Notes on data sampling considerations in Nigeria
- MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 11
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- 1959 - 1960
File contains guidelines and suggestions for selecting diverse and unbiased data samples and determining the value of data collected.
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Archival Description- MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 8
- File
- 1959
File contains documents relating to Alexander Leighton's 1959 trip to Nigeria. Includes a photograph, several bundles of research notes, schedules, graphic materials, and patient medical notes. Includes an article from the New York Times on the Nigerian election, and no. 10 of the Western Nigerian Illustrated quarterly publication featuring an article about psychiatric treatment at the Aro Hospital. Also includes an envelope labelled 'thought disorder pills' containing five spherical pills.
Davies and Johnson mop-up operations and results
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 6
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- [1961?]
File contains a list of follow-up tasks related to community respondent information. Also contains a bundle of small notecards with similar follow-up questions and notes.
List of alternate spellings of respondents' names
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 8
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- [1961?]
File consists of a list of community respondents alongside alternate spellings of their names.
Notes on considering villages to be integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 11
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- [between 1959-1961]
File contains information on 14 villages to aid researchers in determining whether they should be considered integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional. Information is based on population, education, religion, industry, and family structure.
Miscellaneous data sampling information
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 4
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- 1961
File contains respondent eligibility criteria and data sampling processes and statistics for villages.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 5
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- 1961
File is comprised of documents related to data sampling in the city of Abeokuta. Contains lists of names, notes on divisions of neighbourhoods, and information and statistics relating to city areas and squares. Also contains a large folded map of Abeokuta.
Information on population of Yoruba villages
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 10
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- [between 1959 and 1961]
File consists of what appears to be an excerpt from a Yoruba rural study estimating the number of people over 20 years of age in Yoruba villages.
Information for the selection of villages to study in the Egba area
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 3
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- 1960 - 1961
File contains notes and information on villages in the Egba region of Nigeria. Also includes memos from Charles C. Hughes containing travel observations and village statistics.
Social science respondents master lists
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 7
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- 1961
File contains lists of community respondents organized according to village or city square.
The Indiana 101 simulator for psychiatric symptoms and social factors analysis
- MS-13-86, Box 6, Folder 11
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- 1964 - 1965
File contains documents relating to the attemped Indiana IBM 101 simulator project for analyzing psychiatric symptoms and social factors. Includes communications between Jane Murphy, Veronica Shaw, and Grafton Trout of the Indiana University International Development Centre. Also includes IBM simulator dataset printouts and notes and memoranda regarding data migration processes. The project was never used.
Information on respondents' husbands' occupation and education
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 10
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- 1960 - 1964
File contains notes, charts, and datasets tracking the occupations and education levels of the husbands of female study respondents. File also includes correspondence between researchers and Aro Hospital regarding education and migration statistics.
Notes on academic degrees and education in Nigeria
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 8
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- 1964
File contains research notes on the history of schools and public education in Nigeria. Comparisons are made between British and Nigerian degree systems. File also includes correspondence between researchers and the Nigerian Consulate in New York regarding Nigerian schooling and the place of women therein.
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 12
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- [1963?]
File consists of four short notes of employment and salary information.
Planning acculturation analysis
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 13
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- [1963?]
File consists of notes and statistics on respondents' religious acculturation and analysis.
Notes and marginals on social science questionnaire data
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 7
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- 1962
File contains notes on respondents' answers to the social science data questionnaire. Answers are compiled by question and percentages and coding notes are included.
Hollingshead scale for socioeconomic status analysis of urban women and their husbands
- MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 3
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- [1965 - 1966?]
File contains printouts of computer code, datasets and statistics on respondents' occupations and economic status, and notes on coding education data. File also includes a copy of "Two factor index of social position" by August B. Hollingshead.
David Macklin's notes on social science questionnaire data analysis
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 5
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- 1961
File consists of notes on respondents' answers to the social data questionnaire, including statistics and thoughts on card organization and indices.
Information on education and age by ABCD
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 14
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- [1963?]
File contains charts, calculations, datasets, and graphs tracking education and age. File also includes notes on the relationship between education level and mental health.
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 3
- File
- 1961 - 1963
File contains notes on coding and writing corrections to be made to social data questionnaire cards.
Mental health of native healers in 1961 sample
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 6
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- 1961
File consists of a page of notes on mental health statistics for native healers of the study villages in Nigeria.
Demographic data on hospital patients
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 12
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- 1961
File consists of notes on the socioeconomic and demographic data of hospital patients.
Reliability analysis between psychiatrists
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 14
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- [1961?]
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.
Occupation data for rural Yoruba sample
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 11
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- 1961
File contains notes and lists of Cornell-Aro study respondents' occupations. Also includes memoranda and notes on coding categories for occupational data and relevant ethnographic background information.
Psychiatric symptom patterns and disorders
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 15
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- 1961
File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.
Miscellaneous analyses regarding psychiatric symptoms
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 17
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- 1961
File consists of notes on psychiatric conditions and symptoms found in Cornell-Aro study respondents. Data tables and analytical explanations accompany datasets and evaluations.
Frequency analysis of psychiatric disorders by social variables (corrected copy of SP #40)
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 9
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- [196-]
File includes statistics on the socioeconomic statuses of Cornell-Aro study respondents and information for the psychiatrist's random sampling results.
Demographic data on Abeokuta residents
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 13
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- 1961
File consists of notes on the socioeconomic and demographic data of Abeokuta residents.
Combinations of major symptom patterns
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 16
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- 1961 - 1962
File contains notes and charts on the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and disorders and combinations of patterns in study respondents.
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 8
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- [1961?]
File consists of medical data code for the psychiatric questionnaire.
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 4
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- [196-]
File contains case summaries for two patients (labelled case I and cased III) with background information and physical and mental health summaries.
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 5
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- [1961?]
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.
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 7
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- 1961
File contains notes on medical data relevant to hemoglobin. Includes lists of Sahli percentages and charts comparing averages. Also includes a memo regarding summary data from random village hemoglobin samples.
Effect of culture and cultural patterns
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 1
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- 1961
File contains notes on village data, socioeconomic information, and psychiatric symptom statistics. File also includes a letter to Alex (Leighton?) from Ray (?) on the subject of sampling techniques and a further study on the role of physical depletions in the etiology of Yoruba psychiatric disturbances.
Respondents' resistance to interviews
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 2
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- 1961
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.
Extra copies of crucial tables (C - A analysis)
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 3
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- [196-]
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.
Use of hospital cases for cross-cultural problems
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 6
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- 1961
File consists of notes on cases from Aro Hospital. Topics include symptoms, cultural factors, symptom patterns, impairment, etc.
Reliability between psychiatric and social data
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 9
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- 1961 - 1965
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.
Macklin's 1961 analysis of traditional - modern and integrated - disintegrated villages
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 14
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- 1961 - 1962
File consists of David Macklin's notes on individual and village acculturation and integration controlled on sex.
Murphy's 1964 analysis of characteristics of traditional and modern villages
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 15
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- 1960 - 1964
File contains notes on social and physical histories of several villages and criteria for distinguishing traditional from modern and integrated from disintegrated villages. Also contains charts compiling and comparing village data.
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 11
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- [1964?]
File consists of datasets and charts related to study respondent demographic statistics.
Uses of psychophysiological measures in cross-cultural psychiatric surveys / by Warren B. Miller
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 4
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- 1962 - 1963
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."
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 8
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- [196-]
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.
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 5
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- 1962 - 1963
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.
Alexander Leighton's 1968 re-evaluations (n=25) and 54 PJ analysis card and codebook
- MS-13-86, Box 17, Folder 6
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- [1968?]
File contains notes on re-evaluation of data from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies, Also includes computer dataset printouts.
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 2
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- 1961
File contains notes on data processing and coding, medical findings, and psychiatric social data. Also includes correspondence between Dorothea Leighton and Alice Longaker regarding coding process and classification procedures.
- MS-13-86, Box 18, Folder 17
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File contains notes on principles of data coding for medical information.
T tests, correlations, ABCD RIDITS
- MS-13-86, Box 18, Folder 19
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File contains notes and calculations on t-test results and data RIDIT values.
Background impairment and caseness, Yoruba 4, see 320
- MS-13-86, Box 18, Folder 20
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File contains notes and calculations for impairment and caseness RIDITs for all female Yoruba respondents.
Background HOS scores for rural and urban women, see SP 320
- MS-13-86, Box 18, Folder 21
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File contains notes and calculations for correlation and HOS scores for female Yoruba respondents.
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