57:20817 Bouchard,
Gerard. SOREP annual report, 1989-90. ISBN
2-920803-11-5. Sep 1990. viii, 204 pp. Centre Interuniversitaire de
Recherches sur les Populations [SOREP]: Chicoutimi, Canada. In Eng.
This report summarizes SOREP activities for the year 1989-1990. It
includes a description of the management and development of the BALSAC
population register and of the research programs in regional societies
and in human genetics. "The data base consists of a central register
(individual and family biographies) and secondary, or peripheral,
registers containing more specialized data of a demographic, economic,
social, cultural, medical, or other nature drawn from various
sources....The subject of study is all of Quebec, from the beginnings
of settlement in the 17th century to recent years (up to 1986, at
present). Except for the Saguenay, Charlevoix and Iles-de-la-Madeleine
regions, the content of the BALSAC register is limited to marriage
certificates. The register is based on computerized data linkage and
allows the automatic reconstruction of individual life-courses, family
histories, and genealogies. The data is managed using the
INGRES/INGRID data base management system."
Correspondence:
Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherches sur les Populations, 555
boulevard de l'Universite, Chicoutimi, Quebec G7H 2B1, Canada.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:20818 Carbaugh,
Larry W.; Marx, Robert W. The TIGER system: a Census
Bureau innovation serving data analysts. Government Information
Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3, [1990]. 285-306 pp. Greenwich, Connecticut.
In Eng.
This article describes the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER
(Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) system,
an automated geographic data base. The emphasis is on the availability
of file extracts and their usefulness to data analysts. In addition to
describing the available files, it mentions various applications for
the data, explains the data limitations, and notes problems encountered
to date.
Correspondence: L. W. Carbaugh, U.S. Bureau of the
Census, Data User Services, State and Regional Programs Staff,
Washington, D.C. 20233. Location: Princeton University
Library (SF).
57:20819 D'Souza,
Stan; Karim, M.; Razzaque, A. The 1982 data base update of
the population laboratory at Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for
mortality analysis. In: Measurement and analysis of mortality:
new approaches, edited by Jacques Vallin, Stan D'Souza, and Alberto
Palloni. 1990. 11-34 pp. Oxford University Press: New York, New
York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
The authors evaluate the 1982
database update of the population laboratory at Matlab, Bangladesh,
which is run by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease
Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). "This chapter...briefly documents
field procedures utilized for the 1982 update...and the changes
introduced in the system in order to ensure appropriate capture of
events due to movement of the population. These new procedures
facilitated the establishment of a computerized data base that allows
researchers to effect appropriate linkages of records and to carry out
analysis within the ICDDR,B....This chapter attempts to illustrate the
power of an integrated data base within a Third World context of
mortality and morbidity studies, where data on explanatory variables
are rarely available."
Correspondence: S. D'Souza, United
Nations Development Programme, Cotonou, Benin. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
