I. DATA:
1. CENSUS BUREAU--MARCH 1999 CPS DATA AND REPORTS: The Census Bureau has released
information and data from the March 1999 Current Population Annual Demographic
Survey. Note that only selected pre-tabulated tables are available at this time.
Links to Press Release, pretabulated tables and FERRET access to microdata extraction
of raw data or summary statistics:
http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/ads/1999/sdata.htm
_Money Income in the United States: 1998_ (P60-206, September 1999, .pdf format,
111p.)
http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p60-206.pdf
_Poverty in the United States: 1998_ (P60-207, September 1999, .pdf format,
74p.)
http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p60-207.pdf
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II. REPORTS AND ARTICLES
2. GAO TESTIMONY: The General Accounting Office has released "Medicare
Reform: Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability While Modernizing the Program Will
Be Challenging" (GAO/T-HEHS/AIMD-99-294, .pdf format, 27p.)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/h199294t.pdf
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3. GAO REPORT: The General Accounting Office has released "Medicare Subvention
Demonstration: DOD Start-up Overcame Obstacles, Yields Lessons,
and Raises Issues (GGD/HEHS-99-161, September 1999, .pdf format, 56p.).
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/g399161.pdf
Note: GAO URLs are valid for only a limited period of time (approximately three
months). After that time, documents can be found by searching:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces160.shtml
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4. SSA ORES REPORT: The Social Security Administration Office of Research, Evaluation,
and Statistics has released _Fast Facts & Figures About Social
Security 1999_ (.pdf format, 40p.) The publication can be downloaded, viewed,
or printed in its entirety or by section)
http://www.ssa.gov/statistics/fast_facts/1999/ff99toc.html
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5. SSA ORES STATE FACT SHEETS: The Social Security Administration Office of
Research, Evaluation, and Statistics has released December 1998 Fact
Sheets with OASDI (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Income), SSI (Supplemental
Security Income), and earnings and employment data arranged by state. Each state
report is a 2 page .pdf format document.
http://www.ssa.gov/statistics/state_fact_sheets/1998/states98.html
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III. WORKING PAPERS
6. "Old-Age Mortality in Germany prior to and after Reunification, Arjan
Gjonca, Hilke Brockmann, and Heiner Maier (Max Planck Institute for Demographic
Research Working Paper WP-1999-011, .pdf format, 31p.)
>From the Abstract:
Recent trends in German life expectancy show considerable improvement. Most
of the improvement resulted from decreasing mortality at older ages. Patterns
of oldest old mortality (ages 80+) differed significantly between men and women
as well as between East and West Germany (the former German Democratic Republic,
GDR, and the Federal Republic of Germany in its borders from 1989, FRG, respectively).
While West German oldest old mortality decreased since the mid 1970s, comparable
improvements in East Germany only became evident during the late 1980s.
Yet, East German improvements accelerated after German reunification in 1990,
particularly among East German females, attesting to the plasticity of human
life expectancy and the importance of late life events. Medical care, individual
economic resources and life-style factors are discussed as potential determinants
of improvement in old age mortality in Germany.
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/Working/WP-1999-011.pdf
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7. "Coverage under Old-Age Security Programs and Protection for the Uninsured
- What Are the Issues?" by Estelle James (World Bank Working Paper #2163,
August 1999, .pdf format, 21p.)
http://www.worldbank.org/html/dec/Publications/Workpapers/wps2000series/wps2163/wps2163-abstract.html
links to abstract and paper.
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8. "Effects of Pensions on Labor Markets and Retirement," by Robert
L. Clark (North Carolina State University) and Joseph F. Quinn (Boston College),
(Boston College Economic Working Papers WP 431, September 1999, .pdf format,
40p.)
"The primary objective of this paper is to examine the effect of pension
plans in the labor market; in particular, on labor productivity and mobility
during working years and on the timing and nature of retirement. We begin by
asking why workers desire employer-provided retirement plans and why firms offer
them. These preferences lie behind the structure of pension plans and the incentives
they create to affect worker behavior. The core of this analysis is to describe
how pension plans are expected to alter labor market outcomes and to assess
the findings of empirical studies on the significance of these effects."
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/wp431.pdf
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IV. JOURNAL TABLES OF CONTENTS (check your library for availability)
9. CARL Uncover Journal Tables of Contents. Follow the instructions below to
access tables of contents. Sorry for any inconvenience, but licensing restrictions
do not allow the actual tables on contents to be passed via email, and database
driven URLs are dynamic and will not work from one machine to the next.
A. Point your browser to:
http://uncweb.carl.org:80/
B. click on "Search Uncover"
C. click on "Search Uncover Now"
D. Type the Journal Name in the search box and click the radio button
"Journal Title Browse"
E. click on the journal name
F. click on "journal issues"
G. click on the issues identified below
_Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology_ (1999, Vol 14, No. 1, Vol 14, No. 2)
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V. WEBSITE OF INTEREST
10. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the
Department of Health and Human Services has produced a Directory of Data Resources
within the Department of Health and Human Services. "The HHS Directory
of Health and Human Services Data Resources is a compilation of information
about virtually all major data collection systems sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Directory was developed under the auspices
of the HHS Data Council, which serves as the department's senior internal data
policy body and advises the Secretary on a variety of data policy issues. The
directory updates and expands upon the 1995 HHS Directory of Minority Health
and Human Services Data. Additional data systems are included in this update,
and more extensive information about each data system is provided." Agencies
covered include the Administration on Aging, Health Care Financing Administration,
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Health Resources and Services Administration,
National Institutes of Health, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/datacncl/datadir/index.htm
Jack
Jack Solock
Data Librarian--Center for Demography and Ecology
4470 Social Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-9827
jsolock@ssc.wisc.edu