Compustat University On-Demand Training for June

The Training department has recently released seven on-demand training modules to the new On-Demand Training Center; Six of these tutorials cover aspects of Compustat Data and two provide training for Xpressfeed. Look for new classes to be released in the coming months.

To view all the news in the Compustat University Newsletter

ICPSR Summer Program - CPES Workshop 2009

The Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES): Investigating Cultural and Ethnic Influences on Mental Health workshop will be held June 22-25 as part of the 2009 ICPSR Summer Program. Interested applicants may apply through the registration portal. The registration deadline is JUNE 8, and registration requires a CV and statement of interest. There is no tuition cost to participants.

New from OECD: Society at a Glance reveals evolving social trends in OECD countries

Press release on 04/05/2009 - The French spend more time sleeping than anyone else in OECD countries. They also devote more time to eating than anyone else and nearly double that of Americans, Canadians or Mexicans. The Japanese sleep nearly an hour less every night than the French and also spend longer at work and commuting than they do indulging in leisure activities.
These are some of the insights into the differing ways in which OECD countries use that most fundamental of resources, time, in the latest edition of Society at a Glance.

See Data and indicators link for spreadsheets of latest social indicator data.

ICPSR Webinar May 19: Multi-record and Hierarchical Set-up Files for ICPSR studies in SPSS

Join ICPSR for a Webinar on May 19:
Title: Multi-record and Hierarchical Set-up Files for ICPSR studies in SPSS
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Time: 1:00 AM - 2:00 PM EDT

This webinar will discuss the similarities and differences between multi-record and hierarchical set-up files for ICPSR studies. Codebooks for ICPSR studies will be reviewed to illustrate the similarities and differences of the set-up files being discussed. We will create a multi-record set-up file and consider the obstacles in creating a hierarchical one.

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/462579450

This webinar is open to the public - please forward this invitation to all who might be interested.

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

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System Requirements

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

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newe

ICPSR Webinar April 28 : When Setup Files Go Bad…. Debugging your SAS, SPSS, and STATA code so it works!

You found your study… you download your data… you run the setup file ICPSR provides… and the screen fills with errors. This webinar will address common problems in the setup files provided by ICPSR for data files.

Because most of ICPSR’s data processing is automated and the volume of data files is large and very heterogeneous in quality, size, and characteristics, the setup files and “ready-to-go” files do not always work perfectly. This webinar will help you to anticipate and fix many of these common problems.

When Setup Files Go Bad…. Debugging your SAS, SPSS, and STATA code so it works!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/765557907

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 OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

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."