NCES has recently updated the “State Education Data Profiles” database to include data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Report: “Food Assistance Landscape, March 2006.” The Food Assistance Landscape March 2006 uses preliminary data from USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to examine trends in the food assistance programs through fiscal 2005 (October 1, 2004, to September 30, 2005). It also discusses a recent ERS study that examined patterns of entry into and exit from the Food Stamp Program.

National Research Council Monograph: “Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure” (Panel to Review U.S Department of Agriculture’s Measurement of Food Insecurity and Hunger, National Research Council, National Academies Press, 2006, OpenBook format, and .pdf format, 126p.). Note: .pdf format is freely available to the public after required registration.

A guidebook from the NCES presents “Accounting for Every Student: A Taxonomy for Standard Student Exit Codes“. Researchers and policymakers will find the guidebook useful in making fair comparisons among schools and agencies on issues related to student enrollment, retention, and completion.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Article: “Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System” (February 2006). Although women remain a relatively small number of all prisoners, these facts have concealed a trend in the rising percentage of female offenders, their participation in violent crime, and have inhibited the development of gender-specific programs to address the issue.

National Institute of Justice Report: “Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Rape Victimization: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey,” by Patricia Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes. More than 300,000 women and almost 93,000 men are raped annually, according to the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS).

The PRI Library has received a call for papers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for their Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) First Release Conference.

The PRI Library has received a job announcement from the University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center for several research associate positions.

PRI Library New Acquisitions List
Printed 2/20/2006

Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 30
HM15.A55 2004 vol.30
[8176]

Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 31
HM15.A55 2005 vol.31
[8177]

Crouter, Ann C., Booth, Alan (editors)
Romance and sex in adolescence and emerging adulthood : risks and opportunities
HQ27.R66 2006
[8168]

Dunteman, George Henry, Ho, Moon-Ho R.
An introduction to generalized linear models
HA31.3.D86 2006
[8169]

Entwisle, Barbara, Stern, Paul C., National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on New
Research on Population and the Environment, National Research Council (U.S.).
Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
Population, land use, and environment : research directions
HB849.415.P67 2005
[8173]

Lee, Eun Sul.
Analyzing complex survey data
QA276.L3394 2006
[8171]

Lloyd, Cynthia B., National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Transitions to
Adulthood in Developing Countries, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee
on Population.
Changing transitions to adulthood in developing countries : selected studies, The
HQ799.8.D45C43 2005
[8172]

O’Connell, Ann A.
Logistic regression models for ordinal response variables
HA31.3.O27 2006
[8170]

Osgood, Wayne D., Foster, Michael E., Flanagan Constance, Ruth, Gretchen R.
(editors)
On your own without a net : the transition to adulthood for vulnerable populations
HQ799.7.O5 2005
[8174]

Starke, Linda (editor)
State of the world 2006
HC59.B766 2006
[8175]

A US biologist said that the retirement age should increase to 85 by 2050 because of life expectancy trends. Shripad Tuljapurkar was speaking last week at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. For more, see the BBC News story.