Finding more Statistics in the LexisNexis Database

The Lexis/Nexis Academic database, available on Walden Library’s RESEARCH DATABASES page, is a very powerful and extensive research tool.  One of the operations that you can use it for is to compare statistical information about companies, up to five different companies at the same time.

Here is how you can get to this portion of the database:

1) Go to the library’s Research Databases page at http://library.waldenu.edu/JournalArticles_ResearchDatabases.htm

2) Click on the LEXIS/NEXIS STATISTICS AND DATASETS link.

Enter your library login information when prompted.

3) At the main database search screen, click on the FIND A TABLE link.

Statistical Search Forms Search for Other Information

Statistical Publications & DataSets Find a Table Search the row-column headings & titles of published tables. List of Links Link to Web sites with useful information about social science statistics

4)  At the next page this form should appear:

This form searches the words that appear in statistical tables. It also searches the table titles, as well as subject descriptors and synonyms assigned to each table by LexisNexis™ indexers.
ENTER KEYWORD(S) Suggestion: Try 2 or more keywords (e.g. corn and Iowa) in   All FieldsTable TitleSubject TermsTable TextNAICS CodeSubject List TipsLimit to a Region: International  U.S. Totals  State & Local
NARROW YOUR SEARCH BY THESE BREAKDOWNS Multiple selections are searched using “and”
Geographic Any By Foreign Countries By Urban v. Rural By U.S. Region By U.S. State By Metro Area By County By City Demographic Any By Age By Disease or Disorder By Educational Attainment By Marital Status By Race and Ethnic Group By Sex Economic Any By Commodity By Government Agency By Income By Company or Institution By Industry By Occupation Frequency of Data Any Annual Daily Weekly Monthly Quarterly Tips Limit to documents with Excel spreadsheets
SELECT PERIOD OF COVERAGE Previous yearPrevious two yearsPrevious five yearsPrevious ten yearsPrevious twenty yearsAll available dates OR FROM  TO   Examples Find forecasts and projections

Study this page closely, so you can see all of the neat features that you can use.

Now you can type in your keyword/subject term in the top search box.

Over to the right you can access a drop down menu to change to a specific field to search.

To make your search more precise, you can limit your search to a region, and then limit further by clicking on a category in one of the four columns below that.

You can also limit to Excel spreadsheets, and specify a date range as well.

Then click on the SEARCH button.

5) Up should come a list of citations:

1.

Resident Live Births By Marital Status Of Mother And County, Number And Percent: Pennsylvania, 2002 [Part 01: All Counties; Adams-Jefferson] , Issued By: Pennsylvania Department of Health , Publication Date: June, 2004 Go to Table

2.

Resident Live Births By Marital Status Of Mother And County, Number And Percent: Pennsylvania, 2002 [Part 02: Juniata-York] , Issued By: Pennsylvania Department of Health , Publication Date: June, 2004 Go to Table

3.

Brides And Grooms, And Percentage Distribution, By Marriage Order And Race, Mississippi, 2001 , Issued By: Office of Business Research and Services , Publication Date: December, 2002 Go to Table

Click on the GO TO TABLE link to be taken to the page with the table:

Resident Live Births By Marital Status Of Mother And County, Number And Percent: Pennsylvania, 2002 [Part 01: All Counties; Adams-Jefferson]

Report Title: Pennsylvania Vital Statistics Annual Report, 2002 (Full Document…)
Issued By: Pennsylvania Department of Health
Publication Date: June, 2004
Table on Page(s): 62

Then there will be a table or graph, which did not reproduce for this blog entry.
Subject Descriptors: Pennsylvania;Births;Births out of wedlock;Marriage and divorce;Counties;

You can then print off or download the page.  You can then back up and look at other tables, or do a new search.

Give this a try and see how it works for you.  And if you have any questions, you can always call the Walden Library Reference Desk at 1-800-930-0914, click on the ASK – A – LIBRARIAN button on the Walden Library homepage, and e-mail us a reference question.

And finally, please don’t use the comments field in this blog to ask the Library a question — this will delay your response considerably. Use the Ask – A – Librarian link at the top of  the right hand column.

Happy Searching!

Higher Education Statistics from IPEDS

If you need data on higher education in the United States then you need to know about the IPEDS resource maintained by the Department of Education.

IPEDS – or the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System – is a FREE and extraordinarily rich source of statistical data available online.

The IPEDS program surveys over 6,700  postsecondary institutions annually – this includes every college, university, and vocational school that participates in the federal student financial aid programs.  Data is collected on several dozen variables, including:  institution size, academic calendar, admissions and enrollment, student demographic data, completion rates, degrees conferred, tuition rate,  financial aid, funding, institutional spending, retention and more.

IPEDS stores and archives vast amounts of data collected from these surveys online, and they offer a wide variety of tools to help researchers use the information.  Popular tools include:

• College Navigator – a very user-friendly search to help one pull up data on individual institutions or to compare data on two or more schools.
• IPEDS Data Center - a very complex data center that includes tools to create custom tables, track trends on specific variables, perform advanced statistical comparisons and more.
• IPEDS Tables Library – a resource for downloading pre-configured data tables for commonly used statistics.

You can start exploring IPEDS at their homepage.  If you want more information about the system, the “About IPEDS” page is a good place to start.

For help using any of the IPEDS tools, look for HELP links in the data exploration web pages.  You can also contact IPEDS support staff for more information.

Remember -please don’t use the comments field to ask a library research question — this will delay your response considerably. Use the Ask  A Librarian link at the top of  the right hand column.

Looking for education research?

The ERIC database can help!

With over a million citations dating back to 1966, the Education Resource Information Center is the largest education database and  is only a few clicks away for you.

To search this rich resource, start at the Walden Library homepage. In the center of the page under Journals, click on ‘Research Databases.’

From the library’s list of databases, scroll down and click on ERIC and you’re there!

For help developing keywords, be sure to use the ERIC Thesaurus. On the top of the search page in the blue bar, click on Thesaurus. From there you can use the ‘browse’ box to learn the language and terms used by the database.

If you have any questions about this or any other library resource, don’t hesitate to contact us!

Happy Searching!