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Walk into Raymond Lum's office buried in the basement of Widener Library and you will see a staggering number of books on India, even for a librarian, including a 1981 census report and titles like "The Dimensions of Karma...
Another pressing issue is the need to care for the elderly. According to demographic and census reports, the number of elderly persons in the state will increase by almost 40 percent in the next twenty years...
...England town in the late 18th century, their working conditions, their attitudes, their sex lives. Himmelfarb asked how he connected his work to the major event of that period, the creation of the U.S. "He conceded," she writes, "that from his themes and sources -- parish registers, tax rolls, census reports, legal records, polling lists, land titles -- he could not 'get to,' as he said, the founding of the United States. But he denied that this was the crucial event I took it to be. What was crucial were the lives and experiences of the mass of the people. That...
...change in attitude toward matrimony is especially striking. A 1985 study of trends undertaken for Cosmopolitan magazine by the Battelle Memorial Institute's research center in Seattle concluded, as Hite does, that marriage has become less central in women's lives. The authors point to Census Bureau statistics indicating that the percentage of women ages 25 to 34 who have never married has more than doubled since 1970. This is because women are not only postponing marriage, say the authors of the Cosmo study, but increasingly avoiding it. The old economic division of labor, in which men work outside...
...earnings gap between men and women is narrowing, the U.S. Census Bureau reports. But there is still a very considerable way to go before the two sexes can be considered on the same economic footing...