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APLIC-I : Association for Population/Family Planning Library and Information Centers International
- APLIC-I has a mission to develop effective documentation and information systems and services in the field of population and family planning; to provide the opportunity for professional networking among family planning and population documentalists, librarians, and information and communication specialists; to encourage and support the worldwide exchange of information through international programs and activities; and to provide continuing education to encourage professional development.
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Carolina Population Center -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- The Finder's Guide is intended as a tool for population professionals who need a single source for the quick location of organizations that publish and distribute or post population or family planning documents. National family planning agencies and official central statistical agencies of governments are not included
- Working papers from CDE and the NSFH (National Survey of Families and Households)
- Full-text in PDF or PostScript format.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Query MMWR morbidity tables by year, week, and location or query 122 cities mortality tables by year, week, and location.
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Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
- The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN, pronounced "season") was established in 1989 as a private, nonprofit corporation with members from leading universities and non-government research organizations. The corporation was formed in response to a directive by the United States Congress and is dedicated to furthering the interdisciplinary study of global environmental change. CIESIN is agency-neutral, specializing in the access and integration of physical, natural, and socioeconomic information across scientific disciplines.
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Office of Population Research at Princeton University
- A nonprofit, nongovernmental research organization established in 1952, seeks to improve the wellbeing and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources.
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Related sites of interest -- list maintained by The Population Council
- Links to university population centers, sources of data, U.S. Governmental Agencies, research centers, publications, etc.
- The Population Council Databank System is a completely integrated and easy to use system for storing, displaying, and analyzing large amounts of demographic data. Software and manual may be downloaded free of charge.
- PCMAP is a stand-alone version of the Population Council Databank System MAP procedure. The stand-alone version allows for many more areas and data points than the procedure incorporated into the Databank System. Software and manual may be downloaded free of charge
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- Affiliated with and supported by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) and The University of Chicago.
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Population Research Center at the University of Texas-Austin
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Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University
- A complete list of all PRI working papers. Those which are available electronically may be accessed free of charge. Hard copies of papers not electronically available upon request for a fee.
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Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan
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Population Studies Center at The University of Pennsylvania
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Social Sciences Data Center -- University of Virginia
- Current Population Survey : a joint project between the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census
- The CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population.
- This site was created as part of the Bureau's effort to dramatically expand access to official demographic and economic information.The series available are arranged by general subject areas: Agriculture, Construction and Housing, Decennial Census, Foreign Trade, Geography, Governments, Manufacturing and Mineral Industries, and Population.
- Provides access to the electronic versions of the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books. The service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets. From: Social Science Data Center.
- The POPIN Home Page is designed to provide comprehensive access to population information produced in all regions and on various population-related issues.
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Population Information Resources from POPIN
- Provides links to a wide variety of population and demography sites including bibliographies and bibliographic databases; journals; symposia; maps and electronic resources.
- The United Nations Population Information Network provides this compendium of population institutions drawn from various sources. The directory is browseable alphabetically, regionally, and by organization type, as well as searchable. Listings for hundreds of institutions in the directory include contact information and hyperlinks where available.
- Zero Population Growth, Inc. (ZPG) is a national non-profit organization working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance of people, resources, and the environment.
- The CDE Online Newsstand
- Links to newsletters, journals and other online news sources including resources on population, family planning and development, UW-Madison publications, as well as general news. Most sites provide full text with available back issues, but some may only provide the current issue, back issues, or selected articles. Site provided by The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Demography and Ecology.
- Published by the National Center for Children in Poverty -- funded by the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- Peer reviewed, electronic journal covering all aspects of social psychology. Publication is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Iowa
- From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Demography and Ecology -- currently includes table of contents and abstracts of articles from 1996 to present.
- DHS is one of the world's largest primary sources of information on women, men and their families in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Summarizes the most important immigration and integration developments of the preceding month -- produced at U.C. Davis with the support of the University of California-Berkeley Center for German and European Studies, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC
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Population Association of America, Inc. quarterly newsletter
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Population Index On the Web, 1986-1997 -- Office of Population Research, Princeton University
- Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics.
- Search Population Index
- You may search the Population Index database for 1986-1997 (37,018 citations) by author, subject, geographical region and/or year. You may also search for text anywhere in a citation, including the title, series and abstract.
- Population Newsletter
- Issued by: Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Secretariat, New York
- Population Reports is published four times a year by the Population Information Program (PIP) at the Center for Communication Programs (CCP) of The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Population Reports is designed to provide an accurate and authoritative overview of important developments in family planning and related health issues.
- Research Perspectives on Migration
- A bimonthly newsletter bridging the worlds of research and policy to bring timely, reliable information about migration issues to a broad audience of policy makers, scholars, journalists, and advocates. Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- International Migration Policy Project.
- Summarizes the most important immigration and integration developments affecting rural America during the preceding quarter -- produced at U.C. Davis with the support of the Gianinni, Kellogg, Mellon, and Rosenberg Foundations.
- The Social Contract
- Key topics addressed by this journal: human population issues, including absolute size, rate of growth and distribution; immigration issues; language, assimilation, culture and national unity considerations; the balance of individual rights and civic responsibilities; and other nations' efforts at guarding or creating their own social contracts.
- A peer-reviewed international quarterly concerned with all aspects of reproductive health, fertility regulation, and family planning programs in both developing and developed countries --- published by The Population Council.
- China Dimensions
- This site offers access to a unique data collection that has been designed to facilitate a wide range of natural science and socioeconomic research and educational activities. You will find a variety of socioeconomic data in this site, including Geographic Information System (GIS) databases that cover the administrative regions of China, presented at a scale of 1:1,000,000. These databases may be integrated with agricultural, land use, environmental, and socioeconomic data to track China's economic growth, population increases, and environmental change. Developed by the China Task Team of the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) of the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) under contract to NASA.
- Over 140 links to demographic resources.
- Internet Resources for Demographers
- Provided by the Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- State of the Nation's Cities -- Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University
- A comprehensive database on 77 American cities and suburbs bringing together nearly 2,500 variables from a wide variety of sources, allowing easy comparability of indicators on employment and economic development, demographic measures, housing and land use, income and poverty, fiscal conditions, and a host of other health, social, and environmental indicators.
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Organizations, Associations, and Governmental Agencies
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Interactive MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Tables
Periodical Resources (some resources may not be available full-text)
Other Resources
- Immigration Central
- This site contains a wide variety of resources including U.S. immigration law requirements and procedures. It also lists immigrations organizations and books and periodicals.
- Immigration Law
- Topic specific law related web sites, both U.S. and international. Includes links to law and legislation as well as to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
- This Nashville-based law firm, specializing in immigration law, provides latest federal laws and regulations as well as pertinent forms (INS and Social Security Administration) for downloading.
Legal Resources
- Administration on Aging - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Statistical information on older persons.
- National Aging Information Center
- Statistical information on aging from NAIC, a service of the U.S. Administration on Aging.
- Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation & Statistics
- Social Security Statistics Canada and Provinces 1970-71 to 1994-95
- Provided by the Minister of Human Resources Development Canada.
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- United Nations
- World Population Clock
- If you want to know how many people live on this planet. Updated every 30 seconds.
- 1990 U.S. Census Lookup (U.S. Census Bureau)
- LOOKUP is an experimental WWW server for retrieving data from the following 1990 U.S. Census Summary Tape Files:
- 1990 Census Summary Tape File 3 (STF3)
- Sample count - all socioeconomic and demographic variables
- STF3A -- Detailed geography - county, place, tract, etc.
- STF3B -- ZIP codes.
- STF3C - part 1 -- Nation and state totals, Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).
- STF3C - part 2 -- Urbanized Areas (UAs). Under construction.
- 1990 Census Summary Tape File 1 (STF1)
- 100% count - basic demographic variables
- STF1A -- Detailed geography - county, place, tract, etc.
- STF1C -- Nation and state totals. Not all tables are available.
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Data Extraction Service (U.S. Census Bureau)
- The Data Extraction System is a tool for extracting records (rows) and fields (columns) from very large, public-information, data files (for example: survey and census records.) The system produces custom extracts in selectable data file formats which, when processed, can then be picked up at the Census Bureau's FTP site. This system DOES NOT produce simple counts or tabulations. It produces ONLY RAW DATA which must then be processed by programming or statistical analysis software elsewhere. Available data sources are:
- (SIPP) Survey of Income and Program Participation
- (CPS) Current Population Survey
- (AHS) American Housing Survey
- (CES) Consumer Expenditure Survey (Sponsor BLS)
- (PUMS) Decennial Census Public Use Microdata Samples
- Provided by the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) and Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), USA. DDViewer allows the user to: create maps at a multitude of geographic resolutions; interpret the image using the statistical summary report; customize the layout; create tabular reports; and create simple recodes of variables. Data: The boundary data were derived from the Bureau of the Census TIGER 1992 database. Boundaries are available for states, counties, census tracts, county subdivisions/minor civil divisions, and census blockgroups. Demographic data available for mapping was derived from the Bureau of the Census STF3A 1990. Roughly 225 variables are selectable either for mapping purposes or can be printed in tabular reports. Map layouts, colors, legends and titles can by customized by the user. A recoding option is provided enabling the creation of user defined variables.
- Tiger Mapping Service (U.S. Census Bureau)
- The goal of this service is to provide a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data.
- U.S. Gazeteer (U.S. Census Bureau)
- This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server. You can search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (optional), or 5-digit zip code.
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
- Immigration Bulletin
- Produced by the law firm Siskind, Susser, Haas & Chang -- specialists in immigration and nationality law.
- Immigration Forum
- Includes articles on illegal immigration, profiles of immigrants, welfare use by immigrants, newspaper op-ed pieces, and links to other sites.
- Immigration Resources on the Internet
- Provides links to advocacy organizations, immigration-related newsgroups, links to federal government and other legal sites.
- Immigration Statistics from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Immigration-USA
- An immigration supersite that provides links to sites on immigration.
- National Center for Policy Analysis: Immigration
- Immigration-related documents online from the National Center for Policy Analysis.
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
- Supreme Court Decisions: Immigration
- Located online at Cornell University's Legal Information Institute.
- U.S. Border Control
- A non-governmental organization that "supports legislation to stop illegal immigration and drug smuggling and develop fair and effective immigration policy."