Data Usage and Access Policy

Austin Area Sustainability Indicators (A²SI) offers a wide range of data on the greater Austin region that you can use. All data are released through the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. All data previously published as charts, graphs and analyses are available for sharing under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. (See terms.) Authors of any published work based on A²SI analysis or data are asked to acknowledge the source including, where applicable, citations to data, charts, and analysis posted on the website. Please acknowledge A²SI by means of bibliographic citation in this form: To cite A²SI data: RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. (Year). Austin Area Sustainability Indicators. Retrieved from www.austinindicators.org. To cite an article or a chart: RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. (Year). [Chart or article title.] Retrieved from Austin Area Sustainability Indicators website: www.austinindicators.org Academic research and projects should include reference to the A²SI bibliographic information in the Works Cited. Please send / email copies of any publications, papers, or reports that employ A²SI data to sip@austin.utexas.edu or to Austin Area Sustainability Indicators, RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, LBJ School of Public Affairs, P.O. Box Y, Austin, TX 78713-8925.

Open to Collaborations

Indicators play an important role in helping ensure continued success of Austin and the region. One of the goals of A²SI is to enhance the usability of data to make informed decisions. Cultivating sustained collaborations with policy-makers, foundations and philanthropists, and other researchers is foundational to this endeavor. We welcome your interest in a deeper collaboration through the following ways:

• Survey design. Before fielding each survey, we reflect and revise survey questions as needs and opportunities change. We welcome collaborative efforts from researchers and other stakeholders. Some of the collaborators requesting additional questions help us secure funding for extending the survey.
• Funding. Collaborators and stakeholders with a strong interest in the indicators and using the data have contributed financially to the data collection and operational costs of A²SI. We welcome opportunities for investing in the project.
• Research and Writing. Where possible, we welcome collaborations around analysis and writing of indicator data collaboratively with a member of the RGK Center and affiliated faculty.
• Submissions. We encourage users of indicator information to submit analytic papers based on AIP data for possible publication as AIP working papers/policy papers/dispatches. Send submissions in MSWord format to Patrick Bixler, editor at rpbixler@utexas.edu.

If you would like to discuss any of these opportunities for collaboration, please contact our research manager at sip@austin.utexas.edu.

Using Our Unpublished Data

In select cases, the unanalyzed survey data is shared with students, researchers, public agencies, and not-for-profit organizations. If you would like access to the raw data, please complete the application.