STATISTICAL MASTERFILE CD-ROM

What It Does

• Indexes:
  • Federal government statistics, 1974-
  • Business, state government, and professional association statistics, 1980-
  • International organization statistics, 1983-
• Navigation Protocols
  • Highlight numerous on-screen instructions and press ENTER
  • Function keys at bottom
  • Return to previous page by pressing ESCAPE

Location

• Documents Center
• Corresponding paper copy of various indexes located in Documents Center--Docs. Ref. section
  • American Statistics Index (Doc.Cen Z 7554 .U5 S79--Stat.Ref.)
  • Statistical Reference Index (Doc.Cen. Z 7554 .U5 S79--Stat.Ref.)
  • Index to International Statistics (Doc.Cen. Z 7552 .I38)

Booting Up

• CD-ROM initially boots up to the current years
• Highlight Change Search Range and press ENTER to change the years of coverage or limit searching to type of document
• Highlight Full search to begin searching

Search Range:        Statistical Masterfile               F1=Help
ASI,SRI,IIS                                               F2=Command Menu
1994-1995

                            Main Menu

                            Introduction
                            Menu
                            Search
                            Change Search Range
                            Quit

Search Protocols:

• Boolean logic
  • this word AND that word
  • this word OR that word
  • this word NOT that word
• An initial search set may be combined with a new search:
  • [1] and [2] and Michigan
• Phrase searching assumed when two words together
  • food stamps
• Truncation is a *
  • food stamp* picks up food stamp and food stamps
• Searches may be limited by various geographic, economic and demographic categories:

               by.age                          by.marital.status
               by.census.division              by.occupation
               by.city                         by.outlying.area
               by.commodity                    by.race
               by.county                       by.region
               by.disease                      by.sex
               by.educational attainment       by.smsa
               by.foreign.country
               by.government.agency
               by.income
               by.individual company.or.institution
               by.industy

Entering Search Statements

                 Type Search Terms(s):

               FOOD STAMP* AND BY.COUNTY

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Editing Search Statements

• Search statements may be edited before or after a search by using special function keys.
  • F8 changes the search range range
    • Years
    • Data Base (ASI, SRI, IIS or any combination)
  • F4 provides two approaches to subject terms
    • Whenever selecting a subject term from the thesaurus to edit a search statement, be sure to type in the Boolean operator (e.g. AND)
  • It also provides the category breakdowns given above
• Function Keys:

  
                  Command Menu
  
                  F1         Help
                  F2         Command Menu
                  F3         Search Action
                  F4         Search Indexes
                  F5         Main Menu
                  F6         Mark/Unmark Records
                  F7         Print or Save
                  F8         Change Year or Record Range
                  F9         Record Display Options
                  F10        Restart System
                  Q           Quit
  

Title List

• SMF will display the results of a search in the form of a title list.
• The title list is arranged from the most current to the oldest.
• Information includes title, description, and abstract (microfiche) number.

  1995 SRI Publications                                                     
    Economic Indicators, Hawaii [Hawaii economic indicators,                
        bimonthly rpt]                                                      
            SRI 1995 B3500-1                                                
    1994 Data Book on Louisiana's Children [Louisiana child well-being      
        indicators, by race and parish, 1994 annual rpt]                    
            SRI 1995 R0700-1                                                
    Assistance Payments Statistics, Michigan [Michigan public               
        assistance program cases, recipients, and payments, detailed        
        data by county, monthly rpt]                                        
            SRI 1995 S4010-1                                                
    Summary of Minnesota Public Assistance Trends, CY93 [Minnesota          
        public welfare program recipients and expenditures, by              
        county, 1993, semiannual rpt]                                       
            SRI 1995 S4202-1                                                
    Statistical Report, Montana [Montana welfare and medical                
        assistance program cases and payments, by county and type of        
        service, monthly rpt]                                               
            SRI 1995 S4755-1                                                

Full Record Display

• The full record of the publication with an abstract or summary of contents can be displayed by highlighting any line in the title list for that particular publication.

SRI MAIN NO: 1994 S4010-1
 TITLE: Assistance Payments Statistics, Michigan
 PERIODICITY: Monthly.
 COLLATION: Approx. 150 p. no paging.
 ISSUING SOURCE: Michigan Department of Social Services
 AGENCY REPORT NO: Pub. No. 67
 AVAILABILITY: Michigan Department of Social Services, 235 S. Grand Ave.,
   Suite 1109, PO Box 30037, Lansing MI 48909, +.
 MICROFICHE STATUS: SRI/MF/complete.

 Monthly report on Michigan public assistance programs, including number of
 cases, recipients, and payments, by program and county. Programs covered
 include Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), State assistance, State and
 federally funded emergency assistance, medical assistance, food stamps, SSI,
 child welfare, and home help services.
   Data are compiled by the Dept of Social Services. Report is issued
 approximately 4-6 weeks after month of coverage.
   Issues include a table listing; the monthly tables listed below; and
 additional tables at the end of the issue. Additional tables include
 quarterly tables on public assistance cases by race-ethnicity, day care
 participation (including data by age) and payments, and assistance case
 processing; other recurring tables; monthly tables that have been omitted
 from previous issues due to data unavailability; and revised versions of
 monthly or quarterly tables.
   Most monthly tables appear in all issues. All additional tables are
 described, as they appear, under "Statistical Features."
 ISSUES REVIEWED DURING 1994: Sept. 1993-Aug. 1994 (D).

 MONTHLY TABLES:

 [Data are for month of coverage, unless otherwise noted. All tables show
 data by county; some tables also include data by district.]

    SUMMARY
    1. Total unduplicated recipients and payments under ADC, State Emergency
      Relief (SER), State assistance, energy assistance, and food stamps [for
      month of coverage, with percent change from previous month and same
      month of previous year; revised table for May 1994 appears in June 1994
      issue; revised tables for Oct.-July 1993 appear in Aug. 1994 issue].

    ADC PROGRAM
    2-4. ADC families and payments: [total, and] regular and
      unemployed-parent segments [for month of coverage, previous month, and
      same months of previous year].
    5. ADC [recipients]: children and adults, by program segment.

    STATE ASSISTANCE
    6-8. State assistance: cases and gross payments [all cases, and] family
      assistance, disability, and SER [for month of coverage, previous month,
      and same month of previous year].
    9-9a. State assistance: cases and payments, by type of case [with and
      without children, by program segment].
    10. State assistance: child and adult recipients, by type of case and
      program segment.

Printing/Downloading

• The individual publication records may be printed or downloaded in several different formats using the F7 command.

Location of publications listed in SMF:

• Microfiche in Documents Center using the SMF abstract number (e.g. S4010-1)
• Paper copy: check MIRLYN

Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
The University of Michigan Library
Send comments and suggestions to graceyor@umich.edu

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/smf.html
Last updated on January 21, 1996

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