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Please see message below - I hope this attachment is allowed through - it's size is small but it's a PDF. This has been forwarded to me and is allowed to be circulated to interested colleagues. Very short deadline! I am sure there are a number of Radstats people who may be interested in this. For example, participants in last year's Radstats conference on Global Poverty and Inequality? P.S. Issue 89 with papers from those conference presenters is now up on the website. http://www.radstats.org.uk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robin Rice Data Librarian EDINA and University Data Library http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/ 0131 651 1431 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <<International Microdata Scoping Studies - Final Brief 09_06_06 (PDF version).pdf>> Dear RRB Directors, As you will be aware in April 2005 the Research Resources Board commissioned a Review of International Data Resources and Needs. Among its many recommendations, the report arising from this review drew attention to the paucity of accessible social and economic microdata resources covering certain key countries - notably for China, India, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa. To inform future actions to address this issue, the Board agreed to commission a number of scoping studies designed to establish the availability within these countries of social and economic microdata resources for research purposes. Attached is a specification for these studies against which we are currently inviting tenders. I would be grateful if you could look at the attached specification and forward it to any colleagues they feel might be interested / appropriate to undertake one or more of these studies. Please note the deadline for tenders is 5pm on Friday 30th June 2006. If you have any queries or problems then please feel free to contact my colleague Helen Haggart ([log in to unmask]) Many thanks Mike ------------------------------------------- Michael Bright Senior Science Manager (Research Resources) Policy and Resources Directorate Economic and Social Research Council Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon SN2 1UJ Direct Dial: 01793 413042 Email: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ****************************************************** Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your message will go only to the sender of this message. If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically to [log in to unmask] Disclaimer: The messages sent to this list are the views of the sender and cannot be assumed to be representative of the range of views held by subscribers to the Radical Statistics Group. To find out more about Radical Statistics and its aims and activities and read current and past issues of our newsletter you are invited to visit our web site www.radstats.org.uk. *******************************************************