Welcome to the Data and Information Services Center (DISC)!

What's New at DISC?

The operations of the Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) have been merged with the data services operations formerly housed in the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging. The combined staff of DISC will continue to provide all the same services to DPLS users as were available prior to this merger. Additional services will be provided as DISC develops over time; watch the web site and newsletter for announcements.

New addition to the DISC Archive: Online Politics and Young Voters 2006: The Use of Political Websites by American Youth and Effects on Political Engagement, principal investigator Michael A. Xenos.

See the latest edition of DISC News -- April 2008 (HTML) or April 2008 (PDF).

Married Folks Still the Healthiest (NHIS) and other recent data-related articles.

NORC at the University of Chicago and the Roper Center have announced a call for proposals to add questions to the 2010 General Social Survey, funded by NSF. Submission deadline is October 1, 2008. In addition, it is expected that there will be space on the 2010 GSS for modules not funded by the NSF; guidelines for proposed paid supplements are also available.

Links to Country Statistical Yearbooks worldwide: a new feature on the DISC web site. 106 countries, and counting!

Current Social Science Research Reports (CSSRR), weekly web-based current awareness reports in the fields of sociology, economics, and health, are now available on the DISC web site. Subscribe to the weekly e-mail alert, with links to the latest full reports!

Check out what's new at other selected data sites.

Check out our Internet Crossroads, providing searchable annotated links to social science data and information across the Internet. You can also see a list of the latest additions to the Internet Crossroads (last updated 16 June 2008).