Reading at Risk : A Survey of Literary Reading in America.

Intro -- READING AT RISK: A SURVEY OFLITERARY READING IN AMERICA -- READING AT RISK: A SURVEY OFLITERARY READING IN AMERICA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE* -- Chapter 110 KEY FINDINGS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2INTRODUCTION -- DATA COLLECTION -- LITERATURE VS. BOOKS -- Chapter 3LITERATURE PARTICIPATION IN 2002 -- NUMBER OF BOOKS READ -- COMPARISON OF LITERATURE PARTICIPATION WITH OTHERCULTURAL AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES -- PARTICIPATION OF LITERARY READERS IN OTHERCULTURAL AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES -- INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS -- SUMMARY OF LITERATURE PARTICIPATION IN 2002 -- Chapter 4FACTORS IN LITERARY READING -- DEMOGRAPHIC AND GEOGRAPHICFACTORS IN LITERARY READING -- AGE -- ETHNICITY AND RACE -- EDUCATION -- FAMILY INCOME -- GEOGRAPHIC AREAS -- EMPLOYMENT AND OCCUPATION -- PARENTS' EDUCATION LEVEL -- IMPACT OF TELEVISION -- LITERACY -- PARTICIPATION OF LITERARY READERS IN OTHERCULTURAL AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES -- DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FREQUENT READERS -- READERS OF NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, POETRY, AND PLAYS -- LISTENING TO LIVE OR RECORDEDREADINGS OF NOVELS OR POETRY -- PERSONAL CREATIVE WRITING -- SUMMARY OF FACTORS IN LITERATURE PARTICIPATION -- Chapter 5TRENDS IN LITERATUREPARTICIPATION, 1982-2002 -- CHANGES IN LITERATURE PARTICIPATION -- CHANGES IN POETRY READING AND LISTENING -- CHANGES IN PERSONAL CREATIVE WRITING -- CHANGES IN CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES OR LESSONS -- FACTORS IN THE CHANGES IN LITERATURE PARTICIPATION -- GENDER -- RACE AND ETHNICITY -- EDUCATION -- AGE GROUPS -- OTHER LEISURE ACTIVITIES -- SUMMARY OF TRENDS IN LITERATURE PARTICIPATION -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- WHO READS LITERATURE? -- FACTORS IN LITERATURE PARTICIPATION -- PARTICIPATION IN OTHER ARTS ACTIVITIES -- TRENDS IN LITERATURE PARTICIPATION -- APPENDIX A -- SURVEY OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS:BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY.

1982 AND 1985 SURVEYS OF PUBLICPARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS -- 1992 SURVEY OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS -- 1997 SURVEY OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS -- 2002 SURVEY OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS -- APPENDIX B -- DATA COLLECTION -- Basic CPS -- August 2002, Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA)Supplement -- APPENDIX C -- VARIABLES -- MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- EQUATION 1 -- EQUATION 2 -- EQUATION 3 -- MULTIPLE LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL TO PREDICTLITERARY READING IN ADULTS -- Coding of Independent Variables -- Interpretation of Regression Coefficients, Standard Error andOdds Ratios -- MULTIPLE LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL TO PREDICTREADING OF 12 OR MORE BOOKS PER YEAR IN 2002("FREQUENT"AND "AVID"READERS) -- Coding of Independent Variables and Interpretation of OddsRatios -- ENDNOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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