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Data-PASS Web Site Updated

The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) recently released a new version of its Web site. New to this release is a direct link to the partnership shared catalog, which enables anyone to search and browse the entire holdings of most Data-PASS partners. Other significant content includes project guidelines, such as selection criteria and data security standards, created and used by the partnership, as well as publications and presentations by Data-PASS partners. New content will continue to be added to the site as Data-PASS continues to identify, acquire, and preserve data used for social science research.

Data-PASS is supported by an award from the Library of Congress through its National Digital Information and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), and is led by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut, the Howard W. Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Harvard-MIT Data Center, also a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.

2008-04-30

ICPSR Announces the 2007/2008 Undergraduate Research Paper Competition Winners!

ICPSR would like to congratulate the winners of its annual Undergraduate Research Paper Competitions! These winners were selected out of 10 well-written submissions.

The winning paper titles, students, and institutions are found below. Abstracts and full-text can be found in the 2008 Winners section of the competition Web site.

MDRC Competition

1st Place - Intergenerational Class Mobility by Race: Can the Black Middle Class Reproduce Itself?; Sarah Ireland, Yale University

ICPSR Competition

1st Place - Examining the Economic Basis of Ethical Vegetarianism; Poh Lin Tan, Princeton University

2nd Place - The Effect of Property Taxes on Elderly Residential Geography: A County-Level Analysis; Corina Mommaerts, University of Michigan

3rd Place - Manipulating the "Truth": The Unintended Consequences of Truth-in-Sentencing Laws in California, 1992-1996; Caroline M. Savello, Yale University

Please note that the Web site has been updated to reflect the upcoming competition for the 2008/2009 academic year. We encourage you to share this information with your campus community early and often!

Once again, congratulations to our winning authors and their institutions!

Linda Detterman
Marketing & Membership Director
ICPSR
University of Michigan
734.615.5494
lindamd@umich.edu

2008-04-29

New Resource Supports FCD's PK-3 Initiative

ICPSR is pleased to announce a new Web site in support of FCD's PK-3 Initiative

A PK-3 DATA RESOURCE CENTER: THE FIRST SIX YEARS OF SCHOOLING AND BEYOND
NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

The PK-3 Data Resource Center provides access to four longitudinal datasets selected for their potential to inform PK-3 policy and practice. Resource guides assist researchers in creating extract data files. Links to PK-3 publications provide more information about PK-3.

The datasets are:

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K)
National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), Child Surveys
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), Child Development Supplement

Research on how well integrated children's learning experiences are across the years from PK through Third Grade, and its impact on children's educational achievement and well-being is needed. PK-3 is the first part of a P-16 education system--from birth through postsecondary education. A PK-3 approach integrates and coordinates learning experiences across the first six years of schooling, PK through Third Grade.

The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) announces a small grants program to be funded through its PK-3 Research and Evaluation Forum. A maximum of four awards of up to $50,000 each will be awarded to researchers proposing to use one or more datasets from the PK-3 Data Resource Center.

For questions about the RFP contact research@fcd-us.org.

For questions about the PK-3 Data Resource Center pk3@icpsr.umich.edu.

This Web site is hosted by ICPSR with support from the Foundation for Child Development.

2008-04-10

Multiple Versions of TIGER/Line Files Available at ICPSR

1990-2006 versions of TIGER/Line Files are now available for download. The new Web site, TIGER/Line Files@ICPSR offers data no longer available online from the US Census Bureau. TIGER is an acronym for Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing and provides users with the appropriate data to prepare maps through geographic information system (GIS) software packages.

As the Census Bureau states, "The TIGER/Line files are a digital database of geographic features, such as roads, railroads, rivers, lakes, legal boundaries, census statistical boundaries, etc., covering the entire United States. The database contains information about these features such as their location in latitude and longitude, the name, the type of feature, address ranges for most streets, the geographic relationship to other features, and other related information."

The cartographic information in these files reports on all counties and statistically equivalent entities in the United States as well as files for Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. Since its inception in 1988, the TIGER Line Files have been continually improved with updated address and more precise geographic data.

Researchers use TIGER data to build shapefiles that contain geographic attributes for points, lines, or polygons and are used in a variety of mapping applications. Once the shapefiles are loaded into GIS software packages, researchers can input subject matter data, such as Census population and housing information, as overlays on the maps.

ICPSR has the 1990 version of these files available as well as several versions based on Census 2000 information, including the most recent second edition files from 2006. Data for individual counties can be downloaded from special map or table interfaces on the Web site. Data for entire states may also be downloaded.

2008-04-01

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