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<FONT FACE="Cambria"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>ICPSR is pleased to announce a partnership with the University of Michigan China Data Center (CDC) effective July 1, 2012. CDC integrates historical, social, and natural science data on China and offers an online geographic analysis system. The center provides a rich array of information on China and offers comprehensive statistics, census data, and spatial data of China online and on CD. <BR>
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CDC will be housed at ICPSR headquarters in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and operated as an independent data service.<BR>
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“We are extremely excited to welcome the China Data Center and its Director, Shuming Bao,” said ICPSR Director George Alter. “The CDC brings important new dimensions to ICPSR, both in its extensive collection of data about China and in Dr. Bao’s expertise in geographic information systems and spatial analysis. We expect both ICPSR and CDC to benefit from this new collaboration.”<BR>
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Membership in CDC and ICPSR remain separate, but Alter expects synergies between the two organizations to result in added value for both. For example, technology behind the CDC’s online China Geo-Explorer may be applied to ICPSR data.<BR>
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CDC, which was established in the University of Michigan’s International Institute in 1997, will report to an executive committee appointed by the University of Michigan’s Vice President for Research. Under a new agreement, ICPSR provides staff and administrative support for CDC.<BR>
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CDC’s Web site is chinadatacenter.org.<BR>
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Dan Meisler, editor<BR>
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research<BR>
University of Michigan<BR>
734-615-7904<BR>
<a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu">http://www.icpsr.umich.edu</a><BR>
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