November 2011 deposits at ICPSR

Chart?  Chart.[1]

# of files	# of deposits	File format
1	1	application/msaccess
37	14	application/msword
14	3	application/octet-stream
161	24	application/pdf
16	1	application/postscript
440	10	application/vnd.ms-excel
1	1	application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
106	1	application/x-arcview
53	1	application/x-dbase
10	2	application/x-dosexec
1	1	application/x-executable, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
1	1	application/x-rar
20	9	application/x-sas
8	1	application/x-sharedlib, not stripped
4	1	application/x-shellscript
9667	33	application/x-spss
23	4	application/x-stata
5	3	application/x-zip
12	1	image/gif
1	1	image/jpeg
2	1	image/x-xpm0117bit
2	2	message/rfc8220117bit
397	12	text/html
11	8	text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
13	8	text/plain; charset=unknown
1482	42	text/plain; charset=us-ascii
16	3	text/rtf
4	1	text/x-c++; charset=us-ascii
8	2	text/x-c; charset=us-ascii
1	1	text/xml

A relatively heavy month for deposits, this November 2011.  The number of SPSS files deposited is really impressive, and look to be the result of a small number of deposits, but with many data files.  Quite a bit of Excel too; more than SAS and Stata combined. 

We also have the usually fishy looking items that have been auto-detected as C or C++ source code, and which are actually text/plain (I suspect).  If the setups for a stat package contain the right types of comments in the right places, file is easy to fool.

The dBase and ArcView files are an interesting add to this month's listing.  We don't see too many of those.

[1]  This is a very small homage to mgoblog.