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ICPSR Webinar: When Setup Files Go Bad…. Debugging your SAS, SPSS, and STATA code so it works!

Join us for a Webinar on April 28

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/765557907

You found your study… you download your data… you run the setup file ICPSR provides… and the screen fills with errors. This webinar will address common problems in the setup files provided by ICPSR for data files.

Because most of ICPSR’s data processing is automated and the volume of data files is large and very heterogeneous in quality, size, and characteristics, the setup files and “ready-to-go” files do not always work perfectly. This webinar will help you to anticipate and fix many of these common problems.

Title:
ICPSR Webinar: When Setup Files Go Bad…. Debugging your SAS, SPSS, and STATA code so it works!

Date:
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Time:
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

ICPSR Webinar: Finding What You Want or Wanting What You Find at ICPSR

Join us for a Webinar on March 24

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/480944329

Have you ever found it challenging to find data, documentation, or help files at the ICPSR site? Do you approach the ICPSR site in the same way every time you search? Have you found things you didn’t expect when searching the site?

In this Webinar, an experienced ICPSR researcher who has spent a lot of time helping students and faculty find data, will work through a collection of search strategies for finding the types of information you need from ICPSR.

Serendipitous discoveries and orderly search logic will be explored during this webinar.

Title:
Finding What You Want or Wanting What You Find at ICPSR

Date:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Time:
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

ICPSR Webinar: Analyze Data Online on Demand - an Introduction to SDA!

Join us for a Webinar on February 24

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/886620306

SDA is an online (Web-based) data analysis tool developed at UC Berkeley and offered by ICPSR. In this webinar, we will introduce the tool, locate studies that have this option, and demonstrate how to use it. This tool is offered on select studies that are freely available and those limited to ICPSR members-only access.

More on SDA can be found here: http://sda.berkeley.edu/

This webinar is open to the public - please share this invitation with any who may be interested.

Title:
ICPSR Webinar: Analyze Data Online on Demand - an Introduction to SDA!

Date:
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Time:
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

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ICPSR Summer Program Registration is now open

Summer Program Registration Is Now Open!

ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods
of Social Research
June 22–August 14, 2009

* Three- to five-day workshops and four-week courses in research design, statistics, data analysis, and methodology.

* Methods and quantitative analysis within the context of substantive social research.

* Instruction reinforced by hands-on data analysis.

* Most courses held on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Sample Courses

Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis (I and II) • Regression Analysis (I, II, and III) • Maximum Likelihood Estimation (basic & advanced) • Bayesian Modeling (basic & advanced) • Methodological Issues in Quantitative Research on Race and Ethnicity • Statistical Programming in R • Panel Data Analysis Using Stata • Categorical Data Analysis • Structural Equation Models • Hierarchical Linear Models (I and II) • Network Analysis (introductory and advanced)
Course descriptions and application are available online:

This announcement is online at
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/enewsletters/2009-02-09.html

www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog

Questions? Contact the ICPSR Summer Program: (734) 763-7400 • sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu

ICPSR Webinar: Get Set-Up! - Creating set-up files for SPSS

Join us for a Webinar on January 27

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/684102132

Does the idea of dealing with raw data give you a headache? This webinar is a step-by-step demonstration of how to create a set-up file for an ICPSR study. You will learn how to begin with an ASCII data file and transform it into a file that’s ready to use in SPSS.

We will create a simple set-up file for a dataset . We will consider important issues in creating a set-up file, make decisions about how to proceed when faced with challenges, and explore alternatives if appropriate. This webinar describes the necessary parts of a simple set-up file and where to find the needed information in the study’s codebook.

This webinar is open to the public. Please share this invitation with all those interested.

Title:
ICPSR Webinar: Get Set-Up! - Creating set-up files for SPSS

Date:
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Time:
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer