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Old sample surveys from the developing areas can be used for a number of purposes not adequately discussed in the soc sci literature. Examples from field res conducted on the Turkish bur'cy were used to describe the possibilities for secondary analysis. It was suggested that longitudinal survey res might be designed around studies performed by other investigators; the opportunities for panel & trend studies were particularly emphasized. The Turkish res was also aided by the fact that the old surveys could be utilized to estimate nonresponse bias; from 2 studies conducted in 1956 a great deal of information on nonresponse bias in 1965 was made available. Finally, the possibilities for combining data from several surveys were mentioned; from the Turkish material it becomes possible to explore the personal characteristics of admin'ors which led to a favorable or unfavorable evaluation by the villagers. AA.

The authors review their 30 years' experience in determining the best research applications for routinely collected data from ministries of health, education and social services. They describe the rich research opportunities afforded by 40 years of data on health – i.e., every patient contact with hospitals, physicians, drugs and more – from the problems encountered in convincing an academic journal that meaningful findings could be culled from information collected on paying bills and tracking patients, through studies on education (enrolment, grades, standardized tests for grades 1 to 12), family characteristics (residential moves, marital formation and breakdown, number and timing of births) and social services (welfare recipients, children taken into care, protection services offered children in the family). They also detail how and why the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy was founded, and how it has continued through multiple ministerial, deputy and government changes.

Context: Information-rich environments, with access and funding provided by government, make it possible to organize longitudinal administrative data to support analyses of policy-relevant questions. This paper describes insights into children's well-being and social equity obtained from data available in Manitoba, Canada, and highlights findings that have engaged policymakers.