Welcome to the Data and Information Services Center (DISC), comprising the former DPLS, the data services operations formerly housed in the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging!

What's New at DISC?

New weblog-based format for Current Social Science Research Reports (CSSRR)! These daily current awareness posts replace the e-mail subscription to the weekly reports in the fields of sociology, economics, and health. The content is the same, but the updates are more immediate!

See the latest edition of DISC News -- November 2009 (HTML) or November 2009 (PDF).

Who Cares About Federal Economic Statistics? and other recent data-related articles.

ICPSR is now accepting applications for its ten-week 2010 summer undergraduate internship program in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The 2010 internship runs from June 7 to August 13. Full details are available at http://icpsr.blogspot.com/2009/10/icpsr-summer-undergraduate-internship.html; application deadline is February 8, 2010.

Labor Market Information Training Institute Webinars - a series of free one-hour webinars this semester on labor-market data:

• Economic Impact Studies: Using Regional Input-Output Multipliers, December 9, 2009: 3-4 pm Eastern time

Check out our Internet Crossroads, providing searchable annotated links to social science data and information across the Internet. Featured new addition:

Madison Neighborhood Indicators Project
City of Madison (Wisconsin)
http://madison.apl.wisc.edu/

The Madison Neighborhood Indicators Project program, funded by the City of Madison and hosted by UW-Madison's Applied Population Lab, offers a single year of selected data indicators plus mapping capability, covering the city of Madison (Wisconsin) as a whole and 70 neighborhoods, also organized as 57 planning districts. Indicators for each neighborhood include a basic area & population profile, public safety indicators, health & well-being indicators, community action & involvement indicators, economic vitality indicators, and housing quality & availability indicators. Mapping and neighborhood-comparison tools are available on the site. Note that some indicators, particularly relating to health and family well-being, are suppressed at the neighborhood level due to privacy concerns. The project launched as a pilot in 2008 with 5 neighborhoods, and went city-wide in October 2009.

See other recent additions to the Internet Crossroads (last updated 22 October, 2009).

New: Updated information on Restricted Data at DISC.

Links to Country Statistical Yearbooks worldwide: a guide by DISC on the UW-Madison libraries website. 122 countries, and counting!

The DISC subscription to Unicon CPS on Web / Current Population Survey has been discontinued. Please see IPUMS CPS for an online data extraction service for the March Current Population Survey, 1962-2009.

Check out what's new at other selected data sites.