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What Might the U.S. Do to Improve
Its Approach to Measuring National Performance, and Why: Developing
Key National Performance Indicators
As part of a February 27, 2003 forum organized by the General Accounting
Office and the National Academies of Sciences, the sponsors commissioned
Dr. Martha Farnsworth Riche to independently develop a straw proposal
of a key national indicator system. Their goal was to provide participants
with a starting point for building what might eventually be a broadly
supported USA Series 1.0 indicator set. Series O.5 included 11 key
information areas: community, crime, ecology, education, governance,
health, the macroeconomy, security, social support, sustainability,
and transparency.
Read at: www.gao.gov
Click on: "Key National Indicators"
How Changes in the Nation's
Age and Household Structure Will Reshape Housing Demand in the 21st
Century
In Issue Papers on Demographic Trends Important to Housing,
February 2003
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development commissioned
this paper to assess the impact of changes in the age, household,
and racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population on the
demand for housing. The magnitude of these changes suggests that
it would be dangerous for housing policy-makers to assume that large
new population groups will make the same housing decisions as the
same, much smaller groups have done in the past.
Read at: www.huduser.org/publications/econdev/demographic_trends.html
Equal Opportunity and Youth
Employment: A Background Report for the Equal Opportunity Working
Group of the Youth Employment Network
Working Paper Series, International Center for Research on Women,
September 2003
This paper delineates key constraints and barriers to equal opportunity
in youth employment, particularly in developing countries, and outlines
a broad range of experiences in implementing program and policy
strategies that can guide governments in achieving equal opportunity
for girls as well as boys. Most of these efforts are small scale,
but their successes and failures offer an invaluable guide to national
policymakers looking to develop large-scale initiatives.
Read or order at: http://www.icrw.org/docs/yen093003.pdf
America's Diversity and Growth:
Signposts for the 21st Century
Population Bulletin 55, no 2; 2000.
Martha Farnsworth Riche scrutinizes U.S. population trends during
the 20th century to discern important "signposts" for
the 21st century. These signposts include: robust population growth,
increasing life expectancy, continued immigration, changes in the
family, increased education levels, and continued urban sprawl.
To order, contact us at: contact@farnsworthriche.com
Pyramids to Pillars: the New
Demographic Realities
The Communications Consortium Media Center, Washington, DC, 1999.
Martha Farnsworth Riche builds a framework for thinking simultaneously
about rapid population growth in parts of the world and slow growth,
or even decline, in other parts-with specific recommendations for
policies and priorities.
Order from: www.ccmc.org
or contact us.
The Impact of Changing U.S.
Demographics on Residential Choice
The Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy,
Washington, DC, 2001. Martha Farnsworth Riche and associates assess
existing and future demographic trends for their likely effect on
people's choices of housing and residential locations, both across
the country and within metropolitan areas. This report includes
detailed tables of current and projected composition of U.S. households
by age and race/ethnicity.
Read or order at: www.brookings.org/es/urban/riche/richeexsum.htm
Implications of Census 2000
Results for the Environment
The Surdna Foundation, June 2001.
The census results underscore concern over urban sprawl, especially
such siting issues as waste disposal. Population-induced sprawl
is also increasing the impact of natural disasters, as more people
are living in vulnerable locations.
Read at: http://www.surdna.org/
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