Guide inspired by Pam Morgan's ICPSR LibGuide, Vanderbilt University.
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The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an organization of member institutions that support the acquisition and preservation of social science data, to provide open and equitable access, and to promote effective data use, by:
ICPSR is the world's largest archive of computer-readable social science data including education, public health, sociology, political science, criminal justice, history, and economics, and more.
While the ICPSR holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, the holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records.
Locate data through a variety of search options to,
A data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
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