Communities

Journal Article

Apr 1, 1994

The Impact of Religious Upbringing and Marriage Markets on Jewish Intermarriage

This paper uses data from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey to examine determinants of intermarriage of Jewish men and women entering a first marriage between 1923 and 1990.

Report

Jan 1, 1994

Surveying Immigrant Communities: Policy Imperatives and Technical Challenges

To assess the feasibility of a large-scale survey of immigrants, the authors conducted a pilot study, the Los Angeles Community Survey of Salvadorans and Filipinos, in 1991.

Report

Jan 1, 1993

Cancer in U.S. Latino communities: an exploratory review

Despite the technological and scientific advances of medicine to diagnose, treat, control, and cure illnesses, Latinos have not benefited fully from these advances. Despite the long recognition of these disparities, little research has focused on und...

Report

Jan 1, 1992

Preparing Adult Immigrants for Work: The Educational Response in Two Communities

During the 1980s, more immigrants entered the United States than at any time since the early 1900s. explores how schools and communities have responded to this challenge.

Report

Jan 1, 1992

Is "Aging in Place" a Blueprint for the Future?

Aging in place (AIP) is one of the ways older persons become concentrated in communities and neighborhoods over time. The author examines AIP as a subject of potential policy interest that is ripe for interdisciplinary study using newly released 1990...

Journal Article

Jan 1, 1992

Local Redistricting: The Demographic Context of Boundary Drawing

Can local redistricting plans in cosmopolitan communities respect the interests of diverse populations without succumbing to Byzantine complexity?

Report

Jan 1, 1990

Pictures of the Future: Childhood, the Workplace, Our Communities

This paper provides a demographic perspective on the future, focusing on three areas--the state of childhood, circumstances in the workplace, and the local settings of intervention. Measuring today's world and projecting these known quantities forwar...

Journal Article

Jan 1, 1990

Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Patients

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), an increasingly significant health problem, presents a special challenge to Medicaid programs

Journal Article

Jan 1, 1988

The Epidemiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Five US Communities

The prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder was measured in five US communities among more than 18,500 persons in residential settings.

Report

Jan 1, 1988

Los Angeles Today and Tomorrow: Results of the Los Angeles 2000 Community Survey

This report describes a survey undertaken to determine how the people of Los Angeles feel about the quality of their lives.

Report

Jan 1, 1982

Demographic Forces Reshaping Small Communities in the 1980s

Surveys demographic and socioeconomic changes that are reshaping small communities, and related policy issues.

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The Impact of Religious Upbringing and Marriage Markets on Jewish Intermarriage

Surveying Immigrant Communities: Policy Imperatives and Technical Challenges

Cancer in U.S. Latino communities: an exploratory review

Preparing Adult Immigrants for Work: The Educational Response in Two Communities

Is "Aging in Place" a Blueprint for the Future?

Local Redistricting: The Demographic Context of Boundary Drawing

Pictures of the Future: Childhood, the Workplace, Our Communities

Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Patients

The Epidemiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Five US Communities

Los Angeles Today and Tomorrow: Results of the Los Angeles 2000 Community Survey

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Demographic Forces Reshaping Small Communities in the 1980s

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