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The best resource for locating and obtaining data sets pertinent to your
research needs are the reference librarians. Subject specialists are
available to help in virtually every academic discipline. See Get Reference
Help.
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, ICPSR, is a repository of a wide variety
of social science data sets. Data sets can be downloaded, along with code books
describing the data files. In addition, syntax files are often available
to read raw data sets into statistical programs like SPSS and SAS. Faculty
with general questions about ICPSR should contact our local representative, Barbara Mellert. Students
who need help downloading files from ICPSR should visit the Social Science
Computing Lab Web
page.
Another important source of data is the U.S.
Census Bureau. In addition, the Minnesota Population Center at the
University of Minnesota is a warehouse for Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
(IPUMS). If you have questions about obtaining or working with census or
IPUMS data, contact the Government Documents librarian, John Cocklin.
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