Minority Data Resource Center Webinar

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Minority Data Resource Center Webinar December
16, 2008
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An orientation to your control panel

• Your control panel will be located in the upper
  right of your screen you can move it around
  your screen, if desired.
• It tends to minimize itself click on the arrows
  to maximize, if desired.
• Its okay to explore the control panel - you
  wont cause the webinar to self-destruct by
  clicking on things! If you somehow disconnect
  from the webinar, just rejoin via your
  registration email.

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Can I get a copy of this Webinar or the slides?

• Yes! A recording of the Webinar and copy of the
  slides will be ready in about two days
• Locating them on our website
• All registered webinar attendees will receive an
  email with the link to the page for downloading
• Our webinar materials are found in the ICPSR
  Webinar Library under the Courses Learning
  Tools tab located on the ICPSR front page

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Minority Data Resource Center

• Initiative of ICPSR governing council
• Original intent was to highlight data for
  underrepresented minorities in the ICPSR archive
  as a service to our members
• Initiative began in earnest in January of 2006.
  Proposal in June 2006. Beta site October 2006.
  Functioning website December 2006.

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Initial objectives

• Bring in new users
• Students
• New membership
• Search and repurpose existing collection
• Tag relevant studies and provide dedicated search
  capabilities
• Add new user tools to improve access
• Develop resources relevant to students and
  educators
• Begin outreach to minority scholars and students

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Progress to date

• Website with full functionality
• Reviewed and tagged 1400 studies and built
  internal search engine with drop
• Categorized processing protocol for all remaining
  studies
• Developed three analysis tools
• Added tools to 100 studies and have 210 studies
  with full SDA and analysis tools
• Substantial outreach and support

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Some of the new data in our holdings

• http//www.icpsr.umich.edu/CPES/index.html
• New combined files from three national surveys of
  psychological conditions. Includes replications
  across ethnic groups and a built in variable
  comparison. Also done in many languages and
  include variable comparability charts.
• Surveys include
• The National Comorbidity Study Replication
• The National Survey of American Life
• The National Latin and Asian American Survey

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Web site design features

• The lures .
• Because the collection is so deep, particularly
  with historical studies and repeated
  cross-sections, we needed to build features that
  would bring people into the data
• Featured data sets.
• unusual data files or series that might prove
  interesting
• Featured findings.
• simple illustrative findings that are
  provocative and may be of
  interest to different types of analysts

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Research tasks

• Choosing data sets for analysis
• Sample size, comparative potential
• Trend and status monitoring
• Creating subsets
• Analytical subsets often labor intensive
• Learning to analyze data using software ---
• Examples are usually not specific enough

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The Analytic Tools

• Sample characteristics
• This tool is designed to help analysts decide if
  the sample is adequate or appropriate for the
  analysis at hand. This is of particular interest
  for comparative analysis.
• Subsetting
• This tool allows analysts to interactively pull a
  demographic extract of the entire study. This is
  particularly useful for those conducting
  subpopulation analyses.
• Syntax generation
• This tool is largely instructional. It allows
  for menu driven recoding that generates syntax
  instructions for the demographic variables in the
  study. This will help students learn how to
  conduct their own analyses without the aid of
  SDA.

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Resources

• We will be adding resources for educators and
  students as we accumulate them
• Course syllabi
• Additional data driven applications on the web
• Forums on research on race and ethnicity
• A listserv for researchers, students, and faculty

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Whats next .

• New tools
• Variable search
• Creating a comparative demographic variable data
  base for MDRC studies
• Within data series, variable search to create
  time series on race, ethnicity, and immigration
  status

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New Data ---2008

• Latino National Survey
• Survey of 9000 Latinos in 2006
• Mostly political attitudes with regional
  questions
• http//www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/2086
  2.xml
• The Children of Immigrant Longitudinal Study 3
  waves
• http//www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/2052
  0.xml

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Opportunities for Students
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ICPSR Undergraduate Summer Internship Program

• 10 Week program (mid-June to mid-August)
• Prepare social science data for archiving and
• dissemination utilizing statistical software
  packages
• Attend Summer Program courses
• Stipend 3000
• Undergraduate opportunity

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Scholarship Opportunity

• ICPSR Undergraduate research paper competition
• MDRC Undergraduate research paper competition
• The purpose is to highlight exemplary research
  papers based on quantitative analysis.
• 1st place 1000, 2nd place 750 and 3rd place
  500
• http//www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/prize/

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Downloading Files
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Before Downloading Determine Relevance!

• http//www.icpsr.umich.edu/
• Conduct a search for appropriate datasets using
  the strategy of your choice
• Results will return a list of datasets
• Read the description of the dataset to ensure
  it meets your needs
• Review literature related to this dataset for
  further information
• If online analysis is available for this dataset,
  the link will be present
• Determined the dataset is what you need? Head to
  the download page!

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The Download Page

• http//www.icpsr.umich.edu/
• Step 1 Review the data formats available for
  download
• Step 2 Select the appropriate dataset for
  download
• Steps 3 4 Add and review the files for
  download
• Step 4 Download the contents

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Thank you for attending!

• Slides and a video recording of the Webinar will
  be available in about two days watch your email
  for the link.
• Do you need promotional materials to build
  awareness of the MDRC at your institution? We
  have brochures ready to mail to you email us
  at ICPSRMDRC_at_icpsr.umich.edu

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