Civic Engagement and Social Cohesion

Download or read book Civic Engagement and Social Cohesion written by National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Measuring Social and Civic Engagement and Social Cohesion in Surveys and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The report identifies working definitions of key terms; advises on the feasibility and specifications of indicators relevant to analyses of social, economic, and health domains; and assesses the strength of the evidence regarding the relationship between these indicators and observed trends in crime, employment, and resilience to shocks such as natural disasters. Civic Engagement and Social Cohesion weighs the relative merits of surveys, administrative records, and non-government data sources, and considers the appropriate role of the federal statistical system."--Publisher's description.