User Guides

Dataset User Guides

These are online user guides to frequently-used datasets at DISC. Most of these datasets are available either online via UW-Madison campus-wide subscription, or at DISC public access workstations.

• CensusCD 2000 User's Guide, 2003 version (PDF)
• CPS Utilities Users Guide
• Datastream Advance 4.0 User Guide (PDF)
  • Outline of Time Series in Datastream
  • Thomson Datastream Data Coverage (PDF)
• Eurostat (from the University of Minnesota)
• German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and PSID-GSOEP Equivalent Data File Workshop User Guide
• Global Development Finance 1999 on CD-ROM, User Guide
• International Financial Statistics User Guide (from the University of Minnesota)
• International Social Survey Programme Data User Guide
• MicroAnalyst web brochure (from Querylogic web site)
• National Longitudinal Study (NLS) User Manual for NLS Web-Investigator (from NLS User Services at the Center for Human Resource Research)
• OECD Statistical Compendium: CD-ROM User Guide
• SourceOECD -- Accessing OECD Statistics Online (PDF; from SourceOECD web site, UW-Madison subscription)
• United Nations Statistical Yearbook User Guide
• World Development Indicators Online (from the University of Minnesota)
• World Development Indicators 2000 on CD-ROM, User Guide

Resource Guides

• DISC Frequently Asked Questions
• Citation Guides for Data
• Introduction to Using Data at DISC
• Introduction to Census Resources
• Using FTP and Anonymous FTP
• Using PDF format Codebook Documentation

Data-specific Alerts and Errata

Bibliographies

Online Bibliographies for Archival Studies held by DISC:

• Catasto Study: Census and Property Survey for Florentine Domains and the City of Verona in Fifteenth Century Italy
• Census and Property Survey for Florentine Domains and the City of Verona in Fifteenth Century Italy
• Dynamics of Idealism: Volunteers for Civil Rights,1965-1982
• Evaluation of Effects of the Learnfare Program, 1993-1996
• Migrant Farm Workers in Wisconsin
• Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Bibliography of Primary Publications. See also: School Choice (Vouchers) and Privatization bibliography
• Milwaukee Study of Civil Disorder, 1967
• National Institute for Science Education Evaluation of "The Why Files" World Wide Web Site
• Patterns of Interracial Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in the City of Milwaukee, 1970
• Premarital Sexuality Among Young People, 1973
• Wisconsin Children, Incomes, and Program Participation Survey (CHIPPS) of 1985

ICPSR also has an immense searchable Bibliography of Data-Related Literature pertaining to their data holdings.

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