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 DISC subscription: Unicon CPS on Web / Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement (March) . Now available whenever you need it, without having to come use the CD-ROM at DISC! CPS on Web has a two-step login. First you will need to log in with your UW NetID and password, whether or not you are on campus. Then at the CPS on Web site, on your first visit you will need to do a one-time free registration, creating a login name and password for subsequent visits.

See the latest edition of DISC News -- April 2009 (HTML) or April 2009 (PDF).

Milwaukee Edges Up In Population: City Bucks Rust Belt Trend, While Madison Leads State In Growth Rates and other recent data-related articles

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

Data.gov
http://www.data.gov/

Launched in May 2009, Data.gov is an initiative of the Obama administration designed to "increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government." While the interface is likely to change rapidly over time, as of June 2009 the site contained three searchable catalogs: a "raw data" catalog, a tool catalog, and a geodata catalog. Searches can be done by category, agency, or keyword. The project is also working with state and local agencies to launch similar initiatives, and links to such initiatives via a clickable map. Users may comment on or give a 1-to-5-star rating on entries in the Data.gov catalog, and may also make suggestions for additions to the site. An alternate place for discussion and recommendations for Data.gov is a wiki hosted by Wired, at http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_Up_Government_Data.

See other recent additions to the Internet Crossroads (last updated 22 June, 2009).

New: Updated information on Restricted Data at DISC.

Links to Country Statistical Yearbooks worldwide: a guide by DISC on the UW-Madison libraries website. 112 countries, and counting!

New addition to the DISC Archive: National Health Measurement Study (NHMS), principal investigator Dennis G. Fryback.

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.

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.