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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Fall, November 1995, Number 44

WOMEN:
A World Survey of the Gender Gap Uncovers Some Gains in the Education

and Health of Women
Review of Women ...A World Survey.

UN Advancement Report: UN Programs Press on Toward Gender Equality

Review of The United Nations and The Advancement of Women.

A Reproductive Risk Index for 118 Countries Shows World Wide Disparities in Women's Health

Review of Reproductive Risk: A Worldwide Assessment of Women's Sexual
and Maternal Health.

TRENDS:
Social Trends in Four Industrial Societies Compared: Divergences and Convergences Reviewed in New Study

Review of Convergence or Divergence? -- Comparing Recent Social Trends
in Industrial Societies.

Index of Social Progress Tracks Change in Africa

Review of "Social Development Trends in Africa, 1970-1990: The Need for a
New Paradigm," in Social Development Issues.

Population Growth and Fish Production

Discussion of "Catching the Limit: Population and the Decline of Fisheries,"
Population and Environment Program, Population Action International

DATA SOURCES:
125 Indicators Rank the US States in order to Swell the Citizens' Pride or Shame Them

Review of Life in America's Fifty States.

UN Statistical Yearbook on CD-ROM

ISQOLS News on Internet

CDC's BRFSS Releases Survey Results on Health-QoL

MEASUREMENT:
A Critic Finds Fault with the Human Development Index

Discussion of "The Human Development Revisited,"
Intereconomics, July/August 1995, pp. 171-176.

A Theoretical Focus on Measuring Inequality

Review of Ethical Social Index Numbers.

Change by Diffusion Through Networks

Quick Review of Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations.

MEETINGS:

ZUMA Hosts QOL Meeting
The ASA Honors Al Biderman for his Social Indicator Work
The New SINET

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