Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Data Collection
(Access: Online - Data Archive Membership)
The ICPSR is the world's largest repository of digital social science data. ICPSR data span many disciplines including sociology, political science, criminology, history, education, demography, gerontology, international relations, public health, economics, and psychology. The archive contains over 7,000 data collections and 500,000 files. The IGA Library & Data Archive is responsible for the UC Davis campus membership to ICPSR.
Producer: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Access: Connect to ICPSR from the
UC Davis campus
Access: Connect to
ICPSR from off campus via the University Library VPN
- From 'Electronic Databases A-Z' search for 'ICPSR' and click on the link provided.
ICPSR also manages a number of topical archives. While the majority of the datasets held in these collections are also represented in the main ICPSR data collection, the archives provide access to unique data, documentation, analytical tools and analyses that may be of interest. Several of the archives (marked *) make data available for online analysis using the SDA system. Specialized archives include:
Census 2000 at ICPSR provides access to U.S. decennial census data, documentation, and training activities
Child Care and Early Education Research Connections* provides access to publications and over 125 datasets in the field, for use in research and policy making
Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys* is a harmonization of three mental health surveys that deal with cultural and ethnic influences on mental disorders
CrimeStat is a Windows-based spatial statistics program that interfaces with desktop GIS applications to support analysis of crime incident data
Health and Medical Care Archive preserves and disseminates data collected by research projects funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, including restricted access datasets such as the Community Tracking Study
International Archive of Education Data* provides access to a variety of educational datasets, including some international holdings, for comparative and longitudinal research
International Data Resource Center draws together ICPSR’s international data holdings and includes related instructional resources
Minority Data Resource Center* provides data resources and tools for the comparative analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging* provides access to resources and data relevant to gerontology
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data* provides access to over 700 data collections in criminal justice and criminology
PK-3 Data Resource Center: The First Six Years of Schooling and Beyond, co-sponsored by ICPSR and the Foundation for Child Development, provides access to four relevant data sources and related publications
Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains* provides access to county-level data and research on agriculture, population, and the biophysical environment between 1870 and 2000 for twelve states in the Great Plains region
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods features data, documentation, and research generated by this study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development -- data, except Systematic Social Observation, are restricted access
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive* (SAMHDA) promotes the use of data and related research in understanding and assessing substance abuse and mental health problems and the impact of related treatment systems
Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center provides access to survey data and research about the nature of intra- and international terrorism incidents, organizations, perpetrators, and victims
TIGER/Line Files @ ICPSR provides download access to the Census Bureau’s TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) Files
The data collections provided by the IGA Library & Data Archive are licensed for campus access. In some cases, access is restricted to UC Davis faculty, staff, and students with valid university computing accounts (UC Davis user id / Kerberos password). In other cases, access is restricted to the campus network. Data are made available with the understanding that they are to be used for not-for-profit academic research only and are not to be copied or otherwise made available to any third party. All data used for research should be given an appropriate citation in any resulting published work.
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