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The Electronic Data Center was created in 1996 to support faculty and students at Emory University whose research and instruction make use of numeric and/or spatial data. We assist researchers and instructors with locating and accessing data, and with managing and preparing those data for analysis.

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Medicare Provider Charge Data Now Publicly Available

Submitted by roreill on Wed, 2013-05-08 11:08

As featured in the New York Times, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released Medicare provider charge data for FY2011. To quote CMS, the data include "hospital-specific charges for the more than 3,000 U.S.

Distracted Driving Laws Dataset

Submitted by roreill on Wed, 2013-05-08 11:02

New at the ICPSR - the "Public Health Law Research Distracted Driving Laws Dataset, 2000-2011." To quote the ICPSR, "[this] project compiled state and District of Columbia laws regulating the use of mobile communication devices (MCD) by individuals operating motor vehicles and coded some of the laws' features in a data file. The data file contains information about prohibitions against talking or texting on a MCD for different groups of drivers," e.g.

Religion in Population Censuses

Submitted by roreill on Wed, 2013-03-20 19:07

While the U.S. Census Bureau does not collect data on religious practices, many other countries do gather such data in censuses (hence this melancholy tale of the declining population of Jedi Knights in the United Kingdom). One source for such data is IPUMS International.

A Brief History of Religion and the U.S. Census

Submitted by roreill on Wed, 2013-03-20 16:36

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has an informative essay on the history of collecting data on religion via the Decennial Census of Population.

Census Data Overview Workshop

Submitted by roreill on Wed, 2013-02-13 22:42

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The staff of the Electronic Data Center will be conducting an introduction to data from the Census of Population and Housing on Thursday, February 21 from 2:30PM-3:45PM. The workshop will be located in Room 314 in the Robert W. Woodruff Library. To sign up for the workshop and/or to read more about it, see http://web.library.emory.edu/news-events/upcoming-classes.

Social Explorer Subscription

Submitted by roreill on Tue, 2013-01-08 15:30

We now have a subscription to Social Explorer, which is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical census data and demographic information. Social Explorer is available at http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx and via the library's databases page at http://web.library.emory.edu/databases. Its contents include the entire U.S.

Closed for the Holidays

Submitted by roreill on Fri, 2012-12-21 14:12

The Data Center will be closed from 12/24/2012 through 01/04/2013. The Center will re-open for normal business hours on Monday, 01/07/2013. On behalf of the Center's staff, we wish you a suitably festive and safe holiday season. For those of you who observe Festivus, we wish you good luck in the Feats of Strength.

Area Resource File Now Available for Free

Submitted by roreill on Sun, 2012-11-11 22:34

The Area Resource File is a commonly-used database for county-level data on "health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics" that is produced by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The database, which used to available by purchase only, is now available via free download.

Workshop on DMPTool: Preparing data management plans for grant applications

Submitted by Libadmin on Tue, 2012-10-02 12:41