Against the background of two highly competitive systems of medicine in Nigeria four types of health care consumets are identified in this paper. Health consumer I utilizes either the traditional or scientific system exclusively. Health consumer II utilizes the traditional system and when...

Self-anchoring scales are ones in which each respondent provides an individual definition of the end points of a dimension and then rates himself on this self defined continuum. Presumably (1) people will rate themselves differently when asked to define anchoring points as against not defining...

Professional, technical, and kindred workers are the fastest growing segment of the labor force; evidence from the 1960 Census reveals that they are close to twice as migratory as any other occupational stratum. An attempt is made to discover the major determinants of professional mobility, using...

The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are...