Didactic Seminar Web-based Resources for Instruction

Data Archives and Web Sites

American Sociological Association Annual Meetings

Howard University

August 15, 2000

8:30 to 12:15



Nan Chico, Ed Nelson, Elizabeth Nelson, Jim Ross

Web Sites

  • Teaching Resources Depository (SSRIC)
    • http://www.csubak.edu/ssric/
  • Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
    • http://www.icpsr.umich.edu
  • Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA)
    • http://csa.berkeley.edu
  • CSU only (data archive is password protected) Social Science Data Base Archive (SSDBA) at CSU Los Angeles (must be subscribing campus in the CSU)
    • http://ssdba.calstatela.edu
  • CSU only (password protected) SDA Data Sets at SSDBA (must be subscribing campus in the CSU) Includes Field Poll data for 1999, General Social Survey from 1972 to 1998, and National Election Study Data from 1948 to 1998
    • http://venus.calstatela.edu/sdaweb

    Data Archives Using SDA

  • California Field Poll, click on Calpolls (includes Field Poll data from 1990 to 1996)
    • http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/SDA/
  • National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, ICPSR, click on "Data Analysis System" (includes a longitudinal study of aging from 1984 to 1990, national health interview survey supplement on aging for 1994, and national hospital discharge surveys)
    • http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA
  • National Archive of Criminal Justice, ICPSR, click on "Data Analysis System" (includes international crime data, homicide data, victimization surveys, and corrections data)
    • http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive, ICSPR, click on "Data Analysis System" (includes Monitoring the Future surveys and National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse)
    • http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA
  • SDA Archive (includes General Social Survey from 1972 to 1996, National Election Study from 1952 to 1996, US Census Microdata for California)
    • http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/archive.htm
  • And finally, a fitting conclusion.
    • http://www.1112.net/lastpage.html