Collecting Secondary Data on a Community

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Collecting Secondary Data on a Community

• Nancy Schaefer
• University of Florida Health Science Center
  Libraries
• 392-1306
• NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu

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Search Engines/Web Directories

• http//www.google.com/
• http//www.searchenginecolossus.com/
• http//www.dogpile.com/
• http//www.webcrawler.com/
• http//www.yahoo.com/

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Search engine search tips

• Truncat to get variations of words
  (truncate, truncated, truncation, truncations,
  truncatable???, etc.)
• Enclose multi-word phrases in quotation marks
• Dont bother with capital letters (except maybe
  for acronyms like CDC)
• Combine concepts per sites instructions
• health statistics
• health AND statistics
• health, statistics other?

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Advanced Searches

• Use Advanced search function if the site offers
  one.

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Internet searching

• Example Searching for peer counties on Google

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Authoritative national sources (general)

• General national websites
• http//www.usa.gov/
• http//www.fedstats.gov/
• Specific relevant government agencies
• DHHS http//www.hhs.gov/ especially useful
  Statistics page http//www.hhs.gov/reference/index
  .shtmlstatistics
• Dept of Education http//www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
• Dept of Justice http//www.usdoj.gov/
• Dept of Transportation http//www.dot.gov/

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http//www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
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Florida page

• Top of page lists categories, including those not
  shown in detail at right

http//www.statelocalgov.net/state-fl.cfm
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Authoritative national sources (specific - I)

• Demographic statistics
• Census Bureau
  http//www.census.gov/
• Health statistics
• CDCs National Center for Health Statistics
  http//www.cdc.gov/nchs/Default.htm
• Kaiser Family Foundations State Facts
  http//www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfact
  s.cgi

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http//www.census.gov/epcd/www/places.htm
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http//factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_
langen

• Census - American Fact Finder

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Authoritative national sources (specific - II)

• Bureau of Justice Statistics http//www.ojp.usdoj.
  gov/bjs/
• National Transportation Safety Board
  http//www.ntsb.gov/
• Environmental Protection Agency
  http//www.epa.gov/

Check left sidebars Where You Live
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http//www.epa.gov/
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EPA - Where you live - http//www.epa.gov/epahome/
whereyoulive.htm
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EPAs EnviroFacts
http//www.epa.gov/enviro/
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EPAs Window to My Environment http//www.epa.gov/
enviro/wme/
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State http//myflorida.com
Site Map easiest way to navigate this site.
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Scan Site Map for relevant links
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http//www.floridacharts.com/charts/chart.aspx
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Community Toolbox

• http//ctb.ku.edu/index.jsp an online Community
  needs assessment etc textbook

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http//fred.labormarketinfo.com/default.asp
Click on Analysts/Researchers, then on Area
Profile for most useful page.

• For Florida labor/economic data

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http//www.fdle.state.fl.us/
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If you need but cannot find county
incidence/prevalence stats on specific
diseases/conditions tell me exactly what you
need. I will ask my contacts and pass the info
back to you.
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Other General Sites of Possible Interest

• Public Health Partners Data Statistics
• Governors Benefits (by state)
• Florida EPA
• Florida State Archives
• NCHSs Data Warehouse
• LibrarySpots Statistics
• ICPSR (Intercollegiate Consortium for Political
  and Social Research) Special Topic Archives may
  be useful

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Child-Specific Sites

• Administration of Children and Families
• Childstats
• Child Welfare
• Childrens Defense Fund
• National Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
  Prevention

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Bibliographic Software

• For purchase
• EndNote
• Reference Manager
• ProCite
• For free (klugey?)
• EndNoteWeb
• RefWorks

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Writing a Bibliography in APA

• Consult the print manual
• Publication manual of the American Psychological
  Association. 5th ed. Washington, DC American
  Psychological Association 2001. 439p.
• Z253 .A517p 2001
• At Health Science Center Library
• 2nd floor--Reference area 5th edition
• 1st floorCirculation desk 5th edition.
  Circulating collection older editions with very
  little info on citing online sources

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Online APA style guides

• APA Style Guide on Healthlinks
• (grid of examples)
• Using American Psychological Association (APA)
  Format (Updated to 5th Edition) from Purdue
  Universitys Online Writing Lab (OWL)
• Capital Community College (Hartford, CT)
  Librarys Electronic and Online Resources
  http//wwwold.ccc.commnet.edu/apa/index.htm

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Online Formats

• American Psychological Associations Online
  References
• The Columbia (University) Guide to Online Style
  (2nd edition)
• Bedford St. Martins Guide to Citing Electronic
  Sources (bottom of page)
• National Center for Health Statistics How to
  Cite Electronic Data

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More bibliography citation style guides

• University of Wisconsin at Madison Internet
  Citation Guides
• updated 2/4/04
• links to guides for Chicago/Turabian, National
  Library of Medicine PubMed, Modern Language
  Association American Psychological Association
  styles) http//memorial.library.wisc.edu/citing.ht
  m
• APA Style Electronic Formats (Guide for sources
  obtained online)

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In-text citation guides
APA In-text Parenthetical Citations From Duke
University p. 7 of APA Documentation from St.
Marys University, Texas, includes information on
citing sources especially for verbatim quotes
within the text of a paper (updated 3/30/05)
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Good luck!Happy hunting! Enjoy exploring!

• Contact me Nancy Schaefer
• NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• Phone [phone]
• Office Communicore Bldg C2-26E