William H. Frey, Director

What is SSDAN? Class-tested Datasets and Exercises How Can I Get Involved? Networking

Census Data in the Classroom

The SSDAN project, funded by NSF and the US Department of Education FIPSE, is a network of resources--census datasets, class exercises, and computer conferencing--that enables college teachers in the social sciences to introduce "hands on" data analysis in substantive courses so that students can "get their feet wet" with quantitative reasoning before they take more specialized statistics and methods courses later in their curriculum. SSDAN seeks to make data analysis explorations an accessible, available, and desirable component of introductory social science courses. Our datasets draw from US census materials from 1950 through 1990. They are appropriate to use with topics such as race-ethnicity, immigration, gender studies, marriage, households and poverty, US income inequality, children, the elderly, and others. To make data analysis extremely "user friendly" to students (and teachers), we have chosen the widely-used Student CHIP software as the primary analysis program of the network.

We encourage you to contact us with any questions, comments, or feedback, at:
	William Frey, Director bill.frey@usa.net		General Questions or Comments ssdan-staff@umich.edu
Population Studies Center, University of Michigan