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Article #979Florida Financial Dataset
From: TODD J. DICKER
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 01:51
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 01:51
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A year ago, I received a dataset which contains over 150 categories of expenditures and revenues for the State of Florida from 1980-1991. The dataset was tranferred from tape to HD 3.5" disks, but no information on file structure was included. The printout which the Department of Business and Finance publishes each year looks like the standard spreadsheet format. Here's the problem, it took about a year for me to even begin to look at the disks, and I can't make head nor tails of the whole thing. In the meantime, the person who sent the disks has moved on, and nobody (typical, huh?) else in the dept. knows about the file structure. Anybody have any ideas for a novice at archival systems, but with experience in PC's and lots of university resources? Todd Dicker School of Public Administration Florida Atlantic University DICKER@ACC.FAU.EDU
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