New ICPSR Data March 2013

• 26381 National Survey of Juvenile Justice Professionals, 2005-2007 [United States]
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26381.v1
• 30461 Eurobarometer 72.4: Globalization, Financial and Economic Crisis, Social Change and Values, EU Policies and Decision Making, and Global Challenges, October-November 2009
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30461.v1
• 31401 The Impact of Childhood Behavior Problems on Child Care and Employment Decision-Making: A Nationally Representative Panel Study
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31401.v1
• 34182 Determinants of Chicago Neighborhood Homicide Trends, 1980-2000
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34182.v1
• 34319 Annual Probation Survey, 2008
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34319.v1
• 34320 Annual Probation Survey, 2009
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34320.v1
• 34543 Computer Assisted Quality of Life and Symptom Assessment of Complex Patients from April 2011-August 2012: Chicago, Illinois
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34543.v1

Roper Opinion Polls- Hot Topics March 2013

Topics At A Glance: Crime/Gun Regulation

Topics At A Glance: Immigration

Topics At A Glance: Economy

Topics At A Glance: Health Care

New ICPSR Studies

34430 Mathematics Teaching in the 21st Century
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34430.v1

33822 Integrated Public Health Surveys, 2010-2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33822.v1

27541 Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, 1997-2010 -- Concatenated Data [United States]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27541.v2

30821 Children at Risk in the Child Welfare System: Collaborations to Promote School Readiness
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30821.v1

34563 Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults From All Five Sites of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment, 2008-2010 [Public Use Data]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34563.v1

What's New OECD

National Accounts at a Glance 2013
http://dx.doi.org.proxy.bc.edu/10.1787/na_glance-2013-en


OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

PISA 2012 Assessment and Analytical Framework

Mathematics, Reading, Science, Problem Solving and Financial Literacy

http://dx.doi.org.proxy.bc.edu/10.1787/9789264190511-en

Do Policies that Reduce Unemployment Raise its Volatility? Evidence from OECD Countries. Working Paper
http://dx.doi.org.proxy.bc.edu/10.1787/5k4c9kmlg08v-en 

OECD Highlights: OECD Factbook 2013 and more . .

OECD Factbook 2013: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics

OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2012 analyses the role of productivity as the main driver of economic growth and convergence and the contributions of labour, capital and Multi-Factor Productivity (MFP) in driving economic growth.

Grade Expectations: How Marks and Education PoliciesShape Students' Ambitions.

New ICPSR Data

30103 How Couples Meet and Stay Together (HCMST), Wave I 2009, Wave II 2010, Wave III 2011, United States  

      http://dx.doi.org.proxy.bc.edu/10.3886/ICPSR30103.v5

34521 Little Emperors: Behavioral Impacts of China's One-Child Policy 

http://dx.doi.org.proxy.bc.edu/10.3886/ICPSR34521.v1

21187 Exploring the Drugs-Crime Connection Within the Electronic Dance Music and Hip Hop Nightclub Scenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005-2006

http://dx.doi.org.proxy.bc.edu/10.3886/ICPSR21187.v1

New Access to the China Data Center

Boston College faculty and students now have access to a very large database of  data on China called the China Data Center, out of the University of Michigan.

The China Data Center provides an extensive collection of China data with macro-economic data at the monthly, national, provincial, county and city geographic levels. The site also contains monthly and yearly industrial data from 1999-2002 and the Provincial, city and national yearbooks. Additional data is available from Census 1982, 1990, and 2000 along with Industrial Census 1995, and Economic Census 2004.

Questions? Contact Barbara Mento, Data/GIS Librarian