Skidmore has many data files right here on campus, and you will find countless data archives chock full of data on the Web. Here are several sources that you may find most useful for sociological and other social scientific research.

MicroCase Data Files
About 300 data files on wide array of sociological, political, and anthropological subjects. These data are readily available right at Skidmore as MicroCase data files, but you can easily export them to other statistical packages such as SPSS and SAS. Click here for a Web page describing MicroCase data files. (NOTE: Skidmore's MicroCase data files are available only to members of the Skidmore community.)

General Social Survey
The General Social Survey is a set of annual national surveys of the attitudes, opinions, and behaviors of of Americans carried out since 1972. The GSS is available as MicroCase data files (see above). Click here for the Queens College on-line GSS codebook.

Comparable data sets from recent years are also available for over three dozen other countries through the International Social Survey Program. Click here for info on the ISSP.

Data Resources on the Web
This useful Web page, maintained by Scribner Library's Barbara Norelli, describes what its title says.

ICPSR
Skidmore is a member of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, an association of colleges and universities that maintains the world's largest data archive for social science. ICPSR data are generally available free or at minimal cost to Skidmore students and faculty.

Roper Center
This large data archive at the University of Connecticut has data from Roper Surveys and much else.

Murray Center
The Henry A. Murray Research Center at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has detests pertaining to women and family issues. For more information, contact Skidmore alum Alison Better, Senior Research Assistant at the Murray Center.