American
Religion Data Archive (ARDA) collects
quantitative datasets for the study of American religion.
Most files are from surveys, but other forms of quantitative
data collections on religion are available as well. Examples
of datasets 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.
Australian Social Science
Data Archive (ASSDA)
collects and preserves computer-readable data relating to
social, political and economic affairs and to make the data
available for further analysis.
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Banco de Datos (UISDP)/Data Bank of Social Science
Faculty covers
economical activity, nutrition, census, social levels, cooperatives,
culture, demography, human rights, drugs, education, elections,
enterprises, household surveys, family governments, industries,
childhood, regional integration, social integration,
youth media, social movements, women, workers' organizations,
social participation, political parties, justice, budget,
privatizations, professions, recreations, religion, health,
sexuality, labor, democracy, university, urbanism, housing,
rural sociology.
Center for Studies on
Public Opinion (CESOP) organizes
the National Survey Data Bank on Public Opinion, which is
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 data bank is accessible to the public, and
provides an organized consultation of Brazilian public opinion
data for researchers and professionals in the area.
Centro de Investigaciones
Sociologicas (CIS)/Center for Sociological Research
provides survey data from monthly
barometer polls, monographic
surveys, regional
and municipal surveys, electoral surveys, surveys in conjunction with public institutions (co-operation
agreements) and international surveys are
entered in the CIS Data Bank. They are available three months
after information coding and processing is completed. All
surveys subject to co-operation agreements with other public
institutions are exempted from this rule, as they are made
available to the public one-year after they have been submitted
to the institution for which they were compiled.
Columbia University Electronic
Data Service (EDS) maintains a library
of data and documentation that covers a wide range of topics,
both national and international, including socio-demographic
topics, public opinion polls, politics, health, and economics.
Support services for the data library includes help in identifying
and obtaining data, assistance with data preparation, and
maintenance of a lab facility with the necessary software
for data extraction. EDS provides this help in-house, on
its web site, and via electronic mail.
Comprehensive Epidemiologic
Data Resource Program (CEDR) provides
public access to health and exposure data concerning U.S.
Department of Energy (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.
Cornell Institute for
Social and Economic Research (CISER) Data Archive maintains
a collection of machine-readable social and economic data
sets, consisting of over 19,000 online files and thousands
of studies on CD-ROMs and diskettes. It is also a
centralized facility for information services on numeric
data files, their acquisition, storage, maintenance, and
processing. Its mission is to support the research activities
of social science faculty, students, and staff of Cornell
University.
Council for European Social Science Data Archives (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 organizations in sympathy with its aims. It associates and cooperates with other international organizations sharing similar objectives.
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Danish Data Archives
(DDA) is
a national data bank and documentational and technical service
facility for researchers and students in Denmark and abroad.
Data and Statistical
Services (DSS)
is part of Firestone Library's Social Science Reference
Center. The Data Library has a collection of over 24,000
machine-readable files, primarily in the social sciences
but also in the sciences and humanities.
Davidson Data Center and Network (DDCN)
is a repository and locator for
data from transition and emerging market economies.
It provides an integrated,
fully searchable database on transition and emerging markets.
DDCN archives and provides free access to socio-economic
micro and macro data on transition economies.
EDINA National Data Centre/Edinburgh University
Data Library is
based at Edinburgh University Data Library and provides
key geographic data, especially for the UK, such as digital
maps and digital boundaries, Scottish Register for Employment
(1950-1993), and Statistical Accounts of Scotland collected
in the 1790s and 1830s.
EURODATA Research Archive
is an infrastructural unit of the Mannheim Centre for European
Social Research (MZES) covering Europe focusing on official
statistics. Its core collection consists of tabular data
(transnational, national and sub-national level) in the
socio-economic and political domain. Via research projects
(service projects and participation in projects of the research
departments), it develops comparative databases and meta-information
systems on official statistics in Europe. The archive continuously
monitors major developments of the European data infrastructure
both in the field of official statistics (tabular data and
microdata) and science-based survey programmes.
Eurostat provides free data about the European community, which include
long term, short term and structural indicators, balance
of payments, business consumer surveys, consumer prices,
external trade, import and export of goods, trade balances
and indices, industry, commerce and services, labour marker,
monetary and financial indicators and national accounts.
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Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD)
is a national resource
centre for social science research and teaching and provides
a wide range of services from data archiving to information
services. Its primary goal is to increase the use of existing
social science research data by disseminating it throughout
Finland and also internationally.
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Geospatial and Statistical
Data Center contains
most of the spatial and social science data available through
the University Library system. Much of the information in
the Center is digital, but houses the physical map collection,
paper copies of many codebooks, software manuals, and reference
books pertaining to spatial and statistical analysis.
German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS)
provides
services in support of social science research including
the development and supply of databases with information
on social science literature and research activities as
well as the archiving and provision of survey data from
social research. Services including consultation on methodological
questions, the development of complex methods of empirical
social research as well as GESIS' own long-term observation
of social developments with the aid of these instruments
are also available. GESIS was established in 1986 and is
divided into three local centers namely Social Science Information
Centre in Bonn, Central Archive for Empirical Social Research
at the University of Cologne, Centre for Survey Research
and Methodology in Mannheim and maintains the Service Agency
Eastern Europe in Berlin.
Harvard-Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Data Center (HMDC)
is the principal distributor
of quantitative social science data from major international
data consortia for Harvard and MIT, and a world leader in
research in digital libraries and statistical methodology.
HMDC also provides computer support to several of Harvard's
social science departments, research centers, and schools,
and maintains a popular fellowship program for visiting
graduate students.
Institute for Social
Science Research (ISSR) Social Science Data Archives was
established in December 1977 as a service unit supporting
quantitative research, primarily secondary analysis, within
the Institute for Social Science Research and the greater
social science community at UCLA. The Archive maintains
a collection of machine-readable data files and their documentation,
coordinates the acquisition of additional data from a variety
of sources, and provides access to publicly available data.
Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
was established in 1962 and is an integral part of the infrastructure
of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides
access to a vast archive of social science data for research
and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods
to facilitate effective data use. To ensure that data resources
are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves
data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in
technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support
to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis
and in conducting their research projects.
Irish Social Science
Data Archive (ISSDA) holds,
processes and harmonizes machine-readable data from surveys,
census material, geographical data bases, election results
and makes them available to users in the academic, public
and commercial sectors.
Israel Social Sciences Data Center (ISDC)
was established by the
Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
with a mission to collect, preserve and distribute data
of interest to the academic community. The ISDC is a major
infrastructure for quantitative research of Israeli social
and economic issues.
Lijphart Elections Archive located
at the University of California San Diego is
a research collection of district level election results
for approximately 350 national legislative elections in
26 countries. It systematically collects 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.
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Manchester Information and Associated Services
(MIMAS) is a Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC) supported national data centre run by Manchester
Computing, at The University of Manchester. It provides
socio-economic, scientific and spatial data, bibliographic
references, electronic journals and other services.
Missouri Census Data Center (MCDC)
is a cooperative program operating under a memorandum of
understanding between the Office of the Secretary of State
and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The Missouri State Library
in the Office of the Secretary of State is the agency responsible
for the program. MCDC holdings consist of more than 2,000
public machine-readable data files and numerous printed
reports.
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National Data Archive
for Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)
acquires microdata from
leading researchers and national data collection efforts
and makes these datasets available to the research community
for secondary analysis.
National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a collection of over 400 spatial data servers, that have digital geographic data primarily for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), image processing systems, and other modelling software. These data collections can be searched through a single interface based on their descriptions, or "metadata."
National Map is the product of a consortium of Federal, State, and local partners and provides access to high-quality, geospatial data and information from multiple partners to help support decision-making by resource managers and the public.
National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Geospatial One-Stop is an intergovernmental project managed by the Department of the Interior in support of the President's Initiative for E-government which builds upon its partnership with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) to improve the ability of the public and government to use geospatial information to support the business of government and facilitate decision-making.
Political Database of
the Americas was
created by the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown
University in collaboration with the Organization of American
States, and with the generous support of the Tinker Foundation.
The database contains historical and current election results
for the countries of the Americas (including: Argentina,
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,
Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Suriname,
Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, U.S.A, and Venezuela). Also
has reference materials and primary documents in the areas
of Constitutions and Constitutional Studies, Electoral Systems,
civil society, political parties, and executive, legislative
and judicial institutions. The section on electoral systems
contains election laws for the countries of the Americas.
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Social, Behavioral and Health Science Data Archive is hosted by the Institute of Policy Research (IPR) and provides provides access and support for use of secondary data collections for research and instruction.
Social Science and Data
Archives on the Net (IFDOnet)
provides structured information of social sciences subjects
and up-to-date web infrastructure of data archives. Fundamental
documents on archive management are offered as well as different
reflections on data analyses issues. The site supports international
comparative analysis on sustainable development with study
packs for graduate students.
Social Science Data Archives located
at the University of California
Irvine collects and disseminates machine-readable data in
a variety of formats for academic research and instructional
use. These formats include CD-ROMs and floppy disks. Data
can also be accessed and downloaded via the Web.
Social Science Data Center
(SSDC) provides
researchers and students with access to data from a variety
of sources. Its staff maintains an archive of over 7,000
datasets, totaling a volume of 62 GB.
Social Science Data Services
located at Northwestern University acquires
and maintains an extensive collection of numeric computer
data files used for secondary analysis in the social sciences.
Currently over 1600 studies and thousands of data files
are in the data collection. Reference service, technical
assistance, and codebook documentation are provided for
faculty, staff, and students.
Social Science Electronic
Data Library (SSEDL)
is a premium health and social science resource that consists
of more than 200 studies comprising eight topically focused
collections. SSEDL is a unique source of high quality social
science data and documentation for researchers, educators,
students, and policy analysts. The Electronic Data Library
includes access to free dataset downloads and is available
for purchase as an online subscription exclusively from
Thomson Gale.
Social
Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) hosted by the
Institute of Learning and Research Technology at the University
of Bristol and part of the UK Resource Discovery Network
provides selected, high quality information for students,
academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences,
business and law. SOSIG features a catalog of thousands
of resources, each one selected and described by a librarian
or academic, as well as a search engine for a database of
over 250,000 Social Science Web pages.
Social Science Research
Computing Data Library is
the central repository of data collections used by the social
science research community. Its mission is to promote academic
research by facilitating the use of primary and secondary
research materials. To fulfill this mission, the archive
acquires and preserves common use resources, provides reference
and technical services to researchers, and coordinates storage
and use of private/restricted collections.
Social Sciences Data
Collection (SSDC)
is the Data Services Unit of the Library of the University
of California San Diego. Staff assist users in identifying
numeric data computer-readable formats; acquiring data for
the library's collections; providing a common user-interface
to these data files and their documentation; and providing
easy access to raw numeric data, allowing each user to identify,
locate, and obtain the data needed as quickly as possible
for the computing environment of his or her choice.
Sociological Data Archive (SDA)
located at the Institute
of Sociology in Prague accesses, processes, documents and
stores data files from sociological research projects and
promotes their dissemination to make them widely available
for secondary use in academic research and for educational
purposes.
Sociometrics Corporation Data Library
is a rich source
of high-quality health and social science datasets. A National
Advisory Panel of experts has selected each of the nearly
350 datasets, across five data archives, in the Data Library
for inclusion. Strict scientific criteria of technical quality,
substantive utility, policy relevance, and potential for
secondary data analysis have been used to select the data
sets. The 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)
serves as a broker between a range of data providers (e.g.
statistical agencies, government departments, opinion and
market research companies and academic institutions) and
the research community. The archive does not only preserve
data for future use, but also adds value to the collections.
It safeguards datasets and related documentation and attempts
to make it as easily accessible as possible for research
and educational purposes.
Statistics Netherlands
is the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands.
The Bureau collects, processes and analyzes data, then publishes
the statistical results. The data come from people or organizations
(companies, institutes).
Survey Research Center
(SRC) is
the largest of the four Centers of the Institute for Social
Research (ISR). For more than 50 years, the Survey Research
Center has been a national and international leader in interdisciplinary
social science research involving the collection or analysis
of data from scientific sample surveys. First, this involves
conducting basic and applied empirical survey-based research
that is theoretically informed. SRC and the Institute
for Social Research are pillars of empirical social science,
but seek to bring their empiricism to bear on problems that
are of both social and scientific importance. Second, but
no less important, SRC's leadership involves the development,
refinement, and propagation of the scientific method of
survey research through teaching and training.
TARKI Social Research
Informatics Center is
a research institute of high renown, both nationally and
internationally, in the field of social science and market
research founded in 1985 as the first legally private research
center of Central Europe. It functions as a data
bank collecting Hungarian and foreign survey data.
The Odum Institute Data
Archive
maintains one of the oldest and largest archives of machine-readable
data in the U.S. The archive is the exclusive national repository
for Louis Harris public opinion data. The Institute has
an extensive collection of U.S. Census data, including one
of the most complete holdings for 1970 Census files.
The Roper Center For Public
Opinion Research brings
individual surveys together enabling any researcher to better
grasp what is meant by "public opinion". Survey
data are made accessible to academic and policy researchers,
press, business, and others who are interested in poll findings.
It provides a "public audit" of polling data and
reports of public opinion. As a non-profit, non-partisan
public opinion data archive, the Center is in a unique position
to help clarify the public's voice.
The World Bank
provides data and information on agriculture, aid, childhood
development, debt, education, environment, finance, Gross
Domestic Product (GDP), Gross National Product (GNP), gender,
globalization, governance, health, information technology,
infrastructure, industry, labor and employment, macroeconomics
and growth, poverty, purchasing power parity, private sector,
rural development, social development, trade and urban developments.
Turkey State Prime Ministry Institute of Statistics (SIS) is a technical and scientific institute that 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 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.
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United Kingdom Data Archive
(UKDA)
is an internationally renowned centre of expertise in data
acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion,
and is curator of the largest collection of digital data
in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.
United Nations (UN) Statistics
Division provides
a global centre for data on international trade, national
accounts, energy, industry, environment, transport and
demographic and social statistics gathered from many national
and international sources. It promotes international standards
of methods, classifications and definitions used by national
agencies, assists Member States, at their request, to
improve their statistical services by giving advice and
training, coordinates international statistical programmes
and activities entrusted to the Division by the UN Statistical
Commission and the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical
Activities (CCSA), provides input and secretarial support
to the UN Statistical Commission and its Working Group,
helps to implement Agenda 21, particularly in the development
and dissemination of integrated environmental and economic
accounting, environmental statistics and indicators of
sustainable development, and promotes modern surveying
and mapping techniques as a tool for growth and development.
The Division regularly publishes data updates, including
the Statistical Yearbook and World Statistics Pocketbook,
and books and reports on statistics and statistical methods.
Many of the Division's databases are also available on
this site, as electronic publications and data files in
the form of CD-ROMs, diskettes and magnetic tapes, or
as printed publications.
University of California
Data Archive and Technical Assistance (UC DATA)
is UC Berkeley's principal
archive of computerized social science and health statistics
information and is a part of the University's Survey Research
Center. The Center provides public data for field polls
and census as well as data that are only available for UC
affiliates. It also provides data access for several projects
both conducted in California and other states.
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