The PRI Library has received announcement of an advanced users seminar for ECLS-K (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99).

The PRI Library has received announcement of a workshop/conference for beginning and intermediate users of the NHIS to be held August 14, 2008.

The PRI Library had received announcement of two Associate Service Fellowship positions with the NSFG in Hyattsville, Maryland.

The SodaPop pages for the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) have been reorganized to accommodate the increasing number of files in the study. A download page has been created for each wave/year of data.

The HRS data sets on POPNET and the Windows server Paris, have also been reorganized. The SAS data sets have been moved from a single directory (/home/sas_data/hrs) to subdirectories (hrs1992, hrs1994, etc). The Rand and master files have been moved to the hrsxtra subdirectory.

The 2005-2006 CCD Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe and the Local Education Agency (School District) Universe Survey Data are now available on SodaPop and PopNet.

The MEPS 2005 Full Year Consolidated data file, documentation and codebook files are now available to Penn State Researchers in SodaPop and PopNet.

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, with support from the National Institute on Aging, announces a call for papers that use the PSID Dataset to conduct research in the area of pensions, retirement planning, and financial well-being over the life course. Papers will be presented at a two-day conference on life course financial well-being November 20-21, 2008 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The PRI Library had received announcement from the Columbia University Population Center for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop. It will be held June 30-July 2, 2008 at Columbia University School of Social Work

PRI Library has received announcement of the 2008 NPC Summer Workshop at the University of Michigan: Analyzing Poverty and Socioeconomic Trends Using the American Community Survey (ACS). Workshop will be held in Ann Arbor June 23-27, 2008.

Biostatistician Andrew Vickers writes in the New York Times that many cancer researchers refuse to share their data, even when sharing it could potentially save lives.The National Institutes of Health (NIH) request that researchers they fund share their data:

The NIH expects and supports the timely release and sharing of final research data from NIH-supported studies for use by other researchers. Starting with the October 1, 2003 receipt date, investigators submitting an NIH application seeking $500,000 or more in direct costs in any single year are expected to include a plan for data sharing or state why data sharing is not possible. (NIH Data Sharing Policy)