Geographic mobility of the labor force is an adjustment mechanism essential to the maintenance of a growing economy which is undergoing technological change and a rising educational level. This study analyzes the factors which influence mobility decisions to determine whether these choices are made on the basis of rational economic motives. To…

Systematic knowledge about the problems and needs of Asian Americans living in middle-size and smaller communities throughout the U.S. is nonexistent. This paper explores the issues involved in assessing the quality of life of Asian Americans in middle-size cities and small communities in the U.S. It highlights neglected considerations in the…

Replicated a New York City study of completed suicides by persons 19 years old or younger, in metropolitan districts of Ohio, Texas and California, following broadcast of four fictional television films on suicide. Found the impact of movies varied by metropolitan area. Analyzed geographic differences in suicide response, emphasizing that…

This survey of languages of the world begins with a chart of about 500 languages, organized in 21 language families. Within each family are listed subgroups and the major and minor languages within those subgroups. The chart is followed by a brief description of each language family. This in turn is followed by individual descriptions of the more…

This paper uses data from the U.S. decennial censuses and March Supplements to the Current Population Survey of 1995-99 to examine the historic patterns of immigrant settlement within the United States, recent shifts in these patterns, and the extent to which changes are due to the international versus internal migration, focusing particularly on…

This report provides summary information about public libraries in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year (FY) 2002. It covers service measures such as access to the Internet, number of users of electronic resources, other electronic services, number of Internet terminals used by staff only, number of Internet terminals…

This study shows how differences in spatial patterns of urban delinquency may be assessed by measuring the amount of dispersion about a computed mean center. This methodology may be employed in the classroom with data for any spatially distributed phenomena. (Author/JH)

Findings of the 1970 census and the spatial distribution of certain aspects of two year public colleges are explored in an attempt to apply the tools and concepts of geography to the study of higher education in the United States. (Author/KM)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Local, State, and federal revenues for public schools have become weighted toward nonlocal revenue sources. In an effort to discover how much of the cost of public schooling should be financed at each level and what the appropriate decision criteria should be, a school funding model was developed in which revenue sources were aligned with expected…

Low-paid workers are defined as the lowest paid one-fourth of nonsupervisory employees in private industry in the nonfarm economy, mostly in service and retail industries, not covered by union or other labor standards, and concentrated in the South. (MF)

The investigation is the result of a desire to ascertain the geographic-job mobility of and the relationship between graduates in electronics and drafting design. A number of relationships within and among the mobility factors were identified as well as between the mobility factors and job characteristics. (Author)

The projected population of young adults 18 to 24 years old in 1990 is mapped by state, and a chart shows trends in the size of this cohort for each state since 1965 and projected through 1990. Regional totals are also provided. (MSE)