New versions of all data in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) Children and Young Adults collection have been updated in SodaPop. These files were released on Jan. 18, 2009.

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 2001 weight file in SodaPop has been corrected to have 4 digit implied decimal places.

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 2008 Wave 1 core data is now available in SodaPop.

Penn State researchers can download SIPP data and documentation from the SodaPop web site.

PRI researchers may also access data files on our network using Windows or UNIX. Click on the “pri affiliates” tab on the SodaPop page for file locations.

The Area Resource File (ARF) 2007 CD-ROM is available in Penn State’s Social Sciences Library.

If you are a PRI affiliate and you would like this dataset available on SodaPop, please contact the data archivist.

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.

PRI’s National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) 2005-2006 holdings are now current through August 2009. All updates and new files have been downloaded.

The Senate has approved the nomination of University of Michigan survey researcher Robert Groves as director of the US Census Bureau. For more, see the New York Times article.

The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has released the 2008 data.

PRI researchers may request the above data from the Data Archivist.

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) has released the 2007 Full Year Population Characteristics data file.

PRI researchers may request the above data from the Data Archivist.