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Acknowledgement of ICPSR Assistance:

TO: Users of ICPSR Data
FROM: ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
SUBJECT: Acknowledgement of ICPSR Assistance

Those receiving data are strongly urged to inform the Archive of any errors and discrepancies that are discovered during the course of using these data. They are further urged to bring to the attention of the Archive all problems and difficulties encountered in using these data, particularly those difficulties which prevented effective and convenient utilization. This information is necessary in order to improve the collections and to facilitate more efficient and economical processing and retrieval facilities. The users are asked to supply copies of any missing data that may be located, and to provide information as to significant subsets and special aggregations of data that are developed in using the material provided.

All manuscripts utilizing data made available through the Consortium should acknowledge that fact as well as identify the original collector or the data source. The ICPSR Council urges all users of ICPSR data facilities to follow some adaptation of this statement with the parentheses indicating items to be filled in appropriately or deleted by the individual user.

The data (and tabulations) utilized in this (publication) were made available (in part) by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. The data were originally collected by ______________________. Neither the original source or collectors of the data or the Consortium bear any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here.

In order to provide funding agencies with essential information about the use of archival resources, and to facilitate the exchange of information about ICPSR participants' research activities, each user of the ICPSR data facilities is expected to send two copies of each completed manuscript (or thesis abstract) to the Consortium. Please indicate in the cover letter which data were used.

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