Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

quality of life in the us (1960–1984)Foonotes* The notifiable diseases rate used here for Iowa and the U.S. is slightlydifferent than the one used for the national index computation becauseof differences in reporting of the state data. The state index excludedaseptic meningitis, hepatitis and pertussis, and it included mumps,which was not included in the national index.Footnote 1: The number of participants in the TM program is thetotal number of people instructed in the TM technique per December31 of a given year. The figures from before 1970 have been estimated.The average number of participants in the collective practice of theTM-Sidhi program per session was computed on the basis of the attendancein the morning and afternoon sessions over the days of the year.The group practice at Maharishi University of Management startedfrom March 31, 1979. Attendance before that date was counted as zero.Footnote 2: A list of sources of the data and the actual numbers,rates, and annual changes in rates are available from the authors.Footnote 3: This was especially important because the 1980 Censusenumerated approximately 5.5 million persons more than were previouslyestimated for April 1, 1980, making previous estimates of the1971–1980 period unreliable (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1983).Footnote 4: The exact degrees of freedom for the individual parameterestimates in the multivariate LISREL model are not known. Thet values are calculated from the standard error of parameter estimatesgiven directly in maximum likelihood estimation. Associated p valueslisted in the text are based upon a conservative estimate of 20 degreesof freedom.Footnote 5: For 1985, it actually has been announced that thereported crime rate went up slightly; however, the much more reliableCrime Survey data indicated a decrease in crime victimization, suggestingthat the reported increase might be an artifact of change in thecrime-reporting behavior of the population.559