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Datasets for the 2009 and 2010 National Surveys of Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center have been archived and are now available for download.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