The data holdings cover a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law. Other data is limited to member institutions only, and this limited data must be retrieved by the Institutional Representative. The Documents Center at the University of Michigan Library. This site maintains a collection of numeric data distributed through the Geostat supports a wide range of academic and scholarly activities through access to extensive collections of numeric and geospatial data files and a suite of Internet-accessible data extraction tools. A Matter of Fact is an index to statistical information contained within the texts of articles from about 1,000 periodical publications and other sources.
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