Social Sciences Data and Government Information Feedback Survey, October 2005 [United States]

The purpose of this data collection is to assess the needs of Brown University students, faculty, and staff regarding researching and analyzing numeric and spatial data, and government information (documents) in the social sciences fields, as well as how the social sciences data resources librarian can improve its services in assisting in studies and research. The data were collected via an online survey posted through a listserver to the entire Brown University community. Respondents were asked to give their opinions about learning different statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata, as well as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Other questions involved respondents' interest in using different information sources such as government statistics, state information and international information.