UCSUR provides assistance for secondary data acquisition and management to the academic community and to the Pittsburgh region as a whole. As an affiliate of the Pennsylvania State Data Center, the official source of demographic and economic data for the state, UCSUR is a repository for electronic and printed Census information, including Census 2000 data. UCSUR also acquires and maintains a variety of government statistics, economic and labor market data, and other types of secondary information on a regular basis. This information is available to the academic community and to the general public.

The data acquisition and management services UCSUR provides include:

• Assistance in acquiring secondary data stored at UCSUR to interested individuals and organizations.
• Assistance in locating and acquiring a variety of other types of secondary information.
• Expertise and consultation in the appropriate use and understanding of various secondary data sources.
• Evaluation and interpretation of policy relevant secondary information data for government, business, labor, media and other organizations.