Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/

There are data sets available through the (SAMHDA); http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/SAMHDA/download

You may be able to perform online data analysis from many data sets on the ICPSR Website without downloading files:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/SAMHDA/help/index.html
•CDC Data Sets:
Try here for a large listing: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/ftp_data.htm
Or: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/data_tools.htm

Examples:
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

SMART: BRFSS City and County Data

Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends

Annual Survey Data
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/smart/technical_infodata.htm

National Survey of Family Growth
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/nsfg_2006_2010_puf.htm
•The data set located in Course Information. Though the course info indicated SPSS to open the data set,
•Epi-info is free to download from the CDC and may have some available data sets. http://wwwn.cdc.gov/epiinfo/
•SPSS Sample Data Sets that came with the software (If you have SPSS, this could be one of many options to choose from)
•Possibly: http://www.phf.org/Pages/default.aspx or http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html#National%20Public%20Health%20Data%20Sets
See section: “Sources of Data”. “National Public Health Data Sets”. “State and Local Public Health Data Sets”.

You are also free to use any statistical software that you are familiar with. Epi Info is a free statistical software which is available for download from CDC at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/epiinfo/

One of these data sets will be used to complete the manuscript assignment. You are not required to submit any assignment this week. Each application throughout this course is a building block towards the completed manuscript.

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Note: If you would like to work in a small group of no more than four individuals, please select your group members and notify the Instructor. If working in groups, please see the group self-grading rubric in Course Information. Students working in groups must complete the rubric in order to receive a grade on the manuscript. Failure to complete the rubric as required may result in a zero on the assignment for that individual.

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