ICPSR – Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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ICPSR – Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Database info
Large archive of numeric social science data, produced by the Institute for Social Research (ISR) of the University of Michigan. Content is related to social sciences: Politics, Education, Law, and Economics. Strong focus on the United States. As there is extra attention for data (research) a code book can often be found as well. The ICPSR website offers full texts as well as data. The user can choose in which format the text (note pad/ MS word etc) or data (Excel/SPSS etc) should be offered. Register yourself for future visits and to create a search history.
Guides & training
The ICPSR YouTube Channel presents Webinars and tutorials on accessing and using ICPSR resources. The Webinars cover a variety of topics, including finding what you want on the ICPSR website, analyzing ICPSR data online, creating setup files for SPSS, debugging SAS, SPSS, and Stata code, etc.
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