The primary objective of this survey was to gather basic information concerning the socioeconomic status and problems of the American Indians in Michigan. The major areas surveyed were education, employment and income, housing conditions, health, and general household characteristics. The survey also attempted to probe attitudes which are…

The purpose of this report is to focus attention on nurse manpower data and the related coordinating activities of the Interagency Conference on Nursing Statistics (ICONS). The report describes ICONS and its objectives and presents a summary of the proceedings of the organization's 1971 conference. The papers which are included provide information…

This report was undertaken in response to a request by the Sixth Legislature, which expressed its concern with the lack of coordination and overall human resource planning in the visitor industry and that the findings of the January 6-7, 1970 Travel Industry Congress had not been fully implemented. The State Commission on Manpower and Full…

This follow-up study of participants in the Career Workshop of the Pacific Heights Adult School is based on 117 responses to 453 questionnaires mailed in the Spring of 1971. Responses were analyzed by categories and numerical responses to the questions asked. The categories were: age, education, employment, occupations, occupations and education,…

Progress during the first two years (1967-1968 and 1968-1969) of a three-year home-based, mother-child intervention program called the Verbal Interaction Project is described. The project was planned for the cognitive enrichment of preschoolers 2 to 4 years old, from lower income families. The program utilized specially trained home visitors,…

Two centers of diffusion of the English language are (1) schools on the Navajo Reservation and (2) off-Reservation towns; these diffusion centers were studied to examine factors involved in language shift, especially in terms of internal (on-Reservation) and external (off-Reservation) contacts with English. Teachers in schools with Navajo pupils…

The results of this study do not indicate any relationship between a child's performance on a creativity test and certain personality factors contributing to creativity, as measured by the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking and the CPQ. At both third and fourth grade levels, scores for the same child on the two tests were independent of each…

This two-volume report analyzes the hiring requirements for paramedical personnel at the Cambridge Hospital, with recommendations for improved manpower utilization. This appendix to the final report contains definitions and analyses of the tasks and functions performed by the paramedical personnel who were interviewed. Volume I is available as VT…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a study by the Australian Council for Educational Research (Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education) responding to the stated purposes of the project to study the explicit and implicit objectives of the courses, the nature and extent of their content, how…

To identify problems regarding economic development, the Committee for Scientific and Technical Personnel conducted an educational and occupational survey of each member country of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The specific purpose of the surveys was to gather comparative data on the training and utilization of…

To identify problems regarding economic development, the Committee for Scientific and Technical Personnel conducted an educational and occupational survey of each member country of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The specific purpose of the surveys was to gather comparative data on the training and utilization of…

To identify problems regarding economic development, the Committee for Scientific and Technical Personnel conducted an educational and occupational survey of each member country of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The specific purpose of the surveys was to gather comparative data on the training and utilization of…

To identify problems regarding economic development, the Committee for Scientific and Technical Personnel conducted an educational and occupational survey of each member country of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The specific purpose of the surveys was to gather comparative data on the training and utilization of…

To identify problems regarding economic development, the Committee for Scientific and Technical Personnel conducted an educational and occupational survey of each member country of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The specific purpose of the surveys was to gather comparative data on the training and utilization of…

To identify problems regarding economic development, the Committee for Scientific and Technical Personnel conducted an educational and occupational survey of each member country of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The specific purpose of the surveys was to gather comparative data on the training and utilization of…