PUBLICS
TRAINING NEEDS	1 Profes- sional Re- searchers	2 Grad- uate Students An- alysts(+)	3 Research Librar- ians	4 Under- graduate Students An- alysts(-) Journal- ists	5 High School Students Readers Watchers Users Volun- teers	6 Editors Senior Policy Analysts Leaders	7 Head Librar- ians	8 Librar- ians	9 Policy Imple- menters	10 Users of Services
Formulating Research Questions
Oriented to concrete policy questions	x	x		x	x	x			x
Oriented to circumscribed research issues	x	x	x	x		x
Oriented to broad disciplinary research issues	x	x
Understanding Knowledge Developed
About issues	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
About the data	x	x	x	x
Determining the Availability of Data
Knowing the array of existing surveys	x	x	x	x		x	x	x
Using hypertext information about existing data	x	x	x	x
Understanding Statistics
Elementary methods			x	x	x
Advanced methods	x	x
Using Computer Programs
Retreiving data	x	x	x	x	x			x
Simple data transformations and computations		x	x	x	x
Complex data transformations and computations	x	x