INTERNATIONAL DATA ARCHIVE AND ANALYSIS CENTER. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ARCHIVE
Abstract
The International Relations Archive undertakes as its primary goal the acquisition, management and dissemination of international affairs data. This goal necessitates direct interaction between the International Relations Archive staff and the academic community to ensure more adequate standards predominantly in the areas of data formatting, definitions and coding of variables, and validity checking of data. This working relationship assists the archival staff in maintaining awareness of the users' needs regarding data collection, data analysis and software development areas. The report contains two documents. The first document is the latest version of the memorandum, 'Data Holdings and Servicing Policies, International Relations Archive,' which lists the data sets presently residing in the International Relations Archive and their technical condition. All of these data sets are being serviced; and the total level of servicing during the period from July 1, 1969 through December 31, 1969, reached 344,532 card images of data. The second document is a copy of the preliminary version of the machine-readable codebook prepared for the data from the World Event/Interaction Survey, which was collected by Charles McClelland at the University of Southern California. Although some final editing remains to be performed on the text, this codebook represents the general format which the International Relations Archive will employ to describe the contents of the contents of the various data sets.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 31, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0708436
Entities
People
- Raymond Tanter
- Robert Hefner
Organizations
- University of Michigan