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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Autumn, Novenber 1998, Number 56

SOCIAL REPORTS AND TRENDS:
An Application of Estes' Index of Social Progress to Transition Economics, 1970-95.
Kenneth Land summarizes the main line of analysis and some of the graphical
comparisons in Richard Estes' chapter, presents its main conclusions, and comments on the work.

Closing the Gender Gap in Education

Abbott Ferriss shares some information from research bulletin Educating Girls: Gender Gaps and Gains.

A Second Annual Report on America's Children

Abbott Ferriss reviews Report on the Elderly, 1996.

STATISTICS:
Statistical Definitions, Biographies and Software Sources

Abbott Ferriss briefly reviews B. S Everitt's The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics with some graphs and examples.

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