Ongoing Development and Dissemination of an Electronic Library of Exemplary Social Science Data
Josefina J. Card, Ph.D.
Sociometrics Corporation

Data Archive on Adolescent Selection of exemplary data sets by a National

Pregnancy and Pregnancy Advisory Panel of experts in the field

PREVENTION Topic by type indexing of variables

Sponsor: Machine-readable SPSS program statements

Office of Population Affairs Software to search & retrieve variables by topic, type,

keyword in variable label, and data set number

User’s Guide (printed)

American Family Data Archive All of the above, plus:

Sponsor: Machine-readable SAS program statements

National Institute on Child Health Software to search & retrieve variables

and Human Development expanded to include keyword search of

and value labels

DVPT. OF SEARCH & RETRIEVAL Software to create user-designated extracts

SOFTWARE FOR ARCHIVAL DATA of data files

Sponsor:

Data Archive of Social All of the above, plus:

research on Aging Toolkits or tutorials for learning how to use

Sponsor: complex data sets

National Institute on Aging Software to search & retrieve variables made

available for Macintosh users via SoftPC

Maternal Drug Abuse Data Archive All of the above, plus:

Sponsor: Instruments, indexed by section title, included

National Institute on Drug Abuse in machine-readable, browsable form

and User’s Guide included in machine-readable form

AIDS/STD Data Archive Software to search & retrieve variables expanded

Sponsor: to include perusal of instrument page containing

National Institute on Child Health item as well as neighboring pages

and Human Development

Research Archive of Disability All of the above, plus:

in the U.S. (RADIUS) Topic by type indexing of variables expanded

and to include indexing by secondary Topic

CONTEXTUAL DATA ARCHIVE User’s Guide (machine-readable) included in the search

Sponsor: and retrieval space

National Institute on Child Health Software to search & retrieve variables expanded

and Human Development to include display and printing of frequencies

of retrieved variables

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