Social Science Data Archives

American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) (Purdue University)

http://www.arda.tm/
American Religion Data Archive
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Purdue University
1365 Stone Hall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1365
E-mail: archive@sri.soc.purdue.edu
Phone:765-494-0081
Fax:765-496-1476
The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion. Most files are from surveys, but other forms of quantitative data collections on religion are available as well. Documentation: Users may search the documentation of multiple studies or categories of studies to locate the full text of survey questions. When a question is identified, you may view full marginal frequencies and selected cross-tabulations of responses (e.g., with age, marital status, education, sex, political party affiliation) as tables. Users may also save question text from multiple searches to a "Question Bank" for easy printing or downloading. Data: Users may browse a list of studies grouped by type, view study descriptions and entire codebooks for individual studies, create cross-tabulations of particular variables, and download documentation and raw data for later analysis. Examples of data sets available include: Religion and Politics Survey, 1996; American Congregational Giving Study, Gallup Poll, 1993; Presbyterian Panel Series; Survey of African-American Priests and Seminarians, 1992; Churches And Church Membership In The United States, 1990 (counties and states); and Church Of The Nazarene Annual Report Of Pastor To The District Assembly, 1995.

The Archaeology Data Service (University of York)

The aim of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is to collect, describe, catalogue, preserve, and provide user support for digital resources that are created as a product of archaeological research. Over the years, archaeologists have amassed a vast collection of fieldwork data archives, a significant proportion of which remain unpublished. Access to data, even those which are published, is often difficult or inconvenient at best. The ADS will be providing an integrated on-line catalogue to its collections, which will be available over the Internet. The ADS will be seeking to work with the national and local archaeological agencies and those research councils involved in the funding of archaeological research, to negotiate deposition of project data. This will include data derived from fieldwork as well as desk- based studies. The types of data involved include: text reports, databases (related to excavated contexts or artefacts, for example), images (including aerial photographs, remote sensing imagery, photographs of sites, features and artefacts), digitised maps and plans, numerical datasets related to topographical and sub-surface surveys and other locational data, as well as reconstruction drawings. The ADS is part of the The Arts & Humanities Data Service.

Archivio Dati e Programmi per le Scienze Sociali (ADPSS)

Via G. Cantoni 4 Instituto Superiore di Sociologica
20144 Milano Italy.

The Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI)

ACSPRI is an organisation of research institutions and organisations whose objectives are to facilitate access to Australian and overseas sources of computer-readable social science data, to encourage and support activities and procedures which enhance access to and use of that data, and to encourage and support teaching and research in the social sciences generally. The Social Science Data Archives (SSDA) supports the offices of the Secretary and Treasurer of ACSPRI and administers the Australian national membership of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) on behalf of the members of ACSPRI. All researchers in Australian academic institutions are entitled to access the large collection of survey, international and historical data in the ICPSR Archives.

Australian Social Science Data Archives (Australian National University)

Australian Social Science Data Archives
Research School of Social Sciences
Australian National University
G.P.O. Box 4
Canberra, A.C.T. 2601
Australia
(062) 49 4400
internet: ssda@coombs.anu.edu.au
The Archives is financed by the Australian National University and acts as an agent for the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc., (ACSPRI). The collections include over 500 general Australian social science data sets and the Australian Census of Population and Housing data from 1966 to present. The Archive produces a catalogue of holdings, SSDA Data Catalogue and newsletter, ACSPRI Newsletter. Data sets resulting from research by academic, government and private organisations and individuals have been deposited in the Archives. In addition to its acquisition and distribution activities, the Social Science Data Archives has established a library of reference sources to data collection activities in Australia. Reference materials cover the data collection activities of Commonwealth and State government agencies, major polling organisations and individual researchers.

Banque de Données Socio-Politiques (BDSP) (Grenoble Universities)

CERAT Institut d"Etudes Politiques BP 45 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres France.
The BDSP (Banque de Données Socio-Politiques = Socio-political Data Archive of France) was created in 1981. The aims of BDSP are storing, keeping persistence and distribution of numerical data (machine readable data) mainly related to political science, sociology and history (for instance spatial data and time series of electoral results in France, survey data, opinion poll data). Created by the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique = National Council for scientific Research), which is the main French public research agency, the BDSP is a member of CESSDA (council of European Social Science Data Archives), IFDO (International Federation of Data Organization) and ICPSR (Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research).

Belgian Archives for the Social Sciences (BASS)

Batiment SH 2 J. Leclerq Place Montesquieu 1 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium.

Brown University Social Science Data Services (SSDS)

Social Sciences Data Services (SSDS) is a resource unit within the Rockefeller Library that can assist patrons with the identification, retrieval, and use of social science data available in electronic form.

California Dept. of Health Services Center for Health Statistics

Vital Statistics Section
304 S Street
P.O. Box 942732
Sacramento, California 94234-7320
(916) 445-6355
California government office responsible for California's electronic vital statistics system which includes data on live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and marriage dissolutions. Also includes data needed for assessing the health status of Californians, data pertaining to key health status indicators for California's counties. Some data available here in small summary tables. Also a single-page "catalog" of complete data sets available for purchase. Tables include: Population, Live Births, Deaths & Infant Deaths, CA, 1985-1995; Comparison of Vital Statistics Rates, CA and the U.S., 1990 - 1995; Ten Leading Causes of Death, CA, 1994 and 1995; Live Births and Birth Rates by Age of Mother, CA, 1993-1995; Live Births and Birth Rates by Race/Ethnicity of Mother, CA, 1993-1995; and Number and Rate of Deaths by Age and Sex, CA, 1995. Population Estimates by Age, Race and Sex, 1994 and 1995.

The Center for International Health Information (CIHI)

CIHI's purpose is to provide timely, reliable, and accurate information on the Population, Health, and Nutrition (PHN) sector in developing countries for USAID. Data here include: The Health Statistics Database (HSD) which tracks a variety of indicators of health status, population dynamics, nutritional status, use of population health and nutrition (PHN) services, behavior, knowledge, and PHN sector resources including Infant Mortality Rate, Under-Five Mortality Rate, Fertility Rate, and Contraceptive Prevalence Rate; The Health Statistics Reports (selected health and demographic statistics are brought together from multiple sources to provide an overview of health and population conditions in a given developing country; each report contains a summary table presenting current available data on demographic, child survival, and other health indicators, a variety of tables and graphs providing historical time series for some of the major indicators, and a series of graphs comparing current data for a given country with available data for the country's region, its income group, and for developing countries in general; each report concludes with notes on the data and a comprehensive list of sources cited). There are also lists of publications and links to related sites. The Center for International Health Information (CIHI) is a USAID information management activity operated by Information Management Consultants, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, in conjunction with the International Science and Technology Institute (ISTI) and The Futures Group (FUTURES).

Centers for Disease Control (US) Search Page

This page allows you to search the CDC and NCHS sites. NCHS is the Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency. NCHS data systems include data on vital events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care. Some of the NCHS data systems and surveys are ongoing annual systems while others are conducted periodically. NCHS has two major types of data systems: systems based on populations, containing data collected through personal interviews or examinations; and systems based on records, containing data collected from vital and medical records. Data include: National Health Interview Survey, National Immunization Survey, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, National Survey of Family Growth, National Health Care Survey , National Employer Health Insurance Survey, National Vital Statistics System, and Mortality Data. Research activies include: Aging, AIDS, Classification of Diseases, Data on America's Children, Evaluation of Certificates, Healthy People 2000, International Activities, Minority Health, National Death Index, Nutrition Monitoring, and Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NCHS is located in Hyattsville, Maryland, with offices in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and with a CDC-liaison office in Atlanta, Georgia.

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel

Hakizya, Romema
P.O.B. 13015
Jerusalem 91130
Israel
The Central Bureau of Statistics is Israel's centralized statistical service responsible for collecting, processing and disseminating a variety of statistical data from surveys and administrative sources, and for carrying out national censuses. Both printed publications and electronic media are made available to government, public bodies, researchers, and other users.

Centre for Sociological Research (Centro de Investigaciones Sociolgicas (CIS))

Centro de Investigaciones Sociolgicas
c/ Montalbn, 8
28014 Madrid
Spain
Telephone: (34-1) 580 7600. FAX: (34-1) 580 7619
Data Bank Office, telephone: (34-1) 580 7617. FAX: (34-1) 580 7619
CIS conducts an average of forty studies per year, mostly surveys, but occasionally qualitative studies as well. CIS survey data are entered in the CIS Data Bank, where they are available to all citizens. Some of the subjects covered include:

public opinion relating to social, economic and political issues of concern at the time the poll is taken;

Monographic surveys on a wide range of issues: youth, immigration, ways of life, law and order, political culture, tax issues, appraisal of institutions, and the process of European union

pre- and post- electoral surveys to monitor the characteristics of electoral behaviour.

Centre for the Study of Public Opinion ( Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

The Centre for the Study of Public Opinion, located at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, was established as part of a broad program of teaching and research on the use of public opinion research by governments, interest groups, political parties and the news media and on public attitudes toward political issues, political values, and the process of government in liberal-democratic states. Time-series databases archived in the CSPO library include text and survey data from the following: Decima Quarterly Report (1980-); Environics Focus Canada Report (1978-); Environics Focus Ontario Report (1985-); Environics Environmental Monitor (1987- ); CROP Inc. Political Surveys (1977- ); CROP Inc. 3SC Socio-Cultural Surveys (1983-). Off- campus users may search the text databases.

CESOP -- Centro de Estudos de Opinião Pública (University of Campinas, Brazil)

The Center for Studies on Public Opinion - CESOP is an interdisciplinary initiative based at the University of Campinas - UNICAMP Brazil. Its major goals are to establish a specialized structure, to gather and organize survey data; provide consulting services, and develop research projects and training programs in the general field of public opinion methodology and quantitative analysis on social sciences. The CESOP also acts as an interdisciplinary locus for research and provides methodological support to research projects developed in the departments of the University. CESOP organizes the National Survey Data Bank on Public Opinion, composed of surveys produced in Brazil on general behavior, attitudes, opinions and motivations of individuals and institutions observed in different social, economic and political contexts. The CESOP' Survey Data Bank is composed of raw data, questionnaires and research reports made by private enterprises and scientific centers. The CESOP' Survey Data Bank is accessible to the public, and provides an organized consultation of Brazilian public opinion data for researchers and professionals in the area.

CIESIN: The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network

2250 Pierce Road
University Center, MI 48710
313/797-2700
The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN, pronounced "season") was established in 1989 as a private, nonprofit corporation with members from leading universities and non-government research organizations. The corporation was formed in response to a directive by the United States Congress and is dedicated to furthering the interdisciplinary study of global environmental change. CIESIN is agency-neutral, specializing in the access and integration of physical, natural, and socioeconomic information across scientific disciplines. A good place to start is on the Information Resources Page.

Columbia University, Electronic Data Services

Comparative Election Administration Study Data Archive (CEAS/DA) (Department of Political Science Göteborg University, Sweden)

Will contain unique and rich data set on 'election administrations', 'electoral systems', 'electoral law' and 'constitution' of the 112 Countries world over. The Archive is under construction and will hopefully be open at the beginning of 1996 with a wide range of datasets.

Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) (U.S. Department of Energy)

The Department of Energy (DOE) has developed the Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) Program to provide public access to health and exposure data concerning DOE installations. Most of the data are from epidemiologic studies conducted by DOE-funded researchers as part of the DOE Worker Health and Mortality Study. Additionally, studies of populations residing near DOE installations, and other studies of radiation health effects, such as classic studies of atomic bomb survivors and the radium dial painters, are represented in CEDR. keywords: Los Alamos National Lab cancer causes cedr78 chemical cohort study company congenital epidemiologic exposure external facilities facility female fernald flats hanford laboratory lanl life linde plant lung males malformations mallinckrodt mercury model mortality mound multiple national nickel Oak Ridge pantex phosgene plant plutonium polonium prevalence radiation registry ridge Rocky Flats savannah site smrs suicide transuranium unpublished uranium war weapons welders workers working

Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER), Data Archive.

Data from about 1,400 different studies, represented by over 10,700 files spanning 127 gigabytes. The collection includes a wide variety of data gathered from surveys, administrative records, government agencies, research institutions, and individuals.

Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)

CESSDA promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe. It encourages the exchange of data and technology and fosters the development of new organisations in sympathy with its aims. It associates and cooperates with other international organisations sharing similar objectives. The CESSDA home pages allow easy access to the catalogues of member organisations and provide a central news forum about its activities and other relevant information. Members include the national data archives in Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom,

Danish Data Archive (DDA)

Niels Bohrs Alle 25
DK-5230 Odense M.
Denmark
09-158600
Internet: dda@vm.uni-c.dk
The DDA is part of the Danish State Archive and serves as an archive for all of Denmark. The collections include over 1500 survey data files, and aggregate and statistical files covering the areas of political science, sociology, social medicine and mental health, history and demography, economic time series, and regional data. A catalogue of holdings, Danish Data Guide, and newsletter, DDA-Nyt, are available from the Archives.

Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) (University of Wisconsin - Madison.)

University of Wisconsin, Madison
3308 Social Science Building
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
(608) 262-7962
DPLS is an archive and distributor for locally-produced data from University of Wisconsin researchers.

Data Archive at the University of Essex (The Economic and Social Research Council UK)
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk

Data Archive
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
Telephone: + 44(0)1206 872001
Fax: +44(0)1206 872003
email:archive@essex.ac.uk
The Data Archive at the University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other national archives, internationally. Founded in 1967, it now houses approximately four and a half thousand datasets of interest to researchers in all sectors and from many different disciplines. In addition to British cross-sectional studies from academic, government, and commercial sources, the Archive holds time series data, major longitudinal studies, panel surveys, and major cross-national studies. The ESRC Data Archive Bulletin and BIRON, an online database, are available through the Archive.

Data Archive of the Henry A. Murray Research Center (Radcliffe College)
http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/data/index.htm

Radcliffe College
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Henry A. Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College is a center for research on the changing lives of American women. The center's primary purpose is to promote the use of existing social science data to explore human development and social change. It also promotes the secondary analysis of longitudinal, qualitative data archived at the center. The center's collection focuses on human development across the life span, social change, and the lives of women. Data sets within the collection are available for reanalysis, replication, and longitudinal follow-up. The center has over 230 such data sets on a wide variety of topics. The archive is part of an active research center that offers staff assistance to data users, seminars and conferences on methods for using existing data, research grants to doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars, and a visiting scholars-in-residence program.
Data holdings include studies with both female and male subjects. One area of special emphasis has been longitudinal studies of mental health. The Mental Health Archive includes such important Crime Causation Study: Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, Harlem Longitudinal Study of Urban Black Youth, the Colorado Adoption Project, and the Longitudinal Study of Generations and Mental Health by Bengtson. The center collects data on such topics as health, career development, racial and gender identity, and political participation, as well as such major life events as marriage, child-bearing, divorce, widowhood, and retirement. The Center has also been developing special archives for researchers interested in special areas Video Archive and the Diversity Archive are two such specialized archives in which studies are currently being pursued. The Site includes a Searchable Guide.

Data Library, Humanities and Social Science Library, University of Alberta (Alberta Canada)

Data Services Lab, Institute for a Sustainable Environment (University of Oregon)

"The University of Oregon's Data Services Lab provides access to a wide variety of large social science data sets. Because of there size and copyright restrictions, most of these data are not yet available on-line. However, we do maintain our data catalog on-line. Try our DSL gopher at: gopher://dslmac.uoregon.edu."

Demographic and Health Surveys Data Archive

http://www.macroint.com/dhs/dhsarch.html
DHS Data Archive
Macro International
Suite 300
11785 Beltsville Drive
Calverton, MD 20705-3119, USA
Telephone: (301) 572 0851
Fax: (301) 572 0993
E-mail: archive@macroint.com
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program is a project to assist developing countries to conduct and analyze surveys on population and health. The DHS Data Archive is a computerized archive of survey data collected from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Data are currently available for 51 countries and more are being added as additional surveys are completed. For each country several datasets are usually available: Individual women's data (standard DHS survey) Household data, Male or husband's data (for some countries), Couple's data (some countries), Children's data (some countries). Questionnaire Content: The standard DHS survey consists of a household schedule and a women's questionnaire. A nationally representative sample of women aged 15-49 is interviewed. The women's questionnaire contains information on the following topics: Background characteristics, Lifetime reproduction, Contraceptive knowledge and use, Maternity and breastfeeding, Immunization of children, Diarrhea, fever and cough in children, Height and weight of children, Marriage, Fertility preferences, Husband's background, and Woman's work status. Additional modules used in some surveys include: Natural family planning, Social marketing, Sterilization, Pill compliance, Woman's employment, Maternal mortality, Causes of death, and AIDS. Access to Data There are presently two ways to access DHS data; (1) Direct FTP and (2) through the traditional data archive. (When ordering data from the archive, charges to cover data media, handling and postage are required.)

Directory of Canadian University Data Libraries/Archives (University of Alberta)

East Asian Business and Development (EABAD) Research Archive

Institute of Governmental Affairs
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616-8617
(916) 752-2045
The collections include both print and computerized materials that support the study of the networked economies of Asia. Asia Online, a newly developed service providing access to information about Asia- related research activities and specialized computer files and research resources, is available via the Internet.

EconData (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services)
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/cgi-bin/nph-econ_search.pl

EconData aims to optimize the use of existing economic data sources by providing this searchable database of descriptions of studies. The studies in the database include ones that are part of the main collection of the Steinmetz Archives and ones that are registered with the Steinmetz Archives. Subject coverage includes national and regional economic data (both micro and macro data), financial economic files (including stock market data) and company data in both cross- sectional and panel data forms. NIWI provides two services: registering economic data sets and mediating the acquisition of data on the behalf of users. Econdata aims to stimulate data owners/keepers of registered data files to place their data in NIWI's archives. NIWI (Nederlands Instituut voor Wetenschappelijke Informatiediensten -- Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services) provides access to other collections in history and the social sciences. The main office of NIWI is in Amsterdam.

Edinburgh University Data Library (Scotland)

http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/
Edinburgh University Data Library offers the research and teaching community access to census, time-series, sample survey and related data. These data are held on Edinburgh University's central Unix service. To gain access, users must register with the Data Library by completing the appropriate Registration Form(s). See their Current Dataset Holdings page for holdings. The Data Library is working on a number of interesting projects including: "Browser" -- a working demonstrator that allows users to search for information resources having geographical or spatial elements; "DigiMap" -- making Ordnance Survey digital map data available on the Internet; "Scottish Data Initiative" -- making Scottish research data more accessible to researchers; "Scottish Migration and Housing Choice Survey" -- examining the reasons why people move house in Scotland; "Special Collections Index of Manuscripts" (SMISS) -- increasing awareness and effective use of the manuscripts held by Edinburgh University Library's Special Collections.

Ethnic Minority Data Archive Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations

University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
The purpose of this Archive is to facilitate research into, and the dissemination of knowledge about, the situation of ethnic minorities in the UK to help combat racial discrimination. The Archive assembles data relating to socio-economic characteristics of ethnic minorities and analyzes ad hoc surveys concerned with the situation of these groups.

GEOBASE Israel regional database (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

GEOBASE is organized as a geographic Data Warehouse consists of regularly updated annual and quarterly series on topics such as: economic activities, labor and wages, population, transportation, tourism, housing & construction and education. Its contents is extracted from sources such as statistical publications, local authorities databases, public services records, and summaries derived from individual level datasets. The main source of data is the Central Bureau of Statistics. GEOBASE data model incorporates three dimensions: The spatial-regional dimension - already includes all urban localities, sub-quarters in cities, regional municipalities, districts, sub-districts as well as main inter-locality roads. The time dimension - consists of annual, quarterly, monthly and other (such as censuses) items. The majority of the data is organized in time series. The content dimension - regional aggregates of population, labor force, incomes, transportation, tourism, construction, dwelling, schools and other economic activities - each series relates to one or more geographic level. GEOBASE is a joint venture of the Social Science Data Archive and the GIS Center at Hebrew University.

Harvard MIT Data Center
http://data.fas.harvard.edu/

Harvard-MIT Data Center
Littauer Center M-34
Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: (617) 495-4734 (Reference)
Fax: (617) 496-5149
The Harvard-MIT Data Center is the principal repository of quantitative social science data at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is the universities' official representative to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and is a central contact point for many other archives and data suppliers. We maintain a large library of electronic data from all these sources, a growing collection of unique data sets, and an extensive codebook library. The majority of holdings are available to Harvard and MIT affiliates only. You can search or browse the holdings of the center.

The History Data Service (Arts and Humanities Data Service)

http://hds.essex.ac.uk/
The History Data Service provides a framework for the preservation and supply of historical data materials held in computerreadable form and for the exchange of information about such resources. The work of the History Data Service includes: *establishing a collection of historical data from a wide range of sources; *providing the research and teaching community with information about and access to this collection; *providing information about and access to resources held elsewhere; *a programme of data enrichment and enhancement for selected collections of data; *developing network tools to enable enhanced access to these collections; *preserving the increasing number of machinereadable historical data files that are being created across disciplines, both within and outside of higher education.
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Hungarian Central Statistical Office

1525 Budapest
Keleti Karoly u. 5-7
Hungary
202-4011
Established more than 120 years ago, this Office collects data on a regular basis and disseminates data in yearbooks, special series, and on tapes or disks. Three main departments collect social statistics: the Department of Social Statistics, Department of Population Statistics, and the Department of Statistics. The Central Statistical Office role is to inform the government and the general public, as well as the scientific community worldwide regarding the Hungarian national economy and social structures.

iec ProGAMMA (Interuniversity Expertise Center, Netherlands)

iec ProGAMMA has been set up to stimulate the development and distribution of innovative computer applications in the social and behavioral sciences in Europe. It maintains an international distribution and marketing network for scientific software which researchers and developers can use to distribute their own software. The center aims at establishing an international network for the worldwide exchange of scientific knowledge and use of software applications. ProGAMMA maintains an On-Line Catalog of Software and Books and a searchable database of software, SIByl (The Social Science Software Information Bank). Each entry in SIByl includes a functional description of the software, technical and data requirements, prices, availability of manual and interface, literature references, and purchase addresses. Examples of categories of software include: Experiment Generators in Psychology, Behavioral Observations and Physiological Signals, Questionnaires and Tests, Qualitative Research, Design of Experiments Expert Systems, Network Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Multilevel Analysis, General Statistical Modeling, Software for Scaling, Exact Tests, General- Purpose Statistics, Mathematical Software, Graphical Data Presentation, and Specialized Statistics.

IFDO Members

IFDO is the International Federation of Data Organisations. This listing of members is maintained by the Social Science Informatics Centre (TARKI) in Budapest.

Institute for Research in Social Science (University of North Carolina)

Manning Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355
(919) 966-3348
IRSS maintains one of the oldest and largest archives of machine- readable data in the U.S. It is the exclusive national repository for all Louis Harris public opinion data. Other major sources of data include the Roper Center's International Survey Library Association, which provides access to most nonproprietary public opinion data; the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, which stores and distributes data from both individual researchers and most federally funded social science studies; and the North Carolina State Data Center, which distributes census data. IRSS also serves as the local repository for the World Fertility Surveys, the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and the National Center for Health Statistics. Since 1991 it has been the repository for a large and growing number of state surveys - the National Network of State Polls archive. Carolina Polls, and USA Today Polls. IRSS maintains a collection of survey studies conducted in Latin America and Spain. Currently, IRSS archives studies from Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain, and Venezuela. It also includes data from the National Network of State Polls. You can search the Institute's holdings and its Public Opinion Poll Question Database. The Index includes poll questions and frequencies of responses.

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

New: See our annotated guide to ICPSR web site

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan , is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. ICPSR provides: Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. Training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques. Resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies. The ICPSR archive includes data in the following areas: Census Enumerations, Community, Urban Studies, Conflict, Aggression, Violence, Economic Behavior, Attitudes, Education, Elites and Leadership, Geography and Environment, Government Structures, Policies, Health Care, Facilities, Instructional Packages, International Systems, Legal Systems, Legislative, Deliberative Bodies, Mass Political Behavior, Attitudes, Organizational Behavior, Social Indicators, and Social Institutions, Behavior. In addition, ICPSR maintains the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), and the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). For a complete listing of the ICPSR web site, see the ICPSR Table of Contents and site search

International Archive of Education Data (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IAED/
The International Archive of Education Data (IAED) is a project sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations. Over a period of several years, the Archive will acquire, process, document, and disseminate data collected by national, state or provincial, local, and private organizations, pertaining to all levels of education in countries for which data can be made available. Data will encompass the "inputs" to education (funding, personnel, teaching resources, facilities, teacher and student preparation, etc.), the variety of processes by which teaching and learning occur, and the "outputs" of education (graduation and matriculation rates, drop-out rates, test scores, job placements, life histories, life assessments, etc.). The data stored in this new Archive are intended to support a wide variety of comparative and longitudinal research through the preservation and sharing of data resources. The Archive seeks to serve the needs of academics, policymakers, and researchers in the field of education. Data from NCES will form the initial foundation of the Archive. The Archive, housed in and operated by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, will preserve all of the NCES public-use research data holdings and make these holdings, as resources permit, suitably available for research throughout the nation and the world. Data files, documentation, and reports are downloadable from the website in public-use format. The website features an online data analysis system (DAS) that allows users to conduct analyses on selected datasets within the Archive. Examples of data held: Private School Survey (PSS); Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS); National Household Education Survey (NHES); Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS); Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS); National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS); Recent College Graduates (RCG); Adult Education Surveys; High School and Beyond (HS&B); National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS); Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Program; National Assessments of Adult Literacy; Academic Library Survey; International Comparisons; School District Data Book.

International Studies Association Data Archive (Univ.of Colorado, Boulder)

This site is intended to serve the international studies community by advancing knowledge and cumulation in the discipline through the public exchange of the data used in international research. Increasingly, academic journals are developing replication policies that mandate that quantitative data used in research be made publically available. The ISA Data Archive is designed in support of such initiatives, and serves as a convenient and easily accesible facility for public archival of international studies data.

ISSR Social Science Data Archive (Institute for Social Science Research, University of California, Los Angeles)

Data archive at UCLA.

The Lijphart Elections Archive (University of California, San Diego)

The Lijphart Elections Archive, housed at the University of California, San Diego campus, is a research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats. The Archive originally acquired print copies of the data and is now focusing on online data. The catalog of holdings details archive holdings of both print and online data as well as access to data when it can be freely disseminated. In addition the catalog links to other sources of online election data and information that can be found on the internet.

Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS) (University of Manchester)

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/
MIMAS is a national data centre run by Manchester Computing at the University of Manchester, specialising in flexible on-line access to strategic research and teaching datasets, key bibliographic information, software packages, specialist support and training, and large-scale computing resources for the UK academic community. MIMAS is a free service for higher education throughout the UK. There is a list of datasets available through MIMAS. These include time Series data (Office of National Statistics ONS Time Series Databank and data from OECD, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation UNIDO and the International Monetary Fund IMF); UK Censuses of Population; large, complex data series (e.g., Family Expenditure Survey, General Household Survey, The Quarterly Labour Force Survey; and digital map data. (This service formally known as MIDAS.)

The Missouri State Census Data Center (MSCDC) Library of Data Holdings

Data in the areas of Agriculture, Compendia, Economic Indicators, Education, Employment, Health, Geography/GIS, and Population. A tool (uexplore) permits a web browser to explore the contents of UNIX directories. Selecting (clicking on) some filenames will cause them to be displayed by your browser. In the case of special "data" files -- those with actual data as opposed to reports or metadata -- a menu of special applications that can be run to help you access that particular type of data will be displayed. The most important of these are the xtract data extraction application, and hypercon ("hyper-linked contents".) The latter lets you see very detailed data-dictionary type metadata pertaining to the file; the former lets you extract and download (through your browser) selected data extracted from the file. Data can be requested in any of 5 formats, including comma-delimited, HTML and .dbf.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (ICPSR)

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) was established in 1978 under the auspices of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), U.S. Department of Justice. NACJD currently holds over 500 data collections relating to crime and criminal justice. This website provides browsing and downloading access to most of this data and documentation. You can search or browse holdings. Some publications based on the data here are available directly from the Bureau of Justice Statisics

National Archives of Canada

395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A ON3
Canada
(613) 995-2642
By law, no records of the Government of Canada can by destroyed without the consent of the National Archivist and all records deemed to be of archival value must be transferred to the National Archives of Canada. Electronic records are included in this mandate.

National Center for Health Statistics (US), Catalog of Electronic Products

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is the primary source of vital and health statistics for the United States. Data from NCHS are available to the public in a number of individual reports and publication series, special tabulations, data releases, and through electronic media including data diskettes, CD-ROM, and an extensive set of public-use data tapes. This catalog lists and describes the public-use data files and other electronic products produced by NCHS. Information is presented on the content of each file, source of the data, technical characteristics of the file, and other information to identify and acquire each electronic product.

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) (Cornell University)

Cornell University
Family Life Development Center, MVR Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853-4401
(607) 255-7799
The Archive is a centralized facility that acquires, processes, preserves, and disseminates high quality data sets relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect. The Archive Update, a newsletter, is produced periodically to disseminate information about current data sets.

The National Network of State Polls (NNSP)

The National Network of State Polls (NNSP) is a confederation of organizations that conduct state-level surveys. Membership is diverse, consisting of more than 50 members from 39 states. The institutions that make up the network range from private research firms to large universities. Some members do only occasional state polling; others do several state surveys per year. The Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serves as the NNSP headquarters. The purpose of the network is to promote the collection and use of state survey data and to develop a comprehensive archive of state survey data. The electronic archive of state survey data maintained by the NNSP is available through the Public Opinion Poll Question Database at the Institute for Research in Social Science (IRSS), at the University of North Carolina. NNSP provides an electronic newsletter

Netherlands Historical Data Archive
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/us/navigate/dishist.htm

Netherlands Historical Data Archive
PO Box 95110
1090 HC Amsterdam
phone: (31) (0)20 4628600
info.nhda@niwi.knaw.nl
The initiative for the foundation of the NHDA was taken in 1989. In 1997 the NHDA became part of the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/), which is an institute of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. The NHDA is now, together with the Steinmetz Archive (Dutch Social Science Data Archive) part of the Section Digital Data Archives. The NHDA preserves and maintains datasets containing historical source material. Part of the collection is freely accessible and can be downloaded from the Internet. The collection includes census data, data on colonial trade, criminal data, prosopography, itineraries etc. The NHDA is also engaged in a training programme for historians, and organizes specialized courses in the field of history and computing.

New Zealand Social Research Data Archives

NZ Social Research Data Archives
Faculty of Social Sciences
Massey University
Private Bag 11-222
Palmerston North
New Zealand
Phone: (06) 35O5354
Fax: (06) 3505696
Email: NZSRDA@massey.ac.nz
The New Zealand Social Research Data Archives (NZSRDA) located in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Massey University was established in 1992. Its purpose is to collect,clean, document and preserve computer- readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs and to make that data available for further research and analysis.

Norwegian Social Science Data Services

Hans Holmboesgate 22
N-5007 Bergen
Norway 47-5-212117
Internet: fnsbh@cc.uib.no
These services are financed by the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities. The data collections include the Norwegian Commune Data Base, Nordic Data Base for Regional Data, Survey Archive, Norwegian Political Elite, and Norwegian Organizations. A catalogue of holdings, NSD Data Catalogue, annual report, and newsletter, NSD Brukermelding (published in Norwegian), are available. The Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) also are engaged in the development of computer-based teaching materials and tools to facilitate statistical analysis. NSDstat+ was designed as a general statistical program which integrates numerical, graphical, and cartographical presentations. It is available from NSD and is used by universities, governmental bodies and municipal administrations.

Other Data Archives

Maintained by the Social Science Data Archive, Australian National University. Includes a listing of members of IFDO (International Federation of Data Organisations).

Oxford Text Archive

Oxford University Computing Service
13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6NN
United Kingdom
0865 273238 FAX: 0865 273275
Internet: ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Hosted and funded by Oxford University Computing Service (OUCS) since 1976, this archives is predominantly of interest to humanities researchers. If offers scholars long term storage and maintenance of electronic versions of the literary works by major Greek, Latin, English and other languages, as well as less known works by modern writers. These texts constitute the raw material of literary and linguistic scholarship. The Archive manages the distribution of electronic texts and information about them to the scholarly community on behalf of its depositors. An electronic version in several formats of the Archive's catalogue is available via the Internet. Inquire at the email address for the most convenient access for your location.

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan)

The 1968 through 1993 "family files" are available here as well as the twenty-four year "individual file." PSID now has a facility for creating subsets. You can select family and individual levels by year, and cross-year variables or variable by Year and Level. Copies of the Newsletter, a Bibliography for the PSID, and more are available here.

UCSD users should also see our local holdings.

Polish Archive of Sociological Research

Institute of Political Studies
Polish Academy of Sciences 00-901
Warsaw Poland
28-84-97 FAX: 29-95-39
The Archive has gathered over 150 sociological surveys with different stages of processing done in the years 1974-90 by Polish research institutes and public opinion research centres. It will enable researchers to have access to a previously unavailable collection of data for study of the transition of Poland from a totalitarian to a democratic system.

Political Data Archive at Michigan State University

Population Studies Center - University of Michigan

Includes a catalog of studies held by the data archive. Some data files are available for public use.

Princeton University Data Library.

Public Opinion Poll Question Database (IRSS - Institute for Research in Social Science, Univ. of North Carolina)

(Formerly known as the Public Opinion Item Index).
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for Research in Social Science Public Opinion Poll Question Database includes: Carolina Polls, Louis Harris Polls, Southern Focus Polls, and various State Polls including the California Polls by the Field Institute. The state polls come from The National Network of State Polls (NNSP). The Latin American Polls will be available again here soon. USA Today Polls are available selectively under the heading "all polls."

Research Resource Division for Refugees (RRDR)

Centre for Immigration and Ethnocultural Studies
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
(613) 788-2717
Established in 1985, the Centre serves as an international archive and data collection agency for scholarly, governmental and field information on refugee resettlement and adaptation. RRDR publishes a newsletter and maintains an online bibliographic database of its holdings.

The Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe (r-cade)

http://www-rcade.dur.ac.uk/
r-cade (resource centre for access to data on Europe)
1L Mountjoy Research Centre,
University of Durham,
Durham DH1 3SW
Email: r-cade@dur.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0) 191 374 7350
Fax: +44(0) 191 384 4971
R-cade (Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe) provides efficient access to key statistical data from Eurostat, UNIDO, UNESCO and the ILO. Customers from any sector, from anywhere in the world, can use the r-cade services. These include online access to a database via the Internet, customised data extractions, consultancy, and special academic concessions. r-cade is also an official Eurostat datashop."

Roll Call votes, US House 1990- (The Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)
http://clerkweb.house.gov/evs/index.htm

U.S. House of Representatives Roll Call Votes as compiled through the electronic voting machine by the House Tally Clerks under the direction of Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House 106th Congress, 1st Session (1999) 105th Congress, 2nd Session (1998) 105th Congress, 1st Session (1997) 104th Congress, 2nd Session (1996) 104th Congress, 1st Session (1995) 103rd Congress, 2nd Session (1994) 103rd Congress, 1st Session (1993) 102nd Congress, 2nd Session (1992) 102nd Congress, 1st Session (1991) 101st Congress, 2nd Session (1990)
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The Roper Center (University of Connecticut)

P.O. Box 440
Storrs, CT 06268-0440
(860) 486-4440
Founded in 1946, the Roper Center is the largest archive for public opinion data containing over 11,000 separate studies conducted by leading survey organizations in over 75 countries. In the U.S., the Center receives most of the commercially available data collected by the major survey research firms and the media including ABC News and ABC News/Washington Post, Gallup Organization, General Electric Quarterly Surveys, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, National Opinion Research Center, and Yankelovich. Foreign holdings include surveys conducted by Brule Ville Associates in France, Social Surveys Limited in Great Britain, the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion, and holdings of the Latin American Survey Data Bank. The Center services include providing machine-readable data sets, data set analysis, customized searches, and access to POLL, an online database of the Center's holdings, which includes survey questions and responses.

Sercue Syusse d'information et d'archivage de donnepur les science sociales (SIDOS)

Social Science Data Archive (University of Cincinnati, Institute for Policy Research)

A multi-disciplinary research support unit that provides access to secondary data collections for research and instructional use.

The Social Science Data Center (SSDC) ( University of Pennsylvania)

An archive of over 7,000 data sets which is 62 gigabytes of data. Most of that data comes from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Social Science Informatics Centre (TARKI)

H-1027 Budapest
Frankel Leo u. 11
Hungary
email: h57kol@ella.uucp h57kol@ella.hu
The Hungarian Social Science Informatics Centre, TARKI, is a joint venture of the five major research units in Hungary. The archives consists of over 250 research surveys including sociological data collections and the social statistical surveys of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. The data bank is public and access to data conforms to international standards. Tapes are make available to university students free of charge and to professional researchers for a small fee.

Social Sciences Data Archive (SSDA) (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

(http://www3.huji.ac.il/www_magar/il-home.htm)
Social Sciences Data Archive (SSDA)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
Israel
The SSDA now houses approximately 600 datasets including national sample survey data, local studies, census micro-data, government records in selected fields as well as macro-economic series. The macro databanks are available online either through INTERNET or via Mount Scopus Local Networks. The Archive collects and disseminates social data of interest to the social science community in Israel. They were the first organization to acquire the census tapes produced by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, as well as many other tapes produced by the Bureau containing data from most of the large surveys it conducts. The Archive staff have developed special computer programs including a database which allows easy access to census data by region and enables users to obtain statistics on very detailed geographic bases including the production of statistical maps. The Archive also makes their SSDA Online Catalog of data holdings available via the Internet. For information on how to access, contact Miko Levy at MAGAR1@HUJIVMS.

The Social Sciences Data Center and Geographical Information Systems Lab (University of Virginia)

Sociometrics Corporation

170 State Street,
Suite 260
Los Altos, CA 94022
(415) 949-3282
socio@socio.com
Sociometrics Corporation is a research and development firm specializing in social science research applications. Sociometrics conducts basic and applied research aimed at furthering our understanding of the antecedents and consequences of contemporary social problems and facilitates data sharing among social scientists. This site includes details of the studies available and the cost of each data product. Although no data are available online here, the site does allow you to search study summaries and variables. Over 150,000 variable summaries are searchable.

The Sociometrics Social Science Data Library is a rich source of high- quality health and social science data sets. Each of the nearly 350 data sets, across five data archives, in the Data Library has been selected for inclusion by a National Advisory Panel of experts in the archive's topical focus. Strict scientific criteria of technical quality, substantive utility, policy relevance, and potential for secondary data analysis have been used to select data sets. The currently-available data archives are: Data Archives on Adolescent Pregnancy and Pregnancy Prevention (DAAPPP), American Family Data Archive (AFDA), Data Archive of Social Research on Aging (DASRA), Maternal Drug Abuse Data Archive (MDA), AIDS/STD Data Archive (AIDS), and Research Archive on Disability in the United States (RADIUS). Another product available from Sociometrics is the NATASHA CD-ROM (National Archive on Sexuality, Health & Adolescence).

South African Data Archive (SADA)

Centre for Science Development
Human Sciences Research Council
134 Pretorius Street
Private Bag X270
Pretoria 0001 South Africa
(012) 202 2304
Maseka@gallup.hsrc.ac.za
SADA, established in 1993 and located in Pretoria, is the first of its kind on the African continent, and one of roughly 30 international data archives in the world. SADA's broad objectives are to: preserve data and documentation from surveys and other research entities in the social sciences; and disseminate such information for use by other researchers, mainly for secondary analysis, longitudinal and comparative studies, research training and teaching purposes. It's catalog of holdings is also available as a text file. Over 2000 datasets are already held by the archives.

Southwest Ohio Regional Data Center (University of Cincinnati)

Includes online versions of the U.S. Census Bureau's Bear Facts for Ohio.

SRM Documentation Centre (Netherlands)

SSDBA Home Page (California State University)
http://artemis.calstatela.edu/

The Social Science Data Base Archive.Announcements�The SSDBA is an ever expanding collection of social science related research studies.� The Archive acquires the majority of its holdings from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR ), the Roper Center, the Field Institute in California, and the Census Bureau. As the CSU systemwide clearinghouse for social science data, the SSDBA acquires, stores, documents, and preserves data files for use in secondary analysis by students, staff, and faculty.� The Archive provides: *downloadable datasets. *detailed online study abstracts that include hyperlinks allowing users to download data, SPSS or SAS syntax files, and codebooks *SPSS Portable files for transporting data to different software packages and platforms *a search engine for full text interrogation of all study abstracts, codebooks, and statistical syntax files *a browse page that lists Archive holdings by subject categories Finally, SSDBA subscribers can request data not available on our web site but available from our data providers or other data sources. � Requests for data not from ICPSR, the Roper Center, the Field Institute, or the Census, will be met when possible.� In addition, the SSDBA offers introductory workshops to the Archive. If you are not a subscriber to the SSDBA, you are more than welcome to use the information that you find at our site. We regret, however, that we will be unable to provide you with further services or assistance. �� California State University, Los Angeles� �
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State Institute of Statistics (SIS), Prime Ministry (Republic of Turkey)

T.C Basbakanlik Devlet Istatistik Enstitusu
Publications Communications and Public Relations Division
Necatibey Cad. No: 114
06100 Ankara, Turkey
voice: 90 312 418 50 27
FAX: 90 312 417 04 32
The State Institute of Statistics (SIS) is a technical and scientific institute which produces publications to fulfill Turkey's information needs on social, economic, and cultural subjects. The main function of SIS is to comprehensively determine information needs, collect and compile data, and finally, to present information to its users according to the highest international standards. Data are available on diskette and magnetic tape. Some data are available on the Web site.

Statistics and Social Science Group at NYU

Part of the Academic Computing Facility at New York University, the Social Science Group offers information about using SAS, SPSS, statistical packages in general, and more.

Statistics Netherlands

Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
Afdeling Verkoop
Kamer J116
Postbus 4481
6401 CZ Heerlen
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 (45) 5 70 79 70
Fax: +31 (45) 5 70 62 68
E-mail: verkoop@cbs.nl
Statistics Netherlands is the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands. Statistics Netherlands collects, processes and analyses data. Then it publishes the statistical results. The data come from people or organisations (companies, institutes). With the present statistical methods and techniques, often only a limited group (sample) needs to supply information to Statistics Netherlands. Some data are available online; see The year in figures page.

Steinmetz Archive (Netherlands)
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/us/navigate/rawdata.htm

NIWI
Joan Muyskensweg 25
1096 CJ Amsterdam
Netherlands
Tel: +31(0)20-4628600
Fax: +31(0)20-6639257
E-mail: info.steinmetz@niwi.knaw.nl
The Dutch Social Science Data Archive. The Archive is a department of the Dutch Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI) , which is an Instituteof the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. It holds over 2000 data sets with documentation available in English. Data collections include public opinion polls, data from public bodies, election studies, and the Continuous Social Survey. A catalogue of the Archive's holdings and a newsletter are available from the Archive. The Steinmetz Archive specializes in the acquisition, documentation, processing and distribution of empirical data from social science research projects which were partially or fully carried out in the Netherlands. Although the Archive's data holdings centre on Dutch social science research, the Archive also reaches beyond national borders to many foreign data archives and international organizations. In doing so, the Archive serves as a gateway for the Dutch researcher to a wealth of international empirical data sources. Includes links to Netherlands Historical Data Archive and the Social sciences Data archives (Steinmetz Archive)

Survey Research Center - Internet Home Pages (University of Michigan)

1355 Institute for Social Research
P.O. Box 1248
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Phone: 1-313-764-8365
The Survey Research Center (SRC) studies a broad range of social phenomena, documenting the characteristics and activities of people in a variety of social settings. Such investigations build understanding slowly-through a process of assembling basic descriptive data, tracking social change, and gradually gaining deeper insights into the nature of human relationships, structures, and processes. Home pages for: Asset Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD), The Health and Retirement Study (HRS), The Michigan Prevention Research Center (MPRC), The Panel Study for Income Dynamics (PSID), and The Joint Program for Survey Methodology (JPSM).

Swedish Social Science Data Services (Sweden)

Box 5048
S-402 21 Goteborg
Sweden
phone: 46 31 773 12 10 FAX: 46 31 773 49 13
Internet: lennart.brantgarde@ssd.gu.se
Since 1985, the service has been an independent institute at the University of Goteborg. The collections include social science survey data, as well as aggregate and statistical data. All documentation is in Swedish. A catalogue of holdings, Data Collections, and newsletter, SSDkontakt, are available. Also ELSA -- Electronic Library of the SSD Archive is available over internet to any x-terminal through a hypertext-oriented system build upon UNIX and ATK.

SWIDOC Social Science Information and Documentation Centre

Herengracht 410-412,
1017 BX AMSTERDAM
tel. 020-6225061
fax. 020-6238374
E-mail: swidoc@swidoc.nl
Since 1963, the Social Science Information and Documentation Centre, SWIDOC, of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (KNAW), has been promoting the exchange and efficient use of information in social science research, while at the same time encouraging contacts between researchers both in the Netherlands and abroad.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Center For Electronic Records.

8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
(301) 713-6645
The Center is the unit within NARA that is responsible for the preservation of and provision of access to the permanently valuable electronic records of the U.S. Federal government. Computerized machine-readable data has been transferred from over 100 different U.S. federal agencies. Over 23,000 data sets are in their custody and are available on nine-track magnetic tape or 3480-class tape cartridge for a cost-recovery fee.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Center For Electronic Records. Data Descriptions.

From time to time, the staff of the Center for Electronic Records of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration sends electronic mail to a mailing list in response to a user looking for data. These messages outline the holdings of the Center for a particular topic or area. Copies of these messages are kept here.

County Labor Force Data (rural poverty; IRS County Income Migration data; County Business Patterns data for employment and payroll by SIC; BEA Regional Economic Information System County Series with data on personal income and earnings by major industry (workplace rather than labor force-based); and the HRSA Area Resources Files; LEAP Special Tabulation from the 1970 Census (Poverty Neighborhoods in 105 Large Central Cities); Poverty Information Matrices (Putnam files) from the 1960 and 1970 Censuses)
Department of Transportation data (Origin and Destination Surveys, Passenger, Ticket Dollar Value Origin and Destination)
Medical Data (Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, 1970-1972; Agency for International Development; the U.S. Information Agency; National Institutes of Health; Department of Health and Human Services; Agency for Health Care Policy Research; Health Resources and Services Administration; Physicians Practice Cost and Income Survey (PPCIS), 1983; National Studies on the Incidence of Child Abuse and Neglect, 1980 and 1986; AIDS Public Information Dataset, June 1992; Agent Orange Project Records; Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End User Results (SEER - Cancer) Public User Database, 1973-1988; public use tapes associated with the National Medical Expenditure Surveys, 1987; Area Resources Files through March 1992; the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, 1977, 1980, 1984, and 1988)
Current Population Survey (CPS)

See also the Center's Title List and additional types of holdings on the Center's Information About the Center's Holdings page (including information on agricultural, attitudinal, demographic, economic, financial, education, environmental, health services, social services, international, military, and scientific data).

University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)

University of California, Berkeley, Data Archive and Technical Assistance (UC Data)

University of California, Irvine, Social Science Data Archvies

Here you can browse Irvine's holdings of tapes, diskettes, and CD-ROMs.

University of Hong Kong, Social Science Research Center, Social Science Data Archive

The initial data sets will be drawn from the studies done by John Bacon-Shone, Robert Chung and Jeffrey Day in the SSRC.

University of Pittsburgh Electronic Text Project

The University of Pittsburgh Electronic Text Project is a reseach and development effort investigating the technology and policy issues involved in producing, collecting, and serving richly marked-up scholarly texts (not numeric data) over the University and wide-area network. It is included here because of the relationship of text achiving to data archiving and codebook markup and preservation. Projects include Document Image Capture, Optical Character Recognition, SGML Encoding, the TEI DTD, and Hypertext Linking, Non-Roman Character and Glyph Presentation, Network Serving of Texts, and Long-term Text Storage and Preservation.

University of Western Ontario, Social Science Centre (Canada)

Urban Information Center (University of Missiouri -- St. Louis)

As a core group agency within the Missouri State Census Data Center (MSCDC) the UIC takes primary responsibility for building and maintaining a public archive of several thousand data files and related software and metadata. The archive is currently over 30 gigabytes and includes one of the most extensive collections of U.S. decennial census data in the country. While a few of the data series are limited to the St. Louis metro area, most of them cover at least the states of Missouri and Illinois, and in many cases the entire United States. Another UIC specialty is the application of GIS technology to analyze and display spatial data. The UIC has been a pioneer in the processing of DIME and TIGER geographic base files. While they now use a desktop GIF (Atlas*GIS) to do most of their data mapping, the UIC still does a lot of their geo-spatial analysis work in SAS using their own programs. The center has a wealth of data available online as well as meta-data (codebooks, data dictionaries) and SAS code. Much of the data available here is in tables. John Blodgett is the Manager of the Urban Information Center.

Wiener Institut fuer Sozialwissenschaftliche Dokumentation und Methodik (WISDOM)

Maria Theresienstr. 0/5 1090 Wien Austria

World Map of Social Science Data Archives (Norwegian Social Sciences Data Services)

This map has clickable icons of various kinds of connections to data archives all over the world.

Yale University, Social Science Data Archive

The Social Science Data Archive (SSDA) is the repository and reference center at Yale for machine-readable data sources in the social sciences. The SSDA owns and maintains a major collection of data from academic surveys, public opinion surveys, government agencies, international organizations, and related groups. SSDA codebooks and reference services are available through the Social Science Library and Information Services; the Social Science Statistical Laboratory provides technical assistance for dataset users. Most of the SSDA holdings are restricted to use by the Yale community. Browse the Yale data catalog by broad subject areas

ZA Zentralarkiv fuer Europaeische Sozialforschung (at Köln)

Universitat zu Koln
Bachemer Str. 40
D-5000 Koln 41
Germany 49-221-444086
The Zentralarchiv is jointly financed by the University and the Federal Minister for Research and Technology. It collects data from all fields of empirical research with an emphasis on survey data. Special collections include national election studies since 1953, consumer studies, leisure and tourism studies, communication and media research, and the German General Social Surveys. A catalogue, Umfragen aus der empirischen Sozialforschung 1945-1982, and newsletter, ZA-Information, are available. The Archive also publishes a book series, Contributions to Empirical Social Research, and an annual publication, Empirical Social Research.

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