Welcome to the Data and Information Services Center (DISC), comprising the former DPLS, the data services operations formerly housed in the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging!

What's New at DISC?

New Figure for 2010 Census: $1.6 Billion Under Budget and other recent data-related articles.

See the latest edition of DISC News -- April 2010 (HTML) or April 2010 (PDF).

New weblog-based format for Current Social Science Research Reports (CSSRR)! These daily current awareness posts replace the e-mail subscription to the weekly reports in the fields of sociology, economics, and health. The content is the same, but the updates are more immediate!

The iPOLL survey-question database from the Roper Center has a new interface. Please note that while no e-mail login is required to search the database, users do need to complete a free one-time registration in order to download datasets, even if you had already registered under the old system.

The Catasto study (census and property data from 15th century Italy), long available for download from DISC's online archive, has now also been published in DISC's BADGIR catalog for online access and analysis.

Check out our Internet Crossroads, providing searchable annotated links to social science data and information across the Internet. Featured new update:

LexisNexis Statistical Insight (UW-Madison subscription)
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.web/statistical-universe

The UW-Madison subscription to Statistical Insight (formerly known as Statistical Universe) allows searching of a large collection of statistical publications from the federal government, private research firms, state governments, and intergovernmental organizations, in some cases back to 1973. After a user creates an initial keyword search, a left-hand menu offers a list of ways to narrow the results: by publication date, source, additional subjects, and many more. Statistical Insight presents some documents in the form of detailed abstract only, but many others in full-text (PDF) and tables (image or Excel or both). Many links to full-text documents on government Web sites are included as well. Information and tables are frequently available in a variety of formats, such as GIF, XLS, and PDF. Up to 130,000 new tables are added yearly.

See other recent additions to the Internet Crossroads (last updated 25 August, 2010).

New: Updated information on Restricted Data at DISC.

Links to Country Statistical Yearbooks worldwide: a guide by DISC on the UW-Madison libraries website. 140 countries, and counting!

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