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Winter, February 1997, Number 49
SOCIAL TRENDS AND REPORTS:
Social Change in America, 1972-1996:
Time Trends in the National
Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey
Tom Smith (Director of GSS, NORC, University of Chicago) brings readers
up to date
on some of the work that has been done with the General Social Survey.
Drug Use Trends in the United States from the Monitoring the
Future Study, 1975-1996
Kenneth Land (Duke University) discusses the Institute for Social
Research's two-
volume annual edition of National Survey Results on
Drug Use from the Monitoring
The Future Study, 1975-1995, Volume I:
Secondary School Students; Volume II:
College Students and
Young Adults.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development:
Education at a Glance -- Indicators and
Analysis
Abbott L. Ferriss (Editor Emeritus) reviews Education At A
Glance -
OECD Indicators and Education At A Glance:
Analysis.
Recent Trends in U.S. Housing, Income, Labor Force and
Poverty
Abbott L. Ferriss (Editor Emeritus) reviews Census and You.
for November 1996
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The Future Direction of Social Indicator Research:
Excerpts from
Joachim Vogel's Keynote Address to the 1996 World Conference
on
Quality of Life
DATA
U.S. Statistical Abstract 1996 Volume Released
World Wide Web Data Corner
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Call for 1997 ISQOLS Conference Papers
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Social Indicators Research
Census in the Classroom -- 1997 Workshop and Web Access
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