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Abstract
Recent federal legislation mandated the development of closer ties between data gathering and dissemination efforts in rural America. In Iowa, collaboration between university researchers and extension delivery-system specialists is shown by a study of 27 rural communities. Survey data useful in designing local and regional programs were gathered from more than 4,600 community residents. Results on local services, opportunities, and social factors are provided as well as information on the delivery of the data to individuals and groups in the communities and regional planning and/or action agencies. Examples of development efforts, generated after examining the survey data, are reported.
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Willis J. Goudy
Goudy is an associate professor of sociology at Iowa State University in Ames.
Frederick E. Wepprecht
Wepprecht is a rural extension specialist in the area extension office in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The project was supported in part through Title V of the 1972 Rural Development Act. This paper is a revised draft of the paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Community Development Society, Boise, August, 1976. Journal Paper No. J-8801 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames Iowa. Project No. 2079.