This is a national longitudinal study focusing on persons born between 1931 and 1941 to study their health, retirement, and economic status. The study is a joint project of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and the National Institute on Aging. If you decide to download the data for use, be sure to register according to directions. An online searchable version of the 10th edition Annotated Bibliography of Papers using the General Social Surveys is now available from the Queens College Sociology Department webserver. GSS users can use it to review what has already been published.
Searches cover any term in the database, including variable names.
Both datasets can be directly queried through a World Wide Web search interface. For example, clicking on search interface on the SID Homepage, brings you to a form in which you can select data by country, year, or social indicator. The following two items have less to do with data on the Internet, and more to do with personal computing services that are available on the Net. Eric K. Meyer, a founder, teaches journalism at Marquette. Go back to the Table of Contents End of September 1995 Newsletter .