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THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WORK, Fifth Edition, follows a simple
structure and uses clear writing to present the material you need
in an easily accessible format. This text discusses the most
current and hotly debated issues, from the technology revolution to
women's issues to the globalization of today's workforce.
The decennial Census is the US Government's largest statistical
undertaking, and it costs billions of dollars in planning,
execution, and analysis. From a statistical viewpoint, it is
critical because it is the only database that maps every inhabitant
into a geographic location. By constitutional mandate, census data
are the basis for reapportioning the House of Representatives and
the Electoral College. The states use census data to redistrict
their state legislatures and often to redraw boundaries for local
elections. Census data inform the distribution of over $1.5
trillion in federal funding during the decade. This book details
the fundamentals and significance of the 2020 Census for the
non-specialist reader. It covers why the Census is the only
statistical activity required by the US Constitution, the
challenges of working towards an accurate and complete count, and
what political ramifications flow from this process. Concise,
timely, and comprehensible, this book provides helpful real-life
examples while also offering an overview of the entwined
statistical and political issues that surround the Census.
The decennial census is foundational to the functioning of American
democracy, and maintaining the public's trust in the census and its
resulting data is a correspondingly high-stakes affair. The 2020
Census was implemented in light of severe and unprecedented
operational challenges, adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic, natural
disasters, and other disruptions. This interim report from a panel
of the Committee on National Statistics discusses concepts of error
and quality in the decennial census as prelude to the panel?s
forthcoming fuller assessment of 2020 Census data, process
measures, and quality metrics. The panel will release a final
report that will include conclusions about the quality of the 2020
Census and make recommendations for further research by the U.S.
Census Bureau to plan the 2030 Census. Table of Contents Front
Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 Frameworks for Understanding the
Decennial Census and Its Quality 3 Other Evaluations of the 2020
Census 4 Initial Conclusions and the Path Ahead References
Appendixes Appendix A: Glossary and Abbreviations Appendix B:
Public Meeting Agendas Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel
Members and Staff Committee on National Statistics
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Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education (Paperback)
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Testing and Assessment, Committee on National Statistics, Panel on Measuring Higher Education Productivity: Conceptual Framework and Data Needs; Edited by …
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Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society:
teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute
significantly to the nation's economic activity, both directly and
through their impact on future growth; federal and state
governments support teaching and research with billions of
taxpayers' dollars; and individuals, communities, and the nation
gain from the learning and innovation that occur in higher
education. In the current environment of increasing tuition and
shrinking public funds, a sense of urgency has emerged to better
track the performance of colleges and universities in the hope that
their costs can be contained without compromising quality or
accessibility. Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher
Education presents an analytically well-defined concept of
productivity in higher education and recommends empirically valid
and operationally practical guidelines for measuring it. In
addition to its obvious policy and research value, improved
measures of productivity may generate insights that potentially
lead to enhanced departmental, institutional, or system educational
processes. Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher
Education constructs valid productivity measures to supplement the
body of information used to guide resource allocation decisions at
the system, state, and national levels and to assist policymakers
who must assess investments in higher education against other
compelling demands on scarce resources. By portraying the
productive process in detail, this report will allow stakeholders
to better understand the complexities of-and potential approaches
to-measuring institution, system and national-level performance in
higher education. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1 The
Importance of Measuring Productivity in Higher Education 2 Defining
Productivity for Higher Education 3 Why Measurement of Higher
Education Productivity Is Difficult 4 Advancing the Conceptual
Framework 5 Recommendations for Creating and Extending the
Measurement Framework 6 Implementation and Data Recommendations
References and Bibliography Appendix A: Commonly Used Performance
Metrics for Higher Education Appendix B: Methods for Measuring
Comparative Quality and Cost Developed by the National Center for
Academic Transformation Appendix C: Overview of Data Sources
Appendix D: Estimating Project-Related Departmental Research
Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members Committee on
National Statistics Board on Testing and Assessment
Unemployment levels have received a great deal of attention and
discussion in recent years. However, another labor
category-underemployment-has virtually been ignored. Underutilized
or underemployed workers are those who are experiencing inadequate
hours of work, insufficient levels of income, and mismatch of
occupation and skills. Marginal Workers, Marginal Jobs addresses
two principal issues: how can we measure underemployment, and how
can we explain its prevalence? To answer the first question, Teresa
Sullivan examines yardsticks in use, demonstrates their inadequacy,
and develops a different measure that is easy to interpret and is
usable by both demographers and economists. In answering the
second, she analyzes 1960 and 1970 census data to determine the
relative effects of population composition and job structure on
levels of employment. One of the important contributions of
Sullivan's study is to distinguish between marginal workers and
marginal jobs in explaining underutilization. Previous
explanations, including the widely used dual market theory, have
not stressed this analytic distinction. In addition, her work
accounts separately for the various types of marginality and seeks
to show the condition of workers who are marginal on more than one
count-for example, those who are both young and black, or old and
female. A provocative study based on large samples of the U.S.
population, this book raises important questions about a critical
subject and makes a significant contribution to the theory of
underutilization.
Why have so many middle-class Americans encountered so much
financial trouble? In this classic analysis of hard-pressed
families, the authors discover that financial stability for many
middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the
changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial
security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle
class. A new preface examines the persistent and new threats that
have emerged since the original publication. "[A] fascinating,
alarming study. . . . [This] chilling diagnosis of middle-class
affliction demonstrates that we all may be only a job loss, medical
problem or credit card indulgence away from the downward spiral
leading to bankruptcy."-Publishers Weekly "A well-designed and
carefully executed study."-Andrew Greeley, University of Chicago
"The Fragile Middle Class, a well-written work of social science
that is about as gripping as the genre gets, forces us to
reevaluate notions about consumerism."-American Prospect
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