1951 through 1974. These figures are then compared with figures from the "American Library Directory" and from the…

From four tables compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it was demonstrated that, for the first time, the number of Americans with work experience exceeded 100 million. The number of 16-year-olds and over who worked increased by 3.2 million. A record 54 percent of all women in the population worked in 1973; nearly one-third of them worked…

The principal objectives of the survey were: (1) to obtain data characterizing the professional make-up of the members of the participating societies. The data was to be descriptive of professional categories, activities and other factors of employment in the field of information processing and (2) to make the results of the survey available to…

This paper suggests four sources of inconclusive results in studies of school effects: Poor definitions of school context, poor sampling techniques, lack of attention to techniques of partitioning variance, and a lack of awareness of the effects of changing units of analysis on the size of statistical associations. Each problem is briefly…

This report is comprised of a series of tables and charts that examine the characteristics of people aged 14 to 34 who attend 2- and 4-year colleges. Breakdowns are given on such factors as the type of colleges attended, the age and sex of the students, and various socio-economic considerations. The report covers the years 1966 through October…

Investigation of interlibrary loan at the Library of Congress showed that academic libraries were the most frequent borrowers, more requests were for humanities materials, LC received more requests for old items than academic libraries, and 54 percent of requests were filled. Data tables show various distributions. (Author/JD)

Compares three methods of treating missing data with respect to the results obtained, the informational value of each method, the population to which the results can be referred, and statistical power. (Author)

Reviews and analyzes the status of state legislation related to career education through 1977, focusing on goals, programs, administration, extent of funding, and types of legislation. Career education legislation has been enacted in sixteen states and is pending or being discussed in fourteen other states. (MF)

Author argued that the attempt to gather valid data to measure educational standards is bound to fail. (Editor/RK)

This document is a statistical report on Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States. The first part of this report presents data concerning an overview of the historical dimensions of Catholic education and the context of American education in which private schools operate. The second part includes Catholic school enrollment…

Negro migration patterns between 1955-60 appear to have been influenced by income, welfare payments, past employment growth, and population size, but not by unemployment. (BC)

A discussion of the problems in collecting statistical data for public libraries which were revealed in the "Survey of Public Libraries Serving Areas with at least 25,000 Inhabitants - Fiscal year 1968, conducted by the U.S. Office of Education. (JB)

Two-dimensional euclidean planes and additive trees are two of the most common representations of proximity data for multidimensional scaling. Guidelines for comparing these representations and discovering properties that could help identify which representation is more appropriate for a given data set are presented. (Author/JKS)

Provides statistical summaries of database development and growth for 1979, based on the "Database of Databases" file at the University of Illinois Information Retrieval Research Laboratory. Bibliographic, bibliographic-related, and natural language databases are analyzed in four subject categories: scientific/technical, humanities,…