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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Spring & Summer, May & August 2002, Number 70 & 71

SOCIAL REPORTS AND TRENDS:
                Reports And Data On The Quality Of Life Of Children, United States, Its Component States, And World-wide

 

Abbott L. Ferriss reports on the released results of the KIDS COUNT program, a series of social indicator volumes that chart, from 1990-1998, the well-being of children in the United States. The results concluded that all states have improved in most of the 10 standard indicators of child quality of life.

UNESCO Looks At The World's Culture: A Second Report 2000

Leif Gouiedo reports on the second issue of UNESCO's World Culture Report, which consists of seven parts, some including cultural diversity, curren debates and cultural heritage. UNESCO's publication has expanded the scope of cultural indicators by presenting six tables on previously uncharted multicultural areas.

BRIEF REPORTS:
           Models for Analyzing Marketing Data

Abbott L. Ferriss reports on a new textbook that sets forth six models that can be used towards the field of marketing research. The book, Quantitative Models in Marketing Research, explores this subject in 5 chapters, following a uniform outline.

Wolfgang Zapf Crosses 65

Wolfgang Glatzer reports on Zapf, an influential social scientist in the 20th century who has recently turned 65.

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