The secular trend of the rotation pole had been a source of controversies since the first astronomical evidence of secular change in the latitude of the observatories as far back as 1872 (Markowitz, 1960). Table here below report the empirical values achived for several authors using modern determination, i.e. since the including of space geodetic data sets (see Dickman, 2000 for a review).

Researchers	time span	trend rate	trend direction
		(mas/year)	(° to the W longitude)
Wilson and Vicente (1980)	1900-1977	3.4	66
Dickman (1981)	1900-1979	3.52	80.1
Gross (1982)	1899-1979	3.96	69.3
Chao (1983)	1900-1979	3.52	79.4
Okamoto and Kikuchi (1983)	1899-1979	3.46	80.6
Poma et al. (1991)	1900-1979	3.4	79
Vondrak et al. (1995)	1900-1990	3.31	78.1
MacCarthy and Luzum (1996) ILS+BIH+NEOS NEOS	1899-1994 1976-1994	3.33 3.39	75 85.4
Gross (1998) ILS Space96 HIPPARCOS	1900-1979 1976-1997 1899-199	3.8 4.123 3.51	75.5 73.9 79.2
Vondrak (1999)	1899-1998	3.294	75.7
Schuh et al. (2001)	1899-1992	3.31	76.08

We also provide pole coordinates averaged over decadal time by applying Gaussian filter. See the mean pole and its tabulated values x ("), y(") at 0.05 year interval since 1900.

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