References to data of demographic interest that are stored in machine-readable form and to computer programs and microcomputer software for demographic analysis. All MRDFs coded under this heading are cross-referenced to specific subject categories as appropriate. Articles concerned with the availability of MRDFs are also included.
65:10756 Ellis, Mark; Reibel, Michael; Wright,
Richard. Comparative metropolitan area analysis: matching
the 1980 and 1990 census Public Use Microdata Samples for metropolitan
areas. Urban Geography, Vol. 20, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1999. 75-92 pp.
Palm Beach, Florida. In Eng.
"The 1980 and 1990 Public Use
Microdata Samples (PUMS) of the U.S. Census contained detailed
information on individuals in large samples. The incompatible PUMS
metropolitan geographies across these census years, however, compromise
use of these data. In this note, we discuss a procedure to match the
geography of the 100 most populous metropolitan areas in the 1980 and
1990 PUMS. Programmed in SAS, this set of matched metropolitan areas
facilitates comparative urban analysis for 1980 and 1900. The code can
be downloaded from a website
(http://baja.sscnet.ucla.edu/~ellis/metrocode.html)."
Correspondence: M. Ellis, University of California, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524. E-mail: ellis@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
65:10757 GeoLytics (East Brunswick, New
Jersey). CensusCD blocks: complete U.S. block data and
maps. Dec 14, 1998. East Brunswick, New Jersey. In Eng.
This
CDROM contains complete demographic and housing data and map boundaries
from the U.S. Census Bureau for all 7 million census blocks. "This
single CD contains all the population and housing data from the Census
Bureau's STF 1B and PL94-171 files, the latest TIGER boundaries, and
over 50 geographic identifiers including 1980 FIPS codes, and ZIP Code
to census block relationships. CensusCD Blocks incorporates many other
value added data items and tools such calculating population and their
characteristics by distance around a point and enables customized data
and map extracts based on user-defined variables or geographic
identifiers. The ZIP/census block relationship also provides, for the
first time, instant access to the geographic basis of the Census
Bureau's STF 3B ZIP Code statistics." A 14-page users' guide is
included.
Correspondence: GeoLytics, P. O. Box 10, East
Brunswick, NJ 08816. E-mail: info@Geolytics.com. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
65:10758 Imhof, Arthur E.
Historical Demography II: answering the challenge of new media
technologies. [Historische Demographie II: eine Antwort auf die
Herausforderung durch die neuen medialen Technologien.] Zeitschrift
für Bevölkerungswissenschaft, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1998. 111-22
pp. Wiesbaden, Germany. In Ger. with sum. in Eng; Fre.
The author
describes Historical Demography II, an "image-based web
presentation (URL: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ethnohis/hd2bkl.htm)
which was realised from 1995 to 1997. Dozens of votive pictures from
Bavaria [Germany], dating from the early seventeenth century to the
present day and accompanied by a multitude of comments, are used
to...demonstrate demographically-relevant events or conditions in the
areas of pregnancy and birth, human longevity, illnesses and accidents,
wars and crimes, dying and death."
Correspondence: A.
E. Imhof, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich
Geschichtswissenschaften, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin 33,
Germany. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
