Health Services for Homeless Population in Michigan

In a recent report of health care provided to homeless members of the community in Michigan, the Michigan Primary Care Association (MPCA) said that Michigan Health Centers provided care to 19,345 homeless individuals in 2011. The majority of individuals who received care (33%) reported living “doubled up” or with other family or individuals while 1.3% of those who received care and were homeless report living on the street.

MPCA presents this data in an interactive map format allowing users to view these and other data by region or Continuum of Care networks and year. 

Read more:
http://www.mpca.net/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=38#.UiXhDTashcY
http://www.mpca.net/  
http://www.thecampaigntoendhomelessness.org/MichigansCampaign/TheData.aspx

New Resources for a New Semester!

At themostsearched.org,we have been building up our holdings of interactive data-related resources that can be used to bring data into the classroom and challenge students to improve their quantitative literacy. These resources and other interactive data-related materials can be located on the main page of themostsearched.org by selecting “Tools for analysis, visualization, and course development” under “Instructor Resources.”

Three of the recent additions to the repository include:

• Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health State Snapshot which offers state ranking maps comparing each state to the national average on key Child Health Indicators from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN). 

• Pew Research Center Social Trends Interactives offers a variety of data visualization tools with varying degrees of interactivity. All resources are based on data that they have gathered. One example is “Race in America: Tracking 50 years of Demographic Trends,” a tool that allows the user to select a dimension like Life Expectancy, Marriage, and Poverty upon which to build the chart and displays the change over time by race. It also generates a table of the specified variable by year and race. 

• Bureau of Justice Statistics Dynamic Data Tools offers ten of its dataset including Arrest Data and Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics, in formats that allow the user to generate statistics, create tables of variables that they select, and in some cases, access “Quick Tables” of BJS-selected variables. There is also information on the study’s methodology, definitions of the variables, and other documentation.

     We hope that you have a great semester! 

Read more:

http://themostsearched.org/

http://themostsearched.blogspot.com/

http://www.pewresearch.org/category/interactives/

http://www.childhealthdata.org/browse/snapshots

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=daa

ICPSR Webinar Alert! Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research - Wed, August 28, 2 pm

ICPSR Webinar Alert! Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research - Wed, August 28, 2 pm EDT

The guiding principle behind the protocol is replicability: The documentation should be complete and transparent enough to allow an interested third party to easily and exactly reproduce all the steps of data management and analysis that led from the original data files to the results reported in the paper. We will describe what the protocol entails, and as an example we will show the documentation that an economics major assembled for his senior thesis last year.  We will also discuss a one and one-half day workshop we will be offering in October, aimed at instructors who are interested in teaching this research documentation protocol to their students.  

This webinar will be presented by Richard Ball, Associate Professor of Economics, Haverford College, and Norm Medeiros, Associate Librarian, Haverford College.  For more information, see www.haverford.edu/TIER

The webinar is free and open to all interested.  Please feel free to forward this invitation.

To register go to:  https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/967760842

Two weeks left for submissions to ICPSR 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 <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/prize/index.html>?

ICPSR invites submissions for our 2013 Research Paper Competition from undergraduates and master’s students at member institutions. 

The deadline for submissions is January 31!

The purpose of the competitions is to highlight exemplary research papers based on quantitative analysis. We are holding three contests this year:

1.  The ICPSR Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the ICPSR General Archive<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp>or Thematic Collections <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/partners/archives.html>.

2.  The IFSS Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the Integrated Fertility Survey Series<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IFSS/>

3.  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. <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD/>

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 and entry form are found here:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/prize/index.html

UPDATE: Webinar on using Quantitative Data in the Classroom today at *1 pm*

On Wednesday, June 27, at *1 pm*, EDT, ICPSR and the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) will host the third webinar in a series aimed at integrating quantitative data analysis into substantive undergraduate social sciences courses. This webinar will feature Dr. Jill Bouma, Associate Professor of Sociology at Berea College in Berea, KY, and Dr. Dana Greene, Research Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who will discuss how they challenge their students in lower-division courses to define and describe stratification in the U.S. and the world today.
Participants will learn how Dr. Bouma and Dr. Greene successfully lead their students through the investigation of topics such as income inequality, housing segregation, race, and gender using quantitative data and methods. In addition to promoting a deeper understanding of the content, students taught with these methods improve critical thinking skills and develop a greater appreciation of the social sciences. Viewers will also learn where they can access some of Dr. Bouma and Dr. Greene's teaching materials to adapt for their own use.
Pre-registration is not required. To view the webinar, visit https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/978777294 a few minutes before *1 p.m.* on Wednesday, June 27.