INFO 7470 - Social and Economic Data
@ Cornell VirtualRDC

Session 7a: Introduction to Integrated Data

• Lecture Notes PowerPoint PDF
• Assigned Readings and Materials:
  • Methodology behind Successor-Predecessor File: Benedetto et al, 2007
  • Methodology behind identifier linkage edits: Abowd-Vilhuber 2005
• Assigned Tasks: none
• Background Materials
• Overview of LEHD Infrastructure files, including QWI. The "comprehensive index" referenced in the lecture is Appendix A, and is also separately available at LEHD's website (local copy, retrieved 2011-03-08)
• QWI Cheatsheet
• Crosswalk between public-use variable names and internal (scientific) variable names (as a SAS macro)
• Query interface to subset of QWI public-use data: http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/datatools/qwiapp.html
• Web interface for OnTheMap public-use data: http://lehdmap.did.census.gov/
• Download of QWI public-use data: http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/data/qwi-public-use-data/
• Download of OnTheMap public-use data: at Census, at VirtualRDC
• Employment definitions

Session 7b: LEHD in the RDC

• Lecture Notes PowerPoint PDF
• Assigned Readings and Materials:
  • LEHD in the RDC
• Assigned Tasks: none
• Background Materials
• LEHD Infrastructure files in the Census RDC – Overview