File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.
File includes copies of "A Survey of General Physicians : Manual for Participating General Practitioners" and "Appendix A : Nomenclature and Classification in the Stirling County Study."
Series consists of materials relating to the Stirling County Study, particularly progress reports, but also including clippings and survey documents. Also contains photographs and slides.
File contains a copy of Hudson's study and a progress report and copy of the survey for Williams' study "Social and cultural factors affecting role-conflict and adjustment among American women: a pilot investigation." Also includes a copy of the Cornell-Aro study social data questionnaire and a computer dataset printout of Yoruba respondents.
File contains a copy of the study "Psychophysiological reactions of a rural and suburban population in Taiwan" by Hsien Rin, Hung-Ming Chu, and Tsung-Yi Ling. Also contains correspondence between Hsien Rin and Jane Murphy and notes and data tables on modernization rates and number of children among respondents.
File contains a computer printout dataset of frequency distribution comparison between Jane Murphy's and Alex Inkeles' data. Also includes copies of several of Inkeles' published articles: "The fate of personal adjustment in the process of modernization," "The OM scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity," "Some social psychological effects and noneffects of literacy in a new nation," "The modernization of man," and "Making men modern: on the causes and consequences of individual change in six developing countries."
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 various statistical analyses done of data from the Yoruba studies, particularly in relation to education and male respondents. Memos, reports, publications, dataset printouts, and analysis manuals present.
File consists of a report on the 1967 Yoruba meetings. Includes psychiatrists' agreement analysis, findings, case illustrations, datasets, and a copy of the questionnaire.
File consists of a re-abstracting manual for the Yoruba study data to update the research goal to compare urban and rural mental health and limit bias in analysis. File also includes respondents' answers to health surveys and a memo regarding evaluation of Yoruba abstracts.
File contains materials from a meeting on the Yoruba studies, including charts and datasets demonstrating psychiatrist's agreement analysis and findings and ABCD analysis.
File consists of a report by von Severus on the physical health conditions prevalent in Yoruba village to determine their eligibility in the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.
File contains documents relating to Taintor's study and two drafts of the full study text. Includes mental and physical health surveys and datasets, interview fieldnotes, and statistics and calculations. Also contains a letter from Laurel Hodgden regarding the usability of the data.
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 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 printouts of computer code, and graphs and datasets analyzing socioeconomic acculturation of Yoruba women. File also includes three copies of Ilfield's study "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."
File consists of a script or text for an introductory lecture by Rhoda Omosunlola Johnston on the subject of Nigerian superstitions and physical health.
File contains a draft of Warren Miller's study and several pages of related research notes. Also contains a memo regarding comments and proposed edits to the draft, and a letter to Miller from Laurel Hodgden regarding the study "Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba."
Subseries consists of affiliated studies by other authors that used the data from the 1961 Cornell-Aro and 1963 role of women studies. Contains some articles written by staff members of the 1961 and 1963 studies.
File contains notes on psychiatric symptoms and diseases present in Nigerian respondents, and on the respondents' beliefs regarding illness. Also contains notes between researchers sharing thoughts and findings. File also includes Jane Murphy's field notes from discussions of disease with respondents. File also contains a copy of the study "The psychiatric examination of native African patients" by Edward L. Margetts.
File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.