Business & Industry Data Center (BIDC)

IPSR was designated the Business & Industry Data Center (BIDC) for the State of Kansas in March 2009. The BIDC program is an expansion of our role as a coordinating agency of the Kansas State Data Center (SDC), a partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau. The BIDC program is designed to meet the needs of public and private sector decision-makers for economic statistics. As the BIDC lead agency, IPSR will:

• Identify, recruit, and manage an affiliate network of nonprofit stakeholders in the state of Kansas who have a role in economic development efforts or otherwise use diverse economic and demographic data in their efforts.
• Identify data and training needs.
• Assist in training data users and affiliates.
• Provide feedback to the U.S. Census Bureau on products and data.
• Encourage participation by business in data collection efforts by the Census Bureau.
• Reprint, extract, reformat, analyze, or otherwise prepare appropriate subsets of Census data for redistribution to data users and affiliates.

If you are interested in participating as a BIDC affiliate or would like more information, please contact:

Xan Wedel
Institute for Policy & Social Research
The University of Kansas
1541 Lilac Lane, 607 Blake Hall
Lawrence, Kansas 66044
email: ipsr@ku.edu

Please visit the BIDC web site at: http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/BIDC/.

Information on the national SDC/BIDC partnership can be found on the SDC/BIDC Clearinghouse website.