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.
65:41661 Blodgett, John. Building
an archive of U.S. census related data products. IASSIST
Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter 1995. 7-11 pp. Los Angeles,
California. In Eng.
"The consortium for International Earth
Sciences Information Network (CIESIN), in conjunction with the Urban
Information Center at the University of Missouri St. Louis has
established a public archive of United States census data. The data are
available via the Internet using FTP and/or a WWW browser. Currently
the archive contains map boundary files for all common geographic units
used in the census (including census blocks, block groups, tracts,
counties, etc.) in a standard ASCII (BNA) format. Data extracted from
the 1990 decennial census Summary Tape File 3 (STF3) are provided in a
format that makes it easy to link with the boundary files to create
thematic maps with widely available GIS software such as Atlas GIS,
ArcView and MapInfo. These data files are organized by state and
geographic level.... This paper discusses the content of the archive as
well as describing some of the details of how and why it was
constructed."
Correspondence: J. Blodgett, University
of Missouri, Urban Information Center, St. Louis, MO 63121.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
65:41662 Lévy, Michel L.
Demographic information on CDROM. [L'information
démographique sur cédérom.] Population et
Sociétés, No. 347, Jun 1999. 4 pp. Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques [INED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
The
increasing availability of official national statistics in France in
CDROM format is examined on the occasion of the publication of the 1999
edition of the Tableaux de l' Economie Française [Tables on the
French Economy] in this format. The author describes the various ways
in which data in CDROM format can be accessed and used for educational
purposes in ways that are not possible if these data are only published
in hard-copy format.
Correspondence: Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques, 133 boulevard Davout, 75980 Paris Cedex
20, France. E-mail: ined@ined.fr. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
65:41663 Musgrave, Simon. Making
data visible: an introduction to the NESSTAR client software. Data
Archive Bulletin, No. 72, Sep 1999. 1-7 pp. Colchester, England. In
Eng.
This article is an introduction to the NESSTAR (Networked
European Social Science Tools) Project and the beta version of its
client software. "NESSTAR is [a] joint development of the UK Data
Archive, the Norwegian Social Science Data Service and the Danish Data
Archive. It has been funded by the IVth framework programme of [the]
European Union, under the Information Engineering programme. The
application will enable the leading social science data archives, and
other data publishers, to provide radically enhanced on-line services.
[NESSTAR is] a seamlessly integrated data discovery, analysis and
dissemination system based on Java technology and a newly developed
metadata standard expressed as an XML-DTD.... NESSTAR might be
described as a virtual data library offering global access to locally
supported holdings." A CD-ROM of the Beta 2 version of the NESSTAR
Explorer software is included with this issue. The latest version can
be downloaded from www.nesstar.org.
Correspondence: S.
Musgrave, University of Essex, Data Archive, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester
CO4 3SQ, England. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
65:41664 Newburger, Eric C.
Computer use in the United States. Current Population Reports,
Series P-20: Population Characteristics, No. 522, Sep 1999. 11 pp. U.S.
Bureau of the Census: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
Information on
computer ownership and use in the United States is presented using data
collected in the Current Population Survey from October 1984, 1989,
1993, and 1997. Some information is also included from the 1997 CPS on
Internet use.
Correspondence: U.S. Government Printing
Office, Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop SSOM, Washington, D.C.
20402. E-mail: pop@census.gov. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
65:41665 Ruggles, Steven; Hall, Patricia
K. IPUMS: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.
Historical Methods, Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer 1999. 158 pp. Heldref
Publications: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This special issue is
concerned with the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), a
coherent national data base describing the characteristics of 55
million Americans in 13 census years spanning the period from 1850
through 1990. The "introduction provides a short history of the
ongoing IPUMS project, where it stands at present, new features and
improvements added since our 1995 release, and what we hope to
accomplish in the next few years. Separate articles describe the IPUMS
documentation and data extraction system in detail. Additional articles
discuss procedures for creating new historical census samples at the
University of Minnesota. Topics include the new 1860 and 1870 census
samples, the 1910 Black and Hispanic Oversamples, our evolving
procedures for interpreting census manuscript responses, and techniques
for identifying metropolitan areas."
Correspondence:
Heldref Publications, 1319 Eighteenth Street NW, Washington, D.C.
20036-1802. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
