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Data Resources

This section provides links to locally available data and pointers to a variety of useful external sources of social science data.

Sources of Social Science Data at Duke

  • Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) - managed by the Social Science Data Center within the Department of Sociology, this is the access point for requesting and finding locally available ICPSR data at Duke
  • Perkins Library, Public Documents and Maps - the access point for Perkins Library data holdings, with descriptive links to many other external data sources
  • Triangle Census Research Data Center (TCRDC) - based in the Duke Economics Department, the TCRDC is a newly established partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies and Duke University, with additional support from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Under this partnership, the Census Bureau provides restricted access to unpublished microdata from the Bureau's economic and demographic censuses and surveys.
  • National Long Term Care Survey - is a longitudinal survey of the population of chronically disabled elderly persons in the United States, which is distributed by the Duke Center for Demographic Studies

External Sources of Social Science Data

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