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From: Joya Misra <SOCAK663@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu>
Organization: Emory University - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Subject:      JOB POSTING
To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU
Hi socgrad-ers,

Hope everyone had as nice a time as I did in Miami. One of the profs
in my department asked me to post this job opening as a research assoc.
to the list. If you're looking for a number-crunching job in the  Boston
area, this might be the job for you.

Best wishes, joya

The Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality is a Russell Sage Foundation/
Ford Foundation headed consortium of social scientists conducting
empirical studies of three interrelated and fundamental aspects of
urban inequality: labor markets, residentialsegregation, and race and
ethnic attitudes. The initial efforts of this group have resulted in
the design and execution of sample surveys with personal interviewing
of residents in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles.  Interviews
are also being conducted with respondents' employers.

The MCSUI seeks to employ a research associate for 12 months, beginning
October 1, 1993, toproduce datasets which will allow for cross-city
analysis by the MCSUI team. The  research associate will be housed at
the University of Massachusetts-Boston.  Qualified applicants should
submit a letter of interest, resume, and names and telephone numbers
of three references by September 17, 1993 to:

Dr. Michael Massagli
Center for Survey Research
University of Massachusetts
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA  02125-3393

JOB DESCRIPTION

Official Title: Staff Assistant
Functional Title: Research Associate

General Statement of Duties:Work with principal investigators toprocess
household and employer surveys from Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los
Angeles, and geography-based data from the Census and similar data
sources to construct a complete multi-city dataset and documentation for
the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality.

Supervision Received: Expected to carry out responsibilites with general
supervision from Principal Investigators.

Supervision Exercised: May be expected to provide task-oriented
supervision toother project staff in the areas of data management,
variable construction, documentation, table preparation, and drafting of
reports.

Examples of Duties:

1. Tomake household data from Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta, and Boston
uniform and clean, and clearly documented in a codebook that facilitates
cross-city analysis by a multi-disciplinary team of investigators,
including demographers, economists, geographers, historians, and
sociologists.
2. To perform the same tasks on telephone interviews obtained from
additional household members in Detroit and Boston, and from employers
in the four cities.
3. To add geography based data from Census Summary Tape Files and
possibly other sources of interest to MVSUI members, including but not
limited to the Census Transportation Planning Package.
4. To create other working subfiles as defined by the MCSUI Research
Coordinating Committee, as time and resources permit; principle prodicts
of this type will include geographic informaton system (GIS) files.
5. To ensure that all data elements can be linked across datasets, e.g.
employee-employer links.
6. To prepare and give a workshop for MCSUI research team members and
their students on the use of these products.


Qualifications

1. Advanced graduate work in social sciences, Ph.D. preferred
2. Extensive experience with data processing and analysis of large
sample-survey datasets in networked-microcomputer and mainframe
environment.
3. Expertise with word-processing, statistical,and GIS software
4. Demonstrated expertise with coding procedures for sample suvey
interviews; demonstrated familiarity with code construction, variable
creation, data cleaning, documentation, and codebook preparation.
5. Expertise with use of 1990 PUMS data from US Census
6. Experience with production of scholarly research papers
7. Experience in the provision of technical consulting to users of
machine readable data
8. Ability to work with a multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary team of
researchers
9.Strong writing/communication skills