NSDS http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/ News from Spatial and Numeric Data at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor en-us Copyright 2008 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:49:35 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.17 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss [Recent ICPSR updates and additions] Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive along with a list of released data collections that have been
updated:

NEW ADDITIONS:

4228 CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #5, October 2004


20420 AsiaBarometer, 2004

20540 Multiple Cause of Death Public Use Files, 2003

20741 National Corrections Reporting Program, 2003 [United States]

UPDATES:

2164 Washington Post 1996 Politics Poll, Wave 1, September 1996

2752 Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and 10th-Grade Surveys), 1998


2778 Gambling Impact and Behavior Study, 1997-1999: [United States]

3522 Health Behavior in School-Aged Children, 1997-1998: [United States]

4697 General Social Surveys, 1972-2006 [Cumulative File]

6520 Voter News Service General Election Exit Polls, 1994

6716 Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (12th-Grade Survey), 1995

8581 ABC News Chernobyl/Kiev Accident Poll, April 1986

8860 ABC News North Testimony Poll #1, July 1987
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/08860.xml

9460 ABC News AIDS Poll, June 1990


9930 ABC News Perot Poll #1, July 1992

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2007/09/recent_icpsr_up_2.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2007/09/recent_icpsr_up_2.html ICPSR Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:49:35 -0500 Updates and Additions August 27, 2007

Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data
archive along with a list of released data collections that have been
updated:

NEW ADDITIONS:

4558 Afrobarometer: Round II 16-Country Merged Dataset, 2003-2004

4698 Low-Fertility Cohorts Study, 1978: A Survey of White, Ever-Married Women Belonging to the 1901-1910 United States Birth Cohorts

4701 Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study, Wave 3, 2005-2006

4703 Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS), 2005

4714 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Arson, 2005

20322 Eurobarometer 65.2: The European Constitution, Social and Economic Quality of Life, Avian Influenza, and Energy Issues, March-May 2006

20380 National Hospital Discharge Survey, 2005

20580 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2005

UPDATES:

2956 Immigrants Admitted to the United States, 1998
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/02956.xml

20240 Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES), 2001-2003 [United States]
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/20240.xml

You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last
ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/.
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]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2007/08/updates_and_add.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2007/08/updates_and_add.html ICPSR Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:35:24 -0500 ICPSR Undergraduate Research Paper Competition New at the ICPSR!
The purpose of the competition is to highlight the best undergraduate student research papers using quantitative data.

The objective is to encourage undergraduates to explore the social sciences by means of critical analysis of a topic supported by quantitative analysis of a dataset(s) held within the ICPSR archive and presented in written form.

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Awards

Up to three cash prizes will be awarded. The winner of the ICPSR Undergraduate Paper Competition will receive a monetary award of $1,000. Second place receives $750 and third place $500.

Each winner will receive a plaque (one per paper) and a certificate (one per author) in recognition of the award.

On request, ICPSR will provide letters of achievement to the student and to faculty, departments, or deans at the student's institution.

The first place paper will be published in ICPSR's Bulletin and all three winning papers will be published on the ICPSR Web site.

The academic departments and the ICPSR Official Representatives at the winning authors' institutions will also be recognized on the ICPSR Web site.

Coauthored or multiple authored winners will share the specified monetary awards.

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Competition Timetable

Deadline for submission of paper/package (January 31, 2007)

Notification of finalists (mid-March 2007)

Publication of papers on ICPSR Web site (April/May 2007)

Prizes awarded date (April 1, 2007 - or first business day after)

Publication of first place paper in Fall ICPSR Bulletin (September 2007)

For full details visit www.icpsr.umich.edu/prize

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/09/icpsr_undergrad.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/09/icpsr_undergrad.html ICPSR Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:34:11 -0500 Recent ICPSR Updates and Additions Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data
archive along with a list of released data collections that have been
updated:

NEW ADDITIONS:
3992 Eurobarometer 60.2: Employment and Social Policies, Financial Services, Harmful Internet Content, and Product Safety, November-December 2003

4307 Domestic Violence Experiment in King's County (Brooklyn), New York, 1995-1997

4470 Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD) Third Longitudinal File: Data Years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001

4534 Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), 2000: Cross-Sectional File

UPDATES:

3341 Eurobarometer 55.2: Science and Technology, Agriculture, the Euro, and Internet Access, May-June 2001

4256 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2004: [United States]

7110 German National Election Panel Study, 1972

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/08/recent_icpsr_up_1.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/08/recent_icpsr_up_1.html ICPSR Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:21:44 -0500 NSDS is moving to the Document Center! To capitalize on the specialized expertise in the Documents Center and
Numeric and Spatial Data Services, as well as provide a centralized
reference point for data and statistics, the Numeric and Spatial Data
Center will be moving to Room 203J in the Documents Center beginning May 1.
The new partnership will allow better access to numeric and spatial data and reference services.

There will still be an NSDS computer presence in the Map Library for
spatial data/map library projects and group GIS instruction and projects.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/05/nsds_is_moving.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/05/nsds_is_moving.html General Mon, 08 May 2006 15:09:54 -0500 Recent ICPSR Updates and Additions NEW ADDITIONS:

4246 Current Population Survey, March/April 2002 Match File: Child Support

4317 CBS News/NEW YORK TIMES New York State Poll, February 2005

4321 CBS News/NEW YORK TIMES Monthly Poll #1, March 2005

4325 ABC News/USA TODAY/Stanford University Pain Poll, April 2005
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04325.xml

4336 Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), 1999: Cross-Sectional File
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04336.xml

4364 Size of Horses in the Habsburg Military, 1781-1820
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04364.xml

4368 Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), 1995-1997:
Cross-Sectional Screener Dataset
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-CDROM/04368.xml

4381 Survey of Community, Crime, and Health, 1995, 1998 [United States]
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04381.xml

13574 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Modified Race
Data Summary File
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/13574.xml

UPDATES:

2350 Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and
10th-Grade Surveys), 1996
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/02350.xml

3064 Eurobarometer 53: Racism, Information Society, General Services, and
Food Labeling, April-May 2000
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03064.xml

3083 Alameda County [California] Health and Ways of Living Study, 1994 and
1995 Panels
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03083.xml

3209 Eurobarometer 54.1: Building Europe and the European Union, The
European Parliament, Public Safety, and Defense Policy, November-December
2000
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03209.xml

6693 National Comorbidity Survey: Baseline (NCS-1), 1990-1992
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06693.xml

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/03/recent_icpsr_up.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/03/recent_icpsr_up.html ICPSR Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:03:13 -0500 ICPSR - Recent Additions NEW ADDITIONS:

3893 American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS),
2002

4245 American National Election Study, 2004: Panel Study

4333 National Business Associations, United States, 2003

4342 Varshney-Wilkinson Dataset on Hindu-Muslim Violence in India,
1950-1995, Version 2
4405 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2002
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04405.xml
4406 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2003
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04406.xml
UPDATES:
3208 Eurobarometer 54.0: The Euro, Financial Services, and Information
Communication Technologies, October-November 2000
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03208.xml
3482 California Vital Statistics and Homicide Data, 1990-1999
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03482.xml
3546 SABE-Survey on Health, Well-Being, and Aging In Latin America and the
Caribbean, 2000
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03546.xml
3891 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), 1998-2002
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-CDROM/03891.xml
4176 National Health Interview Survey, 2002
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04176.xml
6718 National Survey of Self-Care and Aging: Baseline, 1990-1991
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06718.xml
You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last
ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/03/icpsr_-_recent.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/NSDS/archives/2006/03/icpsr_-_recent.html ICPSR Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:26:53 -0500