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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Apr 23, 2019
Statistics South Africa, 2017, "October Household Survey [South Africa], 1998 (M882V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M882V1, Harvard Dataverse
ABSTRACT: The October Household Survey is an annual survey based on a probability sample of a large number of households (ranging from 16 000 in 1996 through to 30 000 in 1997 and 1998, depending on the availability of funding). It covers a range of development indicators, includ...
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Apr 23, 2019
Statistics South Africa, 2016, "October Household Survey [South Africa], 1999 (M883V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M883V1, Harvard Dataverse
ABSTRACT: The October Household Survey is an annual survey based on a probability sample of a large number of households (ranging from 16 000 in 1996 through to 30 000 in 1997 and 1998, depending on the availability of funding). It covers a range of development indicators, includ...
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Apr 23, 2019
Centro de Estudios sobre la Realidad Social, 2016, "Centro de Investigaciones sobre la realidad Social (CIRES) [Spain], 1992 (M534V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M534V1, Harvard Dataverse
The CIRES studies are conducted over a period of months in 1992. In 1992 the studies explore supranational identification, attitudes toward science and technology, attitudes toward immigrants, justice and civic rights, old age, political and economic culture, ecology and environm...
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Apr 23, 2019
Centro de Estudios sobre la Realidad Social [Spain], 2016, "Centre de Investigaciones sobre la Realidad Social (CIRES) [Spain], 1991 (M469V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M469V1, Harvard Dataverse
The CIRES studies are conducted over a period of months in 1991. In 1991 the studies explore supranational identification, use of time, attitudes toward immigrants, social inequalities based on sex and age, education and social mobility, political culture, economic attitudes and...
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Apr 23, 2019
Turner, Ralph H., 2016, "Earthquake Watch in California, 1977-1979 (M892V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M892V1, Harvard Dataverse
This study is a 4 wave panel conducted between 1977 and 1979. The baseline interview was conducted in January of 1977 and has 1749 cases. Wave 2 is called the Wave 1 Re-interview and was conducted in July of 1977; there are 426 cases. The third wave was conducted in January of 19...
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Apr 23, 2019
Centro de Estudios sobre la Realidad Social, 2016, "Centro de Investigaciones sobre la Realidad Social (CIRES) [Spain], 1993 (M537V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M537V1, Harvard Dataverse
The CIRES studies are conducted over a period of months in 1993. In 1993 the studies explore supranational identification, family and time management, attitudes toward immigrants, attitudes and experiences with respect to the public sector, youth, political and economic culture,...
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Apr 23, 2019
Centro de Estudios sobre la Realidad Social, 2016, "Centro de Investigaciones Sobre la realidad Social (CIRES) [Spain], 1994 (M564V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M564V1, Harvard Dataverse
The CIRES studies are conducted over a period of months in 1994. In 1994 the studies explore supranational identification, health, attitudes toward immigrants, culture as consumption, demands for social welfare, political and economic culture, orientation towards work, youth, and...
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Apr 23, 2019
Statistics South Africa, 2017, "Labour Force Survey [South Africa] Panel, 2001-2004 [EARLY RELEASE] (M1160V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M1160V1, Harvard Dataverse
The main objective of the LFS Panel is to broaden the understanding of social and economic changes at the individual level in South Africa as well as identify, model and forecast such changes, their causes and consequences in relation to a range of socioeconomic variables. There...
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Apr 23, 2019
Chase, William; Getty, J. Arch, 2017, "Soviet Data Bank (M162V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M162V1, Harvard Dataverse
The original data files (raw data) have the suffix of "*.DAT". "Codebook" files (not the same as the documentation codebook) have the suffix of "*.COD". The original files were cleaned (OpenReform) and exported as Comma-separated Values. The cleaned files delimiter is either a co...
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Apr 23, 2019
University of Natal; University of Wisconsin; International Food Policy Research Institute, 2016, "KwaZulu-Natal [South Africa] Income Dynamics Study (KIDS), 1993-1998 (M1064V1)", https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/M1064V1, Harvard Dataverse
The purpose of the survey was to collect hard statistical information about the conditions under which South Africans live in order to provide policy makers with the data required for planning strategies to implement such goals as those outlines in the Government of National Unit...
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