NCES has just released Education Statistics Quarterly-Vol. 6 Issue 4.

The Quarterly offers a comprehensive overview of work done across all of NCES. Each issue includes short publications and summaries covering all NCES publications and data products released in a given time period as
well as notices about training and funding opportunities. In addition, each issue includes a featured topic with invited commentary, and a note on the topic from NCES.

To browse the Quarterly online, please visit:
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/vol_6/6_4/.

NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study (NHEFS) Linked Mortality File: 2005 Release

NCHS has completed a mortality update for NHEFS, which includes new record linkages of NHEFS participants to death records from the National Death Index (NDI). This new resource allows researchers the opportunity to conduct a vast array of outcome studies designed to investigate the association of a wide variety of health and risk factors collected over time with subsequent mortality. The updated mortality file is comprehensive in design so that it contains death information for deaths ascertained during the NHEFS data collection follow-up survey periods in 1982-84, 1986, 1987, and 1992, as well as new deaths identified through probabilistic record linkages with the NDI. The current NHEFS Linked Mortality file contains death information for all NHEFS participants identified as deceased as of December 31, 2000.

Due to confidentiality requirements, access to this file is available only through the NCHS Research Data Center (RDC). The NCHS RDC offers on-site and remote access capabilities. Interested researchers must submit an application to the NCHS RDC. For more information on the RDC application process, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/rdc.htm.

Please visit the NHEFS Linked Mortality File web page for more detailed information, including file documentation, data matching methodology, frequencies of selected variables and analytic guidelines
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/nchs_datalinkage/nhefs_data_linkage_activities.htm.

For more information on NCHS data linkage activities, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/nchs_datalinkage/data_linkage_activities.htm.

The Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) Linked Mortality File: 2005 Release

NCHS has completed a mortality update for the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) Mortality Study (1992), which includes new record linkages of adult NHANES II participants with death records from the National Death Index (NDI). This new resource allows researchers the opportunity to conduct a vast array of outcome studies designed to investigate the associations of a wide variety of health and risk factors with mortality. This updated mortality file is comprehensive in design so that it contains death information for deaths ascertained as part of the 1992 NHANES II Mortality Study as well as new deaths identified with the new probabilistic linkage with the NDI through December 31, 2000.

Due to confidentiality requirements, access to this file is available only through the NCHS Research Data Center (RDC). The NCHS RDC offers on-site and remote access capabilities. Interested researchers must submit an application to the NCHS RDC. For more information on the RDC application process, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/rdc.htm.

Please visit the NHANES II Linked Mortality File web page for more detailed information, including file documentation, data matching methodology, frequencies of selected variables and analytic guidelines http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/nchs_datalinkage/nhanesii_data_linkage_activities.htm.

For more information on NCHS data linkage activities, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/nchs_datalinkage/data_linkage_activities.htm.

The UCR Arrests and Offenses data and documentation from 1977 through 1984 have been added to the SodaPop UCR Collection. These data were initially only accessible through the PopNet UNIX archive.

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Funding for Faculty Investigators

A Study of the Administration of Justice in Indian Country
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2006 (HSD)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)

Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (R03)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)

The U.S. Census Bureau has released the following report on marriage, fertility, and other socio-economic characteristics.

Indicators of Marriage and Fertility in the United States: From the American Community Survey.

The PaSDC has prepared their own “Research Brief” on this subject, and how it pertains Pennsylvania. To view this report, please visit the following link:
http://pasdc.hbg.psu.edu/pasdc/data_&_information/briefs/RB101305.pdf

Edited 11/29/05 for clarity. Meaningful content is the same.

Additional 2004 ACS Data Released

The U.S. Census Bureau has released over 600 additional base tables from the 2004 ACS. Included are 258 new base tables as well as race iterationsof most of the tables released last August.

Some of the new tables include:
median age by residence one year ago;
place of birth by language spoken at home and ability to speak English;
place of birth by marital status;
means of transportation to work by industry;
and median monthly housing costs.

Also featured are Subject Tables, a new ACS data product. They are similar to the Census 2000 Quick Tables, but contain much more detail than Quick Tables. Subject tables display percent distributions rather than the estimates. Universe lines are displayed as numeric estimates to show the base of each distribution. Subject tables allow for other measures such as medians and means where appropriate, and include the imputation rates for relevant measures.

Access to these new data products is through the American Fact Finder Website, from the Data Sets Tab.

An online guide to accessing and using the 2004 data was released August 23, 2005.

The ELS:2002 Base-Year Public Use files have been acquired for the PRI Data Archive Collection. An NCES-produced CD-ROM is available for check-out from the PRI Library (note that CD-ROM has electronic codebook program included) and SAS data files (PRI processed files from CD) and PDF documentation are available on PopNet UNIX. For more information about the ELS:2002, please see the PRI ELS Web Page.

The PSID 2003 Core Family data was re-released on 11/16/2005. See full text of re-release notice.

The new files (data, input, and documentation) have been acquired and added to PopNet UNIX. The previous version of the data is still available in a dated subdirectory (old_6_2005) should they still be needed. The data file is currently being processed for SodaPop and should be available shortly. For information on file location, please see the PSID Raw Data Web Page.

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Evaluation of Community-based approaches to increasing seat belt use among adolescent drivers and their passengers
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Drug Abuse as a Cause, Correlate, or Consequence of Criminal Justice Related Health Disparities among African Americans (R01)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Framework Programs for Global Health
- Fogarty International Center (FIC)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)

Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS: Focus on African Americans (R01)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

International Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Award (ICOHRTA) [D43]
- Fogarty International Center (FIC)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIJ FY06 Crime and Justice Research
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

NIMH Research on Mental Health in Criminal Justice at NIDA CJ-DATS Sites (MH-CJ) (R34)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIOSH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13/U13)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Small Grant Program for Conference Support (R13)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (R03)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Funding for Students (Pre-Doctoral Or Dissertation)

Dissertation Grant Awards for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research in Minority Communities
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)