Archives Catalogue

Grafton Trout's preliminary analysis of fertility among Yoruba women

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 7
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains data coding information, a research proposal for Trout's study, and a compilation of socioeconomic data relating to rural Yoruba women from the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.

Grafton Trout's guide for social and fertility variables

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 9
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains coding information for a list of social and fertility study variables.

Outline of memos on Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 3
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains index of memos published on the Cornell-Aro study, listed by topic.

Education and migration analysis sheets 46 - 60

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 5
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 46 to 60.

Education and migration analysis sheets 61 - 75

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 6
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 61 to 75.

Education and migration analysis sheets 76 - 90

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 7
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 76 to 90.

Inkeles - study among Yorubas

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 20
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of part of Alex Inkeles' questionnaire for Yoruba factory workers.

NSP 571 - Canada, Sweden, Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 9
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Nigerian women's study master lists

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 1
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains lists of educated Nigerian women, organized by region.

Financial report - work sheets

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 3
File
1963 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains expense lists and financial documents and reports for the Social Science Research Council regarding the Role of Women study.

Cuttings from Nigerian newspapers related to the Role of Women study

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 7
File
1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an assortment of newspaper clippings on sociological topics like education, polygamy, women's rights, teenage discipline, and women in the workforce in Nigeria. Also contains a 2-page index to included clippings.

Logistics, visas, customs, and money in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 2
File
1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondences between research institutions, embassies, and members of the Nigerian studies regarding work and travel permits for study staff. Also contains Jane Murphy's international driving permit.

Ridit values for 1963 sample

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 1
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of ridit value datasets for urban and rural respondent samples.

Education and migration analysis sheets 16 - 30

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 3
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 16 to 30.

Education and migration analysis sheets 31 - 45

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 4
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 31 to 45.

Education and migration analysis sheets 90 - 105

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 8
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 90 to 105.

Education and migration analysis sheets 106 - 120

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 9
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 106 to 120.

Notes on salary for women

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 12
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of four short notes of employment and salary information.

Planning acculturation analysis

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 13
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes and statistics on respondents' religious acculturation and analysis.

Memos regarding psychiatric data coding

MS-13-86, Box 18, Folder 16
File
1963 - 1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memos regarding the psychiatric data questionnaire and methods for coding resulting data.

Stirling-Yoruba early notes on 1952 - 1961 - 1963 comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 4
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains data tables comparing psychiatric rating statistics from Stirling County and Nigeria.

Education and migration analysis sheets 1 - 15

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 2
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 1 to 15.

Information on education and age by ABCD

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 14
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts, calculations, datasets, and graphs tracking education and age. File also includes notes on the relationship between education level and mental health.

Method memos on sampling, data gathering, evaluations for 1961 - 1963 comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 1
File
1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a 22-page memo from Jane Murphy regarding research methods, sampling, and analysis of data from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies.

Doctor comments on Yoruba women, sampling design, and plan for analysis

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 2
File
1963 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on sampling and analysis, information on Nigerian contacts, notes on tribal affiliation, and sample coding. Also contains transcriptions of Jane Murphy's interviews with Tol Asuni and T.A. Lambo regarding regional data samples. Also includes memos concerning psychiatric and social data samples, interview correspondence, and data evaluation.

Notes and marginals on social science questionnaire data

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 7
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on respondents' answers to the social science data questionnaire. Answers are compiled by question and percentages and coding notes are included.

Respondents' articles

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 6
File
[1962-1963]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains journals and clippings of articles published by or relevant to study respondents.

Published data

Subseries
1962 - 2002

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries contains published articles by study respondents and newspaper clippings regarding women's life in Nigeria.

(part of) Stirling report #446 - Chapter III : community reactions

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 8
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for a chapter in a book about the Stirling County study.

X2 test for resistance

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 10
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains socioeconomic statistics surrounding interview "resisters" and calculations determining frequency of resistance.

Education and literacy analysis (some used in Cornell-Aro book)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 5
File
[1962?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of charts and datasets for literacy and education statistics of villages with ABCD and RIDIT calculations.

List of code names for Yoruba villages

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 9
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File comprised of a memo listing Yoruba villages and their revised code names.

Uses of psychophysiological measures in cross-cultural psychiatric surveys / by Warren B. Miller

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 4
File
1962 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

A study of resistance to psychiatric epidemiological interviewing among the Yoruba / by Zebulon C. Taintor

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 5
File
1962 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Stirling report #446 - Clinic community report / A.L. Longaker

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 7
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report from the Stirling County community clinic.

Stirling report #448 - The Cornell Programme in Nova Scotia : questions and answers about its work

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 12
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Domestic household composition among the rural Egba Yoruba / by Charles C. Hughes, David B. Macklin, Jane M. Murphy

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 10
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a copy of the study by Hughes, Macklin, and Murphy. Also contains compiled responses to the social data questionnaire.

T tests for differences between Nigerian 1961 sample and Stirling 1952 sample

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 11
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of pages of calculations determining the differences between male and female respondents and between the Nigerian and Stirling County data samples.

Nigerian photographic information

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 19
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a memo discussing the inventory, categories, and filing processes of photographs taken during the 1961 Cornell-Aro Nigerian study.

Bruce Oland's correspondence relating to mentally retardation

MS-2-135.2019-081, Box 79, Folder 10
File
1961-1983

Part of Oland family fonds

This file consists of correspondence and reference material relating to mental retardation. This file contains correspondence to the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded - Nova Scotia Division.

The pulse, vol. XXIII, no. 4

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an 8-page stapled publication of the New York Hosptial Cornell Medical Centre's bimonthly newsletter. Features an article about Alexander Leighton's Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project.

Practice social data questionnaire for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 16
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains one copy of the final fourth draft of the social data questionnaire for community respondents. Questionnaire is in both English and Yoruba and has been completed by an individual subject.

Final seventh draft of psychiatric questionnaire for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 2
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains one blank copy of the final seventh draft of the psychiatric questionnaire for community respondents.

Demographic data on hospital patients

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 12
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on the socioeconomic and demographic data of hospital patients.

Reliability analysis between psychiatrists

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 14
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Macklin's 1961 analysis of traditional - modern and integrated - disintegrated villages

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 14
File
1961 - 1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of David Macklin's notes on individual and village acculturation and integration controlled on sex.

Memos on RIDIT analysis of 1961 data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 16
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of memos discussing data analysis and RIDIT values for the Nigerian sample.

Nigerian movie

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 18
File
1961 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Files contains documents relating to the film "Mental Health Research in Nigeria" that was filmed during the 1961 Cornell-Aro study. Included are memos discussing the film's production and release, notes on filming scenes, a brochure for Cornell's program in social psychiatry, film production and narration notes, comments from researchers, and letters between researchers, librarians, and contacts in the Nigerian government. File also includes a publication called "African film bibliography 1965" by the Committee of Fine Arts and the Humanities of the African Studies Association.

Yoruba women Lagos 1963 abstracts migration (folder A)