American Journal of Public Health, Volume 98 Number 2, February 2008

Center Report, Volume 28 Number 1, Spring 2008

International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 33 Number 4, December 2007

Journal of Immigrant and minority Health, Volume 10 Number 1, February 2008

Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 70 Number 1, February 2008

Population Briefs, Volume 13 Number 3, December 2007

Research on Aging, Volume 30 Number 2, March 2008: Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health in Life-course Perspectives

The Stata Journal, Volume 7 Number 4, 4th Quarter 2007

Upjohn Institute Employment Research, Volume 15 Number 1, January 2008: “Eds & Meds” and Metropolitan Economic Development

Advance Data, number 394, January 22, 2008: Health characteristics of the Asian adult population: United States, 2004-2006

Family Relations, volume 57 number 1, January 2008

Ford Reports, volume number two, 2007: The public square in the a digital age

The Journal of Human Resources, volume 43 number 1, Winter 2008

Monthly Labor Review, volume 130 number 10, October 2007

National Vital Statistics Reports, volume 56 number 5, November 20, 2007 :Deaths: Leading causes for 2004

National Vital Statistics Reports, volume 56 number 6, December 5, 2007 : Births: Data for 2005

National Vital Statistics Reports, volume 56 number 9, December 28, 2007: United States life tables, 2004

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health, issue number 20, Fall 2007: The economics of “Pay-or-Play” mandates

Office of Research Protection Newsletter, issue 18, January – March 2008

Population Bulletin, volume 62 number 4, December 2007: Immigration and America’s Black Population

Population Headliners, number 320, September-October 2007

Social Forces, volume 86 number 2, December 2007

U.S. Housing Market Conditions, 3^rd quarter 2007, November 2007

Wider Angle, No.2/2007: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it

World Bank Research Digest, volume 2 number 1, Fall 2007: “Fiscal Space” —or fiscal policy under constraints?

The latest issue (volume 7, number 3) of The Stata Journal is now available online to PRI affiliates. To access the journal, log in with your POP username and password.

Contents of this issue:

Articles and Columns
Multiple imputation of missing values: further update of ice, with an emphasis on interval censoring
Enhanced routines for instrumental variables/generalized method of moments estimation and testing
Causal inference with observational data
A generic function evaluator implemented in Mata
Mata Matters: Structures
Speaking Stata: Counting groups, especially panels

Notes and Comments
Stata tip 52: Generating composite categorical variables
Stata tip 53: Where did my p-values go?
Stata tip 54: Post your results
Stata tip 55: Better axis labeling for time points and time intervals

Software Updates

American Institute for Cancer Research
Food, nutrition, physical activity, and the prevention of cancer: a global perspective
RC268.W67 2007
707 Oswald (Library)

American Institute for Cancer Research
Food, nutrition, physical activity, and the prevention of cancer: a global perspective : Summary
RC268.W67 2007 Sum
707 Oswald (Library)

Battery, Simon.
Rural populations and agrarian transformations in the global South
FILE CICRED
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets

Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Carolina Population Center Review 2007
ANN RPT CAR
707 Oswald (Library)

CICRED
Digital CICRED library 1973-2005 publications
707 Oswald (Library) - Computer Workstation

De Sherbinin, Alex. Martine, George.
Urban population, development and environment dynamics
FILE CICRED
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets

Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics
Temporary admissions of nonimmigrants to the United States: 2006
FILE Homeland Security
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets

Gilbert, Nigel
Agent based models
HA29.G527 2008
707 Oswald (Library)

Hoefer, Michael. Rytina, Nancy. Campbell, Christopher.
Estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population residing in the United States: January 2006
FILE Homeland Security
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets

International Institute for Population Sciences
National Family Health Survey, India 2005-6, key findings
DHS ASIA
707 Oswald (Library) - DHS

International Institute for Population Sciences
National Family Health Survey, India 2005-6, volume I
DHS ASIA
707 Oswald (Library) - DHS

International Institute for Population Sciences
National Family Health Survey, India 2005-6, Volume II
DHS ASIA
707 Oswald (Library) - DHS

Jeffreys, Kelly.
Refugees and asylees: 2006
FILE Homeland Security
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets

Jeffreys, Kelly.
U.S. legal permanent residents: 2006
FILE Homeland Security
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets

Marquette, C.M.
Path to development or road to nowhere: poverty, migration and environment
FILE CICRED
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets

PA Department of Health
Vital Statisitics for Pennsylvania 1906-2005
Online

Pennsylvania State Health Data Center
Health profile 2007 : Pennsylvania counties
RA407.4.P4G86 2007
707 Oswald (Library)

Pool, Ian.
Mortality as a determinant and a consequence of poverty and hunger: policy implications
FILE CICRED
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets

Simanski, John.
Naturalizations in the Unites States: 2006
FILE Homeland Security
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets

State Health Access Data Assistance Center
Comparing federal government surveys that count uninsured people in America
Online

Thailand National Statistical Office, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology
Key statistics of Thailand, 2007
HA4600.55.P736 2007
707 Oswald (Library)

The World Bank
World development report 2008 : agriculture for development
HC59.7.W927 2008
707 Oswald (Library)

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Global education digest 2007
Online

World Health Organization
World health report : 2007 : a safer future: global public health security in the 21st century
Online

New & Noteworthy in Nutrition, a newsletter that got its start as a World Bank staff publication, has been revived and is now published by the Population Reference Bureau. The first PRB issue is available for download.

American Journal of Sociology, volume 113 number 3, November 2007

American Journal of Public Health, volume 97 number 12, December 2007

Cityscape, volume 9 number 3, 2007: Planning for catastrophe

Family Relations, volume 56 number 5, December 2007

Genus, volume 63, January-June 2007

The Journal of Human Resources, volume 42 number 4, fall 2007

Journal of Marriage and Family, volume 69 number 5, December 2007

Office for Research Protection, Issue 17, November – December 2007

Population Studies, volume 61 number 3, November 2007

Research on Aging, volume 30 number 1, January 2008

Research Works, volume 4 number 10, November 2007: HUD’s M2M goes green to preserve affordable housing

Reproductive Health Matters, volume 15 number 30, November 2007: Maternal mortality and morbidity: is pregnancy getting safer for women?

Stata News, volume 22 number 4, October/November/December 2007

Advance Data, number 393, October 2007: Electronic Medical Record Use by Office-Based Physicians and Their Practices: United States, 2006

American Journal of Public Health, volume 97 number 11, November, 2007

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, volume 16 number 3, 2007

International Family Planning Perspectives, volume 33 number 3, September 2007

National Vital Statistics Reports, volume 56 number 3, October 11, 2007: Fetal and Perinatal Mortality

Migration and religion in a globalized world
Online
Annie E. Casey Foundation. Center for the Study of Social Policy (Washington, D.C.)

Kids count data book 2007
Online
Bogue, Donald

Essays In Human Ecology
HM206.B63
707 Oswald (Library)
Chen, Xianglei. Chandler, Kathryn

Efforts by public K-8 school to involve parents in children’s education: do school and parents agree?
LB 1048.5.C44 2001
707 Oswald (Library)
Children’s Defense Fund

State of America’s children 2005, The
Online
Great Britain. Office of National Statistics

Annual abstract of statistics 2007
Online
National Bureau of Statistics China

China statistical yearbook 2006
Online
Population Reference Bureau

2007 World population data sheet of the Population Reference Bureau
FILE Population Reference Bureau
707 Oswald (Library) - File Cabinets
Rio Group

Compendium of best practices in poverty measurement
Online
Thailand National Statistical Office, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology

Key Statistics of Thailand, 2006
HA4600.55.P736 2006
707 Oswald (Library)
UNESCO

Education for all global monitoring report 2007: strong foundations
Online
UNFPA

Growing up urban (State of World Population 2007 Youth Supplement)
Online
United Nations

Millennium development goals report 2007, The
Online
United Nations Population Fund

State of world population 2007, The
Online
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics

Women in the labor force: a databook (2006 edition)
Online
Worldwatch Institute

Vital signs 2007-2008
TD193.2 .B76 2007
707 Oswald (Library)

American Journal of Public Health, September 2007

Demography, Volume 44 Number 3, December 2007

Focus Institute for Research on Poverty, Volume 25 Number 1, Spring-Summer: Poverty policy and poverty research over four decades

Monthly Labor Review, May 2007. Time Use in America

National Longitudinal Survey News, Number 07-129, 2007

National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 55 Number 19, August 21, 2007. Deaths: Final Data for 2004

Office for Research Protection, Issue 16, September-October 2007

Population Bulletin, Volume 62 Number 3, September 2007. World Population Highlights: Key Findings from PRB’s 2007 World Population Data Sheet.

Population Reference Bureau Policy Brief, September 2007. Malnutrition is still a major contributor to child deaths

The STATA Journal, Volume 7 Number 3, 3rd Quarter 2007

On-line Journals and Newsletters

Population Reports, Series L No. 15, August 2007: Family Planning Choices for Women with HIV

The latest issue (volume 7, number 3) of The Stata Journal is now available online to PRI affiliates. To access the journal, log in with your POP username and password.

Contents of this issue:

Articles and Columns

• Robust standard errors for panel regressions with cross-sectional dependence (D. Hoechle)
• Estimating parameters of dichotomous and ordinal item response models with gllamm (X. Zheng and S. Rabe-Hesketh)
• Simulation-based sensitivity analysis for matching estimators (T. Nannicini)
• Modeling of the cure fraction in survival studies (P. C. Lambert)
• Profile likelihood for estimation and confidence intervals (P. Royston)
• Fitting mixed logit models by using maximum simulated likelihood (A. R. Hole)
• An exact and a Monte Carlo proposal to the Fisher–Pitman permutation tests for paired replicates and for independent samples (J. Kaiser)
• Speaking Stata: Turning over a new leaf (N. J. Cox)

Notes and Comments

• Stata tip 48: Discrete uses for uniform() (M. L. Buis)
• Stata tip 49: Range frame plots (S. Merryman)
• Stata tip 50: Efficient use of summarize (N. J. Cox)
• Stata tip 51: Events in intervals (N. J. Cox)

Software Updates