Due to high demand, a second Literature Searching workshop has been added to our fall schedule.

See the complete schedule at help.pop.psu.edu/workshops.

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

Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship Program – Brookdale Foundation

Grassroots Development Fellowship Program – Institute of International Education (IIE)

The TIMSS 2007 U.S. Technical Report and User Guide provides an overview of the design and implementation of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007 in the United States, along with information designed to facilitate access to the U.S. TIMSS 2007 data.

High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2007 – provides estimates for 2007 and trend data for 1972-2007.

Projections of Education Statistics to 2018 – includes statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment and earned degrees conferred expenditures of degree-granting institutions.

The latest issue (volume 9, number 3) of The Stata Journal is now available online to PRI affiliates. To access the journal, log in with your PopNet (UNIX) username and password.

Contents of this issue:

Articles and Columns

• Confirmatory factor analysis using confa (S. Kolenikov)
• Graphical representation of multivariate data using Chernoff faces (R. Raciborski)
• Improved degrees of freedom for multivariate significance tests obtained from multiply imputed, small-sample data (Y. V. Marchenko and J. P. Reiter)
• Implementing weak-instrument robust tests for a general class of instrumental-variables models (K. Finlay and L. M. Magnusson)
• A seasonal unit-root test with Stata (D. Depalo)
• Robust regression in Stata (V. Verardi and C. Croux)
• Nonparametric testing of distributions—the Epps–Singleton two-sample test using the empirical characteristic function (S. J. Goerg and J. Kaiser)
• Multiple imputation of missing values: Further update of ice, with an emphasis on categorical variables (P. Royston)
• Speaking Stata: Creating and varying box plots (N. J. Cox)

Notes and Comments

• Stata tip 77: (Re)using macros in multiple do-files (J. Herrin)
• Stata tip 78: Going gray gracefully: Highlighting subsets and downplaying substrates (N. J. Cox)
• Stata tip 79: Optional arguments to options (N. J. Cox)

Backgrounder; July 2009. A Shifting Tide: Recent Trends in the Illegal Immigrant Population.

Backgrounder; July 2009. Immigration Raids at Smithfield: How and ICE Enforcement Action Boosted Union Organizing and the Employment of American Workers.

Backgrounder; August 2009. Catholics, Immigration, and the Common Good.

Demography; Volume 46 Number 3, August2009.

National Health Statistics Reports; Number 11, January 28, 2009 revised September 4, 2009. Ambulatory Surgery in the United States, 2006.

Studies in Family Planning, Volume 40 Number 3, September 2009.

American Psychological Association
Publication manual of the American Psychological
Association
BF76.7.P83 2010 REFERENCE
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Annie E. Casey Foundation. Center for the Study of Social Policy (Washington, D.C.)
Kids Count Data Book 2009
HQ792.U5K53 2009
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Gaquin, Deirdre
County and city extra : annual metro, city, and county
data book 2009
HA203.C68 2009 REF
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Gou, Shenyang. Fraser, Mark W.
Propensity score analysis: Statistical methods and
applications
HA29.G91775 2010
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Hynes, Kathryn. Sanders, Felicia
Diverging experiences during out-of-school time: The
race gap in exposure to after-school programs
FILE PSU 0906
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Kinsella, Kevin. He, Wan
Aging world, An: 2008
Online

Malmberg, Bo
Demography and the development potential of sub-
Saharan Africa
HB3661.A3M35 2008
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Rutstein, Shea Oscar. Rojas, Guillermo.
Guide to DHS Statistics
Online

Ryan, Mary Meghan
Vital Statistics of the United States : births, life
expectancy, deaths, and selected health data 2008
HB3505.V58 2008 REF
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Statistical Office of the European Communities.
Health statistics – Atlas on mortality in the European Union
Online

Thornton, Arland. Axinn, William G. Xie, Yu
Marriage and cohabitation
HQ536.T455 2007
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Van Hook, Jennifer. Baker, Elizabeth
Big boys and little girls: Gender, acculturation, and
weight among young children of immigrants
FILE PSU 0905
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

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

Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) (R01) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) – National Institute of General Medical Sciences – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Recovery Act Limited Competition: Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Journal of Family Theory & Review is a new peer-reviewed quarterly publication from the National Council on Family Relations.

Seeking to encourage integration and growth in the multidisciplinary and international domains of inquiry that define contemporary family studies, Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR) publishes original contributions in all areas of family theory. The journal includes new advances in theory development, reviews of existing theory, and analyses of the interface of theory and method, as well as integrative and theory based reviews of content areas, and book reviews.

The PRI Library does not receive this journal, but it is available online through a Penn State University Libraries subscription.

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

Grand Challenges in Global Health (Round 4) – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Foundation for the National Institutes of Health – Wellcome Trust

NSF Graduate Research Fellows Nordic Research Opportunity – National Science Foundation (NSF)