Article archive for April, 2009

QWIPU R2009Q1 (data through 2008:2) available for download

April 30th, 2009

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states are available for download. The release R2009Q1 covers data through 2008:2. [More »]

QWIPU R2009Q1 (data through 2008:2) for all participating states are available on compute nodes, will be available later today on the download server

April 30th, 2009

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states have been made available on our compute nodes. [More »]

Census of Manufacturers (CMF) zero obs files available

April 22nd, 2009

Census of Manufacturers (CMF) zero obs SAS data files are available on our compute nodes under /economic/cmf/microdata, the same location as on the Census RDC.

Data schema for QWI PU files added to the download directories

April 17th, 2009

QWI Public use files have a variety of file structures. They differ in their geographic and industry classifiers, for which documentation was not previously available in a central location. We have compiled this information in a QWI cheatsheet (informal database schema).  [More »]

ASM zero obs files available

April 16th, 2009

Annual Survey of Manufacturers (ASM) zero obs SAS data files are available under /economic/asm/microdata, the same location as on the Census RDC.

NSF01 is officially available again

April 16th, 2009

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Website maintenance 2009-04-17

April 15th, 2009
17 April 2009
20:00to23:00

The website and repository servers will be down while we do maintenance. The most likely timeframe is Friday April 17, 2009, after 20:00 EST. Both sites (and the internal sandbox servers) will be offline for up to 30 minutes.

Update on NSF01

April 15th, 2009

The system maintenance on NSF01 is not going so well. The system went down, and the two existing network connections have been upgraded (to Gigabit). However, (i) the planned 3Par maintenance has not been started, due to some apparent contractual issues (ii) the system updates for the OS were not received (iii) the additional ethernet cards were not received. [More »]

Western Economic Association International 2009 meetings

April 15th, 2009
29 June 2009to3 July 2009

See http://www.weainternational.org/conferences.htm for details.

Zero obs files for Integrated Longitudinal Business Database are available

April 9th, 2009

The ILBD data sets are located at /economic/ilbd/microdata on our compute nodes, the same location they are located on the Census RDC cluster.