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June 24, 2005
Undergraduate Financial Aid Estimates for 2003-04 by Type of Institution
NCES has just released, '2003-04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04) Undergraduate Financial Aid Estimates for 2003-04 by Type of Institution.' This is the second publication based on the 2003-04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04) conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) within the U.S. Department of Education. NPSAS is a comprehensive survey that examines how students and their families pay for postsecondary education. This E.D. TAB focuses only on undergraduates, including separate tables for those who attended public 4-year, private-not-for-profit 4-year, public 2-year, or private for-profit postsecondary institutions during the 2003-04 academic year. It describes average tuition and fees, average total price of attendance, and the percentages of undergraduates receiving various types and combinations of financial aid and average amounts received, with a particular focus on grants and loans. The results show that 63 percent of all undergraduates enrolled in 2003-04 received some type of financial aid. About one-half (51 percent) of undergraduates received grants and about one-third (35 percent) took out student loans. The average amount of grants received was $4,000, and the average amount borrowed by undergraduates in 2003-04 was $5,800.
To download, view and print the report as a pdf file, please visit:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005163
Posted by ronbo at 12:36 PM
Recent ICPSR updates and additions - June 23, 2005
Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data
archive along with a list of released data collections that have been
updated:
NEW ADDITIONS:
4216 Community Tracking Study Household Survey, 2003: [United States]
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04216.xml
4231 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Earned Degrees, 1987-1988
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04231.xml
4249 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2000
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04249.xml
4254 Great Plains Population and Environment Data: Agricultural Data, 1870-1997 [United States]
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04254.xml
4268 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data, 2003
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04268.xml
UPDATES:
6656 Central and Eastern Euro-barometer 5: European Union, November 1994
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06656.xml
6894 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Family Health Insurance Survey, 1993
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06894.xml
You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last
ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/.
Posted by ronbo at 12:24 PM
June 15, 2005
Census News Brief - June 15, 2005
HOUSE CUTS $20 MILLION FROM CENSUS BUREAU BUDGET;
2006 CENSUS FIELD TEST COULD BE SCALED BACK
The House of Representatives approved an amendment yesterday to cut $20 million from the Census Bureau's fiscal year 2006 budget, with $10 million coming from the Salaries and Expense account, which funds ongoing demographic and economic surveys, and $10 million from 2010 census planning.
Preliminary information from the Census Bureau indicates that the 2006 Census Field Test, currently planned for Travis County, Texas, and the Cheyenne Indian Reservation in South Dakota, could be scaled back to one site if the funding is not restored. Alternatives include canceling plans to test a dual English-Spanish language questionnaire and a targeted second mailing to households that don't return the first census form. The Census Bureau is unlikely to deploy new procedures in 2010 that are not tested in advance.
The amendment to cut the bureau's funds was offered by Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA). It was approved by a vote of 260 - 168. The money was shifted to the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program and the Drug Enforcement Administration, both within the Justice Department. Rep. Baird said increased funds were needed for local law enforcement and international interdiction to fight the growing use of methamphetamines. He questioned the Census Bureau's need for so much money, saying the agency had already received several billion dollars since 2001. "Ask your average man and woman on the street... where should we spend the money? Billions of dollars for the census, or to intercept international narcotrafficking...?" the congressman asked during the debate. Rep. Baird also accused the Census Bureau of wasting money, saying they had handed out paperweights, calendars, and other trinkets during the 2000 census. "I used to teach research design," Rep. Baird said. "I cannot fathom that it costs this much money to modify this census."
Lawmakers speaking in opposition to the amendment were sympathetic to the need for more drug-fighting money, but they suggested that the Census Bureau also needed funds to prepare thoroughly for the next census. Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH), chairman of the Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census, which oversees census programs, said, "It sounds pretty simple, paperweights versus crimefighting... But it is just not that simple. The census provides information vital to how we as a Nation operate." Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), a former ranking member of the census oversight subcommittee, concurred, noting that federal and state funds for education, housing assistance, day care, hospitals, and programs for the elderly are distributed based on census data.
The House is considering the Fiscal Year 2006 Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill (H.R. 2862). (Debate is continuing today.) Subcommittee Chairman Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Ranking Minority Member Alan Mollohan (D-WV) opposed the amendment, saying that the committee had done its best to balance competing priorities in the massive spending bill and that the Census Bureau needed the funds approved by the committee. (For further information on the committee bill, see the June 12th Census News Brief.)
Rep. Baird was the only lawmaker to speak in support of his amendment. The vote on the Baird amendment can be found at http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll248.xml. A similar amendment to last year's appropriations bill, which also would have shifted funds to the COPS program, was narrowly defeated by a vote of 206 - 212.
The Census Bureau's Salaries & Expenses account is now reduced to $198.029 million; the Administration requested $220.029 million. Funding for 2010 census planning is reduced to $453.596 million, with $10 million specifically coming from "Reengineered Design Process for the Short-Form Only Census."
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science is scheduled to consider its version of the fiscal year spending bill next week. Last year, the Senate failed to approve any increase in funds for the Periodic Censuses account, which includes the decennial census and American Community Survey. Most of the requested funds were restored in negotiations with the House, although the Census Bureau was unable to include group quarters in the first year of the ACS survey.
Proposed Constitutional amendment would exclude non-citizens from census: Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) introduced a bill to amend the Constitution, to require that only U.S. citizens be counted for purposes of apportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. H.J.Res. 53 would change the word "persons" in the Fourteenth Amendment to "citizens." (The relevant section of the Fourteenth Amendment currently reads: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.") There are currently four cosponsors on the bill, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
"I find it absolutely outrageous that people who are not in our country legally are having such impact on our political system," Rep. Miller said in a press release.
Previous proposals to amend the law, most notably before the 1990 census, have sought to exclude undocumented residents, but not non-citizen legal residents, from the state population totals used for congressional apportionment. Constitutional amendments must pass both the House and Senate by two-thirds votes, and then be ratified by three-fourths of the states within seven years.
Census News Briefs are prepared by Terri Ann Lowenthal, an independent consultant in Washington, DC, with support from The Annie E. Casey Foundation and other organizations. Ms. Lowenthal is also a consultant to The Census Project, sponsored by the Communications Consortium Media Center. All views expressed in the News Briefs are solely those of the author. Please direct questions about the information in this News Brief to Ms. Lowenthal at 202/484-3067 or by e-mail at TerriAnn2K@aol.com. Please feel free to circulate this document to other interested individuals and organizations.
Posted by ronbo at 05:14 PM
June 14, 2005
New Roper Center Award Fellowship
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research announces a new program,
the Roper Award Fellowship. The purpose of the Fellowship is to provide an opportunity for researchers to make creative use of the data holdings of the Roper Center. Fellows will be in residence at the University of Connecticut--Storrs and will have full access to the resources of the Roper Center, with no teaching or administrative responsibilities. The term of the fellowship is 18-24 months. It is planned that one fellow will be selected each year, so that two fellows will be in residence at any time. The fellowship includes a stipend of $55,000 per year and health and other University benefits.
Applicants must have received a doctoral degree in a relevant field within approximately the last seven years. Both new PhDs and more experienced scholars are encouraged to apply. Fellows should submit a 5-10 page proposal outlining research that the applicant hopes to do using data from the Roper Center.
For more information about the fellowship and application procedures, see the Roper Center website at www.ropercenter.uconn.edu, or contact David Weakliem (weakliem@ropercenter.uconn.edu).
Posted by ronbo at 03:56 PM
June 13, 2005
Roper Center Data Acquisitions Update - May 2005
Click here for a list of new additions to the Roper Center data archive. By following the links associated with each study listed, you will find documentation files (PDF) for these studies. Stanford University Libraries maintains a membership to the Roper Archive and Stanford faculty, staff, and students can order data from the Archive. To request specific data files, click on the "Data Services - Roper" link for information on ordering Roper data.
This month the Update contains:
• Kaiser Family Foundation Survey--Seniors and the Internet conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International March 5-April 18, 2004 of adults 50 years old and over.
• Los Angeles Times Poll--Mayoral Primary in the City of Los Angeles conducted January 26-February 3, 2005.
These notices have been archived on the Roper Center website at:
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/dataacq/yeartodate.html
If you have any questions about these data collections please do not hesitate to contact the Roper Center at rcweb@ropercenter.uconn.edu.
Posted by ronbo at 02:21 PM
Census News Brief - June 12, 2005
HOUSE PANEL APPROVES '06 CENSUS FUNDS; AMENDMENTS COULD TARGET ACS, 2010 CENSUS ON HOUSE FLOOR
The House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice, and Commerce approved a bill on June 7 that includes funding for Census Bureau programs in fiscal year 2006, which starts October 1. The American Community Survey (ACS) and 2010 census planning activities received roughly the amounts requested by the Bush Administration, but amendments on the House floor could target one or both accounts, as lawmakers look for ways to pay for other programs within the massive spending bill. Overall, the recommended appropriation for the Census Bureau is 12 percent above its 2005 funding level. (Neither the bill nor committee report numbers are available as of this writing.)
Appropriators support shift to ACS; prisoner enumeration to be
studied: The bill allocates $213.849 million -- $630,000 below the request -- to continue designing a short form-only census in 2010. The committee noted in report language accompanying the bill that a simplified, streamlined census should cost $2 billion less than repeating a traditional census with a long form. The bill also includes $79.799 million, the amount requested, for continued updates to the address list (MAF) and digital maps (TIGER system). The committee urged federal, state, and local agencies to share address and geographic information with the Census Bureau, and instructed the bureau to use currently available information whenever possible to improve the MAF and TIGER system.
The American Community Survey (ACS) received $169.948 million, the amount requested. In 2006, the Bureau plans to add group quarters (such as college dorms, nursing homes, and prisons) to the survey for the first time. The committee noted that its support for replacing the once-a-decade long form with an ongoing survey remains "steadfast."
The appropriations bill requires the Census Bureau to continue collecting data on "some other race" in the census, a directive first included in last year's appropriations bill. Before Congress intervened, the bureau had begun testing a revised census race question that eliminated the "some other race" option.
The committee report also directs the Census Bureau to evaluate a change in the way prisoners are counted in the decennial census. Current residence rules place prisoners in the institution in which they are incarcerated on Census Day. Several prison reform advocacy groups have proposed counting prisoners at their pre-incarceration place of residence. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law issued a report last year, Accuracy Counts: Incarcerated People and the Census, in which it argues that counting inmates at their prison location deprives their home communities of funding for services and programs, as well as fair political
representation in state legislatures and Congress. The number of people incarcerated in rural prisons grew significantly in the 1990s, the report notes, with 40 percent of the nation's prison population now housed in rural facilities. The Census Bureau would have 90 days to complete its study of an alternative counting method for prisoners, if the final appropriations bill retains the House report language.
The Brennan Center report is available at:
www.brennancenter.org/resources/cji/RV4_AccuracyCounts.pdf.
Floor amendments could target ACS, 2010 census funds: Funding for the American Community Survey or other Census Bureau programs could be at risk when the full House considers the Science/Commerce appropriations bill on June 14. Last year, ACS funds narrowly survived a vote on the House floor when Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) proposed shifting funds from the survey to a popular community policing program. Congressional sources indicate that Rep. Weiner might offer a similar amendment this year.
The Census Bureau has cautioned that key components of a redesigned 2010 census, including the ACS as a replacement for the traditional long form, could be at risk if Congress cuts funding for these programs below the requested amount. A cut of $52 million, the bureau said, would force it to abandon plans to use hand-held computers for field data collection. It also would eliminate plans for a 2006 field test on the Cheyenne Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and delay the award of a major data processing contract by six months.
If Congress cuts $26 million from the ACS, the Census Bureau said it would cancel plans to include group quarters in the survey and reduce the sample size by roughly 10 percent. The ACS could not produce reliable data for block groups and census tracts under those conditions, the Bureau warned. The bureau also would eliminate the Methods Panel planned for 2006, which is designed to test all new questionnaire wording and content before 2008, to ensure consistent data collection for the five year period through 2012, when the ACS will first produce block group and tract level data in place of the census long form.
Stakeholders urge full funding for ACS and 2010 census: A diverse group of stakeholder organizations sent a letter on June 9 to key House and Senate appropriators, urging them to reject efforts to reduce funding for the American Community Survey and 2010 census planning. "Operational risk and costs will escalate if the Census Bureau cannot thoroughly test and evaluate new methods and design features," the groups cautioned in their letter to Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV), chairman and ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice, and Commerce, and to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), their counterparts on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science.
The stakeholders called the ACS "a relatively modest investment [that] will allow legislators to target more effectively hundreds of billions of dollars annually in program funds, and businesses to invest trillions of dollars more prudently, for the betterment of all communities." The full text of the letter will be available soon through the Communications Consortium Media Center (
Census News Briefs are prepared by Terri Ann Lowenthal, an independent consultant in Washington, DC, with support from The Annie E. Casey Foundation and other organizations. Ms. Lowenthal is also a consultant to The Census Project, sponsored by the Communications Consortium Media Center. All views expressed in the News Briefs are solely those of the author. Please direct questions about the information in this News Brief to Ms. Lowenthal at 202/484-3067 or by e-mail at
Posted by ronbo at 01:13 PM
June 10, 2005
Recent ICPSR updates and additions: June 10, 2005
Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data
archive along with a list of released data collections that have been
updated:
NEW ADDITIONS:
4250 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2001
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04250.xml
4251 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2002
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04251.xml
4252 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2003
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04252.xml
4255 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2002: [United States]
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04255.xml
UPDATES:
2061 Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) VIII: Opening Fall Enrollment in Higher Education, 1973
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/02061.xml
6466 Central and Eastern Euro-barometer 4: Political and Economic Change, November 1993
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06466.xml
You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last
ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/.
Posted by ronbo at 01:01 PM
June 06, 2005
Recent ICPSR updates and additions: June 3, 2005
Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data
archive along with a list of released data collections that have been
updated:
NEW ADDITIONS:
4120 Detroit Area Study, 1997: Social Change in Religion and Child Rearing
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04120.xml
4183 National Election Pool Democratic Presidential Preference Primary Exit Polls, 2004
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04183.xml
4224 CBS News/NEW YORK TIMES Monthly Poll #1, October 2004
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04224.xml
UPDATES:
3543 Eurobarometer 57.2: Health Issues, Cross-Border Purchases, and National Identities, April-June 2002
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03543.xml
You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last
ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/.
Posted by ronbo at 04:04 PM
Roper Center Newsletter - June 2005
Tip of the Month: Roper Award Fellowship - The Roper Center is beginning a Roper Award Fellowship Program that provides fellows the opportunity to devote 18-24 months to research using the holdings of the Roper Center, free from teaching or administrative responsibilities. To learn more...
Public Opinion Matters!--"Supreme Court"
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/cgi-bin/hsrun.exe/roperweb/pom/pom.htx;start=HS_special_topics?Topic=polling
In this month's POM topic you will find related issues on the Supreme Court and their influence, the public's confidence of the Court, and the Court's rulings. Is the court too conservative or too liberal? Find out more on the Supreme Court and related issues in this month's POM!
Based on a new topic each month, POM offers a generous free sampling of related polling data and details of survey datasets held by the Roper Center, along with articles previously published in Public Perspective magazine.
Experience the depth of information housed in the Roper Center archives - The complete list of "Public Opinion Matters!" topics. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/cgi-bin/hsrun.exe/Roperweb/pom/pom.htx;start=HS_pom_list
Newly spotlighted datasets http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/cgi-bin/hsrun.exe/roperweb/Catalog40/Catalog40.htx;start=HS_surveyspot
Updated as of June 2, 2005
Special studies of interest recently added to iPOLL. The database now contains nearly a half million questions!
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/ipoll.html
Title: Political Typology Poll [December, 2004]
Source: Pew Research Center
Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, December 1-December 16, 2004 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult sample of 2,000.
Search for: Organization: 'Pew Research'; Date: '12/01/2004 to 12/01/2004'
Title: Voice of Mom Survey [February, 2005]
Source: Club Mom
Methodology: Conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, February 17-February 21, 2005 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult women with children age 18 or less sample of 1,003.
Search for: Keyword: 'mom'; Organization: 'Greenberg'; Date: '02/17/2005 to 02/17/2005'
Title: Health Poll Report Poll [March,2005]
Source: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, March 31-April 3, 2005 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult sample of 1,203.
Search for: Organization: 'Kaiser'; Date: '03/31/2005 to 03/31/2005'
Title: Prescription Drug Use Among Midlife and Older Americans Survey [October,2004]
Source:
Methodology: Conducted by AARP, October 7-October 18, 2004 and based on telephone interviews with a national adults age 50 & over sample of 1,001. The interviews were conducted by Roper Public Affairs & Media Group of NOP World.
Search for: Keyword: 'prescription%'; Organization: 'AARP'; Date: '10/07/2004 to 10/07/2004'
Additional resources - Web sites with special survey samples
AARP Physicians' Attitudes and Practices Regarding Generic Drugs
http://www.aarp.org/research/reference/publicopinions/physicians_attitudes_and_practices_regarding_gener.html
Greenberq Quinlan Rosner Research/Soloman Project The Jewish Vote in 2004
http://www.greenbergresearch.com/publications/reports/jewishvote.pdf
Institute of Politics at Harvard University College Students Attitudes Toward Politics
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/pdfs/survey/spring_poll_2005_topline.pdf
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America Teens Attitude Tracking Survey
http://www.drugfree.org/Files/Full_Report_PATS_TEENS_7th-12th_grades_2004
Thinking about the Holocaust 60 Years Later A Multinational Public-Opinion Survey of the United States, Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria, Poland, and Sweden. http://www.ajc.org/InTheMedia/PubSurveys.asp?did=1589
News Worthy
Roper Award Fellowship - The Roper Center is beginning a Roper Award Fellowship Program that provides fellows the opportunity to devote 18-24 months to research using the holdings of the Roper Center, free from teaching or administrative responsibilities. To learn more...
Post your source citation - Did you know that you can post source citations into the searchable bibliographic database on the Center's web site? Post any articles and/or books produced using data from the Roper Center! You've done important work--let the world know! http://roperweb.ropercenter.uconn.edu/PPIndex/AddCitation.html
Posted by ronbo at 03:53 PM