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Papers by Susan Hautaniemi Leonard

Social media are implicated in many of contemporary society’s most pressing issues, from influenc... more Social media are implicated in many of contemporary society’s most pressing issues, from influencing public opinion, to organizing social movements, and identifying economic trends. Increasing the capacity of researchers to understand the dynamics of such social, behavioral and economic phenomena will depend on reliable, curated, discoverable and accessible social media data. To that end, ICPSR will develop a new archive of curated datasets, workflows, and code for use by social science researchers for the empirical analysis of social media platforms, content, and user behavior. The goal is to provide a user-friendly, large-scale, next-generation data resource for researchers conducting data-intensive research using data from social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram. In our presentation, we will explain SOMAR’s goals and structure and discuss opportunities for collaboration.

is a relatively new attempt to integrate the growing wealth of data on both the community and the... more is a relatively new attempt to integrate the growing wealth of data on both the community and the individual level into seamless models that describe:

Secondary analyses of key datasets multiply the benefits of our national investment in health sci... more Secondary analyses of key datasets multiply the benefits of our national investment in health science. At ICPSR we work hard to increase the use of legacy data. With funding from NIDA, NIA, and OBSSR, ICPSR is working to increase the use of extant data for health research by making health-related variables easier to identify. To pilot this work, we are adding variable-level metadata from subsets of controlled vocabularies (e.g., CDEs from the NIH CDE Repository and ontology terms from SNOMED, PROMIS, and PICO), focusing on opioid use and abuse in the National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program (NADHAP) and dementia and cognitive function in the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). The enhanced metadata allows the search to find individual variables where each question is narrowly focused (e.g., participants are asked about the use of specific types of opioids, but the term opioid was not used) and to reveal variables where search returns are overwhelming, with hundreds of studies containing potentially thousands of variables. This pilot has yielded unique insights into the strengths and limitations associated with applying CDEs and ontologies (and other controlled vocabularies) to existing studies to make data more discoverable and more usable.

Social science history, 2017

This paper explores the social interactions of immigration, occupation and wealth in two urban in... more This paper explores the social interactions of immigration, occupation and wealth in two urban industrial cities of nineteenth century New England that were largely built upon, and shaped by, immigration: the very rapidly growing factory town of Holyoke, Massachusetts and a more mixed market and steadily growing nearby community of Northampton, Massachusetts. Both communities were emergent, rapidly industrializing, inland cities, providing a quite distinct immigration context than large established cities of the East Coast. Both were destinations for the same general ethnic immigration waves over the late nineteenth century, but with very different, and differently impacted, social spaces into which immigrants arrived. Contrasting and considering both these emergent cities allows us to ascertain the extent to which the occupational distribution and accumulation of wealth by immigrant groups supports the broad pattern of nineteenth-century assimilation, and reveals ways in which othe...

Continuity and Change, 2015

Continuity and Change first appeared in 1986 and enters its thirtieth year in 2015. To help us ce... more Continuity and Change first appeared in 1986 and enters its thirtieth year in 2015. To help us celebrate this landmark, Lloyd Bonfield, one of the journal's founding editors, reflects in this issue on the origins and development of the journal. The editors are most grateful to Lloyd for his interesting and enjoyable essay. We are also marking the thirtieth anniversary with a special online collection of past articles from the journal. The editorial team, in collaboration with the editorial board, has selected ten 'classic' articles which we think are among the most representative and influential published in the journal over the last three decades. To view the articles, please use this link: http://journals.cambridge.org/con30 The articles in this online 'anniversary issue' will be freely available from 1 January to 31 December 2015. Please feel free to circulate and share the link. May we take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported the journal since 1986. Here's to another thirty years!

In the next decades, aging farmers in the United States will make decisions that affect almost 1 ... more In the next decades, aging farmers in the United States will make decisions that affect almost 1 billion acres of land. The future of this land will become more uncertain as farm transfer becomes more difficult, potentially changing the structure of agriculture through farm consolidation, changes in farm ownership and management, or taking land out of production. The Great Plains Population and Environment Project interviewed farmers and their spouses between 1997 and 1999. Farm Family Survey participants were ambiguous about their plans to leave farming, transfer land to others, and even long-term land use, largely due to concerns about the continued economic viability of farming. Participants living far from metropolitan areas expected to sell or rent to other farmers, while those near residential real-estate markets expected to sell to developers. Delays in planning for retirement and succession were common, further threatening the success of intergenerational transitions.

Population and Environment, 2010

Recent debate in the literature on population, environment, and land use questions the applicabil... more Recent debate in the literature on population, environment, and land use questions the applicability of theory that patterns of farm extensification and intensification correspond to the life course of farmers and to the life cycle of farm families. This paper extends the debate to the agricultural development of the United States Great Plains region, using unique data from 1875 to 1930 that link families to farms over time in 25 environmentally diverse Kansas townships. Results of multilevel statistical modeling indicate that farmer's age, household size, and household structure are simultaneously related to both the extent of farm operations and the intensity of land use, taking into account local environmental conditions and time trends as Kansas was settled and developed. These findings validate farm-and life cycle theories and offer support for intergenerational motivations for farm development that include both daughters and sons. Environmental variation in aridity was a key driver of farm structure.

The effects of wealth, occupation, and immigration on epidemic mortality from selected infectious... more The effects of wealth, occupation, and immigration on epidemic mortality from selected infectious diseases and epidemics in Holyoke

History and Computing, 2002

This study contains teaching materials developed over a period of years for a four-week workshop,... more This study contains teaching materials developed over a period of years for a four-week workshop, Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data (LAHDD), offered through the ICPSR Summer Program in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013, with one-day alumni workshops in 2010, 2012, and 2014. Instructors in the workshops are listed below. Funding was provided by The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, grants R25-HD040525 and R25-HD-049479, the ICPSR Summer Program and the ICPSR Director. The course was designed to teach students the theories, methods, and practices of historical demography and to give them first-hand experience working with historical data. This training is valuable not only to those interested in the analysis historical data. The techniques of historical demography rest on methodological insights that can be applied to many problems in population studies and other social sciences. While historical demography remains a flourishing research area with publications in key journals like Demography, Population Studies, and Population, practitioners were dispersed, and training was not available at any of the population research centers in the U.S. or elsewhere. One hundred and ten participants from around the globe took part in the workshops, and have gone on to establish courses of their own or teach in other workshops. We offer these materials here in the hopes that others will find them useful in developing courses on historical demography and/or longitudinal data analysis. <br>The workshop was organized in three tracks: A brief tour of historical demography, event-history analysis, and data management for longitudinal data using Stata and Microsoft Access. The data management track includes 13 exercises designed for hands-on learning and reinforcement. Included in this project are the syllabii and reading lists for the three tracks, datasets used in the exercises, documents setting out each exercise, a file with the expected results, and for many of the e [...]

Attendees will learn about an exciting new venue for collaboration around data linkage methodolog... more Attendees will learn about an exciting new venue for collaboration around data linkage methodology and evaluation, a joint project with ICPSR and Texas AM. The presentation will focus on lessons learned by ICPSR while building the DLRep, a repository and community space for researchers involved in linking and combining datasets, as collaboration between social, statistical, and computer scientists. A common benchmarking repository of linkage methodologies will propel the field to the next level of rigor by facilitating comparison of different algorithms, understanding which types of algorithms work best under different conditions and problem domains, promoting transparency and replicability of research, and encouraging proper citation of methodological contributions and their resulting datasets. It will bring together the diverse scholarly communities (e.g., computer scientists, statisticians, and social, behavioral, economic, and health (SBEH) scientists) who are currently addressi...

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

International Journal of Population Data Science

ICPSR is building LinkageLibrary, a repository and community space for researchers involved in li... more ICPSR is building LinkageLibrary, a repository and community space for researchers involved in linking and combining datasets, as a collaboration between social, statistical, and computer scientists. Unlike surveys or experiments where causal and outcome variables are measured in tandem, it is often necessary when working with organic, non-design data to link to other measures. This makes linkage methodologies particularly important when conducting analyses using administrative data. A common benchmarking repository of linkage methodologies will propel the field to the next level of rigor by facilitating comparison of different algorithms, understanding which types of algorithms work best under different conditions and problem domains, promoting transparency and replicability of research, and encouraging proper citation of methodological contributions and their resulting datasets. It will bring together the diverse scholarly communities (e.g., computer scientists, statisticians, and...

Annales de démographie historique, 2005

Social Science History, 2016

This paper analyzes in detail the role of environmental and economic shocks in the migration of t... more This paper analyzes in detail the role of environmental and economic shocks in the migration of the 1930s. The 1940 US Census of Population asked every inhabitant where they lived five years earlier, a unique source for understanding migration flows and networks. Earlier research documented migrant origins and destinations, but we will show how short-term and annual weather conditions at sending locations in the 1930s explain those flows, and how they operated through agricultural success. Beyond demographic data, we use data about temperature and precipitation, plus data about agricultural production from the agricultural census. The widely known migration literature for the 1930s describes an era of relatively low migration, with much of the migration that did occur radiating outward from the Dust Bowl region and the cotton South. Our work about the complete United States will provide a fuller examination of migration in this socially and economically important era.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Feb 1, 2012

... multiplicity of the fertility transition in Europe is emphasized and well analyzed in John R.... more ... multiplicity of the fertility transition in Europe is emphasized and well analyzed in John R. Gillis,Louise A. Tilly, and ... Determinants of Reproductive Behavior” by Rosella Rettaroli and Francesco Scalone and “Releasing Mother's Burdens” by Bárbara Revuelta Eugercios explore ...

J Interdiscipl Hist, 2007

Social Science History, 2004

Historical mortality analysis is often confounded by changing disease environments, diagnostic cr... more Historical mortality analysis is often confounded by changing disease environments, diagnostic criteria, and terminology. Recorded causes of death are shaped by these local and historical contexts. We analyze changing literal causes of death during the shift from miasmatic to germ theories of disease using death records from two Massachusetts towns for selected years spanning 1850 to 1912. This analysis demonstrates that (1) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) classifications are more stable, yet potentially less informative, than the literal causes recorded in death accounts, (2) recorded causes of death often include additional qualifications and elaborations beyond basic literal causes of death, and the use of such qualifiers rose dramatically during the late nineteenth century, (3) social biases are clearly evident in the extent to which causes of death were further described or qualified, and (4) the additional descriptive qualification of deaths during this period o...