No. 226 November 2001
CAUSES OF INJURIES CLASSIFICATIONS SYSTEM The CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) has the task of collecting injury data from the Emergency Departments of America’s hospitals. The NCIPC collects information about the injuries; their external causes, and circumstances creating a database of data for injury identification and analysis of data. This data is for use by the injury researcher and prevention practitioner. Traditionally, injury data have been presented using the external cause codes of the International Classification of Diseases, but these external codes do not adequately represent injury data. In 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO) tested its new International Classification of External Causes of Injuries (ICECI). At the ICECI web page (http://www.iceci.org/csi/iceci.nsf/pages/A1?OpenDocument), the WHO presents this new injury classification and provides links to all related publications. There are also pdf files of the reports of the field test results of the ICECI and the CDC Short Version. The experts tested the first Version of ICECI (ICECI 1.0), and then coded case scenarios, reviewed the codes, and conducted field tests. The CDC tested the Short Version and made its report (CDC’s Short Version of the ICECI, International Classification of External Causes of Injury, A Pilot Study, Report to the World Health Organization Collaborating Centers on the Classification of Disease, September 2000) available as a pdf file at http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/icecibk.pdf.
SCHOOL
DISTRICT MAPS, WHO LIVES THERE? School
administrators have the same question as Mister Rogers:
Who are people in your neighborhood?
School districts have boundaries that change often due to city growth,
annexation, district divisions, and district consolidations.
School administrators need current demographic data and a map of that
district. In 1994, Congress passed Public Law 103-382 and Section 404 solves
this problem. It specifies the content of the social and economic data to be
collected, analyzed, cross-tabulated, and reported by the National Center for
Educational Statistics (NCES) in its NCES School District Demographics http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/index.asp.
This page links to “2000 Census
School District Demographics” (http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/c2000.asp)
for local school district administrators. Per
the NCES “Resource Timetable,” (http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/c2000s.asp)
the Census 2000 Summary files 1 and P.L. 94-171 (Redistricting) Data file, do
not provide school district geography, but their block data can be aggregated to
develop school district summary data. The
Census 2000 School District Special Tabulation is another source of school
district summary data. The NCES “2000
Census School District Maps” (http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/c2000m.asp)
is the site for the “Standard Map Viewer” and the “Java Map Viewer”.
This site provides easy-to-use, user-friendly interface to the state,
county and school district information and these district maps will show current
district boundary changes. For the first time there will be maps for State
schools, schools on American Indians Reservations, and schools on military
bases. A District data user can start with the
“2000 Census School District Demographics Data Files” at http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/c2000d.asp,
check for their district(s) profile(s), and download their state(s) data at http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/downloadmain.asp.
Anyone interested in 1990 Census and Interregional School District
Estimates demographic data will find these files are under
“School District Demographics” on this NCES web site at http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/index.asp.
LOOKING
FOR A GIRL FRIEND? BOY FRIEND?
AVOIDING ONE? How many men and women are there? Where are the most men? and the
most women? nationally, regionally, by state, by city? As of September 2001, you will find April 1, 2000 population
data, total number of men and total number of women, and ratio of men to women,
for total U.S. and by Census Region, State, District of Columbia, Guam, and
Puerto Rico. The men to women ratio
are also given for 10 cities of 100,000 or more with highest and the ten with
the lowest ratio of men to women and ratio by age. There is also a United States
County thematic map showing the 2000 men to women ratio.
The data for April 1, 2000 is compared to April 1, 1990 and there are
summary trends from 1900 in Gender: 2000 issued in September, 2001 as
Census 2000 Brief 01-9 available as a 8 page pdf file at http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-9.pdf.
TITANIC:
MOVIE AND THE BOOK Have you seen
the movie? There have been several movies, but most likely you saw the very long
(194 minutes) and latest (1997) version staring Leonard DiCaprio and Kate
Winslet? Have you read the original
account that came out in April 1912? When
the United States Senate Committee on Commerce investigated the wreck of the
White Star Liner “Titanic” in 1912, there were 18 days of Congressional
Hearings from April 19th to May 25th, 1912 that
interviewed 82 witnesses. “Titanic”
Disaster, Hearings before a Subcommittee on Commerce, United States Senate
pursuant to S. RES. 283 directing the Committee on Commerce to Investigate the
causes leading to the wreck of the White Star Liner “Titanic” is 1163
pages which include an 11 page subject index. The Hearings were published as Senate Document No. 762 (62nd
Congress, 2nd Session, 1912). This
Senate Committee then issued a report of its findings. Senate Report No. 806 (62nd Congress, 2nd Session,
1912) “Titanic” Disaster,
Report of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate pursuant to S. RES.
283 directing the Committee on Commerce to Investigate the causes leading to the
wreck of the White Star Liner “Titanic”, together with speeches thereon by
Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan and Senator Isador Rayner of Maryland
is 92 pages. Within the Report is Investigation into Loss of S. S.
“Titanic”, a 19 page summary report of the circumstances, events,
problems, and human errors that contributed to the Titanic’s disaster. This
Senate Report also contains 15 lists of names. First is an alphabetical
list of the names of the Titanic’s crew. There are alphabetical lists of the names of the first class passengers,
and the first-class survivors. Lists
of the second-class passengers and the second-class survivors rescued. There also four lists of the third class
(British, Scandinavian, and continental) passengers and another list for
the third-class passengers rescued. Then
there are two very long speeches by Senators Smith (pages 67-82) and Rayner
(pages 83-92) CALIFORNIANS
DARKNESS There once was a religious television program whose motto was “ it is better to light one little candle than curse the darkness.”
It would be interesting to have heard the Californians’ comments when the
lights dimmed and went out during the brownouts and blackouts during their
electricity shortages from 1995 to 2000. With
all the media coverage of these events, everyone's knowledge of this these
events depends on how much they kept up with the news. Still, there is one more publication worth reading.
Causes and Lessons of the California Electricity Crisis is a
33-page report published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in September
2001. This report opens with
a summary of electricity restructuring and chronology of events, 1994-2001, and
then presents the details of how and why the structure of the California
electric power industry impacted on the its generating capacity from 1995
–2000. It also discusses the
generating capacity of the Western, Mountain, and Pacific regional power
companies from which California was buying electricity. A major portion of this report is devoted to the “Supply Side” and
“Demand Side” marketing lessons to be learned from these events for future
restructuring of a States electric power production industry. This CBO publication will be found on the CBO Homepage at http://www.cbo.gov/
along with other interesting CBO publications, and has its own web page at http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=3062&sequence=0&from=7
. COLLEGE
CAMPUS CRIME ONLINE Alma Mater is the Latin for “Foster Mother”, a term
applied to the post-secondary educational institution that a student attends and
from which he/she gets a degree. How
does a prospective college student rate the Foster Mother qualities of the
college(s)/university(ies) he or she is considering? To what degree are there
“behavioral problems” on a campus and how well will that institution
“protect” its students? What campus(es) will be a safe place (or places) to live and study?
The new U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
has a new web site: http://ope.ed.gov/security."
The introduction of the OPE’s page includes OPE
Campus Security Statistics Website. This link is a search engine providing direct access to information about
more than 6000 colleges and universities in the United States that can be
identified by specific name or instructional program(s) offered. When considering attending an urban university, a small liberal arts
college, a specialized college, or a community college, this site will help
potential and currently enrolled college students and their parents research
criminal offenses on college campuses. A
search will result in an institution’s “Name and address”. The “Name” is a link to an information page that includes Name,
Address, IPEDS number, (campus) “Security Officer Information, Residence
Halls, and Local Crime Statistics”. There are links to “Criminal
Offenses”, Hate Offenses, Arrests, and “NCES IPEDS COOL” and “About NCES
IPEDS COOL” pages that will provide 1998, 1999, 2000 crime statistics and
information and NCES (National
Center for Educational Statistics) IPEDS COOL (College Opportunities On-Line)
information. COOL is the current
information about the degrees offered, tuition and fees, books and supplies, and
(on and off-campus) room and board and other expenses at that
institution. The information on this web site may help decision making as to
what campus is best for you.
APPLE
BITES AND PHRASES The apple of our eye is the apple that has brought the
downfall of man, gets polished for the teacher, and keeps the doctor away.
The fruit whose many colors and bites are neither the computer nor an
electronic byte. Apple consumption has increased since the 1970s reversing the
downward trend of the first half of the 20th century. Fresh apples
appeal to people in the Western region of the United States, who eat more than
Southerners, while the people of the Northeast Region let the apple industry do
the peeling since they prefer processed apples. Most apples are consumed at
home, and men generally consume more apples than women. Apple juice, the largest component of processed apples, was most popular
among boys age 2 to 5. The older boys lost their preference for apple juice and
so there are more (older) girls than older boys who drink apple juice. Fresh apple consumption was greatest among the Hispanic consumers and
people of other races, while processed apple products were more popular among
black, non-Hispanics. In regard to the “truth” of the phrase “As American
as apple pie”, the next question is how many Americans like apple pie? This
picture of American apple consumption of fresh and processed apples was painted
using the data from the USDA’s 1994-96, 1998 Continuing Survey of
Food Intakes by Individuals (A 77.40:F73/2000/CD). The “Demographic
Profile of Apple Consumption in the United States” by Agnes Perez, Biing-Hwan
Lin, and Jane Allshouse is a “Special
Article” in Fruit and Tree Nuts Situation and Outlook FTS-292,
September 2001, pages 37-47 is a PDF file at http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/fts/Sep01/AppleCons.pdf.
This FTS-292 Special article is cited and link found within the new ERS
(title) Fruit & Tree Nuts Outlook Newsletter, FTS 293, September 24,
2001. This new ERS Newsletter is a PDF file (http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/fts/sep01/fts293.pdf
) on the USDA Economic Research Service web site (http://www.ers.usda.gov).
OLD
AND RARE PLANTS "Plant lovers" who grow perennial indoors and/or
outdoor plants sometimes have a special plant, which was inherited or just has
survived a long time. Or, if you
don't have a green thumb but like domestic and exotic plants of all kinds, the
place to visit is The United States Botanic Garden. Located in the Capitol Building in Washington, D. C., the Botanic Garden
has one plant that was donated by an American Admiral Charles Wilkes in 1842,
and the Cycad plant is still alive. The Botanic Garden Conservatory, created in
1916, is a 1933 DECCO building that has undergone a 4-year renovation and
reopened at 10:00 AM on December 11, 2001. The Conservatory, completely
computerized, provides the perfect atmospheric conditions for this 159-year-old
plant and some orchids so rare they lack names. This Botanic Garden also houses
many plants that were confiscated at airports from international travelers under
the CRITES law that controls the international trade in rare plants. The
Conservatory is the primary of four facilities of this botanical world. Bartholdi Park consists of the outdoor fountain, demonstration landscape,
and many gardens illustrating many botanical themes and styles. The National Garden, whose construction began in 1998, is on three acres
adjacent to the Conservatory. The
Production Facility, which is the largest greenhouse complex in the United
States, is 85,000 square feet under glass, divided into 34 greenhouse bays and
16 environmental zones. This Production Facility, which would be a
sight-worth-seeing, is not open to the public. The Botanic Garden that was
conceived by its concept and origins back to 1816 has new web site pages are
found at http://www.aoc.gov/USBG/usbg_overview.htm.
The Morning Edition News report audiotape of the Botanic Garden’s grand
opening can be heard at http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2001/dec/botanical/011210.botanical.html
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14, 2001
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