The focus of this volume is nothing less than the entire set of social indicators -- statistics, statistical series, and all other forms of evidence -- that enable us to assess where we stand and where we are going with respect to our values and goals and to evaluate specific programs and determine their impact. The kind of social indicators called for in this volume require an abandonment of the Ptolemaic perspective that sees the world revolving around us and require instead a kind of Copernican revolution through which we may better "regard our decisions as involving the total social...