53:10890 Cleland, J.
G. A new service for demographic analysts: the Dynamic
Data Base. Population Index, Vol. 52, No. 4, Winter 1986. 650-7
pp. Princeton, New Jersey. In Eng.
This is an introduction to the
services available through the Dynamic Data Base (DDB), set up in 1984
at the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in Voorburg, the
Netherlands. The primary objective of the DDB is to promote
policy-relevant analysis of demographic and related data. Although
originally consisting of files containing survey data from 40 of the
developing countries participating in the World Fertility Survey (WFS),
its holdings have expanded so that by the end of 1986, the DDB held
over 250 files relating to individuals, households, and communities
from surveys in some 60 countries. The article includes information on
holdings, documentation and archiving procedures, data access, software
development and distribution, and analysis
training.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
53:10891
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
[ICPSR] (Ann Arbor, Michigan). Guide to resources and
services, 1986-1987. [1986?]. 717 pp. Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
This annual publication provides a catalog of machine-readable data
files in the archives of the Inter-University Consortium for Political
and Social Research (ICPSR). A section of the catalog gives
information on census enumerations in machine-readable form. A section
on the United States is divided into subsections on the historical and
modern censuses, the Annual Housing Survey, the Current Population
Survey, and other census files, including county and city data books.
Files containing population data for countries other than the United
States are listed in a separate section; it consists of files on
Brazil, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.
A section is also
included on social institutions and behavior. Subsections on
minorities, religion, youth, age and the life cycle, crime, leisure,
and vital statistics are provided. The three vital statistics files
listed all concern the United States.
For the 1984-1985 guide, see
51:10883.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
53:10892 Pumain,
Denise; Riandey, Benoit; Bringe, Arnaud. Urbanization in
France [MRDF]. [Urbanisation de la France.] Jan 1987. Institut
National d'Etudes Demographiques [INED] [producer and distributor]:
Paris, France. In Fre.
This data set consists of two files: a file
for communes, which contains 5,198 logical records (with a record
length of 413 characters), and a file for urban units, which contains
2,466 logical records (with a record length of 354 characters). An
accompanying codebook is available. The data concern the formation of
urban units in France between 1831 and 1982
Information is included
on a unit's size at each census, location, and annexation to bordering
units. The data may be useful for research activities, such as an
examination of urbanization in France over the long term or a detailed
study of the growth of a single agglomeration.
Source:
Distributor's announcement.
53:10893 United
States. Bureau of the Census (Washington, D.C.). Census of
Population and Housing, 1980: Summary Tape File 1G--Puerto Rico,
Neighborhood Statistics [MRDF]. 1986. U.S. Bureau of the Census
[producer and distributor]: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"The file has
a logical record length of 2,700 characters with two record segments of
1,350 characters each. The block size for the file varies with user
specifications." Accompanying documentation and reference materials
are available. Population and housing data are provided for all
persons and housing units in Puerto Rico participating in the
Neighborhood Statistics Program. "Population items tabulated include
age, sex, marital status, household type, and household
relationship....Data are presented in 52 tables consisting of 256
cells...."
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Data User
Services Division, Data Developments, No. IX-55, Nov 1986.
53:10894 United
States. Bureau of the Census (Washington, D.C.). County
Statistics File 2 (CO-STAT 2) [MRDF]. 1986. U.S. Bureau of the
Census [producer and distributor]: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This is
a collection of three files: a data file, containing 3,191 records
(with a record length of 13,293 characters); a footnote file,
containing 76,496 records (with a record length of 19 characters); and
a data dictionary file, containing 4,941 records (with a record length
of 112 characters). Technical documentation is also available. "The
file provides data for the United States, 50 States and the District of
Columbia, and 3,139 counties or county equivalents defined as of
January 1, 1983." The data are from a variety of federal agencies and
private organizations. "The file contains data for the following
general areas: age, agriculture, banking, business, construction,
crime, education, elections, government, health, households, housing,
labor, land area, manufactures, money income, personal income,
population, poverty, retail trade, service industries, social insurance
and human services, veterans, vital statistics, wholesale trade, and
journey to work."
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Data
User Services Division, Data Developments, No. IX-60, Dec 1986.
53:10895 United
States. Bureau of the Census (Washington, D.C.).
Projections of the Spanish Origin Population of the United States:
1983 to 2080 [MRDF]. 1986. U.S. Bureau of the Census [producer and
distributor]: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"The computer tape comprises
two files, a Spanish origin [U.S.] population file and a Spanish origin
immigration file." The population file contains 299,880 logical
records (with a record length of 288 characters), and the immigration
file contains 306 logical records (with a record length of 144
characters). There is accompanying documentation. The immigration
file includes projections by age, sex, and race for each year.
"For
July 1 of each year, 1983 to 2080, the population file presents 30
series of projections classified by age, sex, and race. These
projections are based on July 1, 1982 population estimates and race
definitions, and are projected forward using the cohort-component
method with alternate assumptions on future fertility, mortality, and
net immigration. Projections are provided for 102 age categories...and
3 race categories...."
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census,
Data User Services Division, Data Developments, No. IX-54, Nov 1986.
53:10896 United
States. Bureau of the Census (Washington, D.C.). State and
Metropolitan Area Data Book, 1986, Files on Diskette [MRDF]. 1986.
U.S. Bureau of the Census [producer and distributor]: Washington, D.C.
In Eng.
These three files--states, Metropolitan Statistical Areas
(MSAs) and their component counties, and MSAs and their central
cities--contain 65 records, 1,062 records, and 1,466 records,
respectively. The files are available on 5 1/4 inch, IBM-format
diskettes and have accompanying documentation. Included in the files
are data for the United States from "the 1980 Census of Population and
Housing, the 1982 Economic Censuses, the 1982 Census of Agriculture,
and other data from a number of Federal government and private
agencies." The general areas covered are "area and population,
households, vital statistics, health, Social Security, Supplemental
Security Income, crime, housing, journey to work, education, labor
force, personal income, money income, government employment and
finances, manufactures, wholesale and retail trade, service industries,
banking, elections and agriculture."
Source: U.S. Bureau of
the Census, Data User Services Division, Data Developments, No. IX-49,
Oct 1986.
53:10897 University
of Tromso. Norwegian Historical Data Archives (Tromso,
Norway). The Norwegian Censuses of 1865, 1875, and 1900
and Norwegian Parish Registers [MRDF]. [1981?]. University of
Tromso, Norwegian Historical Data Archives [producer and distributor]:
Tromso, Norway. In Nor.
These files are continually updated and, as
of January 1987, contain approximately 700,000 records of variable
record length. The data base includes information on individuals found
in nineteenth-century Norwegian censuses and parish registers and will
on completion be a national data register of all such
individuals.
"The source material gives information about
individuals who can be identified by sex, name, age and place of birth.
In addition the lists carry information about occupation, household
structures, nationality and religious affinity. The censuses are
organized so that one can see who lived together in a household. The
ministerial records are in chronological order. [The] computerized
versions, however, can be classified and arranged by any criteria found
in the original source material...." Output from the files is
available in printed form, on floppy disk, or on
tape.
Source: Distributor's announcement.
