Exemplary Uses of Microdata for Research
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Introduction to the Uses of Microdata |
Uses
of Microdata, from the IPUMS site at the University of Minnesota.
Illustrative Use of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Analytic Use Of Economic Microdata: A Model For Researcher Access With Confidentiality Protection, by Robert H Mcguckin. 1990 PUMS Utilities, created by the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, University of Virginia. Analysis of the SARs using SPSS for Windows A technical handout on using British Census microdata provided by Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester. Analysis of the SARs using Stata A handout on using British Census microdata provided by Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester.
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Exemplary Uses of Microdata for Research |
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National Survey Data to Analyze Children’s Health Insurance Coverage: An
Assessment of Issues, by John L. Czajka and Kimball Lewis, Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc. May 21, 1999
Use of Census Data in Transportation Planning: San Francisco Bay Area Case Study,by Charles L. Purvis, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California How Do the Elderly in Taiwan Fare Cross-Nationally? Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study Project, by Peter Saunders and Timothy M. Smeeding. Social Policy Research Centre, Discussion Paper, No.81 Understanding Productivity: Lessons from Longitudinal Microdata, by Eric J. Bartelsman, Free University, Amsterdam, and Mark Doms, Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Jobs, Skills, Location and Discrimination: An Analysis of Milwaukee's Inner City and Metro Areas, by Robert Drago, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 1994 The Research Potential of the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs), as demonstrated by Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester.
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Manipulating/ Managing Extracted Microdata |
S-Plus
Function Guide: Data Manipulation
A guide to data
manipulation with S-Plus, provided by the Insightful Corporation. SAS Learning Modules for Data Management & Analysis A SAS data management tutorial, by the Academic Technology Service, UCLA
An online technical
document on SAS time series data management, by SAS Institute. SAS: Data Transformations and Data Manipulation A guide to data
transformation and data manipulation with SAS, by the Academic Technology
Service, UCLA. This document, created at the University
of Texas - Austin, describes the use of SPSS to create and modify
tables which can be exported to other applications. Graphical displays
of data are also discussed, including bar graphs and scatterplots as well
as a discussions on how to modify graphs using the SPSS Chart Editor and
Interactive Graphs. This module, created at the University
of Texas - Austin, describes the use of SPSS to do advanced data manipulation
such as splitting files for analyses, merging two files, aggregating datasets,
and combining multiple tables in a database into an SPSS dataset in the
first section. Several advanced topics are included in the second section,
including the use of SPSS syntax, the SPSS Visual Basic editor, and SPSS
Macros. FAQ Answers on Data Management and Data Manipulation A technical support document, by the Laboratory
for Social Research, the University of Notre Dame Reading hierarchical files in SAS and SPSS A WORD document containing both SAS and SPSS programs to read in the March 2000 Current Population Survey on Unix, which is a hierarchical data file and can be a little tricky to read. It is written by Dawn Owens-Nicholson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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