Archival methodology, which targets “existing data usually found in records of organizations, agencies, or government bureaus” (Witkin and Altschuld 1995, p. 48), includes such popular techniques as social-indicator and census-data analysis, as well as reviews of rates under treatment. In general, archival data reflect the perspectives of professional experts, service providers, and policymakers to a much greater extent than they do the views of stakeholders such as clients or consumers. Decisions concerning the kinds of information to be gathered for archival purposes, and how that information is to be categorized, are almost always made by the former groups rather than the latter ones. Although activist subgroups can certainly influence these decisions—a fact that speaks to the highly interactive, multiple-stakeholder nature of social-problems claimsmaking (Nichols 2003)—the decisions themselves rest with individuals who possess position power within the relevant agency and organizational domains.