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IAP 2010: Finding Research Datasets: ICPSR and the Harvard-MIT Data Center
Need data to answer a research question? Interested in analyzing raw datasets with micro-level records about individual respondents? This hands-on workshop will familiarize you with the resources of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Harvard-MIT Data Center, which provide access to datasets in the social sciences and related fields. Topics will [...]  
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Family Life

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An interesting trend in family life, one that almost everyone knows about, is the growth in single parent families. So, it isn't much surprise to anyone that many households ( 60 percent in 2006 ) with a female householder contain children. It might be slightly more surprising to know that almost half of households with an unmarried male householder have children. Some might see this as evidence for a sudden increase in men taking custody of children in the event of divorce. It is not. No, this is because of an increase in unmarried couples living together with children, sometimes their own children, sometimes ... Read Full Story

Social Security

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One potentially worrisome consequence of our population aging is the viability of our social security system. Generally speaking the majority of the United States population is concerned that we are spending too little on social security. This percentage has been growing from about 50 percent in the early 1990s to 64 percent in 2006, the time of the last General Social Survey . At the end of the Clinton administration, when we were actually running a budget surplus social security was actually in pretty good shape and only minor adjustments were necessary to whether the years supporting the baby boom generation . With the ... Read Full Story

Maternal employment

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Today, most mothers are employed , and the majority of employed mothers are working full time. This is especially true of mothers of older children, but even among mothers of infants, half (51.9%) are employed and by far most of these mothers are e mployed full-time. These high levels of maternal employment reflect a substantial social change since the 1960s and 70s . Yet, maternal employment has not grown substantially since the late 1990s, despite the passing of legislation (e.g. the Family Medical Leave Act, 1993) that should have improved women’s ability to combine paid work with child rearing. Trends in maternal employment spark ... Read Full Story

Got Art?

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In 2006 the General Social Survey asked respondents whether they saw themselves as having few artistic interests. The graph below presents their responses. We can see fluctuations by age. Generally, young adults often have artistic interests, and this sharply declines in what one might refer to as the early career stage (age 25-44). After this stage, the proportion saying that they don’t have artistic interests declines up until retirement. After retirement, the artistic folks seem to suddenly decrease. This led me to wonder whether artistic people are more likely to die young. Or have there been cohort changes in artistic interests so that (for ... Read Full Story

Demography of Aging and Health

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Given the aging of the United States (and for that matter, the world) population, health is a growing industry. As explained by Understanding Society there is a similarity between sociology (the home discipline of demography) and epidemiology. One place where these two disciplines actually intersect is in the study of social influences on health and disease. A persistent finding in the health literature is that education has a strong influence on health and mortality. Age-adjusted death rates for both men and women age 25-64 are much lower for those with higher levels of education, as illustrated by these results published in a report by ... Read Full Story
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