New ICPSR webinar on data access plans

Guidelines for OSTP Data Access Plans - Providing Public Access to Federally Funded Research

Join us for a Webinar on December 9 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/805855322 In February 2013, the Executive Office of the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy published a memo entitled "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research," which directs funding agencies with an annual R&D budget over $100 million to develop a public access plan for disseminating the results of their research. ICPSR strongly supports this memorandum and feels it will "promote re-use of scientific data, maximize the return on investments in data collection, and prevent the loss of thousands of potentially valuable datasets."  ICPSR currently partners with several federal agencies to help them fulfill the mandate to provide open access to results of federally funded research. These agencies leverage ICPSR's capacity to curate, preserve, and disseminate data efficiently.  To help these and other federal agencies develop their public access plans, ICPSR is providing guidance on how to meet the requirements laid out in the memo.  This webinar will cover the data portion of the memo, explain the 13 elements for a public access plan, and discuss resources and options to successfully address the elements. A review of public access projects at ICPSR already meeting requirements will also be undertaken.  This webinar will be presented by:  -Jared Lyle, Director of Curation Services, ICPSR  -Amy Pienta, Director, National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program; Director of Acquisitions, ICPSR  This webinar is free and open to the public. Please forward this invitation to all who may be interested. Title: Guidelines for OSTP Data Access Plans - Providing Public Access to Federally Funded Research Date: Monday, December 9, 2013 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

New webinar from ICPSR on student research

2014 Student Research Opportunities at ICPSR

Join us for a Webinar on December 2 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/847198818 With the deadlines for 2014 rapidly approaching, this live webinar will provide detail about ICPSR's award-winning summer internship program for undergraduates (funded in part by the NSF), and our four research paper competitions ($1000 first prize each): -RCMD Research Paper Competition -IFSS Research Paper Competition -The ICPSR Research Paper Competition -The NAHDAP Research Paper Competition Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about what makes a good application and to ask past scholarship recipients and interns about their experiences. This session will be facilitated by Abay Israel, Program Manager. The webinar is free and open to the public. Please share with all those interested. Title: 2014 Student Research Opportunities at ICPSR Date: Monday, December 2, 2013 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Hot off the presses: Get your 2012 American Community Survey (ACS) 3-year estimates

From the Governor's Census Liaison

The US Census Bureau released the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS) 3-year estimates for areas with populations over 20,000.  This release includes detailed socioeconomic characteristics of the population such as income, poverty, educational attainment, disability status, occupation, industry, tenure, housing costs, etc..  These 3-year estimates represent data collected from 2010-2012.  Since there is a previous 3-year estimate with data collected from 2007-2009, comparative profiles are now available for ACS 3-year estimates.  The new ACS data is available through the US Census Bureau’s American FactFinder tool. 

ICPSR's new releases

Check out our subscription to ICPSR, a social science data archive.

New Additions

• 34440 Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMS) Cohort 9, 2008-2009
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34440.v1
• 34555 National Corrections Reporting Program, 2000-2011
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34555.v1
• 34677 California Statewide Household Travel Survey, 2000-2001
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34677.v1

ICPSR New Releases

New Releases through 2013-09-08

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

• 25942 Substance-Free Transitional Housing and Community Corrections in Washington County, Oregon, 2005-2008
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25942.v1
• 32603 Northwestern Juvenile Project (Cook County, IL): Baseline, 1995-1998 [Restricted]
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32603.v1
• 34306 Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction Data from Sexual Assault and Homicide Cases in Virginia, 1973-1988
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34306.v1
• 34585 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2011
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34585.v1
• 34596 Puerto Rican Elderly: Health Conditions (PREHCO) Project, 2002-2003, 2006-2007
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34596.v1
• 34638 County-Specific Net Migration by Five-Year Age Groups, Hispanic Origin, Race and Sex: 2000-2010
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34638.v1
• 34644 Clinical Database to Support Comparative Effectiveness Studies of Complex Patients, 2005-2010 [United States]
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34644.v1
• 34669 Citizen Disenchantment in Mexico (national survey, June 2006)
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34669.v1
• 34672 Collaborative National Network Examining Comparative Effectiveness Trials (CoNNECT) in 12 U.S. States, August 2010-July 2012
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34672.v1
• 34721 The Use of Historical Analogies to Make Sense of Novel Events (832BC - 2012)
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34721.v1
• 34744 Twin Cities Metropolitan Area 2000 Travel Behavior Inventory (Home Interview Survey, 2001)
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34744.v1
• 34777 2000 Sacramento Area Household Travel Survey
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34777.v1
• 34798 Measures of Effective Teaching: District-Wide Files
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34798.v1
• 34806 Seattle Household Travel Survey Wave 5, 1994
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34806.v1
• 34809 Improving Deliberative Environmental Management Under Uncertainty, 2009-2010
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34809.v1
• 34821 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring II in the United States, 2012 (Restricted Use)
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34821.v1
• 34822 Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Communication, 1996-1998
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34822.v1

Updates

• 7804 Federal Employee Attitudes Survey, 1979-1980
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07804.v2
• 27024 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1994-2008: Contextual Data [Restricted Use]
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27024.v4
• 28123 National Election Pool General Election Exit Polls, 2008
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28123.v2
• 28581 National Comorbidity Survey: Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), 2001-2004
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28581.v5
• 29761 Eurobarometer 73.2: Humanitarian Aid, Domestic Violence Against Women, and Mental Well-Being, February-March 2010
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR29761.v2
• 34266 Eurobarometer 75.1: Energy in the European Union, Citizens' Rights, E-Communications, the Internal Market, and Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, February-March 2011
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34266.v2

New TIGER Products and Congressional District Maps Now Available

From the Association of Public  Data Users:

New TIGER Products and Congressional District Maps Now Available  

In addition to the features released in 2012, the 2013 TIGER/Line Shapefiles include a coastline feature. The coastline was delineated by the Census Bureau in the MAF/TIGER database based on water measurement class for display of statistical information only; its depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and it is not a legal land description.

The TIGER Geodatabases provide national (and state-based) files often requested by customers and the ability to download multiple layers in a single file.

In addition to the national wall map, the Individual 113th Congressional District Wall Maps are now available for download here.

New ICPSR Webinar!



An Orientation to Accessing to the Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database (MET LDB)

Join us for a Webinar on September 24 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/958383026 MET LDB is ready for analysis!  Join us for the first in a series of four webinars discussing the rich and complex quantitative and video data held within the Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database at ICPSR, available now for secondary analysis.  This first webinar will offer an overview of the groundbreaking MET Project, a summary of the data files available at ICPSR, and a description of ICPSR's specialized data access systems.    More on the MET LDB can be found here: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/METLDB  Dates of future MET LDB webinars will be announced soon.  This webinar is free and open to the public.  Please forward this invitation to all with interest. Title: An Orientation to Accessing to the Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database (MET LDB) Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

SETUPS 2012 is now available!

From ICPSR:

ICPSR today announced that the Voting Behavior: 2012 Election Web site is ready for use. It is a new SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science) module that provides students the ability to analyze an accessible dataset drawn from the 2012 American National Election Study (ANES) survey of the American electorate. (The ANES is funded by the National Science Foundation.)

Charles Prysby, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Carmine Scavo, associate professor of political science at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., developed the new module to give students the opportunity to analyze data from the most recent presidential election.

Access to the Voting Behavior: 2012 Election module is open to the general public. Membership in APSA or ICPSR is not required.

Using the SETUPS Voting Behavior: 2012 Election module:

• Instructors easily can integrate the SETUPS exercises into the curriculum.
• Students can analyze data from the ANES surveys without need for other statistical software.
• Users can learn key issues in the campaigns and reasons why voters choose a candidate.
• Students can gain understanding of key concepts related to research methods and data analysis.

The American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) have collaborated to develop and distribute the SETUPS instructional modules for four decades. For users interested in historical perspectives, the 2004 and 2008 Voting Behavior SETUPS remain available on the ICPSR Web site.

For questions email ICPSR Instructional Resources at lhoelter @ umich.edu or call 734-615-5653.

Replicability of Student Research

Professors at Haverford College have created a protocol for training students in effective data management best practices. They are also hosting a workshop on teaching students best practices in social science classes.

More information is available from their website, Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research and their call for participation for the upcoming workshop.

You can also view their webinar and slides.

Finding Historical Economic Data through FRASER and ALFRED

The North Carolina Library Association's Government Resources Section had an excellent webinar yesterday on finding historical (or vintage) economic data using FRASER and ALFRED.

The recording is available in addition to the slides below.

Pew Hispanic Center National Surveys of Latinos available in Roper Center

Check out these new additions to UNCG's Roper Center subscription. Use the library link to download!

2009 and 2010 Pew Hispanic Center National Surveys of Latinos Available!

Datasets for the 2009 and 2010 National Surveys of Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center have been archived and are now available for download.

Pew Hispanic Center 2009 National Survey of Latinos focused primarily on Latino youth, including questions regarding educational experiences, identity, discrimination, social values, teen sexual activity, parental relationships, crime, and media and technology use. While Latinos ages 16-25 were oversampled, Latinos ages 26 and older were also interviewed in regards to almost all of the survey topics, as well.

Pew Hispanic Center 2010 National Survey of Latinos focused on politics and the 2010 midterm elections, Hispanic leadership, attitudes regarding immigration and enforcement, discrimination, and technology and media use.

New ICPSR Webinar: Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research

Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research

Join us for a Webinar on August 28 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/967760842 This webinar will present a protocol for documenting data management and analysis that has been developed specifically for use by students writing empirical research papers in the social sciences.    The guiding principle behind the protocol is replicability: The documentation should be complete and transparent enough to allow an interested third party to easily and exactly reproduce all the steps of data management and analysis that led from the original data files to the results reported in the paper. We will describe what the protocol entails, and as an example we will show the documentation that an economics major assembled for his senior thesis last year.  We will also discuss a one and one-half day workshop we will be offering in October, aimed at instructors who are interested in teaching this research documentation protocol to their students.    This webinar will be presented by Richard Ball, Associate Professor of Economics, Haverford College, and Norm Medeiros, Associate Librarian, Haverford College.  For more information, see www.haverford.edu/TIER  The webinar is free and open to all interested.  Please feel free to forward this invitation. Title: Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Congressional stats at your fingertips!

Fun news from APDU!

 

Census has announced the release of a new My Congressional District Web application powered by the 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates and Census Application Programming Interface (API).  This interactive tool provides the latest demographic and economic statistics for every district of the 113th Congress, including age, race, veteran status, employment, housing, education, income, and much more.  Learn more here.

New ICPSR releases

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

• 33421 Design, Validation, and Dissemination of Measures of Content Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33421.v1
• 34580 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Arrests by Age, Sex, and Race, 2011
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34580.v1
• 34581 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Arrests by Age, Sex, and Race, Summarized Yearly, 2011
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34581.v1
• 34583 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Hate Crime Data, 2011 [Record-Type Files]
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34583.v1
• 34755 Census of Population and Housing, 2010 [United States]: Summary File 2 With National Update
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34755.v1
• 34794 U.S. National Security Commissions, 1981-2009
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34794.v1

Updates

• 33461 Census of Population and Housing, 2010 [United States]: Summary File 1 With National Update
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33461.v2

Note: Additional SAMHDA studies may be available though they are not listed in this email/web site announcement.

ICPSR presents ...

Info on an upcoming ICPSR webinar!

An Introduction to the Gates Millennium Scholars and Washington State Achievement Scholars Data Join us for a Webinar on May 8   Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/389799554 This webinar will introduce and alert users to the newly released Gates Millennium Scholars and Washington State Achievement Scholars data.  We will review the efforts the RCMD took to prepare these data for public access, the unique characteristics and enhancements of these data, and the procedures and policies to access these data as well as the restricted use versions of these data. This webinar is free and open to the public.  We encourage you to share this invitation. Title: An Introduction to the Gates Millennium Scholars and Washington State Achievement Scholars Data Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Webinars on Census Products!

These webinars look great! Be sure to check them out!

 

CLMSO's Education, Training & Dissemination Branch would like to alert you to the below webinars that we've scheduled over the next three months. We encourage any data user to sign up, including SDCs, CICs, partners, stakeholders and anyone from the public. Registration information and webinar descriptions are available in the upper left corner of the Training Events page www.census.gov/mso/www/training/training_events.html

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These webinars do have a finite number of slots available, so you may want to register early to make sure you are able to participate.

Please share this with your networks!

• The Economic Census and Other Economic Programs   (April 17, 1:00 - 3:30 EDT)
• Understanding Census Geography   (April 18, 1:00 - 3:00 EDT)
• Introduction to the American Community Survey   (April 24, 1:00 - 2:30 EDT)
• The Current Population Survey & Survey of Income and Program Participation   (May 8, 1:00 - 3:00 EDT)
• Population Estimates and Projections   (May 22, 1:00 - 2:30 EDT)
• Customized Searching Through DataFerrett   (May 29, 1:00 - 3:30 EDT)
• How to Navigate American FactFinder   (June 19, 1:00 - 3:00 EDT)
• Government Statistics    (June 26, 1:00 - 2:30 EDT)

American FactFinder gets a facelift

From the Census Bureau:

The U.S. Census Bureau today released new features for American FactFinder, an online data tool that allows users to access a variety of Census Bureau statistics, including decennial, American Community Survey and economic census statistics. The new features include a simplified main page design, the option for a guided search and an enhanced community facts tool, providing options for both novice and advanced data users.

Guided Search walks users through each step of the inquiry, from selecting a topic, such as "people" or "business and industry," to selecting a geography. It also provides step-by-step options to search for information on specific race or ethnic groups, or industry codes. New enhancements to the Community Facts feature give users easy access to popular statistics about a state, city, town or ZIP code, such as total population, median income and educational attainment.

Visit American FactFinder to use these new features. An online virtual tour is also available. A few browser issues have been reported. Click here for help if you have issues.