Report of the Committee on the Preservation and Use of Economic Data (1965)

By Richard Ruggles

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Title:	Report of the Committee on the Preservation and Use of Economic Data (1965)
Author:	Richard Ruggles
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Language:	English
Subject:	Data preservation, Social sciences, Library Science
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Ruggles, Richard Millerwin Kuh, Stanley Lebergott, Guy Orcutt, Joseph Pechman, B. R. (Ed.). (n.d.). Report of the Committee on the Preservation and Use of Economic Data (1965). Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Subject: Data preservation; Social science data; Ruggles; TIA; National Data Center; IADeposit

Excerpt
This is the 1965 report of the Committee on the Preservation and Use of Economic Data to the Social Science Research Council. The Ruggles Report was a report discussed federally created economic data and the roles and responsibilities of federal agencies and research institutions in the preservation and use of economic data. The report Evaluated and gave an inventory of punchcards and Computer Tapes of Economic Data held by Federal Agencies. The report was one of the first discussions of the creation of a US national Data Center where computers could be leveraged in the collection, preservation and use of economic data created by federal agencies. Ruggles would appear the next year (1966) to discuss the findings of the committee at a Congressional hearing entitled, The computer and invasion of privacy. Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session. July 26, 27, and 28, 1966. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Subcommittee on Invasion of Privacy.