Social Science Data Archives

World Wide

• DARE - UNESCO Social Sciences Database
  A database that offers over 11.000 references to social science periodicals. It also contains special references to peace, human rights and international law research institutes.

• MOST - Management of Social Trasformations Programme
  A research programme, designed by UNESCO, to promote international comparative social science research. It supports large-scale, long-term autonomous research and transfers the relevant findings and data to decision-makers. It also publishes state of the art reports that assess existing information on specific topics. MOST concentrates on three research areas: multi-cultural and multi-ethnic societies; cities as arenas of accelerated social transformation, and globalization and Governance. The overall long-term objective of MOST is to establish sustainable links between the scientific and policy communities and to emphasize the relevance of social science research for policy-formulation.

• NESSTAR - Networked Social Science Tools and Resources
  An infrastructure for data dissemination via the Internet created by a consortium of data archives. NESSTAR Explorer is an end user interface for searching, analysing and downloading data and documentation via the Internet. NESSTAR Publisher is used by data archives to disseminate data and documentation. By means of NESSTAR you are able to (1) locate multiple data sources across national boundaries, (2) browse detailed metadata about these data, (3) analyze and visualize data online, and (4) download the appropriate subsets of data in one of a number of formats for local use. The general aim of the project is to develop a common interface on the Internet to the data holdings of a large number of providers and disseminators of statistical information world-wide.

• OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  The OECD provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop and perfect economic and social policy. The 29 member countries compare experiences, seek answers to common problems and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies. The site informs on organization and activities of the OECD and provides acces to many publications and databases.

• STN-international
  Access to many databases (account and password needed).

• TransMONEE
  A public-use version of the economic and social indicators for Central and Easters Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS/Baltics). The menu-driven database allows the rapid retrieval and manipulation of economic and social indicators for 27 transition countries in Central Europe and the former USSR. The programme includes a guide and extensive table notes. The new release includes data updated through 1996, and provides a 32-bit Windows (tm) NT/95 user interface in addition to the Windows (tm) 3.1 version also available. The database can be downloaded without cost from three different web sites.

• UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

• United Nations InfoNation
  An easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations. Created by the United Nations' CyberSchoolBus program.

• United Nations Children's Fund
  The official home page for UNICEF contains a wealth of information, as well as statistical data broken down by country, in addiction to various world maps for selected indicators.

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  The site includes timely and issue-oriented information, an annual statistical overview of refugee activities, the RefWorld database of officla documents on refugees, and country-specific reports.

• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
  Provides a long list of research projects, as well as information on global conferences, publications, policy briefs and viewpoints.

• World Bank Research

• World Bank: Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)
  The LSMS surveys are multi-topic, household questionnaires which have been an important tool in measuring household welfare and understanding household behavior in developing countries. Information at this site includes a description and history of the LSMS, and directions for obtaining LSMS data. A limited amount of LSMS data is available for dowloading.

• World Bank: Social Indicators of Development, 1994
  Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) & the World Bank Data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development. Data are presented for more than 170 economies, omitting only those for which data are inadequate. Emphasis on country-by-country review. Up to 94 indicators are reported for each country including: size, growth, and structure of population; determinants of population growth (including data on fertility & infant mortality); labor force; education & illiteracy; natural resources; income & poverty; expenditure on food, housing, fuel & power, transport & communication; and investment in medical care & education.

• World Bank: Trends in Developing Economies, 1994
  Consortium for Int'l Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) & the World Bank Compendium of individual country economic trends complements the World Bank's World Development Report, which looks at major global & regional economic trends and their implications for the future prospects of the developing economies. TIDE digests information from national sources and adds staff commentary to explain recent developments.

• World Bank Annual Reports
  These reports detail the activities of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA) for the each fiscal year. Included are sections on Bank operations, programs, group activities, finances, and financial statements of the IBRD and IDA. The reports are highlighted by regional perspective sections (sketches of what the Bank considers development progress and prospects) on Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa. The entire reports are available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format, and all except the financial statements and appendices are available in HTML format as well.

• World POPClock - U.S. Bureau of the Census
  An up-to-the day estimate of the world's population and population projections to the year 2050. Graphics based on this table: World population, World population growth rates, and Annual world population change.

Africa

Algeria

• Office National de Statistiques (ONS)

Benin

• Centre de Documentation et d'Information

Botswana

• Central Statistics Office(CSO)

Cape Verde

• Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)

Keny

• Central Bureau of Statistics

Malawi

• National Statistical Office (NSO)

Morocco

• Direction de la Statistique

• Ministère chargé de la Population

• Unesco: Morocco

• World Factbook: Morocco

Mauritania

• Office National de la Statistique (ONS)

Mauritius

• Central Statistical Office

Mozambique

• Instituto Nacional de Estatistics (INE)

Seychelles

• Statistics & Database Administration Section (SDAS)

South Africa

• South African Data Archives (SADA)
  The first of its kind on the African continent. SADA preserves data and documentation from surveys and other research entities in the social sciences, and disseminates such information for use by other researchers (mainly for secondary analysis, longitudinal and comparative studies, research training and teaching purposes). Over 2000 datasets are already held by the archives. Located in Pretoria.

• Statistics South Africa
  The Stats SA aims to produce timely, accurate and accessible official statistics to help advance economic growth, development and democracy in the new South Africa.

Tunisia

• Institut National de la Statistique (INS)

Uganda

• Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)

Canada

• Data Library Service - University of Toronto

• National Archives of Canada
  The story of nation is best told by the people who lived that story. Their countless letters, diaries, pictures, official documents and records serve as the collective memory of the nation. The National Archives of Canada preserves Canada's archival heritage, and makes it available to Canadians through a wide variety of means - publications, exhibitions, special events, as well as reference and researcher services. The Archives' collections include millions of records, including texts, photographs, films, maps, videos, books, paintings, prints and government files, that bring the past to life.

• Numeric Data Services - University of British Columbia (Vancouver)
  Includes social science data, economic and financial data, and census data.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Databases
  University of Alberta Libraries.

• Statistics Canada
  The national statistical agency offers a collection on the economic and social conditions in Canada. Statistical information is divided into four topics: economy, land, people and government. And each topic is further divided into sub-topics which offer lists of statistical tables. The site also provides Daily news (newly released data, announcements of new products and services), publications from the agency, research papers, publications (downloadable in PDF format). Try it out, and don't forget to look in the electronic data dictionary (a 'zipped' set of HTML files). English and French version.

Greenland

• Statistics Greenland

U.S.A.

• Brown University Social Science Data Services (SSDS)
  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.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
  Allows for customized extraction from a wide variety of BLS Data series. BLS is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the field of labor economics and statistics.

• CIESIN Gateway
  A search here simultaneously searches and retrieves information from many diverse databases worldwide. The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) facilitates access to data and information on human interactions in the environment, global environmental change, and sustainable development. The CIESIN Gateway provides access to a distributed catalog that identifies data and information resources relevant to these topics. Organizations contributing information to the project include: The Global Change Data and Information System, The Committee for Earth Observations Satellites (CEOS), EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Topics include: population dynamics; land and freshwater resources; industry and energy; agriculture and food security; economic activity; human attitudes, preferences, and behavior; policy and institutions; human and environmental health; ocean and atmospheric dynamics; geography and land cover.

• Columbia University: Electronic Data Services
  Offers access to a wide variety of numerical data resources and related services: online searching of data resources, guides to specific datasets, statistical package documentation (SAS, SPSS, Stata, SPlus, Minitab, Perl), data manipulation and conversion tools documentation

• Country studies / Area Handbook Program
  from the Library of Congres. A series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 85 countries. Countries that were previously in multi-country volumes are now available individually. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. You can search across all countries or any combination of countries, or browse the table of contents for a specific country. The maps and charts are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• County and City Data Books
  Provides access to both the 1988 and 1994 editions of the County and City Data Book. A wide variety of Demographic, Social, and Economic Variables are presented for Counties, Cities, and States. Based on data from the CD-ROM versions of the County and City Data Books. Presented by the University of Virginia Library Social Sciences Data Center.

• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER)
  The CISER Data Archive maintains a collection of machine-readable social and economic data sets, consisting of over 16,000 online files and thousand of studies on CD-ROMs and diskettes. You can search the holdings or browse the holdings by subject.

• Data and Program Library Service (DPLS)
  Madison, USA. Provides access to machine readable data files to the social science community of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and to disseminate locally-generated files to scholars at other institutions.

• Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy (FedStats)

• Gallup
  The world's leading source of public opinion since 1935.

• General Social Survey - Data and Information Retrieval System (GSSDIRS)
  Presented by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

• HMDC - Harvard - MIT Data Center
  The pincipal distributor of quantitative social science data from major international data consortia.

• GeoStat - Geospatial & Statistical Data Center - University of Virginia Library
  The Social Sciences Data Center and Geographic Information Systems Lab.

• Guide to primary social science research data and related resources available on the Internet
  A guide to data libraries and data archives about which information is available via the Internet, as well as to primary research data and related resources available for access or acquisition via tcp/ip-based tools. It also contains the literature available on data management. Editor: Laine G.M. Ruus (Data Library Service, University of Toronto).

• ICPSR Data Archive
  The data archive of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (University of Michagan, USA). One of the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. The database is searchable and browsable.

• Indicators of Social Justice
  Indicators of Social Justice reflect the current state of American social structure. They can be used in the analysis of social problems and in social practice in general.

• Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences
  Data and Program Library Service. A guide to Social Science data available on the Internet, maintained by librarians at the Data and Program Library Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

• Knight-Ridder Information [Dialog]
  Access to a massive number of databases (account and password needed).

• Princeton University: Data and Statistical Service (DSS)
  DDS maintains the University Data Library and provides reference and consulting support to users of electronic data. Users can inspect a list and short description of popular datasets, search for data and acces data, and read about the supported statistical software.

• Sociometrics Data Archive: Study Summaries
  from: SocioNet - the world wide web site of Sociometrics Corporation. More than 350 study summaries on national health and social science data collections on adolescent health and pregnancy prevention, American families, aging, AIDS and STDs, maternal drug abuse, and more. You can also search Variable Summaries. (and, or, *)
  
  
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• State of the Nation's Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities and Suburbs (Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University). Part of a contribution to the United Nations' Habitat II conference in Istanbul in June 1996. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contracted with the Center for Urban Policy Research to assemble a comprehensive database on 77 American cities and suburbs. The database brings together over 3,000 variables from a wide variety of sources, allowing easy comparability of indicators on employment and economic development, demographic measures, housing and land use, income and poverty, fiscal conditions, and a host of other health, social, and environmental indicators. Data files are available for download in several formats (Tab-delimited ASCII, SPSS portable file, Excel, and SAS).

• University of California, Berkeley
  Berkeley's principal archive of computerized social science and health statatistics information. The holdings can be searched or browsed by various methods. Some of the site collections are restricted to those affiliated with the Berkeley university.

• University of California, Irvine (UCI) - Social Science Data Archives
  Collects and disseminates, for academic research and instructional use, machine-readable data in a variety of formats (including CD-ROMs and floppy disks). The collection contains data files on many disciplines, including political science, economics, management, demography, criminal justice, sociology, envrironmental sciences, and health sciences. The availability of these studies permist researchers to conduct secondary analyses on these data. In the newsletter Social Science Data Archivist" you'll find announcements of new datasets acquired, news items, as well as citations to research using social science data.

• University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Social Sciences Data Collection
  Search or browse a collection of several hundred internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data.
  

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• University of Connecticut: Roper Center
  The largest library of public opinion data in the world: over 10,000 survey files and a coverage from 1935-present. The site includes a full-text question-level retrieval system which gives users access to over a quarter-million questions asked since 1935. All this information can be searched by subject, word, survey firm and data.

• University of Wisconsin-Madison - Data and Program Library Service (DPLS)
  Provides access to machine readable data files to the social science community of the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus and to disseminate locally-generated files to scholars at other institutions. Contains the archival data online repository, the complete catalog of DPLS dataset holdings, internet crossroads in social science data, and more.

• U.S. Census Bureau: International Database (IDB)
  A data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic dat voor +220 countries and areas of the world. Don't forget to try the online demographic aggregation for user-selected regions and/or countries. The "Population Pryramids" display graphs of the choosen population, by age and sex. And last but not least: you can download the IDB Program and Data to your own PC.

• World Factbook- CIA
  The US Central Intelligence Agency released the latest in this annual series of country information reference books. Data is available for over 250 countries. For each country, map and flag, geographic, population, government, economic, transportation, communication, and defense information is provided for the latest year available. Users can browse the whole country list, by continent, or by subject. The entire book is available in compressed (.gz) plain text and rich text format (.rtf). The agency also offers name information for chiefs of state and cabinet members< for over 190 countries.

• Yale University: StatCat
  StatCat (formerly the Social Science Data Archive) is the repository and reference center at Yale for machine-readable data sources in the social sciences. StatCat 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. Users can search for authors, titels, subjects and abstracts, and browse the data catalog by broad subject areas.

Central America

Belize

• Central Statistical Office (CSO)

Costa Rica

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC)

El Salvador

• General Directorate of Statistics and Census

Guatemala

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)

Mexico

• National Statistics, Geography and Informatics Institute (INEGI)

Panama

• Contraloría General de la República de Panamá

South America

Argentina

• Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos (INDEC)

Bolivia

• Instituto Nacional de Estadistica
  

Brasil

• Brazilian Statistical and Geographic Foundation (IBGE)

• Center for Studies on Public Opinion (CESOP) - University of Campinas.

• Unicamp
  State University of Campinas.

Chile

• Instituto Nacional De Estadisticas (INE)

Colombia

• Departamento Administration Nacional de Estadistica (DANE)

Ecuador

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos del Ecuador (INEC)

Paraguay

• Dirección General de Estadística e Informática(DGEEC)

Peru

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)

Uruguay

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)

• Unidad de Información Socio-Demográfica y Politica (UISDP) - Banco de Datos

Venezuela

• Oficina Central de Estadística e Informática (OCEI)

Caribbean

Aruba

• Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)

Barbados

• Barbados Statistical Service

Cuba

• Dirección Nacional de Estadística

Dominican Republic

• Oficina Nacional de Estadística

Jamaica

• Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN)

Saint Lucia

• Government Statistics Department

Asia

• APEC - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
  A regional vehicle for promoting open trade and practical economic cooperation. The databases contain information on tariffs, projects, labour market, and ecology.

Azerbaijan

• State Statistical Committee of Zerbijan Republic (GOSCOMSTAT)

Bangladesh

• Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)

Cambodia

• National Institute of Statistics

China

• Databank for China Studies (DCS)
  A collection computerised social science data for People's Republic of China that is open to the academic community. It houses over twenty large and and medium sized datasets from China.

• National Bureau of Statistics

Hong Kong

• Census and Statistics Department (C&SD)

• University of Hong Kong - Social Science Research Centre

India

• Census of India

• Department of Statistics

• Indian SSRC Data Archive (SSDA-IND)

• Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR-DA)

Indonesia

• Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS)

Japan

• Japna Information Network
  A government-sponsored site intented to introduce its foreign reader to the society, culture and other aspects of Japan. The statistics page provides direct links to government agencies and other sources providing muneric data on categories such as census, crime, economy, housing, industry and education. If you can't find what you need here, there are links to other statistical resources in Japan as well.

• Japan Statistics Bureau and Statistics Center
  Coordinates the statistical activities of different ministries and agencies. It also caries out major censuses and sample surveys, such as the Population Census and the Establishment and Enterprise Census.

• Social Science Japan - Data Archives
  A collection of data from more than 250 statistical surveys in Japan. English summary of the collected data, and Japanese information for secondary use of the data by academic researchers.

Kazakstan

• National Statistical Agency (ASDC)

Korea

• Korean Social Science Data Center (KSDC)
  The goal of KSDC is to manage and accumulate various kinds of social data sets in order for academic developments of social sciences. The foundation of the institution in Korea is necessary in managing and accumulating various data sets in the age of globalization and information. The institution keeps and offers both national and international data sets related to social sciences. There's a Korean and an English version.

Kyrgyzstan

• National Statistical Committee (NSC)

• Unesco: Kyrgyzstan

Macau

• Census and Statistics Department (DESC)

Malaysia

• Department of Statistics (JP)

Mongolia

• National Statistics Office

Pakistan

• Government of Pakistan, Statistics Division

Philippines

• National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB)

• National Statistics Office (NSO)

Singapore

• Statistics Singapore

South Korea

• National Statistical Office (NSO)

Sri Lanka

• Department of Census and Statistics (DCS)

Taiwan

• Bureau of Statistics

• Office of Survey Research, Academia Sinica
  Most data in de SRDA are concerned with social, political, educational, and economic topics in Taiwan.

Thailand

• National Statistical Office (NSO)

Uzbekistan

• Ministry of Macroeconomy and Statistics

• Uzbekistan
  An introduction to Uzbekistan, with basic facts on its economy, defence, geography, government, history and people. Presented by Country Reports.

• Uzbekistan Statistics
  Economic statistics provided by the Center for Economic Research.

• Human Rights Report 1999
  A country report on human rights practices submitted by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The report covers internationally recognized individual, civil, political and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Middle East

Cyprus

• CYSTAT - Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus

• Fact Sheets - Ministry of the Interrior

• The Central Bank of Cyprus
  Provides statistical informatin on "Money and Banking", "Balance and Payments", "Economic Indicators" and Government Registered Development Stocks and Treasury Bills".

Iran

• Statistical Center of Iran (SCI)

Israel

• Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel
  Israel's centralized statistical service responsible for collecting, processing and disseminating statistical data from surveys and administrative sources and for carrying out national censuses.

• Holocaust related information systems

• Israel Social Science Data Center (ISDC)
  The ISDC houses many datasets including national sample survey data, local studies, census microdata as well as government records in selected fields and macroeconomic series.

• University of Haifa Data Archive (UHDA)
  A resource center, based at the faculty of social sciences, that acquires, disseminates, preserves and promotes quantitative data files, data bases and projects — uch a statistical data, data tables, pictures, digital audio/video and other files— that were used for research or are of academic interest.

Jordan

• Department of Statistics (DOS)

Kuwait

• Statistics and Information Sector (Ministry of Planning)

Lebanon

• Central Administration for Statistics (CAS)

Oman

• Ministry of National Planning and National Development

Palestine

• Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

Turkey

• State Institute of Statistics (SIS)

Oceania

Australia

• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

• Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI)
  An organisation of research institutions & organisations that facilitates access to Australian and overseas sources of computer-readable social science data, encourages and supports activities and procedures which enhance access to and use of that data, and encourages and supports teaching and research in the social sciences generally. The Social Science Data Archives (SSDA) supports the 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 (ASSDA) - Australian National University
  Collection includes over 500 general Australian social science data sets and the Australian Census of Population and Housing data from 1966 to present. It 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. It 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.

New Zealand

• New Zealand Social Research Data Archive (NZSRDA)

• Statistics New Zealand

Melanesia

• Fiji: Fiji Islands Statistics Bureau

• Papua New Guinea: Nationa Statistical Office (NSO)

• Guam: Department of Commerce | Guam Statistics

• Marshall Islands: Office of Planning and Statistics

• Federal States of Micronesia: Division of Statistics

• French Polynesia: Institute Statistique de Polynésie Française

Europe

European

• CESSDA Integrated Data Catalogue (The Council for European Social Science Data Archives)
  A database that virtually brings the Catalogs of the European Social Science Data Archives together; searching all the databases at one time using a single search profile. This page allows you to search (using WAIS) the data catalogs of national data archives in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, and Australia. Search fields include title, names, contents, geographic focus, and starting and ending years.

• CORDIS: R&D information
  Community R&D Information Service.

• ECASS - European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences
  A Large Scale Facility for European Research and Data Analysis, under the Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Programme of the European Commission. ECASS is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Essex, housed within the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS). It conducts and facilitates the empirical study of social and economic change by integrating longitudinal and cross-national European datasets, providing the support services required for their analyses, and acting as the host for major substantive research programmes.

• ERPA: European Research Papers Archive
  A common interface for searching a database of online working papers relevant to European integration. Contributors to the archive include the Robert Schuman Centre of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, the Jean Monnet Working Papers Series at Harvard Law School, and the European Communities Studies Association-Austria. With a a short form users can search recent additions to the archive. With a long form you get many advanced search options, including full-text searches.

• Europe
  Information about Europe and the European electronic information market. Direct access to more than 20 online databases.

• Public Opinion
  European Continuous Tracking Survey (CTS) is carried out, for the Commission Services, as of January 1996. It consists of some 200 telephone interviews done in each Member State, each week, 44 weeks a year. Results are made available every four weeks. Regular releases of these results are published in Europinion reports.

• EuroStat
  Statistical Office of the European Communities.

• Statistical Offices in Europe
  Presented by the Mannheimer Center for European Social Research.

Andorra

• Departament d'Estudis i d'Estadística

Armenia

• Armenian Statistics

Austria

• European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
  The EUMC provides the Community and its Member States with objective information and data on racism, xenophobia, islamophobia and anti-semitism at the European level. The site offers comparitative data on employment that document the incidents and types of discrimination which occuers in workplaces and labour markets acrosss the EU.

• Vienna Institute for Social Data and Documentation
  Wiener Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Dokumentation und Methodik (WISDOM).

Belarus

• Ministry of Statistics and Analysis

• Unicef: Belarus

• World Factbook: Belarus

Belgium

• Belgian Archives for the Social Sciences (BASS)

Bulgaria

• National Statistical Institute (NSI)

Croatia

• Croation Bureau of Statistics (DZS)

Czech Republic

• Czech Statistical Office (CzSO)
  A list of publications issued by the CzSO.

• Sociological Data Archive (SDA)
  The data archive in the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic stores data files from social science research projects and makes them accessible for secondary usage. The pages offer the possibility to order data files or to download selected data for educational purposes. Czech and English versions

Denmark

• Danish Data Archives (DDA)
  Databases on the fields of general, organisational and industrial sociology. Data are available for secundary analysis. The DDA is part of the Danish State Archive and serves as an archive for all of Denmark.

• Statistics Denmark

Estonia

• Estonian Social Science Data Archive (ESSDA)

• Statistical Office of Estonia

Finland

• Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD)
  A national resource centre for social science research and teaching. The FSD tries to increase the use of existing data in the social sciences by disseminating it world wide. Therefore it provides a wide range of services from data archiving to information services. The database provides access to data set lists and to data documentation. Data can be searched by an alphabetical index, an index by series or material number, and series descriptions.

• Statistics Finland
  A service centre of statistical information. Collections include statistics on all fields and from all over the world.

France Social Science Departments | Research Centers | Associations | Libraries | Journals | NewsPapers

• L'Album des Sciences sociales

• Banque de Données Socio-Politiques (BDSP) (Grenoble Universities)
  Political information and social indicators about France: spatial data and time series of electoral results, survey data, opinion poll data etc. Searchable (WAIS). Created by: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the main French public research agency.

• Francis
  The French Database in Social Sciences (Philosophy, Education, Sociology, History of Sciences and Techniques, Literature, Linguistic, Prehistory, Archeology, History and Sciences of Religions, Administration, Ethnology, Latin America, Geography).

• Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSÉÉ)

• Réseau Quetelet

Germany Social Science Departments | Research Centers | Associations | Libraries | Journals | NewsPapers

• Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung (GWDG)
  The GWDG is a corporate facility of the state of Niedresachsen and the Max-Planck-Society. It serves the purpose of data-processing and competence center for the Max-Planck-Society and as the university computer centre for the University of Göttingen.

• InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften - Bonn

• Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung

• SOEP - Das Sozio-ökonomische Panel
  Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin

• Zentralarchiv für Sozialforschung (ZA) - Univ. Köln.
  The Central Archive for Empirical Social Research archives primary material (data, questionnaires, code plans) and results of empirical and historical studies in order to prepare them for secondary analyses and to mate them available to the interested public. Contains a library (empirical social research), data catalogue, ALLBUS, Eurobarometer, ISSP, politbarometer, election studies and more.

• Zentralarchiv für Historische Sozialforschung (ZHSF)

• Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA)

Greece

• Greek Social Data Bank (GSDB)

• National Statistical Service of Greece (NSSG)

Hungary

• Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO)

• Social Research Informatics Center (TáRKI) - Budapest

Ireland

• Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA)

• Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)

• Archivio Dati e Programmy per le Scienze Sociali (ADPSS) - Milan

Latvia

• Central Statistical Bureau (CSB)

• Latvian Social Science Data Archive (LSZA)
  Data of the Archive describes different aspects of social and economical life of Latvia over a wide time interval.

Lithuania

• Department of Statistics (StD)

Luxembourg

• International Networks for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, Development (ISTEAD / CEPS)

• Statec - Service central de la statistique et des études économiques

Malta

• Central Office of Statistics (COS)

Moldova

• Department of Statistical and Sociological Analysis

Norway

• Registeringssentral for Historiske Data (RHD)
  Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC)

• Norwegian Social Sciences Data Services (NSD)

• Statistics Norway (SSB)

Poland

• Central Statistical Office of Poland(GUS)

• CIESIN/Poland

Portugal

• Instituto Nacional de Estatística

Romania

• Romanian Social Data Archive (RODA
  Specialised in archiving electronic data collections obtained by social research.

• Institutul Național de Statistică (INSSE)

• Factbook: Romania

• UNICEF: Basis Statistics on Romania

• World Factbook: Romania

Russia

• Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RlMS)
  Provides information about the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey as well as about the former Soviet Union as it undergoes political and economic transition. The RLMS is a team of economists, statisticians, sociologists, nutritionists, and public health scholars from the United States and Russia who are studying the impact of Russian economic reforms on the nutritional and economic well-being of the Russian population.

• State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics and Analysis (Goskomstat)

Scotland

• University of Edinburgh Data Library (EUDL)
  Provides a range of on-line data which is available to the University's Research and Teaching communities. These data include a subset of recent UK Censuses of Population; the 1851 Population Census national 2% sample; the GB Agricultural Census; and the Postcode Directory for Scotland.

Slovakia

• Statistical Office of the Slowak Republic

Slowenia

• Social Science Data Archives - Arhiv Družboslovnih Ppdatkov (ADP)

• Statistical Office of the Republic of Slowenia

• Unicef: Slovenia

• Wikipedia: Slovenia

• World Factbook: Slovenia

Spain

• Instituto Nacional de Estatística

• Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía(IEA)

Sweden

• Swedish Social Science Data Service (SSD)
  The Swedish data archive for machine-readable data in the social sciences and humanities, placed at Göteborg University. It has been established to service all universities in Sweden especially those with full educational programs at graduate level. Swedish and English version.

Switzerland

• Statistik Schweiz - Bundesamt für Statistik, Switserland.

• Swiss Information And Data Archive Service for the Social Sciences (SIDOS)
  SIDOS collects and disseminates information about social science research in Switserland. The site contains descriptions of research projects, online catalogue and news items. French, German and English version.

United Kingdom

• Centre for Applied Social Surveys (CASS)
  CASS is an ESRC Resource Centre run jointly by the SCPR and the University of Southampton, with the University of Surrey. It provides short courses in survey methods and is developing a survey Question Bank for use by social scientists and social researchers in the academic world, government, market research and the independent and voluntary sectors.

• Edinburgh Data and INformation Access (EDINA)
  Provides national on-line services of the UK higher education and research community. None of EDINA's services involve any cost to the end user. In most cases, services require both institutional subscription and end-user registration.

• UK Data Archive (UKDA)
  A specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK. Through this web pages it is also possible to search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data and to use the services of the Data Archive to acquire these data on your behalf. The Archive is funded jointly by the University of Essex where it is located, the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee). Searches are performed on catalogue records (study descriptions) and keywords describing the studies in the Archive's collection.

• Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS)
  A national research support service based at the University of Manchester, specialising in on-line provision of strategic research and teaching datasets, software packages, training and large-scale computing resources for the UK academic community.

• National Information Services and Systems (NISS) - University of Bath.

• Office for National Statistics (ONS)

• Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre (QUALIDATA)
  Essex Univ., UK. Contains comprehensive guidelines for depositing qualititave data, acess agreements and conditions, information about copyright and confidentiality, information relating to the new ESRC research grants application form and archiving, links to other repositories which old/will hold qualititave data, details of recent data deposited/processed etc. See for a good description of this database, Louise Corti and Paul Thompson's article ESRC Qalitative Data Archival Resources Centre QUALIDATA.

• R·Cade - Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe
  An interdisciplinary resource centre that will help researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences. It has been established in the UK in a partnership between the Centre for European Studies at the University of Durham and The Data Archive at the University of Essex. It provides efficient access to key statistical data about Europe. Official statistics are available from the European Union Statistical Office (Eurostat), United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO).The services include online access to an integrated database via the Internet and World Wide Web, or customised data extraction to your requirements. The site can be used to preview our data holdings and documentation, which may be relevant to your research, policy and business needs. They also provide a comprehensive guide to other data sources on Europe.

• UK Data Archive

Netherlands

• CBS - Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
  The Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands collects, processes and analyses data and publishes the statistical results. Many data are available online; see Figures, Themes, and Web publications. The StatLine Database contains up to date developments of some key social and economic indicators (including population, labour, manufacturing output and prices). The indicators are updated daily.

• CentERdata
  A databank which allows you to compose your tailor made data set. The research data are gathered by a telepanel. Users can combine data from different studies. CentERdata is affiliated to the CentER for Economic Research of the Brabant University. Its core business is the exploitation of a computerized household panel.

• Economisch Statistische Berichten (ESB)
  Economic statistical data.

• Kenniscentrum Grote Steden
  A database with research on the solution of problems in big cities.

• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
  The mission of the Academy is to ensure the quality of scientific research in the Netherlands.

  • DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services
    A national organization responsible for storing and providing permanent access to research data from the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Steinmetz Archive and the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA) have become part of DANS.

  • Steinmetz Archive (Dutch version)
    The Archive holds 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. The data holdings centre on Dutch social science research, but the Archive also reaches beyond national borders to many foreign data archives and international organizations. The Archive serves as a gateway for the Dutch researcher to a wealth of international empirical data sources.

  • Social Sciences documents (SLW-Databank)
    The database has been closed in 2002, but can still be consulted.

  • Nederlandse Onderzoek Databank (NOD) (Dutch version)
    A Dutch research database from the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). It contains information on current research projects, researchers, and research institutes in the Netherlands and Flanders.
  
  

• Nieuwe Spelling Databank

• SCP - Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau
  A research organisation which operates on an interdepartmental basis. On behalf of the government it provides building-blocks for policy formation in the social and cultural fields. The SCP also provides solicited and unsolicited advice on policy alternatives, with particular emphasis on intersectoral and medium to long-term issues. It conducts socio-scientific research into social developments, the way the Dutch population lives and the demand for and supply of facilities. Dutch and English version.

• NIPO
  Netherlands Institute for Public Opinion and Market Research.
  NIPO is the largerst market research and public opinion bureau of the Netherlands.

• SDN
  Stichting Sociale Databank Nederland.

• Staatsalmanak
  SDU-Informatiebank.

• Wetenschappelijk Statistisch Agentschap (WSA)
  An agency that wants to improve the accessibility of social science data bases in the Netherlands. It is the intermediar between researchers and data providers.

• World Database of Happiness
  A register of scientific research on subjective appeciation of life ('life-satisfaction' or 'happiness'). The database involves four components:
  1. Bibliography of Happiness
     Contemporary studies on subjective appreciation of life; with detailed subject index.
  2. Item bank
     All indicators that tap happiness, mostly single questions. Each item is presented full text and with links to studies that used the measure. The measures are classified by focus, time reference, mode of observation, rating and wording.
  3. Distributional Findings on Happiness in Nations and Happines in Public
     Results of representative surveys on subjective appreciation of life in 56 nations since 1946.
  4. Correlational Findings on Happiness
     Mini-abstracts of correlational research findings, ordered by subject-matter, time and nation (7838 findings from 603 studies in 69 nations).
  5. Directory of Hapsiness Investigators
     Names and addresses of scientists who have published on subjective appreciation of life. Free available on request.
  6. Data sets States of Nations and Trends in Nations
  7. Key literature

Reference

• Australian Social Science Data Archive - ANU
  A comprehensive list of Social Science Data Archives (and Libraries) from the Australian National Archives.

• General Social Survey Resources - Queens College, CUNY, USA.
  This work (Tenth Edition, NORC, 1995) lists 3173 articles, books, and other references which have used the General Social Surveys as a data source, and gives author, title, date of publication, the names of the GSS variables used in each reference, and an abstract. An exceptionally useful companion tool for GSS users who want to review what has already been published. Searches are for any term in the database, including variable names. You can either search the bibliography online or download the search engine and database for local use (the latter makes sense for instructional or computer lab use). Downloading via ftp. Login as anonymous. Password is your email address.

• Data on the Net - Univ. of California, San Diego, USA
  A guide to several centres maintaining social science data and services from the University of California, San Diego. Links to sites with numeric data sources, searchable catalogs (catalogs and lists of data from data libraries, archives, vendors), data libraries and data archives (data Libraries and Data Archives worldwide), distributors and vendors of data (48 organizations that sell and distribute data for a fee). If you still can't find what you want above, you can try these Social Science Gateways.
  

• Data sources via the Internet
  A guide to primary social science research data and related resources available on the Internet. Editor: Laine G.M. Ruus (Data Library Service, University of Toronto).

• IASSIST
  International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology.
  Home page of the social science data archivists of the world.

• Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences
  Contains several hundreds annotated links to data-related resources. Presented by the Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Social Science Data Archives - Europe
  from the Council for European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA).
  A clickable map of social science data archives in Europe. There is also a clickable map of data archives in North-America and for other archives.

• Statistical Data Locators
  A list of international statistical data sources. Presented by the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The extensive list of international data sites is organized by region.

Editor: dr. Albert Benschop Department of Sociology and Anthropology Social & Behavioral Sciences University of Amsterdam Created: September, 1996 Last modified: 28th February, 2008