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Archive of 2004 Announcements

ICPSR Changes File Compression Format

In order to better serve its users' needs, ICPSR has converted the compression format of its files from Gzip to WinZip. Previously, our data files are compressed using GNU Gzip data compression software and had the .gz file name extension. Now all files are compacted using Windows Zip compression and bear the .zip file name extension.

For most users, this means little or no change. The majority of our customers use WinZip, which comes pre-installed in Windows operating systems. WinZip decompresses .gz files as easily as .zip files. For Macintosh users, StuffIt Expander is equally versatile with .gz and .zip files. UNIX users will want to use the unzip command instead of the gunzip command to decompress .zip files.

This change eliminates the double-compression problem that had been occurring with batch downloads (i.e., the saved files option). Previously, users had to decompress the batch folder and then uncompress the files within the folder. Our change to the WinZip compression format ensures that users will only need to decompress the batch folder.

If you have any questions about this change, please contact web-support@icpsr.umich.edu.

2004-11-29

Join ICPSR's User Advisory Group

ICPSR is firmly committed to providing a high level of service to our customers, whether they are Official Representatives, data users at member institutions, or first-time/one-time visitors. To that end, we are actively engaged in efforts to improve our Web site and offer useful services to our users. Our chief problem, however, is that we have trouble ascertaining what our users want, as user feedback is sporadic and undirected.

To meet this challenge, we are asking for volunteers to join our User Advisory Group. The advisory group is a moderated e-mail list comprised of users who are willing to give us feedback on proposed changes to ICPSR's Web site and services. We will send out questions and links to Web page mockups. In return, we would like members of our User Advisory Group to respond via e-mail, telling us what they think of the changes/ideas.

If you're interested in actively helping ICPSR meet your data needs, consider joining the User Advisory Group. We'd appreciate your feedback.

To join the list, simply go this URL

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/mailman/listinfo/user-advisory-group

and follow the instructions there. The e-mail list will be moderated, so there will be no problems with excessive or inappropriate email.

2004-10-22

IASSIST Issues Call for Papers for May 2005 Conference in Edingburgh, Scotland

The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) has issued a call for papers to be presented at its annual conference titled "Evidence and Enlightenment" being held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 24-27, 2005, in collaboration with the International Federation of Data Organisations (IFDO).

The theme for the 2005 Conference, Evidence and Enlightenment, highlights the need for empirical data in a society that wishes to know itself and the role that the IASSIST membership have in ensuring that researchers have continuing access to the data necessary for furthering scholarship and understanding. It also hints at intellectual activity during the latter half of the 18th century in Europe, and in Scotland in particular, which "would generate the basic attitudes and habits of mind that characterise the modern age" (Arthur Herman, The Age of Enlightenment, 2002).

As IASSIST enters its fourth decade, the organization and the data community must confront a range of socioeconomic and organizational challenges as well as technological opportunities. IASSIST is seeking submissions of papers, poster/demonstration sessions, and panel sessions that address these issues, especially those that bear on the following topics:

• data access
• data documentation
• data preservation
• data use and current research activity

Additional topics might also include data, information and statistical literacy, GIS and spatial data, data publishing, annotation, and provenance and authenticity digital curation. For other key topics see the programs of previous IASSIST Conferences.

Proposals for papers, sessions, and posters/demonstrations should be submitted by January 10, 2005. The Conference Program Committee will send notification of the acceptance of proposals on or before February 10, 2005. Please send submissions, including proposed title and an abstract (recommended length 150 words) to iassist05@ed.ac.uk.

Proposals for complete sessions, conventionally of a panel or of three/four papers within a 90 minute session, should contain information on the focus of the session, the organizer or moderator, and possible session participants. The session organizer or moderator will be responsible for arranging and securing session participants.

Further information on travel and accommodation is available at links from http://www.iassistdata.org. Online registration is scheduled to open on January 17, 2005.

2004-11-18

ICPSR Web Outage Update

At roughly 4pm EST December 21, ICPSR's network connection was accidentally cut due to construction work related to the Perry Addition. Because the cable was schedule to be moved on Dec. 27-28 anyway, we had the cable moved immediately, and connectivity was restored by noon EST on Weds., Dec. 22nd.

Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. Because of this, no network outage is planned for Dec. 27-28.

We are still experiencing some technical problems that stemmed from the cable being cut; we will get these resolved as quickly as possible. Our thanks for your patience.

If you have any qustions, please contact us at 734-647-2200 or netmail@icpsr.umich.edu.

2004-12-22

Library of Congress Awards ICPSR $4.1 Million to Create a Digital Social Science Acquisitions and Preservation Partnership

ICPSR received a $4.1 million award from the Library of Congress to acquire and preserve data from opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys, and other social science studies. The three-year project is a broad-based partnership between ICPSR and five other institutions. These institutions are the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut, the Howard W. Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Henry A. Murray Research Center at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Harvard-MIT Data Center. This project ensures the long-term preservation of the vital heritage of digital social science data that allows our nation to understand itself, its social organization, and its policies and politics. The partners will survey important research in the social sciences and identify content that should be preserved. Each archive acquires content that is best suited for its own collection, with ICPSR working mainly under its current collection development philosophy. The archives are developing common standards for metadata preparation and catalog information and the use of those standards in the acquisition process. Dr. Myron Gutmann is principal investigator of the project at ICPSR. Also at ICPSR, Mr. Darrell Donakowski is managing the project assisted by Dr. Amy Pienta.

2004-09-30

ICPSR Launches Demography Archive

ICPSR is pleased to announce that it recently received an award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for its new Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR) project. DSDR is a project of ICPSR in collaboration with the Carolina Population Center (CPC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) at the University of Minnesota, and the Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Michigan. The project is supported by a cooperative agreement between the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of NICHD and the collaborating institutions.

DSDR provides support to investigators and the research centers in which they work for sharing and archiving data used in demographic research. DSDR staff are available for consultation with investigators about designing data files and data dissemination procedures. DSDR also assists data producers in the creation of metadata that are effective for the entire lifetime of the study; provides professional consultation to investigators about the risk of disclosure and steps to be undertaken to avoid breach of confidentiality through disclosure; and provides assistance in developing data discovery mechanisms.

DSDR also provides support to those in the demographic research community who use demographic data for secondary analysis. DSDR helps data users locate, access, and analyze data by providing a searchable index of demographic data. DSDR also provides access to public-use and restricted-use data, assistance in applying for restricted-use data, user support, online analysis, and training in data use.

Dr. Myron Gutmann is the Principal Investigator and Drs. Barbara Entwisle and Stephen Ruggles are co-investigators. Dr. Amy Pienta is project manager at ICPSR. Dr. Jeffery Evans and Dr. Christine A. Bachrach will participate on behalf of NICHD.

2004-09-09

ICPSR Hires Marketing Director

ICPSR has hired Linda Detterman as its new Director of Marketing and Promotion. Linda Detterman joined ICPSR on August 30. As a member of ICPSR's Collection Delivery unit, she will plan, manage, and conduct marketing and promotion activities of ICPSR with the goal of increasing Consortium membership and the use of ICPSR data.

Linda came to ICPSR from MORPACE International, a market research and consulting firm located in Farmington Hills, MI, where she was a Vice President of Planning and Research. She has also held marketing and strategic planning positions at Doner Advertising and The Los Angeles Times. These positions provided in-depth experience in marketing and branding strategy, new business development, new product development, corporate restructuring, and primary data collection and analysis. Linda received her MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

2004-09-08

ICPSR Welcomes New Members

ICPSR is pleased to announce that several new institutions have joined the Consortium since July 1, 2003. We extend a sincere welcome to the following new members:

• Bentley College
• Bradley University
• Chicago State University
• Colorado State University
• University of Cyprus
• Delta State University
• Dickinson College
• International Monetary Fund
• Lewis and Clark College
• London School of Economics
• University of Nottingham
• Texas State University at San Marcos
• Western Carolina University

2004-09-07

Samuel Myers Jr. Appointed to ICPSR Council

The ICPSR Council has selected Samuel L. Myers Jr. to complete the term of Council member William Darity Jr. Samuel Myers is Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice of the Hubert Humphrey School at the University of Minnesota and directs the Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice. He specializes in the impacts of social policies on the poor. Myers pioneered the use of applied econometric techniques to examine racial disparities in crime, to detect illegal discrimination in credit markets, to assess the impact of welfare on family stability, and to evaluate the effectiveness of government transfers in reducing poverty.

Myers has served as president of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management and was appointed to the Executive Council of the National Association of Schools of Public Administration. He has also served on the association's policy council and on the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economic Profession.

Myers has consulted with the National Commission for Employment Policy, National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, U.S. General Accounting Office, and U.S. Congressional Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. He was on the academic advisory board of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, National Council for Black Studies board of directors, and editorial boards of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Social Science Quarterly, and the Review of Black Political Economy. In 1990, the Review of Black Political Economy recognized Myers as one of the top twenty U.S. Black economists. He earned a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2004-07-23

Nancy McGovern Appointed to ICPSR Council

The ICPSR Council has selected Nancy Y. McGovern to complete the term of Council member Elisabeth R. Gerber.

Nancy McGovern is the Assistant Director of a new research department within Instruction, Research, and Information Services (IRIS) at Cornell University. She is developing a service-oriented program to provide a focal point for research within Cornell University Library that aims to conduct research on a broad range of library topics through an ongoing program of funded and ad hoc research projects, apply research techniques to operational planning and projects, and produce a series of quality research products.

She is also Digital Preservation Officer at Cornell University Library. She formulates preservation policy and serves as liaison to digital preservation projects and initiatives. She is also coeditor of RLG DigiNews, a bimonthly Web publication that focuses on digitization and preservation.

Nancy is a Ph.D. candidate in the Archival Studies program at University College London, United Kingdom. She earned an M.A. in History at Northeastern University, Boston, and a B.A. in History from Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire.

Some of Nancy's professional presentations bear the following titles: "Virtual Remote Control for Web Resources," "'Commentary' on Archival Standards: A Snapshot of Our Professional Practices in 2004," and "Mapping Organizational Activities to the OAIS Reference Model."

She is also involved in the following OAIS-related international development activities: a task force on Digital Repository Certification and a working group to develop OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies.

2004-06-16

MyData Delayed

Because of a recently discovered technical problem, ICPSR is delaying the deployment of MyData, which was scheduled to begin today at 5pm. The problem should be resolved relatively quickly, and we intend to make MyData live within the next few weeks. We apologize for the delay and will provide further announcements when we have a specific date for MyData.

2004-08-23

Grant Awarded to Study "Grammars of Death"

Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, an anthropological demographer at ICPSR, and colleagues at the University of Michigan and the University of Massachusetts, have recently been awarded a three-year, $901,000 grant from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development to learn why Americans died in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Collaborating with Leonard on the "Grammars of Death" project are U-M historian Myron Gutmann, University of Massachusetts Amherst sociologist Douglas Anderton and University of Massachusetts Amherst anthropologist Alan Swedlund. They are parsing the literal descriptions of causes of death between 1850 and 1912 to get a clearer view of why mortality rates have been falling for the last century and a half. Their sources are newspaper accounts, medical journals, and doctors' records, as well as official death and medical records from two towns in Massachusetts -- the only state that systematically recorded causes of death during this period when ideas about the causes of death and disease were changing radically.

In the Spring 2004 issue of the journal Social Science History, Anderton and Leonard identify the leading causes of death of the time, then translate them into modern diagnostic terms, drawn from the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases. They note that the terms used to describe causes of death gradually change from a mixture of alchemy, astrology, and theories about poisonous miasmas to a growing understanding of modern germ theory and sanitation techniques. While pulmonary tuberculosis is the modern term for the leading cause of death during the period studied, the terms used to describe the condition ranged from "consumption" to "phthisis." Other leading literal causes of death included "dropsy," "fit," and "apoplexy."

The Grammars of Death project is the newest phase of a larger historical demography effort, the Connecticut Valley Historical Demography Project (CVHDP), which studied local determinants of mortality in Connecticut River Valley towns and cities in Massachusetts during this period. The CVHDP was spearheaded by anthropologist Alan C. Swedlund at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, beginning in the 1980s.

2004-05-25

New NACJD Director Hired

ICPSR is pleased to announce that it has hired Christopher D. Maxwell to serve as Director of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data and Associate Research Scientist at ICPSR and the Institute for Social Research. His appointment begins on Monday, May 17, 2004. Chris will split his time between ICPSR and Michigan State, where he is currently an Assistant Professor and Director of the Crime Analysis Program in the School of Criminal Justice and a Faculty Associate at the Institute for Children, Youth and Families.

Professor Maxwell earned a doctorate from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 1998. His general research interests include the etiology and control of intimate-partner violence and hate-motivated crimes, the efficacy of aggression and delinquency prevention programs, and the impact of social and ecological contexts on criminal justice decision-making. Current projects include several experiments that are testing different mandated treatment programs for spouse abusers; a re-analysis of the six experiments that collectively tested for the deterrent effect of arrest on spouse abusers; and a study of the impact of various ecological contexts on individual level judicial decision-making. Chris is presently a Co-Principal Investigator of Michigan's Sexual Assault Surveillance System, an Evaluation of Marquette County's (Michigan) Community Collaborative Approach to Preventing and Reducing Intimate Partner Violence, and the Michigan Sentencing Project.

2004-05-13

NICHD Awards Grant for Disclosure Risk Analysis Project

Researchers from ICPSR and the Survey Research Center (SRC) of the Institute for Social Research were recently awarded a National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) grant on Human Subject Protection and Disclosure Risk Analysis. ICPSR Director Myron Gutmann is the overall principal investigator for the project, which involves four individual research efforts.

Project 1, headed by Eleanor Singer of the SRC is "Informed Consent and Perceptions of Risk and Harm in Survey Participation." Singer and SRC co-investigators Fred Conrad, Mick Couper, and Bob Groves will study the level of risk of disclosure that the public is willing to accept; whether disclosure of some kinds of information is considered more harmful than others; whether some data intruders are perceived as more harmful than others; whether people perceive the relationship of expected risk of harm versus magnitude of harm and risk of disclosure in a manner consistent with the mathematical probability of such occurrences; and how researchers can accurately inform participants of the risks without unnecessarily deterring them from participation.

T.E. Raghunathan (SRC) will lead Project 2, entitled "Estimation of Disclosure Risk and Statistical Methods for Disclosure Limitation." Co-investigators on this project are Ben Hansen, Rod Little, and Richard Valliant, also from the SRC. Their objectives include (1) assessment of the risk of disclosure using test-bed national probability surveys covering diverse topics; (2) development and evaluation of new methods to prevent disclosure; and (3) development of methods for constructing coarsened, perturbed, or synthetic versions of sensitive variables in public-use datasets.

Project 3 is headed by JoAnne McFarland O'Rourke at ICPSR, with Myron Gutmann as co-investigator and Corey Colyer as Research Associate. The project, "Best Practices and Tools for the Social Sciences," will develop best practices for disclosure limitation (1) by reviewing the literature on disclosure, (2) surveying the principal investigators and others involved in disclosure decisions for a sample of studies funded by NIH and NSF, (3) using these results and relevant findings from Projects 1 and 2 to define best practices for different types of data, and (4) designing tools that incorporate best practices.

James McNally (ICPSR) leads the fourth and final project, "Resources for the Secure Dissemination of Human Subject Data," with Myron Gutmann as co-investigator. This project serves as a bridge to connect the first three projects and to share tools, education materials, and outcomes with the research community. This will accomplished by (1) supporting a Web site to disseminate research findings and tools, (2) organizing a series of lectures and training seminars, and (3) maintaining a central knowledge base on disclosure risk analysis by providing links to vital information resources.

2004-03-12

ICPSR Web Server Maintenance

ICPSR will be performing some upgrades to its Web server this evening (Tuesday, July 27) from 8:30-11:30pm. In all likelihood, the ICPSR Web site will be inaccessible during that time period. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

2004-07-27

LEHD and DEED Datasets Available at the Michigan Census Research Data Center

The Michigan Census Research Data Center (MCRDC) is pleased to announce that LEHD and DEED datasets are now available through the research data center located in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The MCRDC is now fielding proposals for the use of the LEHD and the DEED datasets. Both of these datasets are employer-employee matched, opening up new directions for research and analysis.

LEHD. The Longitudinal Employer - Household Dynamics (LEHD) is a partnership program between the U.S. Census and individual states that integrates state unemployment insurance (UI) with Census data, providing information to the policy-making and research communities about the dynamics of economic activity. This resource is composed of four distinct datasets 1) the LEHD Business Register Bridge, 2) LEHD Employer Characteristics File, 3) LEHD Employer Human Capital File, and 4) the LEHD Employer Quarterly Workforce Indicators. These datasets allow for the integration of Census economic data with employee characteristics files.

DEED. The Decennial Employer-Employee Database (DEED) is the 1990 Decennial Census linked place of work from the 1990 Standard Statistical Establishment List, which allows for the joining of 1990 Decennial Census data to various Economic Censuses.

More detailed descriptions of each of these data sets are available from the MCRDC Web site's data section: http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/mcrdc/data.html.

The Michigan Census Research Data Center (MCRDC) allows qualified researchers with approved projects to conduct research using unpublished microdata from the Census Bureau's economic and demographic programs. All MCRDC research is conducted within its secure laboratory facility located in the Institute for Social Research.

Researchers are invited to submit proposals to use the MCRDC. Proposals are now accepted throughout the year starting March 2004. All research in MCRDC must have a Census Bureau purpose. Please refer to the MCRDC and the Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies (CES) Web pages (see below) for information about the proposal process and available data sets. Researchers with projects in the MCRDC must have special sworn status with the Census Bureau. The MCRDC assists researchers in obtaining this status.

For more information, see:

MCRDC brochure: http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/mcrdc/brochure.pdf
MCRDC Web page: http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/mcrdc/
CES Web page: http://www.ces.census.gov/
email: mcrdc@umich.edu
phone: 734 615-2535

2004-02-16

James Lee Named Guggenheim Fellow

James Z. Lee, faculty associate at ICPSR, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study "Social and Family Change in Liaoning, 1850-2000" (in collaboration with Cameron Campbell, sociology, UCLA). Lee, who is also Research Professor at the Institute of Social Research, Professor of History and Sociology, and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, expressed his gratitude to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation as well as to the Institute for Social Research and the school of Literature Science and Arts for their research support. According to Prof. Lee, "The fellowship will enable us to conduct important research about the durability of family, kinship, and community in some 500 Chinese villages as they have endured the transition from Qing imperial rule, Japanese colonial rule, communist collectivization, and the current de-collectivization. Cameron, who was separately also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and I plan to do this research at the University of Michigan and are looking forward to working together at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and the Population Studies Center."

In addition to his Guggenheim, Lee is a recipient of the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Social Demography from the American Sociological Association, Population Section and the Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Award for Best Book in Social Science History.

2004-04-22

Using Early Head Start Data Workshop Added to 2004 Summer Program Schedule

The first public release of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation (EHSRE) Study, 1996-2001: [United States], will be the focus of an August 11-13, 2004 ICPSR Summer Program workshop in Ann Arbor, MI. The workshop will instruct participants in the use of these data, collected to investigate the impacts of the Early Head Start program, while examining participant-initiated research questions. There is no fee this year for participating in this special workshop which is sponsored by the Child Care Early Education Research Connections (CCEERC), with support from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Admitted graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and junior faculty/researchers will be considered for one of a limited number of monetary awards to offset transportation, lodging, and per diem expenses. Additional course and registration information is available online.

2004-03-16

2004 Summer Program

The Summer Program portion of this Web site has recently been updated to include complete information on the 2004 Program. New topics include four week workshops, Quantitative Research Methods in the Study of Russia and Eastern Europe, and Advanced Game Theory; while the new three- to five-day workshops are Census 2000: Data Structures and GIS Applications, and Designing, Conducting, and Analyzing Field Experiments. Meanwhile, Providing Social Science Research Data and Advanced Hierarchical Linear Modeling are back on the schedule after brief respites. Course descriptions for these and all other workshops are posted and the registration form is online.

2004-02-25

ICPSR URLs to Change

ICPSR is in the process of upgrading some parts of the Web site software infrastructure. The effect of this change is that some URLs will change. An example of the change is that something like this:

http:/www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-SERIES/00035.xml

will now look like this:

http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-SERIES/00035.xml

This change only effects the XML files on our Web site, which includes the study descriptions, series descriptions, CD-ROM abstracts, union catalog entries, and thesaurus pages. Users who have bookmarked or linked to those pages will be affected.

This upgrade improves ICPSR's overall capabilities in regards to XML display, and it is also intended to facilitate access to the ICPSR Web site for those visitors that are behind firewalls, where outbound access to "off number" ports is blocked, but access to well known ports is open. Previously users who worked in secure computing environments (i.e., behind firewalls) experienced some difficulties retrieving XML files from our Web site.

Both the old and the new URLs are currently active. We intend to officially launch the new URLs in March, and then retire the old URLs at some later point in March. The launch should be non-intrusive, but to err on the side of caution we have scheduled this for 5:00pm ET on Monday, March 8, 2004. After that point the old URLs will continue to work, but the new URLs will be the ones that appear on our web pages.

2004-01-26

ICPSR's 2002-2003 Annual Report

ICPSR's 2002-2003 Annual Report (PDF 5.4MB) has a new look. It showcases the historic architecture of the Perry Building, ICPSR's new home, and offers glimpses of ICPSR staff within the work environment. This slimmed down edition celebrates ICPSR's 40 years of service to the social sciences with a timeline of ICPSR's history.

Director Myron Gutmann opens the piece by taking a look back to ICPSR's beginnings, assesses accomplishments in 2002-2003, and discusses his aims for the future. This year's Annual Report differs from previous reports in that it highlights ICPSR's innovations and achievements in 2002-2003 instead of attempting to give an exhaustive list of every accomplishment by each department.

Browsing the Annual Report, you will also find a message from Council Chair Ann Green, summary statistics on data processing and distribution, Summer Training Program information, a financial summary, Council and staff listings, membership information, and a list of ICPSR's most frequently downloaded studies, among other things.

2004-01-21

New Council Members Elected

ICPSR is pleased to announce the election by its membership of a new slate of ICPSR Council members, who will serve four-year terms beginning in March 2004. The election, which took place November 1-December 31, 2003, was conducted for the first time electronically, with a 39% participation rate.

The new members of Council include:

• Darren W. Davis, Michigan State University
• Charles H. Franklin, University of Wisconsin
• Paula Lackie, Carleton College
• James Oberly, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
• Ruth Peterson, Ohio State University
• Walter Piovesan, Simon Fraser University

Mark Hayward, Pennsylvania State University, was elected Chair of the 2004-2006 Council. Ann Green, Yale University, will serve as Past Chair for one year.

Continuing Council members, who will serve for two more years, include William Darity Jr., Duke University; Ilona Einowski, University of California, Berkeley; Elisabeth R. Gerber, University of Michigan; John Handy, Morehouse College; and Ronald Rindfuss, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Outgoing Council members are John L. Korey, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; J. Scott Long, Indiana University; Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota; James Sweet, University of Wisconsin; and Bo Wandschneider, University of Guelph.

ICPSR thanks the outgoing Council members for their years of service, and warmly welcomes the incoming members. Biographical sketches of the 2002-2004 members of Council are available at:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/org/governance/council.html

Biographical sketches of the 2004-2006 members of Council are available at:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/org/governance/council-new.html

2004-01-07

ICPSR Server Maintenance

ICPSR will be performing system maintenance on Tuesday, March 23rd, from 5-7pm EST. During that period, portions of the ICPSR Web site may be unavailable. Our apologies for any inconvenience our users may experience.

2004-03-22