Teaching with Secondary Data

together previous informnation about teaching with secondary' data and la'ring out the potential fobr additional applications. After describing what constitutes secondary data, reasons for using secondar*r data in the classroom, where it can be used, ways of using it, sources of data, infbrmation about computing, and potential problems are discussed, and appendices listing sources of data and data sets designed for teaching are included. It is hoped that sociologists will be encouraged to at least dabble in this teaching technique. if they.feel it is succesfidl, then theY' can use the infbrmation presented here to aid thein in expanding secondary data use.