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ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
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- Description
- ICPSR, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, is the largest repository
of social science data
in the world. Since 1962, the ICPSR, based at the University of Michigan, has collected and made
available the datasets of
many major government studies in their entirety, along with polls and surveys conducted by
organizations and individual
researchers. ICPSR contains over 7,000 data collections and over 500,000 individual data files, most
of which are already
prepared for easy use with statistical software such as SPSS and SAS. Rutgers is an ICPSR
Direct member institution,
allowing researchers to download datasets directly to their desktops.
- Help
- Direct downloads are restricted to Rutgers users.
You must create your account while on campus, using your Rutgers e-mail.
See the "My Data Login/Create
Account" link. After creating an account,
you can use your login from off campus, as long as you login from campus at least once every six
months.
Data Use tutorial
ICPSR User Support: Knowledge
base
Data User Help Center
(Audio/Video Tutorials)
- User tools and features
- Alert services for notifications of new releases and updates to datasets.
- Dates covered
- Dates of contributed studies vary, ranging from the Census of 1790 to the present.
- Updating frequency
- Bi-weekly.
- Sources
- Government agencies, research organizations, and individual researchers contribute data to the site.
Frequently downloaded data collections include the
General Social Survey,
World and European Values Survey,
American National Election Studies,
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data,
Health and Medical Care Archive,
the International Archive of Education Data, and many more.
- Type of coverage
- Downloadable datasets, plus associated documentation and codebooks.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- None.
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- ICPSR and contributing organizations
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