New and Noteworthy Collections: Spring 2008

Cepr Uniform Data Extracts
ceprDATA.org provides consistent, user-friendly versions of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Current Population Survey (CPS), and other datasets available to all interested policy researchers and academics.  Data are available in Stata Format
http://www.ceprdata.org/index.php

Durham County Tax Parcel (Cadastral) Data (Redistribution to Duke Patrons Only)
ArcGIS shape files providing parcel, ownership, and assessment values for the period preceeding the 2007 tax reassessment.

IRIS Dataset (Duke Patrons Only)
The IRIS Dataset was originally constructed in 1993 by Steve Knack and Philip Keefer for the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, based on data obtained from the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG). The dataset includes computed scores for six ICRG political risk variables: corruption in government, rule of law, bureaucratic quality, ethnic tensions, repudiation of contracts by government, and risk of expropriation. Knack produced subsequent issues of the data for an ongoing series of working papers from the IRIS Center. In its current form, IRIS-3 contains data for the period 1982-1997. Data are restricted to current faculty, students, and staff of Duke University.
http://library.duke.edu/data/duke-only/iris/iris.zip

Iternational Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events (Duke Patrons Only)
The ITERATE project is an attempt to quantify data on the characteristics of transnational terrorist groups, their activities which have international impact, and the environment in which they operate. Data are restricted to current faculty, students, and staff of Duke University.
http://library.duke.edu/cgi-bin/data/dao.cgi?keywords=349198419

Latinobarometer 2005 Data (Duke Patrons Only)
The Latinobarómetro is an annual study of public public opinion in eighteen Latin American countries. With the goal of providing a representative survey of Latin American public opinion over time, the Latinobarómetro provides annual measures of attitudes toward democracy, civic culture, economic issues, gender issues, the environment, inequality, social capital, and trade policy. A complete history of the Latinobarómetro is available on from the Latinobarometro Corporation website.
http://library.duke.edu/data/collections/lbarometer.html

PRS International Country Risk Guide Researchers Dataset (Duke Patrons Only)
The PRS Group's International Country Risk Guide provides nineteen years (1984-2006) of annual risk ratings for 140 countries. This data is restricted to currently enrolled Duke faculty, staff, and students.
http://library.duke.edu/data/duke-only/ICRG/risk.zip


***New Books on Data and Applied Econometrics***

Applied Health Economics
Authors: Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice, Teresa Basho d’Uva, Silvia Balia
Publisher: Routledge
Copyright: 2007
http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/sys/003903713

Applied Econometrics for Health Economists, 2nd Edition
Author: Andrew Jones
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Copyright: 2007
http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/sys/003903715

An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers
Author: Svend Juul
Publisher: Stata Press
Copyright: 2006
http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/sys/003903716