Conclusions

• CIDS has now become established as one of a number of Data Support Units serving social science researchers within the academic community in the UK

• In 2004, users in 169 academic institutions carried out 3,246 sessions using WICID

• However, use of the service increased significantly during the last quarter of 2004 and the first quarter of 2005 as the new 2001 interaction data sets have become available. We would expect the increase in usage to continue.

• Unfortunately the service is not available at the moment to academics or students outside the UK but it is hoped that this situation might be remedied in due course.

• An adapted version of the system (ACID) has been implemented that allows staff at the University of Queensland to have access to Australian internal migration data