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PDF version of the mailing list posting of Feb. 5, 2009

Before it became this blog, SocSci-Data was a one-way e-mail list; you can download the PDF version of the mailing list posting of April 6, 2009

Before it became this blog, SocSci-Data was a one-way e-mail list; you can download the PDF version of the mailing list posting of June 30, 2009

Before it became this blog, SocSci-Data was a one-way e-mail list; you can download the PDF version of the mailing list posting of July 30, 2009

The Association of Public Data Users writes about Opportunities for Public Comment on Federal Data Collections: What You Need to Know.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (of which Yale U. is a member) now offers an RSS feed of additions and revisions to their dataset archives. One view of it can be found in the News box of the Data and Statistics in the social sciences subject guide; the direct URL for the feed is:

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/rss/rss_archiveupdates.xml

If you learn of more RSS feeds of social science data, please chime in!

ICPSR is offering a webinar about their data depositing program - if interested, read more about, and register for, this webinar.

The iPOLL public opinion question database, accessible to Yale users through Yale's organizational membership in the Roper Center, now has a new interface that is expected to replace the previous one in early fall 2009.

The contents of the 2009 update CD of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's Industrial Statistics Database are now available to Yale users via StatCat. It is cumulative, so replaces the prior annual editions.

The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt U. offers its AmericasBarometer Insights series of reports online. "This series of short studies is based on over 38,000 interviews in 23 countries of the Americas in 2008, including North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The Insights series will not only present data and explain the factors that produce variation in opinion among individuals and across countries, it will report on policy implications of those results."

Yale users have access to the data from these surveys, since Yale is a LAPOP Data Repository.

Thanks to the F&ES Library, Yale users (authenticated by IP address) have access to a trial of World Competitiveness Online through Sep. 16, 2009.

Resuming with July 2009, the International Monetary Fund's Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS) database is again available on CD at the Social Science Library; see its Orbis record for details. "Balance of Payments Statistics summarizes, for a specific period, the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world. It reports total goods, services, factor income, and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the world as well as capital transfers and changes in each economy's external financial claims and liabilities."