Webinar on March 24: Finding What You Want or Wanting What You Find at ICPSR

Have you ever found it challenging to find data, documentation, or help files at the ICPSR site? Do you approach the ICPSR site in the same way every time you search? Have you found things you didn’t expect when searching the site?

In this Webinar, an experienced ICPSR researcher who has spent a lot of time helping students and faculty find data, will work through a collection of search strategies for finding the types of information you need from ICPSR.

Serendipitous discoveries and orderly search logic will be explored during this webinar

Title: Finding What You Want or Wanting What You Find at ICPSR
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

To register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/480944329

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

ICPSR Releases Integrated Fertility Survey Series (IFSS) Website

ICPSR announced the launch of the Integrated Fertility Survey Series (IFSS) project website, which is located at:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IFSS/

"With funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, the Integrated Fertility Survey Series project seeks to produce a harmonized dataset of U.S. family and fertility surveys spanning the 1955-2002 period, including the 1955 and 1960 Growth of American Families (GAF); the 1965 and 1970 National Fertility Surveys (NFS); and the 1973, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1995, and 2002 National Surveys of Family Growth (NSFG). The Integrated Fertility Survey Series (IFSS) and its associated data products will facilitate analyses across time, yielding new insights into changes in fertility and the family."

Introduction to Nvivo8 Qualitative Analysis March 13, 2009 12:00 to 1:00 pm, O'Neill 245

This workshop provides an introductory demonstration of how to use Nvivo8 for qualitative analysis. Nvivo8 can be used to eliminate the problems of managing large amounts of qualitative data, can be used to code and re-code qualitative data, keep an audit trail of the analysis process, and supports both individual researchers and research teams in discussing coding and analysis issues. This course is intended for beginning users of Nvivo 8.

This workshop will be given in a demonstration (non-hands on) format:

• Getting started with Nvivo8
• Thinking about qualitative research design
• Source Preparation
• Nodes
• Attribute Variables
• Data importing and data analysis examples
• Comparison with other qualitative research packages such as HyperResearch and Atlas.ti

To sign up for a tutorial, please send email to researchservices@bc.edu with the name of the tutorial that you are interested in attending.

TAQ is back

March 2, 2009 – TAQ available again on WRDS

From WRDS:

TAQ is once again available on WRDS. We’re continuing to look into the issues affecting the TAQ data.

More information will be forthcoming and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Problem report from WRDS: TAQ - hardware issue

February 27, 2009 – TAQ hardware issue.

WRDS has experienced a hardware issue affecting access to the TAQ data.

We are troubleshooting the issue and Sun experts have been contacted. An update will be posted on the WRDS website when access to TAQ has been restored.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

ICPSR Webinar: Analyze Data Online on Demand - an Introduction to SDA! Free Webinar on February 24

SDA is an online (Web-based) data analysis tool developed at UC Berkeley and offered by ICPSR. In this webinar, we will introduce the tool, locate studies that have this option, and demonstrate how to use it. This tool is offered on select studies that are freely available and those limited to ICPSR members-only access.

This webinar is open to the public - please share this invitation with any who may be interested.
To register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/886620306


Title: ICPSR Webinar: Analyze Data Online on Demand - an Introduction to SDA!
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements

PC-based attendees
Required: Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh-based attendees
Required: Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) or newer

Secondary Data Research Resources February 11, 2009

Date: February 11, 2009
Time: 12:00 - 1:00p.m.
Place: Gasson 9

Registration: To sign up for a tutorial, please send email to researchservices@bc.edu with the name of the tutorial.

Co-taught by:
Rani Dalgin, ITS, Research Services and Barbara Mento, Data/GIS Librarian

Details: Boston College offers many sources and repositories of data for secondary research in the social sciences, education, nursing, economics, business and other disciplines. This workshop is particularly geared to researchers who need to access, analyze and manipulate data from BC's subscription data repositories. This tutorial will help you: find the data you need for your research or class project; learn about the Boston College collection of data resources in the Statistical Data Catalog; and how to download the data onto your desktop, including how to import into quantitative analytical tools such as SPSS. Get a tour of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, a data archive that includes over 5,000 datasets. We will also discuss the library’s guides to key Business, Economics, Education, Health, and General U.S. and cross-national data sources. Topics may be customized based on attendees’ research interests.