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Sociology

Data Resource: ICPSR

ICPSR

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

One of the largest repository of social science data, 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.

Finding and Accessing Data at ICPSR

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