CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC RECORDS (NSX) NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION Address: Center for Electronic Records (NSX) National Archives and Records Administration Washington, DC 20408 Phone: (202) 501-5565; Reference Services - (202) 501-5579 Telefax: (202) 501-5005 Internet: TIF@CU.NIH.GOV BITNET: TIF@NIHCU Affiliation: The Center for Electronic Records is the organization within the National Archives of the United States that appraises, collects, preserves, and provides access to U.S. Federal records in a format designed for computer processing. Data Collections: The Center maintains electronic records with continuing value created by the U.S. Congress, the courts, the Executive Office of the President, numerous Presidential commissions, and nearly 100 bureaus, departments, and other components of executive branch agencies and their contractors. Among the types of holdings or subject areas represented in the Center's holdings are the following: a. Attitudinal Data (including surveys about equal opportunity, crime, violence, surveys sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), and the "American Soldier" surveys of soldiers during World War II). b. Demographic Data (including data from the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce). c. Economic and Financial Statistics (including income, labor, securities, tax, trade, and transportation statistics). d. Education Data (including data illustrating the variety of education programs of the U.S. Federal government). e. Health and Social Services Data (including data incorporating both biomedical and sociological information and efforts to measure the effectiveness of a variety of social programs). f. International Data (including import-export statistics and USIA-sponsored surveys). g. Military Data (including "American Soldier" surveys, repatriated prisoners of war records from World War II and the Korean Vietnam conflicts, casualty records for the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, and a large collection of data files resulting from the use of computers for military operations, management, and research dating from the 1960s, especially during combat in Southeast Asia). h. Scientific and Technological Data (including registers and surveys of scientific and technical personnel, and data from the National Ocean Survey). Catalogue of Archives: "A Partial and Preliminary List of Data Files in the Custody of the Center for Electronic Records (NSX)." Approximately 100 pages. This computer generated list contains titles and status information concerning data files in the Center's records. The Title List is continuously updated and revised. Free of charge. Apr. 93