Data updates: The IRE and NICAR Database Library has recently updated the following databases: MAUDE. IRE and NICAR in early March updated its copy of the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience database, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, just as doctors in Baltimore and officials with another federal agency criticized a manufacturer for a faulty medical device. The MAUDE data includes information about problems that occurred with medical devices.
Current as of 2001. Home mortgages. This database includes a record of mortgage applications, including demographic information about loan applicants, including race, sex and income; the purpose of the loan; whether the buyer intends to live in the home; the type of loan; and the outcome of the loan application. The dataset also includes geographical information on applicants, such as Census tract, metropolitan statistical area, state and county.
Current as of 2000. Trucks. The truck accidents database consists of accidents that involve commercial vehicles that weigh more than 10,000 pounds, as reported by state transportation agencies to the U.S. Department of Transportation. The vehicles included in this database are buses, semis, moving trucks, rental trucks and hazardous-material carriers. Current as of 2000. Fatal accidents. The latest updated Fatal Accident Reporting System database consists of three relational tables, containing data on automobile accidents on public U.S.
roads that resulted in the death of one or more people within 30 days of the accident. In the past, the NICAR data files were available in four relational tables. For the current update, NICAR used SAS software to replicate the data tables used by the Department of Transportation and translated those tables into DBF format, which can be opened by almost any database manager software. In the latest data update, SAS translates the official DOT codes to plain English in the data tables.
Covers 1975-2000.