New Data and Publications Available

• Data Base News in Aging-Related Statistics.The U.S. Bureau of the Census and National Institute on Aging announce the release of the July 1995 issue of the Data Base News on Aging of the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging - Related Statistics. Federal agencies that produce and distribute aging-related data products have contributed current information about the electronic data files and hard copy data products and reports available from their organizations, as of July 1995. Included are items addressing health, income, retirement, housing, and other socio- economic issues. The report provides a unique resource for research on the older population. The Data Base News in Aging is published twice a year by the Census Bureau. To obtain a free copy of the report, please contact the Statistical Information Staff of the Population Division at the U.S. Census Bureau on 301-457-2422.

• The Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council has recently published Resource Allocation for Family Planning in Developing Countries: Report of a Meeting, which summarizes background papers and discussions at a meeting in Washington, DC in July 1994. The meeting brought together experts from research institutions, international agencies, and family planning programs to exchange ideas on what current research has to say about family planning costs and financing, and to point it the most important gaps in knowledge. Topics discussed included the effects of subsidized programs on contraceptive use, the distribution of the benefits of subsidies, the scope for reducing average subsidies through cost control, and the experience of several countries with user fees and targeting subsidies. A limited number of copies are available from Joyce Walz, Committee on Population, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC 20418 USA; FAX: 202-334-2768; E- mail: jwalz@NAS.edu

• The National Academy Press announces the publication of Gilles Pison, Kenneth H. Hill, Barney Cohen, and Karen A. Foote, eds. Population Dynamics of Senegal. This is the report of the Working Group on Senegal, commissioned by the Panel on Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population. The members of the working group were Giles Pison (chair), the late Anouch Chahnazarian, Philippe Hugon, Cheikh Mbacke, and Awa Thiongane. The report is available for $35.00 from the National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Box 285, Washington, DC 20418, USA. Telephone 800-642-6242 or, in the Washington area, 202-334-3313.

• The Pan American Health Organization announces the publication of Health Conditions in the Americas, Volumes I and II, 1994 Edition. The current edition's two volumes, which concentrate on tracking trends and documenting health conditions, emphasize the period between 1989 and 1992 and represent the latest addition to the quadrennial reports that the Pan American Health Organization began to publish in 1954. For more information or to order this publication, contact PAHO Publications Center, 49 Sheridan Avenue, Suite BL, Albany, NY 12210, USA. FAX 518:436-7433.

• The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and Chapin Hall Center for Children announce the publication of A Resource Guide to Careers in Child and Family Policy: Revised and Expanded Edition, 1995. First published in 1993, the guide centralizes information about internships, fellowships, and academic training in child and family policy, totaling more than 150 entries. The guide presents training and opportunities in a variety of settings: government, research centers, professional associations, advocacy and information dissemination groups, foundations, and academia. Opportunities span the gamut of level (e.g., undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, mid-career) and field (e.g., sociology, demography, economics, health, human development, among others). New in this 1995 edition are expanded coverage and guidance for federal, state, and local government opportunities and profiles of policy training at applied developmental science programs and social work schools as well as additional information regarding public policy schools. Cost (including shipping and handling) is $18; make checks payable to University of Chicago. Mail orders to: Careers in Child and Family Policy, Harris School, University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637.

• The Adoption Research Newsletter, which appeared for the first time in the Spring of 1995, grew out of a 1994 meeting of a group of adoption researchers at Cornell University in October. It is designed to facilitate the exchange of information between adoption researchers, policy makers, and mental-health and social-work professionals. It will be published three times a year. Letters, notices, announcements, short articles, and other materials may be submitted, in both written format and on an IBM_PC compatible disk, to the editor: Jeffery J. Haugaar, Ph.D., Van Renssalaer Hall, Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Telephone: 607-255-2533; e-mail: jjh15@cornell.edu. Requests for a subscription, which is free, and other communication should also be directed to the editor at the address listed above.

• The United Nations Population Division has issued a database entitled Global Review Inventory of Population Policy, 1993 (GRIPP:1993), which is available on diskette with two supporting publications Global Population Policy Database, 1993 and Population Policy Diskette Documentation, 1993. The GRIPP:1993 file, the fourth and most recent version of the database, is revised on a biennial basis.

  The data base provides the most complete and up-to-date information available on the population policies of 190 countries, drawn from the Population Policy Data Bank maintained by the Population Division. The policy topics covered in the data base are population growth, mortality, fertility, internal migration, immigration, emigration, and the integration of population variables into the development planning process. In addition to data on population policies, the diskette contains information on selected demographic indicators, including current and projected population size, current levels of fertility and mortality, current population growth rates and proportions foreign-born. The data base is being made available on diskette to facilitate the analysis of national population policies by United Nations agencies, external research organizations, the academic community and individual researchers. To increase analytical flexibility and 'user- friendliness', the diskette provides the data files and corresponding dictionaries in four commonly used formats.

  To obtain a copy of GRIPP: 1993, the price of which is $50 or for further information about the database, write to the Director, Population Division , United Nations Secretariat, Room DC2-1950, New York, NY 10017. FAX 212-963-2147.

• The Mexican Migration Project, a bi-national research effort directed by Douglas S. Massey of the University of Pennsylvania and Jorge Durand of the University of Guadalajara announces the public availability of a new dataset on Mexican immigration to the United States. The dataset is based on representative samples of 30 Mexican communities, each paired with a parallel sample of out-migrants interviewed in the United States. Members of sample households provided basic information about their first and most recent trips to the United States, and all household heads were administered a complete life history that included a yearly migration history as well as a complete history of border-crossing. In addition, all household heads with U.S. migratory experience were asked a battery of questions about experiences on their last trip.

  The dataset includes six files, one containing data on sample persons, one containing data on sample households, one containing data on migrant household head's most recent U.S. trip, one containing life histories for all household heads, and two community-level data files: one containing information on 30 communities during the survey year and the other containing annual event history data on the communities. In total, the datafiles contain information on 42,686 persons in 6,121 households, including 9,851 persons with U.S. migratory experience and 2,186 U.S. migrant household heads.

  The files may be obtained by contacting the project manager, Kristin Epinosa, at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298. Email:epinosa@pop.upenn.edu.