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Data analysis

Subseries
1960 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.

Information on respondents' husbands' occupation and education

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 10
File
1960 - 1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Hollingshead scale for socioeconomic status analysis of urban women and their husbands

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 3
File
[1965 - 1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

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.

Education and psychiatric disorders

Subseries
1960 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Enlightenment data (includes residence in Big City and never used in Cornell-Aro book)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 4
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains note on village enlightenment categories, tables of social data statistics, and code for enlightenment samples.

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