File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.
File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.
File contains an appendix (Appendix F) outlining procedures in comparing psychiatric evaluators' thought processes and conclusions surrounding the mental health of respondents of the Cornell-Aro study. File also includes information on analysis coding and a chart outlining mental health symptom statistics.
File contains a summary of reliability tests made by comparing psychiatric and social data protocols of the Cornell-Aro study. Also includes a memo regarding Jane Murphy's study on literacy, sociocultural chance, and mental illness in rural Yorubans.
File consists of a memo from Jane Murphy to Cornell staff regarding an analysis of the reliability of literacy data among male Yoruba study subjects and its effects on future analysis.
Subseries consists of revised analysis and evaluation materials for the 1961 and 1963 studies. Also includes correspondence on the projects and field notes with great detail on respondents' interviews and evaluations.
File contains a research grant application submitted to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to request funding for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in Nigeria.
File contains notes on respondents who showed resistance during their interviews. Resisters' responses, actions, and symptoms are listed. File also includes letters between Alexander Leighton and Veronica Shaw discussing how to process resisters' interviews and comparing psychiatrists' evaluations of their responses.
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Shodeke. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.
File contains a research proposal, progress report/speech, and several drafts of Trout's study on Yoruba fertility. File also includes a memo regarding Trout's summary of reliability for the 1961 Cornell-Aro study and several copies of the summary.
File contains a research proposal for the project along with filled social data questionnaires and semantic differentials questionnaires. Also contains 8 photographs of Nigerian individuals.
File contains group photos of the various teams involved in the 1961 Cornell-Aro study: whole team, psychiatric team, social scientists, statisticians, interpreters, nurses, secretaries, household help, and drivers.
File contains three booklet reports on aspects of Nigerian education. Titles are "Investment in education: the report of the commission on post-school certificate and higher education in Nigeria" (1960), "The Nigerian Association of University Women survey of women's education in western Nigeria" (1963), and "Ministry of Economic Planning and Community Development annual abstract of education statistics" (1961)."
File contains computer printouts of calculations for literacy statistics. Also includes copies of publications dealing with range tests: "Multiple range and multiple f tests" by David B. Duncan, "Extensions of multiple range tests to group means with unequal numbers of replications" by Clyde Young Kramer, and "Multivariate statistical programs" by Dean J. Clyde, Elliot M. Cramer, and Richard J. Sherin.
File consists of a script or text for an introductory lecture by Rhoda Omosunlola Johnston on the subject of Nigerian superstitions and physical health.