News
NCES Training Opportunities
4/4/2008
Every summer, the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Center for Education Statistics schedule seminars and workshops focusing on datasets and their use. Among the featured datasets:
- National Assessment of Adult Literacy
- Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
- National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88)
- Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)
- Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)
- Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Most are held in the Washington, DC area and require no fee. There are stipends to assist with costs of travel, accommodations, and meals. See the IES Training Connection site for more information.
National Longitudinal Surveys Release Schedule
3/20/2008
The following release schedule was published in the most recent NLS News (number 08-130):
NLSY79: The 2006 round (22nd round) will be released as a merged dataset with previous rounds in spring 2008. Round 23 will be in the field in early 2008.
NLSY79 Child/Young Adult: A preliminary release of the 2006 round has been available since mid-2007. The merged dataset (1986-2006) is due for release in late spring or early summer 2008.
NLSY97: Round 10 (2006) data are scheduled for release in late summer or early fall 2008.
Subscribe to the NLS Update news alerts for current information on data releases and user conferences, and to receive the quarterly NLS News (also available in PDF).
ICPSR 2008 Summer Program Schedule
2/22/2008
Course and workshop descriptions for the 2008 Summer Program are now on the ICPSR web site, and applications are accepted online. There are fee discounts for those applying before May 1, 2008. (Those affiliated with Cornell are charged at the member rate.)
Please review the course descriptions carefully for any application deadlines. Competitive workshops have application deadlines, and the statistical three- and five-day workshops have enrollment caps. A few, such as Quantitative Analysis of Crime and Criminal Justice and Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, award stipends on a competitive basis.
Please feel free to contact the Summer Program staff directly with questions or Pam Baxter, Cornell's representative to ICPSR.
Release of the 2007 Merged Outgoing Rotation Group
1/10/2008 ** updated 3/31/2008 **
The National Bureau of Economic Research has released the 2007 Merged Outgoing Rotation Group data file. For the first time, the Stata files and documentation are available for download fom the NBER site.
CISER has replaced all of its Stata files with the newest NBER release. Download the file cph013_readme.rtf for additional information.
Small Grants for Data Archiving and Use of Secondary Data
3/6/2008
The American Educational Research Association's grants program is designed to encourage use of large-scale datasets, especially those produced by NCES and NSF. Research Grants and Dissertation Grants are available for amounts up to $20,000 and $15,000 per year, respectively. Proposals are reviewed three times per year. See links from the AERA Research and Training page for deadlines and application information.
SIPP 2004 Panel Release Schedule
1/8/2008
The Census Bureau maintains a product release schedule for the Survey of Income and Program Participation 2004 panel. Consult that document for news about the core, topical module, and technical files.
Compustat Files Updated
10/5/2007
Compustat data files in the U:\ArchiveData\compustat\ have been updated. Documentation is located in U:\ArchiveData\compustat\compustat_docs\ . Cutoff date is June 2007.
This year, the names of the SAS dataset files and variables reflect the structure of Compustat on WRDS. Users will have to review programs used with Compustat files in the past to accommodate these differences. Please notify Data Archive staff if you encounter problems using these files.
Center for Research in Security Prices Files Updated
3/29/2007
CRSP data files in the following Athena directories and their subdirectories have been updated:
U:\ArchiveData\crsp\bond
U:\ArchiveData\crsp\dx
U:\ArchiveData\crsp\indices
U:\ArchiveData\crsp\mutualfund
U:\ArchiveData\crsp\mz
Cutoff date is December 31, 2006.