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.