Mission
ICPSR advances and expands social and behavioral research, acting as a global leader in data stewardship and providing rich data resources and responsive educational opportunities for present and future generations.
This consortium provides an archive of data sets for analysis in the social and behavioral sciences. Studies cover a wide range of disciplines, including education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, health care, economics and political science. Data collections consist of raw, unanalyzed data files, and codebooks. ICPSR data sets can be downloaded directly to a user's computer for use with statistical software such as SPSS or SAS.
One of the world’s oldest and largest social science data archives, includes:
Researchers can archive their data with ICPSR for free! Deposit Digital Data.
Access to ICPSR is limited to current students, faculty and staff at Widener University.
Navigate to ICPSR
These resources were created especially for undergraduate faculty and students. They make it easy for instructors to set up data-driven learning experiences.
The ICPSR Research Competition is an annual event open to undergraduate and graduate students and recent graduates. The competition seeks to highlight exemplary student research papers based on quantitative analysis of ICPSR data. Each of the four competition categories addresses a particular research topic and has specific eligibility requirements for entry. Awards include cash prizes and publication in the ICPSR Bulletin for first-place winners and on the ICPSR website for all winners.
For papers on any topic using data from the ICPSR General Archive or Thematic Collections.
Awards: $1,000 for first place, $750 for second place. There are separate undergraduate and master's prizes for this competition.
Eligibility:
You must create a MyData Account in order to:
To create an account: Select Login and under New User? click Create an Account. Complete the form using your Widener email address and a password that you can remember!
Finding Data Sets:
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Steps for downloading data:
Reading Data into SPSS
In ICPSR, some datasets provide Survey Documentation Analysis (SDA), which allows users to perform online data analysis on the ICPSR Web site without downloading files.
Browse the View SDA Studies to find these datasets.
or, select the tab for any study.
The tutorial below explains how to use SDA to analyze Data online.