Month: August 2009

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Research Database on the US Voting System

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an international non-profit organization with a special focus on “science, engineering and innovation.”  It also publishes the journal Science.  AAAS has just launched a new database which has the lofty goal of providing fundamental information about “the accuracy, reliability and security of voting technologies, election administration” and more.

The database, formally known as the Research Database on the US Voting System and Voting Technology, “provides access to empirical and analytical research about voting and elections to inform evidence-based reforms.  The database includes bibliographic information, abstracts and links to research covering a broad set of issues such as accessibility, ballot design, public confidence, voter demographics, voting technology, and voter registration.”

At present the database has approximately 500 entries – mostly published after 2000 –  but is anticipated to swell greatly over time.

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IMF Financial Soundness Indicators

The International Monetary Fund recently launched a database of “financial sector soundness” indicators, or FSIs, for member countries who choose to participate. The aim is to provide users with a means of judging the soundness of financial institutions as well as national economies.

The IMF’s list of core FSIs focuses on areas such as debt – both household and national; liquidity of assets; loans; assets; equity and real estate prices.

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More on the HST- Premier Gordon Campbell comments on the HST

Read the story from the Globe and Mail here.   Also Carole James meets with business leaders about the HST from Globe and Mail.

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Data.gov

Here’s another one-stop statistics search tool – this time from the Executive Branch of the US Federal Government.  “…Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue to grow as datasets are added…”  Visitors to the site are encouraged to forward suggestions for future content.

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Social Science Data Search at Berkeley

The Doe & Moffitt Libraries at the University of California, Berkeley have recently launched a Google Custom Search engine on site that “targets 800+ academic, government agency, non-profit, and other web sites that provide high quality, downloadable statistical information and data sets. Emphasis is on data pertaining to the social sciences, health, developing countries, energy, natural resources, and the environment.”

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New look for U Michigan’s Document Center

The venerable University of Michigan Document Center website has just been relaunched with  an attractive redesign.   You can now search as well as browse topics and results lists feature a very helpful “filter by subtopic” feature.   All urls and rss feed addresses have been changed so you’ll want to update those if you link to/rely on them.

Speaking of the rss feed: a recent post features the excellent website maintained by FRASER – the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

  • “Provides monetary and banking statistics, 1896-1970, and can be used in conjunction with FRED to provide economic time series for the 20th Century
  • Web site also provides digitized version of early 20th Century Commerce Department documents, including Business Statistics, Survey of Current Business, Economic Indicators, and Economic Reports of the President.”

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