Terms of Use

Before downloading or analyzing any dataset from the NACDA Web site, users are instructed to read the following:

In preparing data for public release, NACDA performs a number of procedures to ensure that the identity of research subjects cannot be disclosed. For example, direct identifiers are omitted from datasets, and some characteristics are recoded or masked if they can be combined with others to identify individuals.

Any intentional identification or disclosure of a person or establishment violates the assurances of confidentiality given to the providers of the information. Therefore, users of data obtained from the archive agree:

• To use these datasets solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations, except when identification is authorized in writing by the archive

• To make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently, and to advise the archive of any such discovery

• To produce no links among NACDA datasets or among NACDA data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations

• To comply with the request that downloaded material not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organizations without the written agreement of the archive

We further ask that any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data or other resources provided by NACDA reference the bibliographic citation provided in the abstract and codebook for each data collection. These citations acknowledge the principal investigators, the data producers, and ICPSR as the data distributor, in accord with recommended citation procedures for computer files in the social sciences. Also, authors of publications based on our data should send copies of their published works or references to the publications to ICPSR for inclusion in a database of related publications.

In addition, the user acknowledges that the original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

By continuing past this point, you signify your agreement to comply with the above-stated requirements and give your assurance that the use of statistical data obtained from NACDA will conform to widely-accepted standards of practice and legal restrictions that are intended to protect the confidentiality of research subjects.

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