OECD Highlights December 2012

Lack of support for motherhood hurting women’s career prospects, despite gains in education and employment, says Closing the Gender Gap: Act Now

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Effects of Reducing Gender Gaps in Education and Labour Force Participation on Economic Growth in the OECD: Working paper

 Growth, skills and education are the keys to inclusive regional development, says Promoting Growth in All Regions:

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Data Highlight: AHA Annual Survey Database (American Hospital Association

This core database from the American Hospital Association contains comprehensive hospital survey data from 6,500 hospitals surveyed about their operations. New facility and service categories are added each year. Data can be used to identify health care trends. Variables include: demographics, organizational structure, facilities and services, utilization data, community orientation indicators, physician arrangements, managed care relationships and expenses. Years owned include 1993, 2000, 2009 and 2010. Restricted to Boston College community. 

Questions? Contact Barbara Mento: barbara.mento@bc.edu

ICPSR Student Research Paper Competition

Students:  Have you just completed a research paper?  Faculty:  Have you just read an outstanding research paper?  Why not submit it to The ICPSR Research Paper Competition?

ICPSR invites submissions for our 2013 Research Paper Competition from undergraduates and master’s students at member institutions. The purpose of the competitions is to highlight exemplary research papers based on quantitative analysis. We are holding three contests this year:

• The ICPSR Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the ICPSR General Archive or Thematic Collections.

• The IFSS Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the Integrated Fertility Survey Series.

• The RCMD Research Paper Competition, for analyses on issues relating to minorities in the United States, including immigrants, using data from the Resource Center for Minority Data.

All competitions are open to students currently pursuing or who recently received undergraduate or master’s degrees.

The awards are $1,000 for first place and $750 for second place in each category.

More information is found here: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/prize/index.html 

ICPSR New Data December 2012

33201 Monitoring Drug Epidemics and the Markets That Sustain Them, Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) and ADAM II Data, 2000-2003 and 2007-2010 
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33201.v1

34483 Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA Study), 1996-2008: Demographic Data 
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34483.v1

28421 Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES): 2006 Cohort [United States] 
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28421.v3

ICPSR includes an increasing number of text data for qualitative research. 

33501 Congressional Record for 104th-109th Congresses: Text and Phrase Counts 
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33501.v1

This qualitative data collection contains original and processed text from the United States Congressional Record for the 104th-109th Congresses. The Congressional Record includes text from both chambers, the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. For each Congress the archive includes the original tagged text files, parsed files that separate the text into individual speeches, speaker metadata that can be linked to the parsed files, and counts of two-word phrases (bigrams) by speaker, party, and date.

New ICPSR Studies December 2012

New Family Structures Study (ICPSR 34392)

Summary: The New Family Structure Study (NFSS) is a comparative, social-science data-collection project, which focused on American young adults (ages 18-39) who were raised in different types of family arrangements with varying household experiences. The sample included respondents that had lived in biologically-intact households, lived with cohabiting parents, adoptive, step, or single parents, with parents who had same-sex relationships, or with parents who remarried after divorce.

Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2010 (ICPSR 34366)

Summary: Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2010 provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death, as well as those who had their sentences commuted or vacated and prisoners who were executed. This study examines basic sociodemographic classifications including age, sex, race and ethnicity, marital status at time of imprisonment, level of education, and State and region of incarceration.