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February 28, 2008
SPSS webcast: Unleashing the Power of SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys, Presented by Anderson Analytics
Unleashing the Power of SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys, Presented by Anderson Analytics
Mar 20, 2008
United States
Begins at: 11 a.m. CT
Duration: 1 hour
Jesse Chen, Senior Consultant at Anderson Analytics will explain how a having a methodical approach—along with creative tips and tricks—can help you analyze unstructured data with better results. Anderson Analytics has an extensive background in consulting with clients about text analysis. Chen will use these real-world case studies of how organizations—much like your own—have saved time, money, and enriched their survey results using these keys to text analysis.
When you attend this free webcast, you’re entitled to a 20% discount on either a new purchase of SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys, or an upgrade to SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys 2.1. Simply register and attend the webcast and we’ll send you an email coupon for your 20% discount.
Posted by yan at 02:32 PM
February 27, 2008
From MAPSS list: Need subjects? Apply for Summer '08 REP Free-for-All
The Research Experience Program (REP) is now accepting Summer 2008 applications.
Applications to run for Summer 2008 are due April 2, 2008 at 5 pm.
The REP is a program that helps Stanford social science researchers obtain access to human participants at local community colleges to take part in their experiments and surveys. Participating in REP not only enhances your research by giving you access to a wider subject pool, it is also a great opportunity for students at local community colleges to gain first-hand exposure to experimental research in the social sciences.
We are excited to tell you about the REP cycle for Summer 2008. Especially since access to human subjects tends to be lean during the summer months, the REP is very happy to annouce we will be running a 6 week Summer Free-For-All at Foothill College.
If your project is accepted into the program, you have the summer quarter to try to obtain as many subjects as you can with no limits. Unlike, our regular REP cycles, where research projects are assigned a set allocation, the Summer REP is a full out free-for-all.
We encourage you to visit the REP website at: rep.stanford.edu. You can request access to the REP application through the website by sending a message to research-exp-program@stanford.edu.
If you have any questions, please contact: research-exp-program@stanford.edu
Posted by ronbo at 06:48 PM
SPSS webcast: SPSS Base and SPSS Tables demonstration
SPSS Base and SPSS Tables demonstration Mar 19, 2008
United States
Begins at: 1:00 p.m. CT
Duration: 45 minutes
SPSS Base is the heart of SPSS’ statistical software suite, offering a broad range of capabilities for data import, manipulation, analysis and graphics. SPSS Base is an approachable product that anyone with basic computing experience can learn to use; yet it is also widely regarded as an industry standard for analytics, with the ability to be expanded as needed for demanding analytic applications. SPSS Tables allows you to create a report that summarizes results and tests for significance. You will see how easy it is to create multiple views of your data, cross-tabs and significance testing.
Topic covered in the webcast include:
Find out more, visit the organizer Web site: http://spssevents.webex.com
Posted by yan at 02:24 PM
February 26, 2008
Recent ICPSR updates and additions - New Releases through 2008-02-25
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
4619 CBS News Monthly Poll #1, June 2006
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/04619.xml
4620 CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #1, July 2006
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/04620.xml
20002 National Fertility Survey, 1965
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/20002.xml
21460 Eurobarometer 66.2: Nuclear Energy and Safety, and Public Health Issues, October-November 2006
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21460.xml
21522 Eurobarometer 67.1: Cultural Values, Poverty and Social Exclusion, Developmental Aid, and Residential Mobility, February-March 2007
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21522.xml
21540 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 2006
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21540.xml
21720 Firearm Injury Surveillance Study, 1993-2005 [United States]
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21720.xml
21800 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: 110th Congressional District Summary File, 100-percent
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21800.xml
21820 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Documentation for Census Bureau Restricted Data
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21820.xml
Updates
3675 Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2001: Diary Survey
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03675.xml
3804 Early Head Start Research and Evaluation (EHSRE) Study, 1996-2001: [United States]
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03804.xml
8157 Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Summary Tape File 3D
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/08157.xml
8634 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, May 1985
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/08634.xml
8710 Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Summary Tape File 3D Congressional District-Level Extract
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/08710.xml
8843 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, May 1987
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/08843.xml
9064 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, May 1988
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/09064.xml
9243 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, March-April 1989
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/09243.xml
21160 Eurobarometer 67.2: European Union Enlargement, Personal Data Privacy, the National Economy, and Scientific Research, April-May 2007
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21160.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/ICPSR/access/recent.html.
Posted by ronbo at 05:39 PM
February 25, 2008
Roper Center Data Acquisitions Update, January 2008
Stanford University Libraries maintains a membership to the Roper Center and Stanford faculty, staff, and students can now download data directly accessible via Roper Express. For instructions on requesting data not available via Roper Express, click on the "Data Services - Roper" link on our SSDS web site.
The month of January (pdf) update contains:
• 18 new Harvard School of Public Health Polls conducted by ICR--International Communications Research from 2005-2007 including some studies co-sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg News Poll conducted from October 19-22, 2007.
• Fortune Magazine Poll conducted by Abt SRBI, Inc. from January 14-16, 2008.
These notices have been archived on the Roper Center website at:
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/data/past_data_announcements.html
Posted by ronbo at 09:44 PM
From IPUMS Project: American Time Use Survey Threatened
Dear IPUMS Users,
As part of his Fiscal Year 2009 budget submission, President Bush proposed eliminating the American Time Use Survey as an offset to help cover the rising costs of the Current Population Survey. As you may be aware, the Minnesota Population Center has a major project to assist with the dissemination of this valuable survey, so this strikes close to home.
Several colleagues have established a website, www.SAVEATUS.org. There is a letter posted on this page that individual researchers may sign in support of increasing the BLS budget and maintaining the ATUS. If you are interested in this issue, I encourage you to view the letter and sign.
Thank you,
Steve Ruggles
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Steven Ruggles
Director, Minnesota Population Center
University of Minnesota
Posted by ronbo at 08:29 PM
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Mailing List for MEPS Periodic Digest Update (February 2008)
AHRQ is pleased to announce the recent release of the following MEPS data products and publications:
Data Updates :
Data update for HC-036BRR MEPS 1996-2005 Replicates for Calculating Variances File
This file is provided for use with pooled data from the MEPS FY 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 public use files (HC-012, HC-020, HC-028, HC-038, HC-050, HC-060, HC-070, HC-079, HC-089, and HC-097 respectively). Released as an ASCII file (with SAS user statements) and in SAS Transport format, this person-level file contains 1996-2005 combined variance stratum and PSU variables, along with the standard MEPS person ID variables for linking with the 1996-2005 MEPS person-level public use files. There is one record for each of the 169,717 persons who are on the MEPS FY 1996-2005 public use files. The data update is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files_results.jsp?cboDataYear=All&cboDataType=All%2CAll&cboPufNumber=HC-036BRR&buttonPufNumber=Search
Recent MEPS Tabular Data:
New 2005 State-Level Medical Expenditure Data is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/quick_tables_results.jsp?component=1&subcomponent=0&year=2005&tableSeries=8&searchText=&searchMethod=1&Action=Search
Analytical Tools:
2005 MEPSnet/Household Component Data is available on the MEPS website at:
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/MEPSnetHC.jsp
Recent MEPS Publications:
Statistical Brief #192: Estimates of Health Care Expenditures for the 10 Largest States, 2005
Release Date: December 3, 2007
This Statistical Brief presents variations from the national average in health care expenses for the 10 most populous States in 2005. The brief examines selected measures for the U.S. community population, including 1) the proportion of the population with selected types of expenses, 2) the average amount of expenses, and 3) the distribution of payments for health care across various sources. The full Statistical Brief is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st192/stat192.pdf
Statistical Brief #193: National Health Care Expenses in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2005
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC) and Medical Provider Component (MEPS-MPC), this Statistical Brief presents estimates of health care expenses by type of service and distributions by payment sources for the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2005. Health care expenses represent payments to hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers for services reported by respondents in the MEPS-HC. These expenses are defined as direct payments by individuals, private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and other payment sources. The full Statistical Brief is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st193/stat193.pdf
Statistical Brief #194: Average Annual Health Care Use and Expenses for Shingles among the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2003-2005
Release Date: December 21, 2007
This Statistical Brief presents estimates based on the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC) on the use of and expenditures for ambulatory care and prescribed medications to treat shingles, pain resulting from shingles, and vision complications among the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. The full Statistical Brief is available on the MEPS website at:
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st194/stat194.pdf
Statistical Brief #195: Dental Expenditures in the 10 Largest States, 2005
Release Date: December 28, 2007
This Statistical Brief presents estimates based on data from the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC) on the use, costs, and sources of payment for dental expenditures for persons in the community population in 2005 for the 10 largest states and compares the results to the national average for 2005. The full Statistical Brief is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st195/stat195.pdf
Statistical Brief #196: Prescription Drug Expenditures in the 10 Largest States for Persons under Age 65, 2005
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Using data from the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC), this Statistical Brief presents estimates for prescription drug expenditures for persons under age 65 in the 10 largest states for the year 2005 and compares these estimates to the national average. The full Statistical Brief is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st196/stat196.pdf
Statistical Brief #197: Medical Expenditures of the Non-Elderly by Age and Insurance Status, 2004
Release Date: January 17, 2008
This Statistical Brief describes medical expenditures of the non-elderly (under age 65) by age group and insurance status in 2004. People with private health insurance for all or part of the year were responsible for 79 percent of all medical expenditures even though they represented 71.2 percent of the non-elderly population. In contrast, people who were uninsured for the entire year (i.e., full-year uninsured) accounted for 4.8 percent of all medical expenditures while representing 14.1 percent of the non-elderly population. The full Statistical Brief is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st197/stat197.pdf
Statistical Brief #198: The Top Five Therapeutic Classes of Outpatient Prescription Drugs Ranked by Total Expense for Adults Age 18 and Older in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2005
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Using data from the Household Component of the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC), this Statistical Brief provides a summary of the top five therapeutic classes of outpatient prescription drugs for adults age 18 and older when ranked by total expense, as reported by households in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population in calendar year 2005, as well as estimates for the population age 18 and older on the percentage of annual prescribed drug expenses the top five therapeutic classes represented, the percentage of those with a prescribed drug expense having an expense in these classes of drugs, and the mean expense in these classes of drugs. The full Statistical Brief is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st198/stat198.pdf
Statistical Brief #199: The Top Five Therapeutic Classes of Outpatient Prescription Drugs Ranked by Total Expense for the Medicare Population Age 65 and Older in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2005
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Using data from the Household Component of the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC), this Statistical Brief provides a summary of the top five therapeutic classes of outpatient prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older when ranked by total expense, as reported by households in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population in calendar year 2005, as well as estimates for the Medicare population age 65 and older on the percentage of annual prescribed drug expenses the top five therapeutic classes represented, the percentage of those with a prescribed drug expense having an expense in these classes of drugs, and the mean expense in these classes of drugs. The full Statistical Brief is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st199/stat199.pdf
Statistical Brief #200: Comparing Population Characteristics of Persons Purchasing Prescribed Drugs from Mail Order Pharmacies with Persons Purchasing Prescribed Drugs from Other Outlets, 2005
Release Date: February 20, 2008
The estimates in this brief are derived from the Household Component of the 2000 and the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC). The brief provides information as reported by households in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized (community) population for calendar years 2000 and 2005 on the proportion of persons who purchased at least one prescribed medicine at the following types of pharmacies: mail order; drug store; HMO, clinic, or hospital; and another store (e.g., grocery store, etc.). This brief also compares person characteristics of those persons with a prescribed medicine expense purchasing at least one drug from a mail order pharmacy with the person characteristics of those purchasing at least one drug from other outlets in 2005. The full Statistical Brief is available on the MEPS website at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st200/stat200.pdf
Research Findings #28: Demographics and Health Care Access and Utilization of Limited-English-Proficient and English-Proficient Hispanics
Release Date: February 20, 2008
This report is based on data from the 2004 Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC). Updates to prior work are presented through a profile of LEP Hispanic adults and their health care using a large national sample and a respondent-report measure of English proficiency. The Research Findings is available on the MEPS website at:
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/rf28/rf28.pdf
Posted by ronbo at 08:20 PM
Selections from ArcSchool Reader - GIS News for Education - February 2008
Software News
ArcGIS Explorer: New Version
ArcGIS Explorer, a free 3D globe application that consumes online GIS services and local data, continues to evolve. The latest version (#450) was released in late 2007. The new version improves performance when accessing ArcIMS sites, improves KML support, expands controls, and provides great new billboarded point symbology. The best place to learn more is at the ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center. This is where you can download the application, but exploring the site's various tabs will lead to some useful discoveries. For other ArcGIS Explorer resources, be sure to visit the ESRI Education Community ArcGIS Explorer page.
ArcGIS 9.2 SP4 - Includes Support for Vista
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 4 (SP4) is now available and includes support for running ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 products (ArcReader, ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo) on Windows Vista. In addition to service pack 4, two patches from Microsoft are required to support ArcGIS on Vista. For more information about ArcGIS support for Windows Vista, see this technical article on the ESRI Support site.
Data News
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online is a data resource for users of ArcGIS Desktop tools including ArcMap, ArcGlobe, ArcReader, and ArcGIS Explorer. It provides a series of 2D map and 3D globe services that you can use to support your GIS work. This includes seamless imagery at approximately 1-meter resolution for the conterminous United States and 500- and 15-meter resolution for the world. These ready-to-use services can also be accessed by Web mapping applications created with ArcGIS Server.
National Historical GIS
National Historical GIS (NHGIS) provides, at no cost, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2000. There are two options for mapping NHGIS data: download boundary files for use in GIS software or create maps using Social Explorer, an online mapping application. The geographic boundary files include states and counties from 1790 to the present plus tracts and statistical areas for varying periods. The statistical data available varies by geographic unit and time frame.
Support News
Placing History
A fascinating new book walks readers through the use of GIS in exploring historical questions. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Research offers case studies and essays on key issues involving historical GIS. China, Rome, Gettysburg, and more come under 21st century exploration. The book includes a supplementary CD containing PowerPoint presentations, instructional videos, notes, and map layers for use with either ArcGIS or ArcExplorer-Java Edition for Education.
Learn to Develop Spatial Thinking Skills
Spatial thinking has been receiving increased attention recently. One reason could be the rapid expansion of geotechnologies such as recreational GPS, in-car navigation devices, and virtual globe software. We're also starting to realize that global issues such as biodiversity loss and urban sprawl are beginning to affect our everyday lives. To grapple with these issues in the 21st century requires a populace adept at using GIS and other geotechnologies. Read the full essay.
Mapping Center
GIS makes it easy to make a map, but there are both art and science behind making a great map. The Mapping Center is about the use of ArcGIS in the graphic delivery of geographic information. Its goal is to help users make great-looking maps by understanding and using the same cartographic concepts that professional cartographers use. The Maps zone provides a set of example maps with detailed explanations of why different elements of the maps work well and instructions on how to accomplish similar tasks on your own maps. The Ask a Cartographer section has an archive of common questions plus answers linked to key screen shots or important explanations within the online help system.
Posted by ronbo at 07:54 PM
February 22, 2008
From MAPSS list: MAPSS - Scott Page - Mathematical and Agent Based Models of Games
Modeling Behavior. Mathematical and agent based models provide opportunites for predicting how people might behave in particlar situations. Scott E. Page, Professor of Political Science, Complex Systems, and Economics at the University of Michigan, talks about modelling as a social science tool (February 26th) .
Pizza will be served at the Education Building (Cubberley) Room 128 at 12:00PM, talk starts at 12:15PM. (RSVP for food at http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup_page.html)
Tuesday, February 26th
12:15 PM
Education Building (Cubberley) - Room 128
Mathematical and Agent Based Models of Games
Economists and psychologists have proposed a variety of rules for how people behave in strategic contexts. Games can be analyzed using mathematical models or with agent based models. The latter approach some now call algorithmic game theory. Mathematical approaches focus on the existence and stability of equilibria. Whereas agent based models emphasize the basins of attraction of those same equilibria. For that reason, agent based models, along with experiments, have been propsed as a method for selecting among equilibrium.
In this talk, I will discuss three topics related to agent based models and game theory. The first will be basins of attraction and equilibrium selection. The second will consider the implications of heterogeneity of learning rules within a populaton. The third will be whether agent based models can capture "culture" in some form.
Scott E. Page is professor of political science, complex systems, and economics at The University of Michigan, a research scientist at the Center for Policy Studies at the Institute for Social Research, a member of the Michigan Society of Fellows, and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of two recent books THE DIFFERENCE: HOW THE POWER OF DIVERSITY CREATES BETTER GROUPS, FIRMS, SCHOOLS, AND SOCIETIES and COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS: COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SOCIAL LIFE (with John Miller). He is currently visiting the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and consulting with the Kellogg Foundation and Yahoo!
MAPSS is an interdisciplinary methodology program designed to expose researchers to diverse modes of data collection and analysis from across the social sciences. MAPSS offers a colloquium series, a workshop, a graduate certificate program, and various research resources. If you would like to learn more about the Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), please check out our website at mapss.stanford.edu.
All members of the Stanford community are invited to attend and to RSVP in advance to reserve food.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup_page.html.
Lunch will be served at 12:00 for those who have RSVP'd; the talks start at 12:15.
For more information, please contact mapss-info@lists.stanford.edu.
Posted by ronbo at 05:16 PM
February 21, 2008
2008 ICPSR Summer Program
Greetings from the ICPSR Summer Program! This message is to let you know that the web site for the 2008 Summer Program is now online at:
We are currently accepting applications for all of our courses.
* Note that the competitive workshops have application deadlines, which are listed in their course descriptions.
* The statistical three- and five-day workshops have enrollment caps (usually, 20 participants); any applications received after the maximum is reached for a course will be added to a waiting list.
* There is no application deadline for the four-week lectures and workshops. However, note that enrollment fees for Program Scholars are slightly higher for applications received after April 30, 2008.
Noteworthy and new courses in the 2008 Summer Program curriculum include:
* Quantitative Research on Race and Ethnicity
* Analyzing Multilevel and Mixed Models Using Stata
* Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
* Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling
* Advanced Bayesian Models
* Integrating Biomarkers into Population-Based Research
* Panel Data Analysis Using Stata
* Confidentiality and Disclosure Issues in Data Collection
* Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys
* Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study
* Using Secondary Data for Analysis of Marriage and the Family
In the preceding list, we would like to particularly draw your attention to several of the statistical workshops: The new courses on "Analyzing Multilevel and Mixed Models in Stata" and "Panel Data Analysis Using Stata" will cover important methodological approaches using a very popular statistical software package. The two workshops, "Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling" and "Advanced Bayesian Models" comprise a two-course sequence that provides broad coverage of Bayesian statistical methods. We are also offering a five-day workshop on the same general topic, "Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics for Social Scientists," in Chapel Hill, NC. By offering these new courses, we are responding to the expressed interests of the social scientific research community, and providing coverage of a statistical paradigm that is receiving increasing attention within methodological circles.
We hope that you, and prospective participants from your institution, find the 2008 ICPSR Summer Program to be interesting and useful for your interests and methodological training needs!
William G. Jacoby
Director, ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan
Professor, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University
Posted by ronbo at 11:46 PM
From IES Newsflash: Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) Database for Research and Policy Discussion
Wednesday, June 4, through Friday, June 6, 2008, Washington, DC
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of Education Sciences, is sponsoring a three-day advanced studies seminar on the use of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) database. The ECLS-K allows researchers to examine the relationships among a wide range of child, family, teacher, classroom, and school variables and children's development and performance in elementary and middle school.
For more details on this seminar and to register, please visit:
http://ies.ed.gov/whatsnew/conferences/?id=312
Explore the ECLS website at
http://nces.ed.gov/ecls/
Posted by ronbo at 10:55 PM
February 19, 2008
From U.S. Census Bureau - USA Counties has been updated
TUESDAY, FEB., 12, 2008
USA Counties — has just been quarterly updated and is now available on the web at http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml. USA Counties now features more than 5,900 data items for the United States, the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia), and all of the nation’s 3,141 counties and county equivalents, and covers areas such as age, agriculture, ancestry, banking, building permits, business patterns, crime, earnings, education, elections, employment, government, health, households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population, poverty, retail trade, social programs, veterans, vital statistics, water use, and wholesale trade. It is the most comprehensive source for data on counties in the United States."
Posted by ronbo at 06:13 PM
February 14, 2008
From MAPSS list: Student Presentation: LGBTIQQ Youth and Online Environments: A Mixed Methods Approach
Coming Out in an Internet Era. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and questioning (LGBTIQQ) young people are growing up with newfound access to the Internet. Elise Paradis, a Ph.D. Student studying the sociology of education, shares the results of a study of online behavior of LGBTIQQ youth on Tuesday (February 19th).
MAPSS is having a Pizza-off. For the next few weeks, MAPSS will be ordering Pizza from two different vendors per week. Tell us which one you think is better.
Food will be served at the Education Building (Cubberley) Room 128 at 12:00PM, talk starts at 12:15PM. (RSVP for Pizza at http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup_paradis.html)
Tuesday, February 19th
12:15 PM
Education Building (Cubberley) - Room 128
LGBTIQQ YOUTH AND ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS: A MIXED METHODS APPROACH
LGBTIQQ youth currently aged 13-21 grew up with the Internet, and LGBTIQQ online resources and environments are important sources of information and socialization for them. Five iterations of a new survey tool have been done in order to investigate the online behavior of LGBTIQQ youth. This paper, part of a larger project, answers two main questions, based on a sample of 223 self-identified LGBTIQQ American youth aged 13-21: What are the essential features of LGBTIQQ online environments for these youth? Why do they participate in LGBTIQQ online environments? Findings support the idea that LGBTIQQ youth see their identity as complex and fluid, and challenge certain stereotypes surrounding LGBTIQQ youth’s online behavior: there is much less sex and much more socializing and need for belonging than is typically assumed in the literature.
Paper can be accessed at http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/papers/eparadis.doc
Elise Paradis is a second-year Ph.D. student in sociology of education. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 2006 with a Honors B.A. in Math and in History of Science and Technology. She is the recipient of a TD Canada Trust Scholarship for Community Involvement (2002), of a Government of Canada Millennium Scholarship (2002), of the Lieutenant-Governor Medal (2002), and of a four-year doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2006). Her dissertation will evaluate the impacts of the harmonization of higher education in Europe (the Bologna Process) on women in science, in the hopes to integrate ideas from the social psychology of gender to neo-institutional theory.
MAPSS is an interdisciplinary methodology program designed to expose researchers to diverse modes of data collection and analysis from across the social sciences. MAPSS offers a colloquium series, a workshop, a graduate certificate program, and various research resources. If you would like to learn more about the Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), please check out our website at mapss.stanford.edu.
All members of the Stanford community are invited to attend and to RSVP in advance to reserve food.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup_paradis.html.
Lunch will be served at 12:00 for those who have RSVP'd; the talks start at 12:15.
For more information, please contact mapss-info@lists.stanford.edu.
Posted by ronbo at 07:04 PM
February 13, 2008
From APDU (Association of Public Data Users) list: Census Bureau's CCD and CDP final criteria published for the 2010 Census
The Census Bureau published the final criteria for census county divisions (CCDs) and census designated places (CDPs) for the 2010 Census in the Federal Register.
The notice, "Census County Division and Equivalent Entities Program for the 2010 Census--Final Criteria," was published on February 8, 2008, and is available on the Federal Register's website at:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-2348.pdf
The notice announces the Census Bureau's decision to retain CCDs as a statistical geographic entity for use in tabulating and presenting data.
The notice, "Census Designated Place (CDP) Program for the 2010 Census--Final Criteria," was published February 13, 2008 and is available, on the Federal Register's website at:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-2667.pdf
We expect that the final criteria for census tracts and block groups will be published in the Federal Register in the near future.
Questions and requests for further information should be addressed to the Geographic Standards and Criteria Branch, Geography Division, Census Bureau via e-mail at
General information about the General information about the 2010 Participant Statistical Areas Program is available on the Census Bureau's website at: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/psap2010/psap2010_main.html
Posted by ronbo at 05:30 PM
February 12, 2008
Recent ICPSR updates and additions - New and Updated Studies released
New Releases through 2008-02-11
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
4362 Effectiveness of Culturally-Focused Batterer Counseling for African American Men in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2001-2004
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/04362.xml
20040 Re-examination of the Criminal Deterrent Effects of Capital Punishment in the United States, 1978-1998
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/20040.xml
20903 Setting the Alcohol-control Agenda: Popular Attitudes and Legislative Responses Toward Alcohol Control and Prohibition in the United States, 1890-1950
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/20903.xml
21401 Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal
Year 2005
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21401.xml
21742 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: 108th
Congressional District Summary File, Sample
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21742.xml
21760 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: 109th Congressional District Summary File, 100-percent
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21760.xml
21761 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: 109th Congressional District Summary File, Sample
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21761.xml
21803 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: 110th Congressional District Summary File, Sample
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21803.xml
21804 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Summary File 2 Supplement, States
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21804.xml
Updates
2924 CBS News Monthly Poll #1, February 2000
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/02924.xml
3807 National Health Interview Survey, 1994: Second Longitudinal Study on Aging, Wave 3, 2000
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03807.xml
3846 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, June 1994
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03846.xml
3960 Danish 1905 Cohort Study, 1998
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03960.xml
4291 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, 2001
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/04291.xml
7637 Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facility Census, 1971
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/07637.xml
8563 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, March 1985
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/08563.xml
9754 ABC News/Washington Post Poll #2, October 1991
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/09754.xml
21560 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2005
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21560.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/ICPSR/access/recent.html.
Posted by ronbo at 03:59 PM
February 11, 2008
From CSISS list: 2008 Summer Workshops in Advanced Spatial Analysis -- Call for Applications
Dear Colleague,
The Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University and the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) at UCSB invite applications from Ph.D. students, post docs, and young faculty in demography and related fields to participate in
NIH-Supported Workshops in Advanced Spatial Analysis
This new program features two 5-day-long workshops in summer 2008 that are intended for scholars who already make use of GIS and spatial statistics in their research.
Geographically Weighted Regression
June 1-June 6, 2008, University Park, PA
Instructors: Stewart Fotheringham, Chris Brunsdon, Martin Charlton, and Stephen Matthews
Spatial Pattern Analysis
July 13-July 18, 2008, Santa Barbara, CA
Instructors: Arthur Getis, John Weeks, Jared Aldstadt, Michael Goodchild, and Don Janelle
Full details on the workshops and the online application form are available at
http://www.csiss.org/GISPopSci/workshops/
Participation in these workshops is by invitation only. We will review and select approximately 20-25 invitees per workshop based on the complete application forms received by the deadline (March 31, 2008). Scholarship support will be available to some qualifying applicants that can help defray some of the costs for travel and lodging.
Please share this call for applications with interested colleagues via email, association newsletters, and related listserves.
Sincerely,
Stephen Matthews, Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography
(courtesy appointment, Geography)
Senior Research Associate and Director,
Geographic Information Analysis Core Population Research Associate
Social Science Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
Donald G. Janelle, Research Professor and Program Director
Center for Spatial Studies (spatial@ucsb), University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael F. Goodchild, Professor
Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Posted by ronbo at 01:02 PM
From IPUMS list: Post-doctoral Research Openings at the Minnesota Population Center
Dear Colleague,
The Minnesota Population Center is recruiting post-doctoral researchers to begin in Fall 2008.
To obtain more information and download position announcements, please visit our website at http://www.pop.umn.edu/about-mpc/employment-opportunities/research-positions/
If you know of any outstanding graduate students or recent Ph.D.s who might be interested in coming to Minnesota, I would appreciate it if you would pass this message along.
Sincerely,
Steve Ruggles
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Director, Minnesota Population Center
University of Minnesota
Posted by ronbo at 03:00 AM
Stata Bookstore: Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, 2nd Edition
Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, 2nd Edition
Authors: Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal
Publisher: Stata Press
Copyright: 2008
ISBN-10: 1-59718-040-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-59718-040-5
Pages: 562; paperback
Price: $59.00
Comment from the Stata technical group
Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, Second Edition, by Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal, looks specifically at Stata’s treatment of generalized linear mixed models, also known as multilevel or hierarchical models. These models are “mixed” because they allow fixed and random effects, and they are “generalized” because they are appropriate for continuous Gaussian responses as well as binary, count, and other types of limited dependent variables.
The second edition has much to offer for readers of the first edition, reading more like a sequel than an update. The text has almost doubled in length from the original, coming in at 562 pages. This second edition incorporates three new chapters: a chapter on standard linear regression, a chapter on discrete-time survival analysis, and a chapter resulting from an expanded discussion of random-coefficient and growth-curve models. The authors have updated this edition for Stata 10, expanding on discussions in the original edition and adding new in-text examples and end-of-chapter exercises. In particular, the authors have thoroughly covered the new Stata commands xtmelogit and xtmepoisson.
For complete information:
http://stata.com/bookstore/mlmus2.html
Posted by yan at 01:28 AM
Stata Bookstore: Using Stata for Principles of Econometrics, 3rd Edition
Using Stata for Principles of Econometrics, 3rd Edition
Authors: Lee C. Adkins and R. Carter Hill
Publisher: Wiley
Copyright: 2008
ISBN-10: 0-470-18546-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-18546-9
Pages: 480; paperback
Price: $57.75
Comments from the Stata technical group
Using Stata for Principles of Econometrics, Third Edition, by Lee C. Adkins and R. Carter Hill, is a companion to the introductory econometrics textbook Principles of Econometrics, Third Edition. Adkins and Hill provide a quick introduction to using Stata’s menu system and command line before moving on to their many examples. Because the main textbook uses a learning-by-doing approach, this companion book is especially useful to get in more “doing”.
Using Stata for Principles of Econometrics, Third Edition, shows how to use Stata to reproduce examples from the main textbook and to interpret the output. The authors also provide important information needed to perform and understand econometric analyses.
For complete information including Table of Contents:
http://stata.com/bookstore/uspe.html
Posted by yan at 01:24 AM
Stata Bookstore: Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data
Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data
Authors: Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff, Magnus Lindelow
Publisher: The World Bank
Copyright: 2007
ISBN-10: 0-8213-6933-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-8213-6933-3
Pages: 165; paperback
Price: $26.75
Comments from the Stata technical group
The study of health equity has been increasingly popular over the past 25 years, evidenced in the threefold increase of Medline-published topics. The authors thoroughly cover the important concepts of biostatistics, economics, and survey statistics—three areas in which Stata excels—and how to use Stata to implement the analysis.
Part I of the three-part text mainly covers how to measure health outcomes. Topics include estimating standardized mortality rates (infant and child), constructing and interpreting anthropometric indicators, measuring self-reported adult health in relation to socioeconomic status, measuring the standard of living, and adjusting these estimates and measures for survey data. Part II outlines the possible analyses when presenting results on health equity, including analysis using concentration curves, concentration indices, and their extensions; and analysis decomposing health inequities into their underlying inequalities. For instance, child survival inequalities likely reflect inequalities in education, health insurance, and health-care access, among others. Part III covers analyzing equity in health care utilization and health care spending using the techniques described in Part II.
For complete information include Table of Contents:
Stata Bookstore: Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data
Posted by yan at 01:18 AM
From MAPSS list: Barry Weingast - Caltech Rules for Writing Papers
Get Accepted. Political Science Professor Barry Weingast shares his Caltech Rules for Writing Papers this Tuesday (February 12th). Come to MAPSS to learn how to improve the way you write for journals.
MAPSS is having a Pizza-off. For the next few weeks, MAPSS will be ordering Pizza from two different vendors per week. Tell us which one you think is better.
Food will be served at the Education Building (Cubberley) Room 128 at 12:00PM, talk starts at 12:15PM. (RSVP for Pizza at http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup_pasek.html)
Tuesday, February 12th
12:15 PM
Education Building (Cubberley) - Room 128
Caltech Rules for Writing Papers
All papers that you write for the next five years, and possibly the rest of your life, should have the following basic format. While different contexts require alterations, you should deviate only with good reason. Alter or leave out some component only when you're convinced it is necessary. Like all rules of thumb, these guidelines have useful purposes, but they should not be treated as iron laws.
Download the Caltech rules here: http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/papers/caltech.pdf
Barry R. Weingast is a Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science. He served as Chair, Department of Political Science, from 1996 through 2001. In 1996, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Weingast's research focuses on the political foundation of markets, economic reform, and regulation. He has written extensively on problems of political economy of development, federalism and decentralization, legal institutions and the rule of law, and democracy. Most recently, he has written on democracy and its failure in twentieth century Spain, nineteenth century United States, seventeenth century England, and modern Chile; and a book problem with Douglass North and John Wallis on Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History.
MAPSS is an interdisciplinary methodology program designed to expose researchers to diverse modes of data collection and analysis from across the social sciences. MAPSS offers a colloquium series, a workshop, a graduate certificate program, and various research resources. If you would like to learn more about the Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), please check out our website at mapss.stanford.edu.
All members of the Stanford community are invited to attend and to RSVP in advance to reserve food.
To RSVP, please click here (http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup_weingast.html).
Lunch will be served at 12:00 for those who have RSVP'd; the talks start at 12:15.
For more information, please contact mapss-info@lists.stanford.edu.
Posted by ronbo at 12:48 AM
February 07, 2008
From the Stanford GIS list: Announcement of paid summer RA positions in Spatial History Project
PAID SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
ASSISTANT POSITIONS AVAILABLE
creating and exploring dynamic interactive digital tools
for analyzing and visualizing change over space and time
The Spatial History Project at Stanford University, directed by Richard White, brings together scholars working on projects at the intersection of geography and history using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in their research. While built around GIS, which offers a common framework for this research, the Spatial History Project is also moving beyond GIS, to develop tools able to harvest useful information from large heterogeneous datasets of maps, images, and texts, and create dynamic, interactive digital visualizations for analyzing and representing change over space and time. One of our projects is building an interactive digital environmental history of California. Our research involves interdisciplinary collaborations across the university, from computer sciences to urban studies and biology, as well as collaborations at a distance with scholars at other institutions from Harvard University to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University
of Campinas in Brazil.
The Spatial History Lab ‹ a fully equipped computer lab ‹ in Wallenberg Hall seeks undergraduates interested in paid full-time research assistant positions of approximately 40 hours per week (hours and dates are flexible) for 10 weeks during summer 2008. The lab also has part-time positions available during the academic year. Pay is $13/hour.
If you are interested please contact Jeremy Zallen:
jzallen@stanford.edu, (508) 269-4242
http://spatialhistory.stanford.edu
Posted by ronbo at 04:53 PM
From US Census Bureau: National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR)
Presents microdata records (with any information that might identify a specific person or household removed) on individuals involved in fishing, hunting, and other wildlife-associated recreation, such as wildlife observation, photography, and feeding. Data include state in which these activities occurred; number of trips taken; duration of trips; and expenditures for food, lodging, transportation, and equipment. The survey was conducted by the Census Bureau for the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, which prepares printed reports in this field.
National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR) web site
Posted by ronbo at 01:23 PM
February 06, 2008
From MAPSS list: 2008 Summer Institute in Political Psychology
ANNOUNCING THE
2008 SUMMER INSTITUTE IN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
at Stanford University from July 13 – August 1, 2008
**VERY LOW SPECIAL RATE FOR STANFORD STUDENTS: $400**
Stanford University is very pleased to announce that it will host the 2008 Summer Institute in Political Psychology, continuing an annual tradition that was started by Margaret Hermann at Ohio State University in 1991 and moved to Stanford in 2005.
The Summer Institute will offer 3 weeks of training in political psychology to up to 60 participants, including graduate students, faculty, professionals, and advanced undergraduates. The activities will include lectures by world-class faculty,
discussion groups, research/interest group meetings, group projects, and an array of social activities.
Political psychology is an exciting and thriving sub-disciplinary specialty that explores the origins of political behavior and the causes of political events, with a special focus on the psychological mechanisms at work. The principal contributors to the field include
political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, and other researchers who cross bridges between disciplines in efforts to enrich their scholarship.
For detailed information and to apply, visit our website: www.stanford.edu/group/sipp. Please note that Stanford students are NOT required to stay on campus. Therefore your total cost for participation will only be $400. This participation fee pays for the cost of materials, the opening reception, the beach trip, the closing banquet, weekday lunches, and snacks during the morning and afternoon breaks.
For the best chance to be admitted, submit your application as soon as possible.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Jon Krosnick
Professor
Stanford University
Posted by ronbo at 05:34 PM
February 05, 2008
From ANES list: ANES Announcement: Job Opening
Job Opening: Social scientist to join the staff of the American National Election Studies (ANES) at Stanford University.
We are seeking a social scientist to join our team in carrying out the American National Election Studies (ANES) surveys.
The ANES is the best-known and most widely cited ongoing study of how Americans participate in elections, form attitudes, make political choices, and are influenced by campaigns. Since 1948, the ANES has interviewed tens of thousands of Americans in national surveys of representative samples and has equipped scholars with data to publish more than 5,000 books, journal articles, and conference papers.
ANES is funded by the National Science Foundation, with one of the largest grants in the social sciences, to generate huge datasets to be distributed free to all interested researchers inside and outside of academia.
ANES is a partnership between Stanford University and the University of Michigan. Our major projects include two forms of data collection from representative national samples of American adults: an innovative
Internet Panel survey collecting data each month between January 2008 and mid-2009, and a large face-to-face survey with hour-long interviews conducted both before and after the November 2008 elections. To learn
more about the ANES, visit our website: www.electionstudies.org
We are seeking a researcher to join our terrific staff and to contribute to all aspects of running the ANES. We do data analysis and manuscript writing for publication. We design questionnaires. We receive and
evaluate proposals from researchers (mostly professors and graduate students) suggesting particular research agendas to be pursued in the questionnaires, and we evaluate those proposals and provide feedback to the proposers, sometimes requesting proposal revisions. We test the functioning of questionnaires that will be administered via computers and orally to assure that they are effective measurement tools. We write study
documentation and provide support to our large community of data users. And we edit data files, analyze data, conduct methodological research, supervise data collection firms, run a web site, manage a budget, and conduct administrative tasks, all for the purpose of advancing the scientific study of public opinion and political behavior.
Our new staff member will accomplish this work collaboratively with the study's Principal Investigators -- Jon Krosnick at Stanford and Arthur Lupia at Michigan -- professional staff, and research assistants.
The new staff member's work will include:
* Working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team of researchers.
* Writing, editing, and reviewing questionnaires and their programming specifications.
* Testing computer implementation of questionnaires.
* Reviewing and analyzing data files using statistical software (SPSS, Stata, or SAS), conducting comparisons with other contemporaneous surveys.
* Monitoring panel survey sample composition over time.
* Preparing data files for public release.
* Writing, editing, and reviewing survey documentation and reports.
* Reviewing and designing methods for survey data collection.
* Managing and monitoring the activities of firms doing data collection.
* Supervising undergraduate research assistants.
* Managing administrative tasks for the project.
* Coauthoring journal articles for publication.
* Collaborating with ANES personnel at the University of Michigan.
Qualifications (desirable but not all required):
*Master's or doctoral degree in a quantitative social science (e.g., psychology, political science, sociology, communication, economics), statistics, or a related field.
*Experience conducting social science research.
*Proficiency using statistical software (e.g., SPSS, SAS, or Stata).
*Experience planning and conducting surveys.
*Experience writing articles for academic journal publication.
*Expertise in one or more of the following areas: American politics, survey sampling, statistical data analysis, questionnaire design, research methodology, project management.
The position is a full-time, exempt, term appointment through December 2009, with full benefits, with the possibility of extension after December 2009 dependent on renewal of the NSF grant.
Interviewing of qualified applicants will begin immediately in order to fill the position as soon as possible.
To apply:
Please apply through the Stanford Jobs web site, http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html. From the Stanford Jobs search page, enter 28970 in the keyword search field to find the job listing and apply online by submitting your cover letter and resume or vita.
Posted by ronbo at 05:48 PM
February 04, 2008
Recent ICPSR updates and additions - New Releases through 2008-02-03
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
4611 CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #2, January 2006
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/04611.xml
4615 CBS News Monthly Poll #2, April 2006
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/04615.xml
13571 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: 108th Congressional District Summary File, 100-percent
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/13571.xml
20347 Impact of Institutional Placement on the Recidivism of Delinquent Youth in New York City, 2000-2003
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/20347.xml
21282 International Military Intervention, 1989-2005
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21282.xml
21560 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2005
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/21560.xml
Updates
2521 Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and 10th-Grade Surveys), 1991
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/02521.xml
3154 Health Behavior in School-Aged Children, 1996: [United States]
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03154.xml
3380 Mexican Election Panel Study, 2000
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03380.xml
3819 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2002: [United States]
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03819.xml
3834 ABC News Welfare Reform Poll, January 1995
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03834.xml
6838 Alameda County [California] Health and Ways of Living Study, 1974 Panel
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/06838.xml
7707 Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facility Census, 1975
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/07707.xml
8576 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, March 1986
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/08576.xml
8635 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, June 1986
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/08635.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/ICPSR/access/recent.html.
Posted by ronbo at 08:30 PM
February 01, 2008
From MAPSS list: MAPSS - Facebook or MySpace? Student Presentation
Facebook versus MySpace. Looking for an academic answer to the debate? This Tuesday (February 5th), Communication Ph.D. Student Josh Pasek presents some research that sheds light on differences in how users of the sites behave.
MAPSS is having a Pizza-off. For the next few weeks, MAPSS will be ordering Pizza from two different vendors per week. This week, come tell us if you like Avanti or New York Pizza better. Winners will advance to the next week until we have chosen a favorite.
Food will be served at the Education Building (Cubberley) Room 128 at 12:00PM, talk starts at 12:15PM. (RSVP for Pizza at http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup_pasek.html)
Tuesday, February 5th
12:15 PM
Education Building (Cubberley) - Room 128
Realizing the Social Internet? Online Social Networking Meets Offline Social Capital
Does Internet use have the potential to build social capital? Emerging evidence suggests that politically knowledgeable, interpersonally trusting, and civically engaged individuals share particular patterns of Internet use. In previous national survey studies, Internet use has been divided into a handful of excessively broad categories, and researchers have been unable to address newer, category-spanning Internet uses as well as the potential impact of individual websites. By examining the use of online social networks in a nationally representative sample of young people, this study explores the varied relationships between indicators of social capital and Internet use on a site-specific level (i.e. Myspace vs. Facebook). Indeed, differences between social networking sites are as large as those between more global categories of use (e.g., informational vs. social networking) and are robust to attempts to account for differences between the users of the sites. In explaining these effects and exploring the differences between social networking sites, we suggest that website use induces a site-specific culture that can either encourage or hinder social capital.
Josh Pasek is a Ph.D. Student in Communication at Stanford University. Formerly a Research Associate at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Josh’s Papers have been published in the Journal of Communication Research, American Journal of Education, and the Journal of Applied Developmental Science and have been presented at annual meetings for both the American Political Science Association and the International Communication Association. His research interests include civic education, political socialization, the role of media as a democratic institution, survey design, public opinion, and civic engagement.
MAPSS is an interdisciplinary methodology program designed to expose researchers to diverse modes of data collection and analysis from across the social sciences. MAPSS offers a colloquium series, a workshop, a graduate certificate program, and various research resources. If you would like to learn more about the Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), please check out our website at mapss.stanford.edu.
All members of the Stanford community are invited to attend and to RSVP in advance to reserve food.
To RSVP, please click here.
Posted by ronbo at 05:37 PM