SKIDMORE
has many data files right here on campus, and you will find
countless data archives chock full of data on the Web. Here
are several sources that you may find most useful for sociological
and other social scientific research.
MicroCase
Data Files
About 300 data files on wide array of sociological, political,
and anthropological subjects. These data are readily available
right at Skidmore as MicroCase data files, but you can easily
export them to other statistical packages such as SPSS and
SAS. Click here for a Web
page describing MicroCase data files. (NOTE: Skidmore's MicroCase
data files are available only to members of the Skidmore community.)
General
Social Survey
The General Social Survey is a set of annual national surveys
of the attitudes, opinions, and behaviors of of Americans
carried out since 1972. The GSS is available as MicroCase
data files (see above). Click here
for the Queens College on-line GSS codebook.
Comparable data sets from recent years are also available
for over three dozen other countries through the International
Social Survey Program. Click here
for info on the ISSP.
Statistical
Resources at Skidmore
An introduction to other data sets and other statistical resources
available at Skidmore College. For further information beyond
the Statistical Resources Web site, contact Professor Robert
Jones, Skidmore's Statistics Resource Consultant, in the Department
of Economics. Professor Jones's e-mail address is rjones.
Data
Resources on the Web
This useful Web page, maintained by Scribner Library's Barbara
Norelli, describes what its title says.
ICPSR
Skidmore is a member of the Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research, an association of colleges
and universities that maintains the world's largest data archive
for social science. ICPSR data are generally available free
or at minimal cost to Skidmore students and faculty.
Roper
Center
This large data archive at the University of Connecticut has
data from Roper Surveys and much else.
Murray
Center
The Henry A. Murray Research Center at the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study at Harvard University has detests pertaining
to women and family issues. Click here
to search data by keyword. For more information, contact Skidmore
alum Alison Better,
Senior Research Assistant at the Murray Center.