A Quarterly Review of Social Reports and Research on Social Indicators, Social Trends, and the Quality-of-Life.
News included of Working Group 6 on Social Indicators and Social Reporting of the International Sociological Association.

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Winter/Spring, February/May, Numbers 61 & 62

SOCIAL REPORTS AND TRENDS:
A Systems Approach to Social Indicators: The Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators
Kenneth Land reviews the contents of the volumeCalvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators
The volume is the intial publication from a five-year effort to prepare for the debate on how to measure the quality of life.

Child Trends' Criteria for a Better System of Child and Family Indicators

Kenneth Land reviews Child Trends Research Brief.
This report addresses "Building a Better System of Child and Family Indicators".

A Brief History of Social Indicators Development

Kenneth Land's article looks at the 1999 edition of Australian Social Trends.
This edition contains 30 plus articles on Australian social trends and analyses.

A New Federal Chartbook on Health and a Report on Juvenile Offending in the United States

Kenneth Land looks at Health, United States, 1999 the 23rd report on the health and status of the Nation
submitted by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to the President and Congress of the U.S.

SOCIAL REPORTS AND TRENDS
Crime and Incarceration in the United States at the End of the Millennium:
An Article by Jan Chaiken, Director, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Kenneth Land gives commentary of an article in the National Institute of Justice Journal of a recent Chaiken Presentation.
The article reviews trends in crime and imprisonment in the U.S. over the past two decades.

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The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies
ISQOLS Conference 2000, Call for Papers
Index-Construction Session, Call for Papers
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