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March 23, 2011

From US Census Bureau - ACS Federal Register Notice Requests Comments

The U.S Census Bureau has published a notice in the Federal Register that invites the public to comment through May 9, 2011 on the continuation of the American Community Survey information collection.

If you would like to comment, a copy of the Federal Register notice can be accessed via the Internet at: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/about_the_survey/operations_and_administration/

We look forward to providing you up-to-date information about the ACS program and future data releases.

Regards,

American Community Survey staff

Posted by ronbo at 03:45 PM

From Stanford Spatial History Lab: NOW HIRING: Summer Undergrad RA Positions @ the Spatial History Lab

The Spatial History Lab is currently accepting applications for summer undergraduate research assistant positions for the following projects:

* Terrain of History
* Shaping the West
* The Production of Vulnerability (a new collaboration w/ UC Denver Geography & Environmental Sciences Professor Gregory Simon)
* The Cigarette Citadels (a new collaboration w/ Stanford Anthropology Professor Matthew Korhman -- also hiring for spring)

Please see our website or the attached flyer for more information.

Interested applicants should submit the following materials to Kathy Harris (kharris3@stanford.edu) by noon on Monday, April 4th:

* a resume
* a sample of work (best reflecting the skills you'd bring to the team)
* a cover letter that includes:
o Which project(s) you're interested in working with.
o Your strengths and skills, including which qualifications you meet in the attached flyer.
o Your availability. Students work full time for 10 weeks during the summer, roughly late June through August.

Posted by ronbo at 03:41 PM

March 17, 2011

Advanced Spatial Analysis Workshops -- apply by 31 March 2011

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, postdocs, and early-career faculty in demography and related fields to participate in

NIH-supported Workshops on Advanced Spatial Analysis

Spatial Regression Modeling
June 19-24, 2011, State College, PA
Instructors: Paul Voss and Katherine Curtis

Multilevel Modeling
July 10-July 15, 2011, Santa Barbara, CA
Instructors: Kelvin Jones and S.V. (Subu) Subramanian

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 applications received by the deadline (March 31, 2011). 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 and the attached flier 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 and the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
University of California, Santa Barbara

Michael F. Goodchild, Professor
Department of Geography, and Director, Center for Spatial Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara

Posted by ronbo at 09:36 PM

From Openspace List - OpenGeoDa 0.9.9.5 available

OpenGeoDa alpha release 0.9.9.5 is available for download.
Please see the release notes for a list of issues resolved.

http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads

************************
Mark McCann, Ph.D.
Arizona State University
GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
URL: http://geodacenter.asu.edu
Email: mark.mccann@asu.edu

Posted by ronbo at 07:12 PM

March 11, 2011

From Openspace List - OpenGeoDa 0.9.9.4 available

OpenGeoDa alpha release 0.9.9.4 is available for download.
Please see the release notes for a list of issues resolved.

http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads

************************
Mark McCann, Ph.D.
Arizona State University
GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
URL: http://geodacenter.asu.edu
Email: mark.mccann@asu.edu

Posted by ronbo at 10:31 AM

March 09, 2011

From IES Newsflash - NCES Releases Statistics on Public High School Career and Technical Education (CTE) Teachers

This new set of Web Tables describe public school teachers of grades 9–12 whose primary teaching assignment was in career and technical education (CTE). This 2007–08 school year data looks at demographic and professional characteristics of these teachers, the location and types of schools in which they taught, the characteristics of their students, and their main teaching assignment.

These tables are a product of the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute for Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education.

To view the tables, please visit
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011235.

Posted by ronbo at 01:44 PM

From IES Newsflash - NCES releases “Projections of Education Statistics to 2019” with data on enrollment, teachers, graduates, and expenditures

Postsecondary enrollment rose by 34 percent between 1994 and 2008, and is projected to increase another 17 percent by 2019. The Projections of Education Statistics to 2019 provides national-level data on enrollment, teachers, high school graduates, and expenditures at the elementary and secondary school level and enrollment and earned degrees at the postsecondary level for the past 14 years and projections to the year 2019. This is the 38th edition of a publication first initiated in 1964.

Other findings include:

• Enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools rose 10 percent between 1994 and 2007 and is projected to increase an additional 6 percent between 2007 and 2019.

• Reflecting actual and projected changes in the high school-age population, the number of high school graduates increased by 27 percent between 1994-95 and 2006-07, and a further increase of 1 percent is projected by 2019-20.

• After adjusting for inflation, current expenditure per pupil increased by 29 percent between 1994-95 and 2006-07, and a further increase of 14 percent is projected by 2019-20.

This compendium is a product of the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education.

To view the full report please visit
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011017

Posted by ronbo at 01:43 PM

From IES Newsflash - NCES Releases 2004/2009 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study Restricted-Use Data File

The newly released 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/09) restricted-use data are now available for restricted-use license holders. BPS:04/09 followed a cohort of 2003-04 first-time beginning students in their first, third, and sixth year since entering college. These record-level data are based on student interviews and other administrative data sources and allow users to examine topics related to enrollment, persistence, and degree attainment over six academic years, from 2003-04 to 2008-09. Transcripts were also collected from all the institutions ever attended by BPS cohort members over a six year period. Transcript data will be available in the fall of 2011 as a separate restricted-use file.

Restricted-use data files are intended for experienced researchers who cannot meet their complex analytical needs with our existing public data tools, QuickStats and PowerStats. In order to obtain restricted-use data files, you must have a restricted-use data license. For more information about how to obtain, or amend, a restricted-use data license, go to: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/licenses.asp.

BPS:04/09 data are also available via PowerStats, an easy-to-use tool for generating complex tables and regressions. For more basic analyses, BPS:04/09 is available in QuickStats which allows users to generate simple tables from a subset of the variables available in PowerStats. For more information, go to http://nces.ed.gov/datalab.

For more information go to http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/bps/

This data file is a product of the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education.

Posted by ronbo at 01:22 PM

March 07, 2011

From ICPSR: New Releases through 2011-03-06

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

* 27804 CBS News Call-Back Poll, September 2009
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27804

Updates

* 3169 Current Population Survey, February 2000: Displaced Workers, Employee Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03169
* 3182 Current Population Survey, November 2000: Voting and Registration Supplement
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03182
* 3967 Current Population Survey, November 2002: Voting and Registration Supplement
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03967
* 4150 Current Population Survey, August 2001: Veterans Supplement
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04150
* 4151 Current Population Survey, August 2003: Veterans Supplement
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04151
* 7798 National Camping Market Survey, 1971
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07798
* 9102 CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll, March 1988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09102
* 9803 CBS News/New York Times October Foreign Policy/Congressional Scandal Poll, October 5-7, 1991
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09803
* 27026 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1994-2008: Weight Components [Restricted Use]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27026
* 27868 National Survey of Parents and Youth (NSPY), 1998-2004 -- Restricted Use Files
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27868
* 29462 Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), 2002-2006 [United States]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR29462

Posted by ronbo at 10:37 PM

March 02, 2011

From ICPSR: NACJD Summer Program, June 20-July 15, 2011

The ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research is now accepting applications for the 2011 course, "Quantitative Analysis of Crime and Criminal Justice Data," sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and administered by NACJD. Full information about the course, deadlines, and application procedures (.doc) can be found here.

Posted by ronbo at 09:25 PM

From ICPSR: Webinar on data management plans available for viewing

ICPSR's second webinar on data management plans (WMV 51MB) presented by Amy Pienta, director of data acquisitions, is now available for viewing. Slides (PPT 1.6MB) are also available.

Held Feb. 17, the session updated the ICPSR webinar on the same topic held in January. The topic has received significant attention in recent months, as the National Science Foundation announced last year that it would require data management plans with all grant applications for projects that will produce data.

The ICPSR webinar covered the following issues:

* ICPSR’s data management plan Web site
* Suggested elements of a data management plan
* Examples of data management plan language
* Designating ICPSR as an Archive in a data management plan
* Additional resources for preparing a data management plan.

Pienta also answers questions from previous webinar participants on her blog.

Posted by ronbo at 09:21 PM

From ICPSR: Summer Program courses open for registration!

ICPSR is pleased to announce the 2011 Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research with workshops and lectures on a wide variety of topics in research design, quantitative reasoning, statistical methods, and data processing.

The First Session: June 20, 2011 to July 15, 2011 (location = Ann Arbor, MI)

Second Session: July 18, 2011 to August 12, 2011 (location = Ann Arbor, MI)

Three to Five Day workshops on both statistical and substantive topics: various dates throughout the summer.

Location: most of these shorter workshops will take place in Ann Arbor, but there are several that will be held in other locations: Amherst, MA; Bloomington, IN; Chapel Hill, NC; and (for the first time) Berkeley, CA.

Registration, fee structure, and further information about the ICPSR Summer Program are all available on our web site.

Please feel free to e mail us with any further questions at: sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu

<<2011 Course List and Schedule>>

Posted by ronbo at 09:16 PM

From US Bureau of Economic Analysis: Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Annual 2010 (second estimate)

Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, (that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 2.6 percent. Full Text

Posted by ronbo at 09:12 PM

From US Bureau of Economic Analysis: GDP by Metropolitan Area, Advance 2009, and Revised 2001 - 2008

Real U.S. GDP by metropolitan area declined 2.4 percent in 2009 after declining 0.4 percent in 2008, according to new statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The economic decline was widespread as real GDP declined in 292 of 366 (80 percent) metropolitan statistical areas, led by national declines in durable-goods manufacturing, construction, and professional and business services. Full Text

Posted by ronbo at 09:10 PM