{"title":"The California Digital Library: Implications for Social Science Data Files Collections","authors":"Daniel C W Tsang","doi":"10.29173/IQ78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/IQ78","url":null,"abstract":"The California Digital Library: Implications for Social Science Data Files Collections","PeriodicalId":84870,"journal":{"name":"IASSIST quarterly","volume":"22 1","pages":"9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69787991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate indices for use in social and behavioral research.","authors":"W. H. Walters","doi":"10.29173/IQ577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/IQ577","url":null,"abstract":"This report describes the use of factor analysis in creating five climate indices from a set of 37 original variables. These variables represent all the major components of near-surface climate variation within the US. Data for 216 first-order weather stations were taken from the Local Climatological Data series of the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration. Principal components analysis with viramax rotation was applied to the 37 variables shown, reflecting 87.8% of the total variance which can be represented by just five factors. The first factor represent winters temperature and snowfall; the second is a summer air-moisture indicator; the third represents winter conditions; the fourth represents summer maximum daily temperature; and the fifth is primarily a wind-speed indicator. Taken together, the results confirm that American climates are dominated by strong seasonal influences. This suggests that the factor structure has not changed over time.","PeriodicalId":84870,"journal":{"name":"IASSIST quarterly","volume":"23 1 1","pages":"14-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69787948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate indices for use in social and behavioral research.","authors":"W H Walters","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84870,"journal":{"name":"IASSIST quarterly","volume":"23 1","pages":"14-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22021106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of microcomputers for demographic analysis: an overview of options for the novice user.","authors":"D. Crispell","doi":"10.29173/IQ539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/IQ539","url":null,"abstract":"The author presents a review of the available software programs for use on microcomputers and data sources that are of interest to the demographer.","PeriodicalId":84870,"journal":{"name":"IASSIST quarterly","volume":"13 1 1","pages":"12-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69787780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of microcomputers for demographic analysis: an overview of options for the novice user.","authors":"D Crispell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84870,"journal":{"name":"IASSIST quarterly","volume":"13 1","pages":"12-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Small-area census data services by microcomputer: applications of REDATAM system in Latin America.","authors":"A Conning, A Silva, L Finnegan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors describe a data retrieval system called REDATAM, Retrieval of Data for Small Area by Microcomputer. \"The interactive REDATAM system, in English and Spanish versions, was created to solve the problem of providing small-area population and housing information by using an IBM or fully compatible microcomputer to store the microdata of an entire census on a hard disk (or laser disks for larger countries) and to permit any tabulation to be produced rapidly for any area down to city blocks or smaller....REDATAM may play an important role in the 1990 censuses in the Latin American and Caribbean countries since the system will permit the provision of timely small-area services (and at the national level in the Caribbean countries) before, as well as after, the regular data processing and publication of results are ready.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84870,"journal":{"name":"IASSIST quarterly","volume":"13 1","pages":"39-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}