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Rural population dynamics

Tara Murray — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:49:49 +0000

â€œAn influx of retirees and ethnic populations brings both challenges and benefits to small-town Americaâ€ according to a feature article in the April issue of Amber Waves, from the USDA Economic Research Service.

CCD: Public School Report for 2004-05

Lisa Broniszewski — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:10:02 +0000

This NCES report presents data including the number of students by grade and the number receiving special education, migrant, or English language learner services. Some tables disaggregate the student data by racial/ethnic group or community characteristics such as rural - urban. The numbers and types of teachers, other education staff, schools, and local education agencies are also reported. Finance data include revenues by source (local, state, and federal) and total and per-pupil expenditures by function.

New UN wall charts on urban and rural population

Tara Murray — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:09:00 +0000

Urban Agglomerations 2005 and Urban and Rural Areas 2005 are now available from the United Nations Population Division.

National School Lunch Program: Data

Lisa Broniszewski — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:08:53 +0000

This ERS publication, from the USDA, profiles participants in the NSLP. The data was collected from the 2001 SIPP and the 1999-2002 NHANES.

Low-Income Households Food Budget

Lisa Broniszewski — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:11:36 +0000

This ERS publication, from the USDA, tries to determine whether some types of households are more likely than others to budget their food purchases in accordance with TFP benchmarks, and to identify households that might benefit most from nutrition education programs, the study compared actual and TFP expenditures for four household categories.

Health disparities linked to place

Tara Murray — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:20:43 +0000

Health disparities may be more closely tied to neighborhoods and rural/urban differences than to race, according to a post on Science Blog. The post cites an article about heat wave deaths appearing in the August issue of American Sociological Review (Yahoo! news story) and an article about black mortality rates in Harlem and Pitt County, North Carolina in the August issue of Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (Health Behavior News Service story).

Understanding U.S. Farm Exits

Lisa Broniszewski — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:23:26 +0000

A report from the USDA ERS indicates that farm counts have been relatively stable since the 1970s. Exits and entries are essentially in balance.

Food Security Assessment 2005

Lisa Broniszewski — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:51:55 +0000

This report, from the USDA ERS, shows a slight decline in the number of hungry people in the world from 688 million in 1992-94 to 639 million in 2002-04.

Major Uses of Land in the United States, 2002

Lisa Broniszewski — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:59:49 +0000

This publication, from the USDA ERS, shows national and regional trends in land use and compares earlier major land-use estimates.

World Urbanization Prospects: The 2005 Revision

Tara Murray — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:45:25 +0000

World Urbanization Prospects: The 2005 Revision Population Database is now available from the United Nations Population Division. The database allows users to select and download population estimates and projections for urban and rural populations for the years 1950-2030. Publications based on these data are expected later this year.