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- catalog abstract "Drug and alcohol abuse monitoring and prevention has been pushed from the national to the local and community level. How do communities go about measuring the effectiveness of their drug and alcohol abuse programs? Aimed at providing communities and researchers with the needed analytic and practical tools for assessing their programs, Measuring Community Indicators begins with a presentation of how to collect community indicator data. The authors argue that while highly aggregated national data performs a number of important research and policy functions, such data are distinct from community indicator data and are of questionable use to local policy oriented officials. They present a theoretical perspective - developed from community systems theory - as a basis for the practical strategies outlined in the book. They then cover such topics as different community indicators, the role of community surveys in filling the gaps in available "official statistics," and specific techniques for the primary collection of community indicator data (such as geographical mapping, systems of community data acquisition, and community contact maintenance). Researchers and evaluators of substance abuse and substance abuse programs will find this book provides them with the interdisciplinary information necessary to conceptualize and measure community drug and alcohol problems.".
- catalog contributor b10286665.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "1. Why Community Indicators? -- 2. Community Indicators from a Systems Perspective -- 3. Systems Models and Society -- 4. Substance Use-Abuse Indicators -- 5. Community Indicators and Survey Data -- 6. Methods for the Acquisition of Indicator Data -- 7. Comment.".
- catalog description "Drug and alcohol abuse monitoring and prevention has been pushed from the national to the local and community level. How do communities go about measuring the effectiveness of their drug and alcohol abuse programs? Aimed at providing communities and researchers with the needed analytic and practical tools for assessing their programs, Measuring Community Indicators begins with a presentation of how to collect community indicator data. The authors argue that while highly aggregated national data performs a number of important research and policy functions, such data are distinct from community indicator data and are of questionable use to local policy oriented officials. They present a theoretical perspective - developed from community systems theory - as a basis for the practical strategies outlined in the book.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-93) and index.".
- catalog description "They then cover such topics as different community indicators, the role of community surveys in filling the gaps in available "official statistics," and specific techniques for the primary collection of community indicator data (such as geographical mapping, systems of community data acquisition, and community contact maintenance). Researchers and evaluators of substance abuse and substance abuse programs will find this book provides them with the interdisciplinary information necessary to conceptualize and measure community drug and alcohol problems.".
- catalog extent "x, 104 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Measuring community indicators.".
- catalog identifier "0761906843 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0761906851 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Measuring community indicators.".
- catalog isPartOf "Applied social research methods series ; v. 45".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications,".
- catalog relation "Measuring community indicators.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "362.29/12/0973 20".
- catalog subject "HV4999.2 .M43 1997".
- catalog subject "Social indicators United States.".
- catalog subject "Substance abuse United States Statistical methods.".
- catalog subject "Substance abuse United States Statistics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Why Community Indicators? -- 2. Community Indicators from a Systems Perspective -- 3. Systems Models and Society -- 4. Substance Use-Abuse Indicators -- 5. Community Indicators and Survey Data -- 6. Methods for the Acquisition of Indicator Data -- 7. Comment.".
- catalog title "Measuring community indicators : a systems approach to drug and alcohol problems / Paul J. Gruenewald ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "Statistics. fast".
- catalog type "text".