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Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Designing Surveys Acknowledging Nonresponse -- 2 Methods for Obtaining High Response Rates in Telephone Surveys -- 3 High Response Rates for Low-Income Population In-Person Surveys -- 4 Paying Respondents for Survey Participation -- 5 Adjusting for Missing Data in Low-Income Surveys -- 6 Measurement Error in Surveys of the Low-Income Population -- 7 Matching and Cleaning Administrative Data -- 8 Access and Confidentiality Issues with Administrative Data -- 9 Measuring Employment and Income for Low-Income Populations with Administrative and Survey Data -- 10 Administrative Data on the Well-Being of Children On and Off Welfare -- 11 The Right (Soft) Stuff: Qualitative Methods and the Study of Welfare Reform -- 12 Studies of Welfare Leavers: Data, Methods, and Contributions to the Policy Process -- 13 Preexit Benefit Receipt and Employment Histories and Postexit Outcomes of Welfare Leavers -- 14 Experienced-Based Measures of Heterogeneity in the Welfare Caseload -- Appendix -- Index.

FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Importance of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation in Understanding Disparities in Health and Health Care -- 3 Measuring Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation -- 4 DHHS Collection of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation and Language Use -- 5 State-Based Collection of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation and Language Use -- 6 Private-Sector Collection of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation and Language Use -- References -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix A Descriptions of National Health and Health Care Surveys -- Appendix B Workshop on Improving Racial and Ethnic Data in Health -- Appendix C Recommendations on the Use of Socioeconomic Position Indicators to Better Understand Racial Inequalities in Health -- Appendix D The Role of Racial and Ethnic Data Collection in Eliminating Disparities in Health Care -- Appendix E State Collection of Racial and Ethnic Data -- Appendix F Collection of Data on Race and Ethnicity by Private-Sector Organizations: Hospitals, Health Plans, and Medical Groups -- Appendix G Racial and Ethnic Data Collection by Health Plans -- Appendix H Biographical Sketches.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Boxes, Figures, and Tables -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Evidence of Disparities Among Ethnicity Groups -- 3 Defining Categorization Needs for Race and Ethnicity Data -- 4 Defining Language Need and Categories for Collection -- 5 Improving Data Collection Across the Health Care System -- 6 Implementation -- Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Appendix B: Legislation Cited in Report -- Appendix C: Workshop Agendas -- Appendix D: Subcommittee Member and Staff Biographies -- Appendix E: Subcommittee Template: Developing a National Standard Set of Granular Ethnicity Categories and a Rollup Scheme -- Appendix F: Granular Ethnicities with No Determinate OMB Race Classification -- Appendix G: Kaiser Permanente: Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information -- Appendix H: Contra Costa Health Plan Language Assistance Database and Ethnicity Categories -- Appendix I: Subcommittee Template: Developing a National Standard Set of Spoken Language Categories and Coding.

The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

The Health of Former Prisoners of War -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Summary -- BACKGROUND -- PURPOSE -- SELECTION OF STUDY GROUPS -- RESEARCH QUESTIONS -- THE IMPORTANCE OF A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE -- RESPONSE RATES AND THE REPRESENTATIVENESS OF THE SAMPLE -- METHODS -- FINDINGS -- 1 Background -- ORIGIN AND HISTORY -- ASSEMBLY OF STUDY ROSTERS -- EARLIER RESULTS -- REFERENCES -- 2 Data Collection Procedures -- DETAILS OF THE DATA COLLECTION PROCESS -- REFERENCES -- 3 Final Status of Data Collection -- REFERENCES -- 4 General Results -- REFERENCES -- 5 Examination of Basic Research Questions -- QUESTION A -- QUESTION B -- QUESTION C -- QUESTION D -- QUESTION E -- REFERENCES -- 6 Further Analyses of Examination Data -- REFERENCE -- 7 Review of Data Quality and Study Findings -- DATA QUALITY -- CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER REVIEW OF RESULTS -- REFERENCES -- 8 Literature Review and Further Discussion of Findings -- INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS -- DIABETES -- OTHER ENDOCRINE DISEASES -- BLOOD DISEASES -- PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESSES (PSYCHOSES AND NEUROSES) -- DISEASE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM (INCLUDING PERIPHERAL NERVE DISEASE) -- DISEASES OF THE SENSE ORGANS -- CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (INCLUDING HEART DISEASE, CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE, HYPERTENSION, AND OTHER CIRCULATORY DISEASES … -- ACUTE AND CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASE -- DIGESTIVE DISEASES -- UROGENITAL DISEASES -- SKIN DISEASE -- ARTHRITIS AND OTHER MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES -- CONGENITAL CONDITIONS, SYMPTOMS AND ILL-DEFINED CONDITIONS, INJURY AND POISONING, AND FACTORS INFLUENCING HEALTH STATUS … -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 9 Future Work -- Appendixes -- A VA Circulars -- B List of Site Visits to VA Medical Facilities (with Map) -- C Detailed Diagnostic Data from the Medical Examination.

The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Mode of access: Internet. ; John A. Seaverns ; Tufts Special Collections.

Systems of Accountability -- Copyright -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- APPROACH TO THE STUDY -- ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SCHIP -- RECOMMRNDATIONS -- CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SCHIP -- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SCHIP -- Performance Monitoring for SCHIP. -- Children's Health Indicators -- STATE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SCHIP -- Designing Accountability Systems -- Public Information -- Data Collection and Performance Reporting -- Performance Incentives and Rewards -- CONCLUSION -- Overview of the State Children's Health Insurance Program -- PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT -- WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR SCHIP? -- What Is Accountability? -- Congress -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- States -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SCHIP -- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SCHIP -- Performance Monitoring for SCHIP -- Children's Health Indicators -- STATE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SCHIP -- Designing Accountability Systems -- Public Information -- Data Collection and Performance Reporting -- Performance Incentives and Rewards -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A Committee and Staff Biographies -- COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHIES -- STAFF BIOGRAPHIES -- APPENDIX B Members of the Liaison Panel.

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Census Methodology -- 3 Reconsideration of Important Census Bureau Decisions -- 4 Evaluation of Some Common Arguments Against ICM-Based Adjustment of the Census -- 5 Research and Experimentation and Data Collection During the Census -- Glossary of Relevant Census Terms -- References -- Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff.

Risking The Future -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Summary -- PRIORITIES FOR POLICIES AND PROGRAMS -- Goal 1: Reduce the Rate and Incidence of Unintended Pregnancy Among Adolescents, Especially Among School-Age Teenagers -- Goal 2: Provide Alternatives to Adolescent Childbearing and Parenting -- Goal 3: Promote Positive Social, Economic, Health, and Developmental Outcomes for Adolescent Parents and Their Children -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DATA COLLECTION AND RESEARCH -- Program Evaluation Research -- Data Collection -- Research on Adolescent Sexual and Fertility Behavior -- Experimentation -- 1 Introduction -- THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM -- THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS -- PUBLIC POLICIES TOWARD ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY AND CHILDBEARING -- THE CHARGE TO THE PANEL -- A CONTEXTUAL FRAMEWORK -- STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT -- 2 Trends in Adolescent Sexuality and Fertility -- ADOLESCENTS IN THE UNITED STATES -- Marriage -- Schooling -- Employment -- THE POPULATION AT RISK OF PREGNANCY -- Fecundity -- Sexual Activity -- Contraceptive Use -- Estimating the Population at Risk of Pregnancy -- PREGNANCY AND ITS RESOLUTION -- Pregnancy -- Births -- Abortion -- Marriage Before Childbearing (Legitimation) -- Adoption -- Nonmarital Childbearing -- Future Projections -- DATA ISSUES -- Surveys -- Record Systems -- Data From Service Programs -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3 The Societal Context -- FAMILY CHANGES -- Family Structure -- Patterns of Marriage -- Patterns of Women's Employment and Unemployment -- Family Income -- SOCIETAL CHANGES -- Poverty Status -- Women's Roles and Norms of Sexual Behavior -- Youth Culture -- Technological Change: Television -- CONCLUSION -- 4 Determinants of Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Decision Making -- DETERMINANTS OF ADOLESCENT SEXUAL ACTIVITY -- Individual Characteristics -- Family Characteristics -- Peer Group Influence.

Intro -- FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptualizing Experienced (or Hedonic) Well-Being -- 3 Measuring Experienced Well-Being -- 4 Additional Conceptual and Measurement Issues -- 5 Subjective Well-Being and Policy -- 6 Data Collection Strategies -- References -- Appendix A: Experienced Well-Being Questions and Modules from Existing Surveys -- Appendix B: The Subjective Well-Being Moduleof the American Time Use Survey:Assessment for Its Continuation -- Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members -- Committee on National Statistics.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GROWTH: A MISSING PIECE OF THE PUZZLE -- 2 WHY ECONOMIC GROWTH MATTERS -- 3 WHAT DRIVES ECONOMIC GROWTH? -- 4 CAPITALISM: THE DIFFERENT TYPES AND THEIR IMPACTS ON GROWTH -- 5 GROWTH AT THE CUTTING EDGE -- 6 UNLEASHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN LESS DEVELOPED ECONOMIES -- 7 THE BIG-FIRM WEALTHY ECONOMIES: PREVENTING RETREAT OR STAGNATION -- 8 THE CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPITALISM -- APPENDIX: DATA COLLECTION AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.