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Search Strategies. Outcomes from the “Different Starting Points” Lab Exercise. What did you find?. What level of service would you provide this patron? Of what you found, what would you give to your patron?. Classification. http://delicious.com/chuckhumphrey/ICPSR08
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Search Strategies Outcomes from the “Different Starting Points” Lab Exercise
What did you find? • What level of service would you provide this patron? • Of what you found, what would you give to your patron?
Classification • http://delicious.com/chuckhumphrey/ICPSR08 • Helpful knowing the ICD10 code, which provides an international, standardized category using in the classification of diseases • Of the basic table elements (geography, time, subject content), this provides a key to subject content
Statistics • http://delicious.com/chuckhumphrey/ICPSR08 • Blog review: Going Down: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events • Article: Deaths from heat-stroke in Japan: 1968-1994. [Int J Biometeorol. 1999] - PubMed Result • Official statistics: NOAA, CDC & NCHS • National Statistics Online - Product - Health Statistics Quarterly
Aggregate Data • http://delicious.com/chuckhumphrey/ICPSR08 • CDC Compressed Mortality, 1999-2005 Request • Download table in Excel using time as the unit of observation and convert to an aggregate data file • EMDAT - The International Emergency Disasters Database • Have to request permission for aggregate data at the city level over time
Microdata • CDC Mortality for the U.S.