| Title | Abstract |
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| Belice: Family Health Survey - 1991 | Esta es la primera encuesta de fecundidad, anticoncepción y salud materno infantil representativa a nivel nacional que se
lleva a cabo en Belice. El marco muestral lo constituyó el conteo de población realizado como preparación para el Censo de
1991. Las áreas urbanas y rurales se muestrearon en forma separada. En una primera etapa se seleccionaron distritos de
enumeración y en una segunda etapa se seleccionaron hogares usando un intervalo de muestreo constante de 4.2350 para
el área urbana y de 2.1363 para el área rural. Se seleccionaron un total de 4,977 hogares y se obtuvo un total de 2,656
entrevistas completas. |
| Brazilian National Household Survey | [none] |
| Chinese In-Depth Fertility Surveys | Complete pregnancy, marriage and contraceptive histories + socio-economic background and attitudinal data |
| Costa Rica: Encuesta de Prevalencia de Anticonceptivos - 1981 | Esta es la segunda encuesta de prevalencia de anticonceptivos realizada en Costa Rica bajo el programa de "Westinghouse
Health Systems". Para esta encuesta se utilizó el mismo diseño muestral de la encuesta de 1978. El marco muestral de esta encuesta fue el mismo utilizado por la Dirección General de Estadística y Censos en la encuesta
de 1976, basado en la cartografía y los resultados del Censo de Población de 1973. Se definieron 5 estratos: : Area
metropolitana, valle central urbano, valle central rural, resto del país urbano, resto del país rural. La unidad primaria de
muestreo fue el segmento censal. En los 375 segmentos seleccionados se delimitaron conglomerados de 7 viviendas. En el
área urbana se escogió una vivienda en cada conglomerado y en el área rural 2. Las mujeres se seleccionaron a partir de
una hoja de ruta. El trabajo de campo se realizó de enero a abril. De las 4048 viviendas se obtuvieron 4580 entrevistas
completas. |
| Costa Rica: Encuesta Nacional de Fecundidad - 1976 | Esta encuesta, que formó parte del programa Encuesta Mundial de Fecundidad, es la primera realizada a nivel nacional. Las
dos primeras encuestas habian cubierto el área Metropolitana (1964) y el área rural (1969). Los segmentos utilizados en el
Censo de 1973 sirvieron de marco muestral. Unicamente se excluyeron 25 distritos de dificil acceso y baja densidad de
población. La muestra se seleccionó dividiendo el país en cinco estratos: Area metropolitana, valle central urbano, valle
central rural, resto del país urbano, resto del país rural. Para cada estrato se seleccionaron segmentos con probabilidad
proporcional al tamaño y dentro de cada segmento viviendas. En el último estrato, antes de seleccionar segmentos, se
definieron unidades primarias de muestreo con el propósito de reducir la dispersión geográfica de la muestra. |
| Costa Rica: Encuesta Nacional de Fecundidad y Salud - 1986 | En esta encuesta se incluyeron por primera vez preguntas sobre salud materno infantil. Además se probó el uso del
calendario para recoger información sobre uso de métodos anticonceptivos en la mitad de las mujeres entrevistadas. Como marco muestral se uso el listado de segmentos preparado para el censo de población de 1984, excluyendo distritos de
muy baja densidad y algunos limítrofes con Nicaragua en que podían presentarse dificultades. La muestra se seleccionó en
nueve estratos diferentes separando el área metropolitana de San José, las capitales de provincias y las ciudades pequeñas
del resto del país y del área rural del Valle Central. Dentro de cada estrato se seleccionaron segmentos censales. En cada
segmento censal seleccionado se definieron conglomerados de 20 viviendas y se seleccionó uno al azar. Para seleccionar a
las mujeres se preparó primero una hoja de ruta con un listado de todas las mujeres entre 15 a 49 años en el conglomerado.
En el listado de mujeres elegibles se selecionó una de cada dos. |
| Costa Rica: Encuesta Nacional de Salud Reproductiva - 1993 | En esta encuesta se utilizo un calendario para recoger información sobre práctica anticonceptiva, uniones, nacimientos y
participación en la fuerza de trabajo para la totalidad de las mujeres entrevistadas. El marco muestral de la encuesta fue el marco muestral de la Dirección General de Estadística y Censos actualizado para
incluir nuevos recuentos de viviendas. Para uniformizar el tamaño de los segmentos censales se unieron algunos muy
pequeños o se dividieron algunos muy grandes con base en la proximidad geográfica y las características socio económicas. |
| Demographic and Health Surveys | The successor to WFS, which has completed three additional runs of surveys in the eighties and nineties. |
| El Salvador: Encuesta Nacional de Fecundidad, Planificación Familiar y Comunicación
Masiva. - 1978 | Esta encuesta tuvo como objetivo proporcionar información sobre los programas de planificación familiar y comunicación
masiva. La muestra se seleccionó en tres etapas: conglomerados, hogares y mujeres en edad fértil. La selección comprendió
tres estratos: Area metropolitana, Otras áreas urbanas, y el área rural. |
| El Salvador: Encuesta Nacional de Salud Familiar - 1985, 1988, 1993 | Esta es la primera de las encuestas "DHS" hecha por IRD/MACRO. Como sus similares, el objetivo de la encuesta fue
recolectar información sobre uso y conocimiento de anticonceptivos y sobre salud materno infantil. Por las condiciones
políticas del país en ese momento, la encuesta solo cubrió el 55% del territorio, el que incluía, debido a los desplazamientos,
a casi 80% de la población. En el área rural no se pudieron visitar, debido a los riesgos existentes, 5 de los conglomerados
seleccionados en la muestra. |
| Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study | The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study addresses three areas of great interest to policy makers and community leaders - nonmarital childbearing, welfare reform, and the role of fathers - and brings these three areas together in an innovative, inte grated framework. |
| Growth of American Families | 1955: Women were asked questions about fertility and contraception, including contraceptive use and pregnancy histories, opinions on childbearing and childrearing, expectation of further children, etc. Background information such as marital history, education, income, religion, social characteristics, and place of residence was also collected. For the first eight pregnancies, dates, outcomes, and patterns of contraceptive use are coded. No information about specific contraceptive methods used in these pregnancy intervals was collected, although whether a woman ever used specific methods is recorded. For the first eight live births, the dates, pregnancy order and number of living children at the time of the birth are recorded. According to other information in the data, there were 24 pregnancies of order greater than eight for these women, and 14 live births of order greater than eight. Information about these is not included in the data.
1960: Women were asked questions about fertility and contraception, including contraceptive use and pregnancy histories, opinions on childbearing and childrearing, expectation of further children, etc. Background information such as marital history, education, income, religion, social characteristics, and place of residence was also collected. Contraceptive information, including methods used (but no dates of use), is recorded for the first 12 pregnancy intervals and the open interval. Outcomes and dates are recorded for all pregnancies. |
| Guatemala: Encuesta Nacional de Salud Materno Infantil - 1987, 1995 | Esta encuesta realizada por IRD/MACRO, el Ministerio de Salud y el INCAP, tuvo como propósito fundamental recoger
información sobre salud materno infantil. Para obtener la muestra, se utilizó el marco muestral de la encuesta demográfica
de 1986-87. Se tomó una submuestra de sectores censales y luego se seleccionaron viviendas particulares. En cada hogar
se entrevistó a todas las mujeres entre 15 a 44 años. De un total de 6870 hogares donde habían 5528 mujeres, se
obtuvieron 5160 entrevistas completas. También en esta encuesta se excluyó El Petén. |
| Guatemala: Encuesta sobre Salud y Educación Sexual de Jóvenes - 1986 | Esta encuesta forma parte de una serie de encuestas desarrolladas en varios países de América Latina bajo la asesoría del
CDC. Las encuestas estan dirigidas a recabar información sobre comportamiento sexual y educación sexual entre adultos
jovenes (personas entre 15 y 24 años de edad). |
| Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF), 1995 | The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish (Encuesta Guatemalteca de Salud Familiar), was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support and health beliefs in this process. |
| Guatemalan Survey of Fertility and Family Planning, 1978, 1983 | El marco muestral para el departamento de Guatemala fue el marco de la encuesta de hogares actualizado a marzo de 1977 por la Dirección General de Estadística y Censos. Para el resto del país se utilizó como marco el censo de 1973. En los dos casos la unidad primaria de muestreo fueron los sectores censales y se seleccionaron con probabilidad proporcional al número de hogares. En el departamento de Guatemala, que fue sobremuestreado, se seleccionaron en la segunda etapa de 7 a 9 hogares por sector. En el resto del país en la segunda etapa la unidad primaria fue la vivienda y se seleccionaron conglomerados de 25 hogares. En cada hogar se selecionó en forma aleatoria una mujer en edad fertil (15 a 49 años). En los 3607 hogares incluidos en la muestra se obtuvieron 2684 entrevistas completas. |
| Hutterite Fertility Survey | These data are of great historical interest. They represent a natural fertility population with a very high level of marital fertility and were used as a standard in the European Fertility Study against which the fertility levels of other populations were measured. A.G. Steinberg collected the data as part of a genetic study in 1953 (51 families) and 1958-1961 (685 families). An attempt was made to determine from written records and family Bibles the dates of birth and death of everyone who had ever lived in the communities studied. Followup interviews were conducted with 562 families in order to get complete pregnancy histories. The dataset we have has only 722 familes and 552 pregnancy histories. This is 14 families and 10 pregnancy histories fewer than Mindel Sheps reports. |
| Immigrant Identity Project | The Project Transnational Identities and behavior: an Ethnographic Comparison of First and Second Generation Latino Immigrants was realized under the direction of Douglas Massey and Magaly Sanchez R with funding from the Russell Sage Foundation (May 2002). The study, known in abbreviated form as the Immigrant Identity Project, was organized as a sub-project of two larger investigations: the Mexican Migration Project (http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu) and the Latin American Migration Project (http://lmp.opr.princeton.edu). The project sought to conduct in-depth interviews with immigrants residing in the northeastern United States , and was originally conceived to analyze whether the construction of immigrant identity conformed to the postulates of classic assimilation theory, segmented assimilation theory, or transnational theory, and to assess whether intergroup boundaries were being blurred or brightened. |
| Latin American Migration Project | The Latin American Migration Project (LAMP) is a collaborative research project based at Princeton University and the University of Guadalajara. The LAMP was born as an extension of the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), which was created in 1982 by an interdisciplinary team of researchers to advance our understanding of the complex processes of international migration and immigration to the United States. Data gathered by the MMP have been the source of a sizable amount of research on international migration. The purpose of the LAMP is to extend this research to migration flows originating in other Latin American countries. |
| Little Village Survey | Little Village, a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, is the largest Mexican community in the Midwestern United States. The Little Village Survey consists of business and household surveys. The business survey is based on a stratified random sample of establishments that were in operation during the spring of 1994. The questionnaire solicited information about household and respondent characteristics and measured inputs for business start-up, including sources of capital, use of credit, family members’ participation, employee and client attributes, characteristics of suppliers, ethnic composition of social networks, and organizational participation. 325 households were interviewed for the household component of the survey. |
| Mexican Migration Project | The Mexican Migration Project was created in 1982 by an interdisciplinary team of researchers to further our understanding of the complex process of Mexican migration to the United States.Since its inception, the MMP's main focus has been to gather social as well as economic information on Mexican-US migration. |
| National Fertility Survey | Women were asked questions about fertility and contraception, including contraceptive use and pregnancy histories, opinions on childbearing and childrearing, desired family size, future childbearing intentions and expectation of further children. Questions about coital frequency at the time of interview were asked. Marital history and some labor force participation history were recorded. Background information such as education, income, religion, social characteristics, and place of residence was also collected. The live birth history contains questions about length of breastfeeding and survival staus of the child. The pregnancy history contains questions about methods of contraception used and childbearing intentions at the time of conception. |
| National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen | The National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF) was developed to provide comprehensive data to test different theoretical explanations for minority underachievement in higher education. The NLSF data are available for Wave 1, the baseline survey with detailed information on student’s background, such as family structure, neighborhood and school characteristics, at age 6, 12, and one year prior to entering college. Wave 1 also includes information about student’s preparation for college, peer networks, and racial/ethnic attitudes. |
| National Migration Study in Thailand | We have several datasets from Thailand's National Migration Study conducted by Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University in Thailand. |
| National Mortality Files | [none] |
| National Survey of Family Growth | The survey reports background information about the respondent and her husband, such as education, religion, ethnic origin, occupation, and earnings. Complete marital history, birth history and pregnancy history information are recorded. For pregnancies ending after January 1, 1970, a complete history of contraceptive methods used in the interval is available, including the reason the last method was stopped. The wantedness and timing of each pregnancy was ascertained. Finally, there are detailed questions about the woman's ideal family size, desired, intended and expected number of children. A monthly calendar of contraceptive use from January 1, 1970 until the date of the survey is provided; the information was recorded in the form of dates, and transcribed to the calendar by the interviewer.
This survey has expanded questions about the respondent's use of health services, including PAP tests, pelvic exams, and tests for STD's. There are more questions about precautions the respondent was taking to avoid AIDS and other STD's, although many of these responses are not included in the data because of concerns about confidentiality. There are also detailed questions about child care |
| New Immigrant Survey | The New Immigrant Survey (NIS) is a panel survey of a nationally representative sample of new legal immigrants to the United States based on probability samples of administrative records of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The goals of the study were to provide information on new legal immigrants and to inform the fielding and design of large-scale studies, the first of which is NIS-2003. The NIS-P links survey information about immigrants' pre-and post-immigration labor market, schooling, and migratory experiences with data available from INS administrative records, including the visa type under which the immigrant was admitted. |
| Nicaragua: Encuesta sobre Salud Familiar - 1992 | Esta encuesta además de secciones sobre conocimiento y uso de anticonceptivos y salud materno infantil, incluyó un
módulo sobre conocimiento de SIDA. La muestra se seleccionó en tres etapas: sectores censales, viviendas, y una mujer en cada vivienda. La selección se hizo
en forma independiente en tres estratos: Managua, Otras áreas urbanas, y el área rural. Se visitaron 9200 viviendas y se
obtuvo un total de 7150 entrevistas completas. 160 viviendas no pudieron ser visitadas por razones de seguridad. La
encuesta excluyó el departamento de Zelaya en la Costa Atlántica. |
| OECD Tables of Populations and Deaths | These files of population and death statistics from developing countries were amassed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergoverernmental organization representing 25 of the world's democracies with advanced market economies. One result of the project was the UN Model Life Tables for Developing countries. The data contained in these files are for the most part raw census and vital registration data and the data quality for many (probably most) of them was such that the UN could not use them as standards for the model life tables.
For some countries registered deaths are available from the 1920's up to the mid 1970's. Some statistics are available for both urban and rural populations, as well as other subgroups of the population. For many of the countries included in the datafiles, this is almost all of the data that exist. Aside from their historical interest, these data may be useful for illustrating patterns of age misreporting or for teaching methods of adjusting data. |
| Princeton European Fertility Project | The European Fertility Project had two objectives:
1.To create a quantitative record of the European fertility transition - the decline of 50% or more in the number of children the average woman bears. This profound demographic change, and the social changes associated with it, occurred within the past two centuries in almost all of the several hundred provinces of Europe, and
2.To determine the social and economic circumstances that prevailed when the modern decline in fertility began in the hope of elucidating the causal mechanisms of the fertility transition.
To accomplish the two objectives, two sets of measures were required, one to describe demographic characteristics (primarily marriage and fertility) and one to describe social and economic circumstances. The demographic measures had to be such that they could be calculated easily using the often limited census and vital resistration data available. To this end, a series of standard measures was developed which compared the fertility experience of the populations of the provinces of Europe to that of the Hutterites, a religious community residing in the western United States and Canada. The Hutterite women had the highest recorded levels of natural fertility known at that date. |
| Princeton Fertility Survey | Questions were asked about the couple's attitudes toward family planning, personal goals, work, leisure, religion, world problems. Detailed questions were asked about the planning status, timing, and wantedness of each birth. Contraceptive use, intentions for future childbearing, periods of separation, and opinions on abortion are also recorded. |
| Success and Failure in Cultural Markets | Success and Failure in Cultural Markets project was motivated by a puzzling aspect of contemporary cultural markets: successful cultural products, such as hit songs , bestselling books, and blockbuster movies, are orders of magnitude more successful than average; yet which particular songs, books, and movies will become the next "big thing" appears impossible to predict.
The project proposed that both of these features, which appear to be contradictory at the collective level, can arise from the process of social influence at the individual level. To explore this possibility emprically a website was constructed where participants could listen to, rate, and download new music. Using a "multiple worlds" experimental design, the project found support for the ideas in a series of four experiments involving a total of 27,267 participants. |
| Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project | The Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project (THEOP) is a multi-year study that investigates college planning and enrollment behavior under a policy that guarantees admission to any Texas public college or university to high school seniors who graduate in the top decile of their class. The study collected administrative data on applications, admissions and enrollment from 12 colleges and universities in the state that differ in the selectivity of their admissions, and conducted a two-cohort longitudinal survey of sophomores and seniors who were enrolled in Texas public schools as of spring, 2002. |
| U.S. Cohort and Period Fertility Tables, 1917-1980 | These fertility tables, produced by the National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health, were compiled by Robert L. Heuser. They are tabulated by single year of age and birth cohort, by parity and race. There are three series of data:
1. Central birth rates by cohort and age (Cohorts 1868 through 1966).
2. Central birth rates by period and age (Years 1917 through 1980).
3. Cumulative birth rates by cohort to exact age x. (Cohorts 1867 through 1966).
The ages tabulated are 14 to 49. The numerators were taken from birth registration statistics. The denominators were taken from the U.S. censuses. In the earlier years, births within the birth registration areas were used to estimate births for the entire U.S. Adjustments were made for undercount and age misreporting. Within a cohort, the age-specific rates were smoothed by using a three-year moving average, where it was assumed that the rates below age 14 and above age 49 were 0.
The earliest year for which birth registration data are available is 1917. The cohort tables (Series 1 and 3) thus begin with women born in 1868, who were 49 in 1917, and end with women born in 1966, who were 14 in 1980, although a complete age schedule is available only for women born between 1903 and 1931. In the cohort tables, rates for ages attained before 1917 or after 1980 are set to 0. |
| World Fertility Survey | A collection of high-quality, internationally comparable surveys of human fertility conducted in 41 developing countries in the late seventies and early eighties. |
| World Health Organization | [none] |
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