The system has been installedand the IPR is now in the process of moving its entire data collection frommainframe tape to the server. Over the academic year, the IPR hopes to move all of the data from its more than 600 mainframe tapes to the new Optical Server. This new equipment greatly improves the availability of machine-readable numeric data at the University of Cincinnati.
Users can access data files through the simple point and click environmentof the Web.
The IPR has also created instructional subsets of the most popular Archive studies. These include the 1996 General Social Survey, the 1996 Current Population Survey, and the 1994 National Health Interview Survey. These are kept in SPSS, SAS and original raw data formats for use in statistics, research methodology, and data management courses. Complete documentation for accessing these resources from the IPR Archiveis available. Call 556-5077 for details.