Library Index :: Family and Social Issues of the United States :: Index - A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I

Index - W

War on Poverty, 160

Web sites, hate, 153

Welfare, reform, 78-79

Western U.S.
     profile of general demographic characteristics in, 2000, 9t
     voter registration in, 155
     voter turnout in, 156

White Americans
     affirmative action and, 141
     AIDS and, 99-100
     AIDS cases, female adult/adolescent, by exposure category, race/ethnicity, reported through December 2001, 113t
     AIDS cases, male adult/adolescent, by exposure category, race/ethnicity, reported through December 2001, 112t
     AIDS cases, pediatric, by exposure category, race/ethnicity reported through December 2001, 111t
     bachelor's degrees earned by, 139
     birth/fertility rates, 92-93
     Black/African American relations, 165
     cigarette smoking, 96
     college attendance of, 138-139
     death rates, age-adjusted, for selected causes of death, according to sex, race, Hispanic origin: selected years 1950-2001, 115t, 117t
     death rates for homicide, according to sex, race, Hispanic origin, age: selected years 1950-2001, 124t-126t
     deaths, death rates by ages, sex, race, Hispanic origin, final 2000/preliminary 2001, 119t-120t
     drug abuse, 97-98
     education and, 129
     employed persons by occupation, race, sex, 54t
     employment status of civilian population by race, sex, age, and Hispanic origin, 2002-03, 45t
     employment status of population 16 years and older in civilian labor force by sex, race, Hispanic origin, March 2002, 51 (t 3.6)
     in gangs, 152
     in government occupations, 61
     hate crimes and, 152-153
     health, self-assessment of, 91
     home ownership, 38
     homicide rates, 105
     homicide type by race, 1976-2000, 147 (t 8.3)
     homicide victimization rates per 100,000 population by age, race, gender, 1976-2000, 146 (t 8.2)
     homicides by, 148
     homicides by race of offender/victim, 1976-2000, 148 (f8.2)
     income of, 73-74
     labor force participation, 44-45, 50
     labor force status of civilian population 16 years and over by sex, race, Hispanic origin, March 2002, 51 (t 3.5)
     
     life expectancy at birth, at 65 years of age, and 75 years of age, according to race and sex, selected years 1900-2001, 118t
     life expectancy of, 104
     living arrangements of children, 38
     marital status of, 27-30, 32-33
      marital status of people 15 years and over, by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, March 2000, 29t
     occupations of, 53
     prisoners under sentence of death, demographic characteristics of, 2002, 151t
     in prisons/jails, 149-151
     prisons/jails, number of inmates in state or federal prisons and local jails, by gender, race, Hispanic origin, age, June 30, 2002, 149 (t 8.5)
     prisons/jails, number of inmates in state or federal prisons and local jails per 100,000 residents, by gender, race, Hispanic origin, age, June 30, 2002, 149 (t 8.6)
     prisons/jails, persons under sentence of death, by race, 1968-2002, 152f
     projections of resident population by race, Hispanic origin, nativity, 2006-10, 3t
     projections of resident population by race, Hispanic origin, nativity, middle series, 2050-2070, 4t
     property crime victimization, by race, Hispanic origin, household income, home ownership of households victimized, 2001, 147(t 8.4)
     public opinion on criminal justice system's respect for civil rights, June 2002, 166t
     public opinion on discrimination, 163
     public opinion on equal educational opportunity in local communities, 1962-2001, 164 (f10.3)
     public opinion on equal housing opportunity in local communities, 1989-2001, 166f
     public opinion on life satisfaction of minority groups, 163, 163f
     public opinion on quality of life for Hispanics, July 2003, 164 (f10.2)
     SAT/ACT scores of, 137-138
     student dropout rates, 135-136
     teenage pregnancy statistics, 34
     tuberculosis cases, case rates per 100,000 population by race/ethnicity, 1992-2002, 128t
     unemployment among, 47, 48
     victimization of, 145
     voter registration, 155
     voter turnout, 156, 158

White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities (WHITCU), 142

"Who Graduates? Who Doesn't? A Statistical Portrait of Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001" (Swanson), 136

Wholesale trade businesses, 64, 65

"Why Asian Children Excel in School" (Caplan), 134

Widowed Americans, 33

Wiley, Steven R., 152

Wilson, Pete, 140-141

Women
     African-American occupations, 53
     AIDS cases, female adult/adolescent, by exposure category, race/ethnicity, reported through December 2001, 113t
     AIDS transmission and, 99-100
     breast cancer, 101
     businesses, women-owned, 66-67
     college enrollment of, 139
     divorce rates, 33
     employed persons by occupation, race, sex, 54t-60t
     homicide victimization rates for, 145
     income of, 76
     labor force participation, 44-45, 46-47
     life expectancy of, 104
     marital status of, 27
     on parole, 150
     in prisons/jails, 150
     teenage pregnancy, 33-34
     treatment of, in book, 1
     unemployment among, 48
     See also Gender

Work. See Labor force participation; Occupations

Work permits, 44

Workers
     full-time, year-round with annual earnings of $35,000 or more by detailed Hispanic origin, 2001, 79f
     median earnings of full-time, year- round, 15 years old and over by sex 1967-2002, 78f

World War I, 43, 44

World War II
     Asian immigration and, 16
     labor force and, 43, 44

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