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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s <a href="endangereddataweek.org">Endangered Data Week</a>! South African institutions can play a role by highlighting data at risk and working to rescue such data!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Check out the historical datasets from data rescue projects of DataFirst on our Open data platform at
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<p class="MsoNormal">Two famous survey datasets are now published for researchers:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Keiskammahoek Rural Survey of Eastern Cape villages 1948-1949 after displacement under the government’s “Betterment” policy
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Surplus People’s Project survey in 1980-1981 of families forcibly removed under the Group Areas racial legislation<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Lynn Woolfrey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Manager, DataFirst Data Service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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