Major demographic trends and consequences for higher education are examined. The Baby Boom sharply increased birth rates from 1946 to 1964 and was followed by a decline in births that lasted from 1964 to 1978. Currently there is an increased birth rate, but of much smaller size than the Baby Boom rates, due largely to the smaller size of the…

Data and analysis of the geographic distribution of students attending Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada, are presented. Attention is directed to student distribution by: Alberta census division, Alberta municipality, urban-rural area, and province and territory. Measurement of student representation is based on the extent to which Athabasca…

Data from fiscal 1979 provide the basis for an analysis of distribution of Federal dollars among county areas and assessment of major recent trends. Federal per capita funding remains unevenly divided among the regions; however, the advantage of the West and South may be moderating somewhat. The spread of some Federal programs into more rural…

This census brief examines changes in the child poverty rate during the 1990s for the state of Kentucky. The brief notes that more than one in four children in Kentucky is living in poverty, with nearly half of Kentucky's children living in families that are not financially self-sufficient. The majority of poor children live in urban areas, most…

Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients of concentration are used to measure the extent to which school places are uniformly distributed between provinces in Papua New Guinea. For the period studied, the distribution has become significantly more uniform, in keeping with the nation's planning objectives for more equal educational opportunity.…

An annual survey reports a 2.9 percent rise in the number of foreign students in the United States, with Asians accounting for over half. Tables based on the survey indicate the institutions with the largest enrollments, distribution by field of study, source countries, and state totals. (MSE)

The U.S. Young Child Poverty Rate (YCPR) is at least one-third higher and usually two to three times as high as the YCPR in any of 12 other Western industrialized nations. This report highlights key facts regarding the six million young children living in poverty in the United States and the millions more living in near poverty, and it provides…

This paper addresses the following questions: (1) what changes in the level of income and of publicly provided goods and services have occurred since Kennedy took office, (2) what differences are apparent in the income of rich and poor, old and young, black and white, and North and South, (3) to what extent were these differences caused by the…

Fifty years of planning in the Georgia statewide system of public higher education is reviewed. Based on planning completed by survey experts in 1933 and a 1940 re-study of conditions in the university system, recurrent themes were identified including the following: the geographic distribution of institutions and programs, the role of general…

The increase in the proportion of women students in U.S. medical schools was examined. Regional differences in the proportion of women in entering classes was noted and these differences are described and possible reasons for them are speculated. (MLW)

Physicians' decisions on where to locate after they completed their training were examined by determining where a state's practicing physicians came from and whether physicians who are trained in a state practice in that state. A positive correlation between location of training and location of practice was indicated. (Author/MLW)

This is the second publication in the series that provides information about education in the new South Africa. Educational data were collected by the new nonracial education departments in each of the nine provinces. Because of the difficulties of gathering information on the new systems, no evaluation of the educational progress made by…

A national survey shows that the total number of foreign students from all countries rose almost two percent to reach a record number, but the undergraduate foreign enrollment declined by three percent. More institutions enrolled foreign students, and the top six nations sending students were all Asian. (MSE)

Intended for use by individuals or groups in initiating strategic thinking and planning, this document provides national data on 21 dimensions of the environmental scanning process grouped into nine categories and presents a model of strategic planning. Following a brief introduction describing the importance of environmental factors in planning,…

Three states--California, Texas, and Florida--currently account for almost one-fourth of all the country's nonfarm jobs. The total number of jobs in these three states exceeds the total employment in 30 other states put together. These economic changes have had a very direct effect on the geographic distribution of the country's population, which…