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- Global Urbanization Trends
- While only 2% of the world's population lived in cities in 1800, about 50% of all people were urban residents in 2000 according to the Population Reference Bureau in their report on Urbanization as an Environmental Force. The report offers graphs of global urbanization trends as well as trends by continent and it also shows predictions for the year 2050. It discusses some social problems related to urbanization and the policy challenges related to it. For a review of problems related to urbanization in the third world, see also this PRB report on urban poverty and infrastructure in Central America.
- Urbanization in the world is a detailed report provided by the Population Reference Bureau. Contains useful data and graphs that can easily be downloaded and pasted into other documents and presentations.
- Urbanization is occurring fastest and most dramatically in the Asian population giants, according to this report released by the Population Reference Bureau. Shows urbanization rates by region and discusses the future of cities and megacities. Places the figures into a policy context arguing that careful planning is required to accommodate urban growth.
- LA and California
- General US Topics
- Minority suburbanization - a brief report based on Census data including a table
showing racial composition of different parts of American cities.
- Report on children in highly distressed neighborhoods - a technical paper with data that can be used in preparing lectures of classroom assignments or as background for class discussion. Written by the Population Reference Bureau and SSDAN, as a part of the AmeriStat project.
- Report on commuting in the US in 2000 - a report produced by AmeriStat. Contains raw data in text and Excel formats, as well as some elementary tables in PDF and a map of commuting times in the US . Other topics include driving to work, driving alone, public transportation usage etc. Also contains downloadable data in Excel and text format.
- Homeownership by race and region in the US, 2000 - data from the US Census provided and processed by AmeriStat project. Site contains downloadable data by race/ethnicity and state for year 2000 in Excel
and txt format. Text also describes trends over time.
- CensusScope page on segregation allows students to use two measures of racial residential segregation -- the dissimilarity index and the neighborhood exposure index -- and apply them to the national, state, and metro region levels. Very useful for a number of assignments, but will require that students be either creative or persistent as they sift through a wealth of material.
- The Comparative Immigrant Entrepreneurs Project (CIEP) of Princeton University: a quantitative survey of immigrant transnational activities, the coverage includes Colombians in Queens, NY; Dominicans in Washington Heights (Upper Manhattan) and Providence, RI; and Salvadorans in the Washington DC metro area (the Adams Morgan section of DC and Alexandria, Virginia) and Los Angeles (Pico Union). Data in SPSS and STATA formats and a codebook are also freely available
- Migration & Immigration in Los Angeles & Long Beach, the report shows residence 5 years prior to the 1990 and 2000 census, easy to read & requires no statistics beyond the ability to read percentages! The Census-scope page produces easily similar graphs for out metro areas and states, good for short papers analyzing trends over time in one location, comparing multiple locations, or trends in multiple locations. See also Migration & Immigration in California, and Migration & Immigration in the US.
- Nativity and Citizenship in the US shows nativity and citizenship status in the 1990 and 2000 census data, easy to read and requires no statistical knowledge beyond the ability to read percentages and raw counts and make sense of them! Can be compared with data on Nativity and Citizenship in California, and Nativity and Citizenship in LA and Long Beach from the same source.
- Site for Instructional Materials and Information has a number of exercise modules available for classroom use. SIMI is an initiative of ICPSR aimed at sharing resources for undergraduate and graduate education. Sample class assignments are freely available to members of other member institutions including UCLA. Contains about 55 (as of April 2004) teaching modules, most of them quite advanced. Contains downloadable data files in various formats (STATA, SPSS, etc.), references to literature and more. Examples include:
- Comparative Cities Teaching Package provides SPSS data that illustrate contrasts among cities at different stages of industrialization and the demographic transition in Europe and America: Pisa, Italy (1841), Amiens, France (1851), Stockport, England (1841 and 1851), and Providence, R.I. (1850, 1865, and 1880).
- Citizen Attitudes Toward Local Government. Uses survey data from Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, and San Diego. Variables provide information on respondents' views of local government and services, public officials, local schools and racial integration, public transportation, police protection, neighborhood safety, the uses of city funds, most urgent city problems, most problematic groups in the city, effects of urban renewal on the city, courts, city wages, and strikes by public employees.
- SSDAN offers a number of class assignment and teaching modules for urban sociology and related fields. Many of the assignments use StudentCHIP or WebCHIP software (see here for details) and CPS and Census data. We provide a short tutorial explaining how to do some steps that are different in WebCHIP and StudentCHIP. See these examples:
- Residential mobility. Can be done using both StudentCHIP or WebCHIP programs.
- Note: the data files provided by SSDAN has recently been updated and names haven’t been changed in the assignments. For this particular assignment the new data set name is “mobed2k.dat” or ”mobed2k.dat” (the files are identical as far as we can tell) and be launched into WebCHIP at the URL. First select “custom” data sets, and then select the name of the dataset.
- Social structure of the cities. This assignment has been designed to be used with WebCHIP only.
- Note: While the older versions of the data sets is still available at this URL, newer data sets containing the 2000 Census data are available as well. In this case the data file “popgeo2k.dat” (stored in the category “census2000”) is an updated version of “popgeo9.dat.”
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