Product Description: Poverty among black children has increased in recent years. This monograph focuses on trends in black children's economic well-being between 1960 and 1985. Five factors of family structure, number of earners in the family, geographic location, reliance on public assistance, and the age of the family headóare examined to determine their effects on the recent decline in the economic status of black children...read more

Product Description: Poverty among black children has increased in recent years. This monograph focuses on trends in black children's economic well-being between 1960 and 1985. Five factors-family structure, number of earners in the family, geographic location, reliance on public assistance, and the age of the family head-are examined to determine their effects on the recent decline in the economic status of black children...read more

Product Description: Aimed at undergraduate students taking course in statistics for sociology and the social sciences, this work assumes only high school algebra. This edition features a more applied social science perspective, especially with regard to multivariate analysis and the interpretation of results...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)