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 Education
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Resources for Numeric & GeoSpatial Data Services

Information on Numeric & GeoSpatial Data

Glossary of Social Science Computer and Social Science Data Terms
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Library Collections and Services


Selected Statistical Databases
    CenStats
    Business and demographic databases from the US Bureau of the Census
    China Data Online Service
    Comprehensive statistics and economic information of China to domestic and overseas clients
    EUROMONITOR World Marketing Data & Statistics
    Includes country-level data on demographic, economic, and other marketing indicators
    Global Development Finance
    Contains 207 time series (1970-2005) in statistical tables focused on external debt for 150 developing countries
    International Financial Statistics (CD ROM)
    26,000+ annual, quarterly, and monthly time series of economic & financial statistics on ±200 countries
    iPoll
    US Public opinion data from academic, commercial and media survey organizations
    LexisNexis Statistical
    Access to 200 federal agencies, 50 state governments, 100 international intergovernmental organizations, and 500 private and academic sources
    OECD Historical Statistics 1970-2000 (CD ROM)
    Annual publication provides an overview of the economic development of the Member countries of the OECD since 1970
    STAT-USA
    Current US and international business, economic, and trade statistics from the Department of Commerce
    SourceOECD
    Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development statistical databases ONLY
    World Bank Africa Database (CD ROM)
    Over 1,200 indicators of macro-economic and social data for 53 African countries and 20 country groups, and year-by-year time series back to 1970
    World Development Indicators (WDI Online)
    700 time series (1970+) covering key indicators, social indicators, economic time series and population projections
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Print Resources


Quantitative Data (selected)
    Analyzing Quantitative Data: From Description to Explanation
    HA29 .B556 2003
    Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities
    H61.3 .C654 2002
    From Numbers to Words: Reporting Statistical Results for the Social Sciences
    HA29 .M83165 2002
    Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
    HA29 .H78 2004
    Interpreting Quantitative Data
    HA35 .B97 2002
    Processing Data: The Survey Example
    H61.3 .B68 1992
    Reasoning with Statistics: How to Read Quantitative Research
    HA29 .W525 2001

Qualitative Data (selected)
    Context and Method in Qualitative Research
    H62 .C6445 1997
    Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies
    GN345 .A4413 1995
    The New Language of Qualitative Method
    H62 .G82 1997
    Learning From Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies
    HN29 .W42 1994
    Foundations for Research: Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences
    LB1028 .F64 2004
    Handbook of Qualitative Research
    H62 .H2455 2000
    Doing Qualitative Research Differently
    H62 .H593 2000

Spatial Data (selected)
    Getting To Know ArcView GIS: The Geographic Information System (GIS) for Everyone
    G70.212 .G48 1999
    The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis
    G70.212 .M57 1999
    Qualitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis
    G70.3 .F68 2000
    Geographic Information Analysis
    G70.212 .O85 2003
    Integrated Geospatical Technologies: A Guide to GPS, GIS, and Data Logging
    G70.212 .T54 2003
    A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research
    D16.12 .G745 2003
    Using Geographic Information Systems in Institutional Research
    LA227.3 .N43 no.120 2003

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Data Centers & Data Archives


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Internet Data Sources by Subject Area


Agriculture & Fisheries
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Census & Demography
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Crime & Justice
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    Bureau of Justice Statistics
    US Department of Justice, Crime & Justice Data Online provides access to the FBI's Uniform Crime Statistics by state (1960-2001), homicide reports, and law enforcement management and administrative statistics
    National Archive of Criminal Justics Data
    NACJD preserves and distributes computerized crime and justice data from federal agencies, state agencies and investigator inititated research projects
    State Politics & Policy Quarterly Data Resources
    University of Nebraska, Lincoln, sponsored by The Practical Researcher section of State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Data sets including 40+ state-level indicators ranging from crime rates to unified partisan control of state government

Economic
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    County Business Patterns Download Page
    County Business pattern files in csv (comma-separated values) format from 1988 - 2001. Files from 1988 - 1997 use Standard Industrial Classification (SIC), files from 1998 - 2001 use the North American Industry Classification System descriptions (NAICS)
    Economagic: Economic Time Series Page
    200,000+ time series for economic research, especially economic forecasting. Core data sets involve US macroeconomic data, but bulk is employment data by local area. Excel™ files for all series, customizable charts, XY Plots and Regressions--turn on Advanced Features toolbar
    Economic Report of the President
    GPO Access, select Downloadable Reports/Tables
    FRED® II, Federal Reserve Economic Data
    Time series coverage of building starts, consumer price indexes, employment figures, GDP, interest rates, production and prices. Financial data include foreign exchange rates and selected interest rates
    International Economic Accounts, Bureau of Economic Analysis
    Encompass international transactions accounts (balance of payments), international investment positions accounts (accumulated stocks of US-owned assets abroad and foreign-owned assets in the US), estimates of US direct investment abroad, foreign direct investment in the US
    NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database
    Joint effort between National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and US Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies (CES). Contains annual industry-level data on output, employment, payroll and other input costs, investment, capital stocks, TFP, and various industry-specific price indexes. The database covers all 4-digit manufacturing industries from 1958-1996, in two versions: 1987 SIC codes (459 industries) and 1972 SIC codes (448 industries)
    National Economic Accounts, Bureau of Economic Analysis
    Time series data (some as early as 1929) for GDP, National Income and Product Accounts, chain-type price and quantity indices, personal savings as a percentage of disposable personal income, computer purchases in selected components of GDP
    PSID, Panel Study of Income Dynamics
    University of Michigan - Longitudinal survey, representative sample of US individuals and their families, ongoing since 1968, data collected annually, full span of information collected over course of the study. Includes data sets, codebook, and questionnaires
    Poverty, US Census Bureau
    Covers poverty thresholds (1980-1998), poverty data from Current Population Report 1958-1998, materials on methodology of poverty calculation, and links to related sites such as Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Current Population Survey (CPS), American Community Survey (APS), Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)
    PovertyNet, World Bank Group
    Poverty monitoring, including income poverty, social indicators, estimates of inequality, GNP per capita, India Datasets. Links to World Bank's Poverty Monitoring Database, Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), and Household Expenditure & Income Data for Transitional Economies Web site
    Privatization Link, World Bank Group
    Marketing & information service, contains information on current investment opportunities in developing countries and economies in transition. Database of background data features fact sheet summaries of privatization program in key countries and regions, information on institutions involved in privatization, privatization program and progress details to date, and details of relevant laws and bidding procedures (from website)
    Regional Economic Accounts, Bureau of Economic Analysis
    Includes State & Local Personal Income, Gross State Product (GSP), Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II), BEA's Regional FACT Sheet (BEARFACTS)
    Tax Statistics, Internal Revenue Service
    Links include Statistics of Income (SOI), IRS Statistical Overview, Products, Publications and Papers for the study of population, Taxpayer Compliance Research
    The Survey of Economic Expectations, Waves 1-8
    Nationwide survey that examines how Americans in the labor force perceive their near-term economic future, asked as a periodic module of the WISCON Survey (ongoing project of the U of Wisconsin Survey Center)
    Total Economy Database, University of Groningen Growth & Developement Centre
    Includes series on Real GDP, Population, Employment, Annual Working Hours, GDP per capita, per person employed and per hour for maximum 99 countries from 1950 forward
    UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
    Established in 1964, UNCTAD promotes the development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy. This site contains links to data under both the Programmes and Statistics tabs, as well as direct links to papers and reports found under the Digital Library tab.
    UNECE, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
    Links to Trends in Europe & North America Yearbook, Human Settlements Database, Gender Statistics Database, Robotics Index, Gas Centre Database, and Demographic Database
    UNU/WIDER - UNDP World Income Inequality Database
    United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research. Cross-country and time level series of income inequalities on 149 countries, spanning 1950 to 1998 (currently being updated, 2004)
    World Investment Reports - UNCTAD
    The World Investment Report has been published annually since 1991, covers latest trends in foreign direct investment around the World and analyses in-depth one selected topic related to foreign direct investment and development.

Education
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    Information on Public Schools and School Districts in the United States
    National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Common Core of Data (CCD), the primary database on public elementary and secondary education in the US. CCD survey annually collects data about all public elementary and secondary schools, all local education agencies, and all state education agencies throughout the US
    IAED - International Archive of Education Data
    "Data will encompass the "inputs" to education (funding, personnel, teaching resources, facilities, teacher and student preparation, etc.), the variety of processes by which teaching and learning occur, and the "outputs" of education (graduation and matriculation rates, drop-out rates, test scores, job placements, life histories, life assessments, etc.)" (description on website)
    NCES - National Center for Education Statistics
    Links to Survey & Program Areas, ED Stats at a Glance, Quick Tables & Figures, NCES Fast Facts, Data Tools
    SDDB - School District Database (NBER 95-705)
    National Bureau of Economic Research, special tabulation of 1990 Census long forms by school district boundary and children's ages. Covers large number of combinations of household type, race, income etc. Categorized by children's age, grade level or enrollment status
    SDDS - School District Demographics System, NCES
    "The School District Demographics website provides access to school district geographic and demographic data useful for describing and analyzing characteristics of school districts, children, and K-12 education" (description on website)
    School Enrollment, US Census Bureau
    School Enrollment data are collected annually in the October Current Population Survey (CPS, CP-20) for the Nation. Detailed information from recent surveys and historical trends in selected topics are available as well. Some files go back to 1947
    UNESCO Institute for Statistics
    Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication, back to 1970

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    American National Election Studies, University of Michigan
    National survey data of American electorate in presidential and midterm election years, includes Time-Series Studies, Research & Development (Pilot) Studies, Senate Election Studies, 1982 Methods Comparison Study, and Panel Studies
    Cattaneo Web Archive of Italian Election Results and Surveys
    University of California, Berkeley, results of the national Chamber of Deputies elections in the 1948-1996 period and are organised on the municipal level. For each election year the number of electors, voters, valid votes and votes for party are available (Uses SDA: Survey Documentation & Analysis, a set of programs for documentation and Web-Based analysis of survey data)
    Lijphart Elections Archive, UC San Diego
    Research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries
     
    ROAD - Record of American Democracy Project, 1984-1990, Harvard University
    Includes election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation. The NSF-supported ROAD project covers every state in the country from 1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections). Also includes geographic boundary files so users can easily draw maps with these data

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    Clean Air Markets, US Environmental Protection Agency
    Various emissions & effects datasets. Topics include: area boundaries, air, climate/meteorology, demographics, deposition, emissions, land, sensitive resources, etc. (select "Progress and Results" or "Data and Maps")
    Energy Information Agency (EIA), US Department of Energy
    Official Energy Statistics from the US Government, includes International data, information organized by Geography, Fuel Type, Sector, Price, or Process, Environment, Forecasts, and Analyses
    GEO Data Portal
    Authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Online database holds 400+ different variables such as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP
    GRID-Arendal: Online GIS and Maps Database
    GIS and Maps available for download or use. A creation of the Government of Norway and UNEP following the 1987 World Summit on Environment and Development, located in Arendal, Norway
    National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program
    Since 1991, USGS scientists with the NAWQA program have been collecting and analyzing data and information in more than 50 major river basins and aquifers across the Nation. The goal is to develop long-term consistent and comparable information on streams, ground water, and aquatic ecosystems to support sound management and policy decisions
    National Climatic Data Center
    NCDC has approximately 1000 data sets in both digital and non digital form.

Finance
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    Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
    Links to international and consolidated banking statistics as well as securities and derivatives statistics. Also included are Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank Statistics on External Debt
    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Statistics on Banking (FDIC)
    Quarterly publication that provides detailed aggregate financial information as well as key structural data (number of institutions and branches) for all FDIC-insured institutions, can dynamically generate reports
    Private Participation in Infrastructure Project (PPI), The World Bank Group
    Tracks information 2,700+ infrastructure projects with private investment in energy, telecommunications, transport, and water and sewerage sectors in low- and middle-income countries, data available from 1984 to 2002
    Data Download, Federal Reserve Board
    Pilot project designed to provide interactive access to Federal Reserve Board data. This application allows users to create custom datasets to download in machine readable electronic formats (Excel, CSV, XML).

GIS/Geospatial Data
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    AI-GEOSTATS
    Sponsored by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, AI-GEOSTATS provides a gateway to geospatial information
    Clean Air Markets- Progress and Results, EPA, GIS Data Download
    Various emissions & effects datasets. Topics include: area boundaries, air, climate/meteorology, demographics, deposition, emissions, land, sensitive resources, etc.
    Coastline Extractor, National Geophysical Data Center
    Extracts coastline segments bounded by a specified latitude/longitude range and plots the extracted coast
    GEO Data Portal
    Authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Online database holds 400+ different variables such as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP
    GRID-Arnedal: Online GIS and Maps Database
    GIS and Maps available for download or use. A creation of the Government of Norway and UNEP following the 1987 World Summit on Environment and Development, located in Arendal, Norway
    GTOPO30
    Global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. Completed in late 1996, GTOPO30 was developed over a three year period through a collaborative effort led by staff at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC)
    Geography Network
    Provides access to geographic content from hundreds of organizations around the world. Content ranges from dynamic map services viewed online to static geographic data sets that can be downloaded for use with mapping software
    Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project, NGDC
    A 30-arc-second (1-km) gridded, quality-controlled global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (select "Get GLOBE Data")
    National Atlas - Atlas Maps, USGS
    In addition to providing high-quality, small-scale maps, the Atlas includes authoritative national geospatial and geostatistical data sets. Examples of digital geospatial data include soils, county boundaries, volcanoes, and watersheds. The Atlas includes easy-to use online interactive maps
    National Digital Map Library, UVa Library
    Collection of digital maps created at the Geospatial and Statistical Center using public domain data sets. Coverages available from the DLG data are: State Boundary, County Boundaries, National Parks and Forests, Hydrography, and Major Cities

Health
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    Centers for Medicare & Medicade Services (CMS)
    Statistics, Data & Research Information provides data on Medicare enrollment, utilization and expenditure as well as health care indicators and Medicaid
    Global Atlas of Infectious Diseases, World Health Organization (WHO)
    Standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels. The analysis and interpretation of data are further supported through information on demography, socioeconomic conditions, and environmental factors
    The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study
    Surveys more than 22,000 Americans over the age of 50 every two years. Supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG09740), the study paints an emerging portrait of an aging America's physical and mental health, insurance coverage, financial status, family support systems, labor market status, and retirement planning. User Registration is required in order to download files
    Health, United States, 2003, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
    Health, United States presents national trends in health statistics on such topics as birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, use of ambulatory and inpatient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, health insurance and managed care, and other health topics
    International Classifications & Terminology, World Health Organization
    Links to the WHO Classifications, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), and International Classification of Functioning (ICF)
    NCHS Public-Use Data Files and Documentation
    Users of this service have access to data sets, documentation, and questionnaires from NCHS surveys and data collection systems. Downloading instructions are available in "readme" files. Users of NCHS public-use data files must comply with data use restrictions.
    NCHS DataWarehouse
    Spreadsheet files for Healthy People 2000 - State Data, Selected Mortality Objectives, Selected Natality Objectives, Health Status Indicators, Priority Data Needs, and Health, United States
    National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
    Information on NCHS major data collection activities, data findings, and information about special activities and initiatives to improve access to--and the quality of--health statistics information

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    LABORSTA Internet, International Labour Organisation
    Main ILO database on labour statistics covering economically active population (data since 1945), employment, underemployment, employment by sex for detailed occupational groups (1970-2000), hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer prices, occupational injuries and strikes and lockouts (data since 1969)
    Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, US Census Bureau
    combine federal and state administrative data on employers and employees with core Census Bureau censuses and surveys while protecting the confidentiality of people and firms that provide the data
    NBER, Current Population Survey
    US Government's monthly survey of unemployment and labor force participation
    Quarterly Workforce Indicators, US Census Bureau
    Set of economic indicators-including employment, job creation, wages, and worker turnover-that can be queried by different levels of geography-state, county, metro, and workforce investment area-as well as by detailed industry, gender, and age of workers

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    Adherents.com
    collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc
    American Religion Data Archive, (ARDA) Penn State
    ARDA is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. Includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups

Social Indicators
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    Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset
    CIRI Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 13 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2003
    HUD USER Data Set
    Access to original electronic data sets generated by PD&R sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUD median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population
    Millenium Indicators Database, UN Statistics Division
    Database of the 8 goals, 18 targets, and 48 indicators defined in the United Nations Millenium Declaration for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women
    Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    Access to the raw data and documentation containing information on: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of 18th century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the 18th century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the 18th century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the 18th century, and slave trade to Jamaica
    Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates
    Estimates of selected income and poverty statistics (more current than the most recent decennial census). Estimates are created for states, counties, and school districts
    Study of American Families, 1994
    Conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, SAF is a telephone survey of randomly selected siblings of respondents to the 1994 General Social Survey (GSS). Researchers can combine the GSS and SAF data to study patterns of sibling resemblance in socioeconomic, attitudinal, family, cognitive ability, and other outcomes
    Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)
    Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002
    Wide range of social and economic indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean

Surveys & Polls
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    European Opinion Poll
    Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission, addresses major topics concerning European citizenship: enlargement, social situation, health, culture, information technology, environment, the Euro, defence, etc
    Harris Poll
    Nationally representative polls, conducted both by telephone and online, measure, and trend, the knowledge, opinions, behaviors and motivation of the general public. New survey data on a wide variety of subjects including politics, the economy, healthcare, foreign affairs, science and technology, sports and entertainment, and lifestyles are published weekly
    iPoll, Roper Center for Public Opinion
    iPOLL is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion available today. A full-text retrieval system, iPOLL is organized at the question-level
    Institute for Research in Social Science, Public Opinion Poll Question Database
    Searchable questionnaire database for the Louis Harris polls, the Carolina and Southern Focus Polls, and National Network of State Polls surveys
    Gallup Organization
    Polls by general subject, poll releases in chronological order, poll trends, social and economic indicator polls. Please note that Gallup Poll Results are also available through LexisNexis Academic
    World Values Survey
    Worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change, builds on the European Values Survey

Trade
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    Trade Analysis and Information System (TRAINS)
    Comprehensive computerized information system at the HS-based tariff line level covering tariff, para-tariff and non-tariff measures as well as import flows by origin for more than 140 countries

Journals

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Qualitative Research

Public Opinion

    International Journal of Opinion and Attitude Research (print)
    International Journal of Public Opinion Research (print/electronic)
    Public Opinion Quarterly (print/electronic)
    Public Perspective: A Roper Center Review of Public Opinion and Polling (print)
    Polls (print)
    What They Said (D410 .W46)

GIS
    Cartography and Geographic Information Science (print)
    Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (print)
    GEO Info Systems (print)
    GeoInformatica (electronic access)
    GeoSpatial Solutions (print)
    International Journal of Geographical Information Science (print/electronic)
    International Journal of Geographical Information Systems (print/electronic)
    Journal of Geographical Systems (electronic access)
    Newsletter / A Publication of the Federal Geographic Data Commission (microfiche/electronic)

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