Recent Data-Related News

(For additional current-awareness services from DISC, see Current Social Science Research Reports and Current Awareness in Aging Reports)

Researchers to Give Wisconsin a Physical Exam (Wisconsin State Journal, June 7, 2008)

Environment Gets High Marks in Badger Poll (The Capital Times, May 2, 2008)

Census Back to Pen & Paper (Washington Post, April 4, 2007; free registration required)

Kenya: Census Plans on Track Despite Displacement (allAfrica.com, March 19, 2008)
   Liberia: Citizens Prepare for First Census in 24 Years (allAfrica.com, March 19, 2008)
   Southern Sudanese Head Home to be Counted in Census (Daily Nation, Kenya, March 17, 2008)

Poll Finds a Fluid Religious Life in U.S. (New York Times, February 26, 2008; free registration required)

Wisconsin in Focus: Census Bureau Pre-Primary Snapshot (U.S. Census Bureau, February 13, 2008)

Ordnance Survey (UK) Opens Data to Web Developers (PC Pro, December 14, 2007)

Cellphones Challenge Poll Sampling (New York Times, December 7, 2007; free registration required)

Lost in the Post - 25 Million at Risk after Data Discs Go Missing (UK) (The Guardian, November 20, 2007)

Many Asian, African Births and Deaths Not Counted (Reuters, October 30, 2007)

Putting the Census at Risk (editorial) (New York Times, September 26, 2007)

Private Eyes on Public Data (public data in Australia) (Brisbane Times, September 25, 2007)

US: Census Won't Deter Immigration Raids (Washington Post, August 17, 2007; free registration required)

Data on the Beat: a high-tech partnership is driving down crime in Chicago (Governing Magazine, August 1, 2007)

Fifty Years and Counting: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (University of Wisconsin-Madison News, July 17, 2007)

Back Off The Bureau (editorial) (New York Times, July 16, 2007; free registration required)

Senate Committee Asks EPA to Re-open Its Libraries (American Libraries, July 6, 2007)

Warning of Data Ticking Time Bomb (old digital file formats) (BBC News, July 3, 2007)

New Sex-Study Method Yields Revealing Answers (Seattle Times, June 23, 2007)

Crunching the Numbers on Church Membership Rolls (Washington Post, May 19, 2007; free registration required)