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Overviews
The American Family
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Society & Values, Volume 6, Number 1, January 2001.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0101/ijse/ijse0101.htm
The Emerging 21st Century American Family
By Tom W. Smith, James A. Davis, and Peter V. Marsden, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago, November 24, 1999.
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/online/emerge.pdf
Children
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2003
The 7th annual monitoring report of the status of the nation’s children released by the U.S. Government. Nine contextual measures describe the changing population, family, and environmental context in which children are living, and 25 indicators depict the well-being of children in the areas of economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
http://childstats.gov/americaschildren/
A Child's Day: Home, School, and Play (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being)
U.S. Census Bureau. August 2003.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p70-68.pdf
Child Care Best Practices
U.S. Dept. of Labor. Meeting the Needs of Today's Workforce: Washington: 1998.
http://www.dol.gov/wb/childcare/child3.pdf
Who's Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements
U.S. Census Bureau, Spring 1997. This report is the first-ever Census Bureau analysis of families who receive help in paying for child care from either the government, their other parent, a parent's employer or another source.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p70-86.pdf
Work
20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women
U.S. Department of Labor. The 20 leading occupations of employed women, full-time wage and salary workers, 2002 annual averages.
http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/20lead2002.htm
Women Business Owners
U.S. Department of Labor, November 2002.
http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/wbo02.htm
Report on the American Workforce
U.S. Department of Labor, 2001. An introductory essay outlines the economic, technological, social, and business developments of the just-completed century. The three chapters explore, in turn, demographic change and demographic statistics, the evolution of compensation and compensation reporting, and economic structure and economic classification. A compendium of statistical tables completes the book.
http://www.bls.gov/opub/rtaw/rtawhome.htm
Activities
Sports in America
U.S. Department of State, IIP, U.S. Society & Values, Volume 8, Number 2, December 2003.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/1203/ijse/ijse1203.htm
The Nonprofit Sector: Partner in Civil Society
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, Issues of Democracy, Volume 3, Number 1, January 1998.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0198/ijde/ijde0198.htm
The United States: A Nation of Volunteers
U.S. Department of State, IIP, U.S. Society and Values, Vol. 3, No. 2, September 1998.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0998/ijse/toc.htm
Volunteering in the United States
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2003.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/volun.pdf
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