The Social Science Data Archive has been operating at UCLA since 1961 when political science professor Dwaine Marvick established the Political Behavior Archive (PBA); through his efforts, UCLA was one of the 8 founding members of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in 1962. When the Survey Research Center (SRC) was formed in 1964, under the direction of Eve Fielder, the PBA was merged with a planned Archive Data Library the SRC was to house. In 1977, the research support framework of the Data Archive was designed by Professor Donald Treiman and implemented until it was re-organized into the UCLA Library in 2014.

The mission of the Social Science Data Archive has been and continues to be to provide a foundation for social science research with faculty support throughout an entire research project involving original data collection or the reuse of publicly available studies. Data Archive staff and researchers work as partners throughout all stages of the research process, beginning when a hypothesis or area of study is being developed, during grant and funding activities, while data collection and/or analysis is ongoing, and finally in long term preservation of research results. Our role is to provide a collaborative environment where the focus is on understanding the nature and scope of research approach and management of research output throughout the entire life cycle of the project.

Our Dataverse consists of unique surveys, enumerations, public opinion polls, and de-identified administrative records. Topics of studies include political attitudes and behavior; social and economic attitudes and behaviors; studies of health status and health outcomes; families, children, and women; international surveys of occupational and social mobility; the Los Angeles County Social Surveys; California Polls; and, census data for the United States and other countries. In addition, the SSDA provides access to data from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Materials from SSDA are used with software programs, such as SPSS, SAS, STATA, and R to carry out statistical analysis. Assistance in using statistical packages is provided by the IDRE Statistical consulting office.

Instructional support, especially support that links research with instruction is also a mainstay of operations. The Data Archive is one of the key support components in those disciplines that provide instruction in research methods, survey design and methods, statistics, and data analysis. Throughout the campus, data provided by the Archive is used by faculty in courses to transmit pedagogy, illustrate theory and develop understanding of social, political, demographic, economic, geographic and historical trends and issues. throughout the entire life cycle of the project.

Our Dataverse contains resources to help you find and analyze data, and tutorials to enrich your knowledge of data management practices and procedures. We provide advice in preparing data management plans and in applying for access to secure or restricted access datasets. If you are interested in sharing your data and need assistance in finding an appropriate archive, or would like help to document your data for the purpose of sharing, please contact us. For more information, see our Dataverse on Tutorials and Resources.

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May 21, 2024
Wright, Deborah; Shaw, Jonathan; Bota, Peter; Lai, Charles, 2024, "Replication Data for: The Relationship between Burnout and Depression in First-Year Medical Students", https://doi.org/10.25346/S6/NNGECQ, UCLA Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:ei1ke+d+4xOujZCzkGD3cQ== [fileUNF]
We sent out the survey via institutional email to 125 M1 students, the entire class excepting the 5 students (Jonathan, Charles, I, and 2 others) who were involved in setting up the survey. Each survey would collect data for 7 days after it was sent out, and the first 13 particip...
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Surveys (LAMAS), 1-10(University of California, Los Angeles)
Mar 9, 2022
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Areas Studies (LAMAS) were conducted ten times between 1970 and 1976. The goal of the LAMAS studies is the development of a set of standard community profile measures appropriate for use in the planning and evaluation of public policy. In addition, in...
Nov 20, 2020
University of California, Los Angeles. Institute for Social Science Research., 1970, "Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Surveys [LAMAS] 1, 1970", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9MKISZ, University of California, Los Angeles. Social Science Data Archive.
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Areas Studies (LAMAS) were conducted ten times between 1970 and 1976. The goal of the LAMAS studies is the development of a set of standard community profile measures appropriate for use in the planning and evaluation of public policy. In addition, in...
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Nov 20, 2020
University of California, Los Angeles. Institute for Social Science Research., 1971, "Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Surveys [LAMAS] 2, 1970", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VFV0OD, University of California, Los Angeles. Social Science Data Archive.
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Areas Studies (LAMAS) were conducted ten times between 1970 and 1976. The goal of the LAMAS studies is the development of a set of standard community profile measures appropriate for use in the planning and evaluation of public policy. In addition, in...
This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Apr 17, 2020
U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2022, "Census of Population and Housing, 1980 (U.S.): PUMS A Sample: 5% Sample, New York Metropolitan Area Extract Prepared by Donald Treiman (M067V1)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QNSTVW, Social Science Data Archive
This file is a subset of the 1980 U.S. Census of Population and Housing, Public Use Microdata Sample, prepared by Donald Treiman. The data include only case for the New York standard metropolitan statistical area.
This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
Apr 17, 2020
Stephenson, Libbie, 2022, "Sharing Your Data", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TKOU5T
This document will provide you with some things to consider if you want or need to make your data available to others. This document is freely available under a Creative Commons license in PDF format.
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Apr 17, 2020
UCLA Research Program in Competition and Business Policy, 2022, "Bureau of Economic Analysis Price Indices, 1963-1975", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1IKEZ3
These datasets contain price indices for 1963 through 1975 for 4-digit, 3-digit, and 2-digit industries prepared by the Bureau of Economic research (BEA). The dataset is formatted for simplicity. Each record is uniquely associated with a particular industry. Variables include the...
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Apr 17, 2020
Research Program in Competition and Business Policy, 2022, "Census Company Size Distribution Data, 1963 (M277)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2RRNDD
This dataset contains the 1963 census statistics by company employment size classes for the 2- and 4-digit census manufacturing industries, Data is also included for "all industries" under the 1-digit code "1". The data is often aggregated to avoid revealing confidential firm inf...
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Apr 17, 2020
U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2022, "Census of Population and Housing, 1980 (U.S.): PUMS A Sample: 5% Sample, 40% Extract of Labor Force Persons, 11 Variables -- Prepared by Don Treiman (M224V1)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DHH1FK, Social Science Data Archive
This is an extract prepared by Donald Treiman from the 1980 Census of Population and Housing, Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). It contains 11 variables: region/division, state, sex, age, highest grade attended, highest grade finished, 1980 industry, 1980 occupation, wage and s...
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Apr 17, 2020
Health Resources and Services Administration., 2022, "Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File (ARF), 1990", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ERN2QH
From the codebook: The Area Resource File (ARF) is a county-based data file, summarizing secondary data from a wide variety of sources, which are useful to health analysts and others conducting research on the nation's health care delivery system. It contains over 6000 data eleme...
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