Annotated Bibliography

      An annotated bibliography (3 items) on data sources for U.S. income and/or population. Select one item from each of the following three categories (A,B and C). Each annotation should be limited to 150 words.

      In your description of the three sources selected, indicate what data each contains, where and how the data was gathered, what years are represented, and how the data is presented or coded. For this assignment, confine your search to Carnegie Mellon's holdings.



A. Various Handbooks (Choose 1)

Statistical Handbook on Aging Americans. HL Ref 305.26 S797
Statistical Handbook on Women in America. HL Ref 305.4 S797
Statistical Handbook on the American Family. HL Ref 306.85 s797
Handbook of Labor Statistics. HL Ref 331 U581h
Historical statistics of the United States : colonial times to 1970.
United States. Bureau of the Census. HL Ref 317.3U25abs Supp. 1970


B. County and city data

County and city data book. 1949-1994. U. S. Bureau of the Census.
Statistical abstract of the United States. Supplement. HL Ref 317.3 U25c


C. Machine-readable data (choose 1)
One of our ICPSR holdings. On LIS, type in ICPSR and Population (48 entries) or ICPSR and Income (6 entries). or the Urban Underclass database (HL Ref 305.569 K19u) or an independent selection found through a LIS search



Consult the "book", manual or other introductory material to prepare your entries. All the items listed are in the reference section of Hunt Library. Any bibliographical citation system that you choose for this assignment will be fine, if you use it consistently. A good reference work for style is Diana Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual, 2nd edition, Boston, Bedford Books, 1997. It is available in our bookstore, and used widely in history classes on this campus. Hacker's manual lists the conventions for citing works of different kinds, for different audiences. Yes, they differ for different kinds of sources. The sets of conventions offered in this manual are the ones you should know for the humanities and social sciences. They are those of the MLA (English and the Humanities), APA (Psychology and Social Sciences), and Chicago (favored by History).

Here is how Hacker's manual would be cited as a bibliographical entry under the three conventions:

MLA and Chicago
Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.

APA
Hacker, Diana (1997). A Pocket Style Manual. (2nd ed.). Boston: Bedford Books.