National survey catalogs

The Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA) is a consortium of leading national Australian universities, managed by the Australian National University (ANU). ASSDA was established at the ANU in 1981 with a brief to provide a national service for the collection and preservation of computer readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs and to make these data available for further analysis.

Survey catalog from the national statistical office of Bolivia

The Research Data Centres program is operated through a partnership with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Statistics Canada and a consortium of universities across the country. Twenty one of these universities host a Research Data Centre or a branch at their campus which is run and serviced by Statistics Canada analysts. In addition, a centre has been established in Ottawa to service the analytical needs of federal departments. The RDC network consists of 15 Research Data Centres, 6 branch RDCs and the Federal Research Data Centre in Ottawa.

The Sociological Data Archive of the Institute of Sociology in Prague collects computerised files of the primary data from sociological surveys. Its main objective is to make Czech sociological data publicly available for academic, educational and other non-commercial purposes. The data library at SDA does not include study reports or table outputs.

CSA has adopted the DDI metadata standard to document its surveys and censuses data. A catalog of available microdata is provided on its website.

GESIS is an institution devoted to research and service, which, by providing information, consultation, and data, supports and facilitates scientific work at every stage of the research process. Based upon extensive research programs GESIS provides services in data (archiving, provision, processing, research, social monitoring), methodology (consultation, developing complex methods), and specialized information (databases containing information on social science literature and research activities).

The National Center for Social Research (EKKE) has created the Greek Social Data Bank (GSDB), to support and promote social empirical research in Greece and disseminate results. The GSDB was founded in 1998 and aimed to develop into a credible archive for social data in Greece, covering not only the needs of EKKE but those of the entire research community.

TÁRKI Social Research Institute is an independent, employee-owned research organization that specializes in policy research in the fields of social policy and the social consequences of economic policies. This includes related data-collection, archiving and statistical activities.

ISSDA holds data from surveys and official statistics (such as the Census) and makes them readily available to users in the academic, public and commercial sectors.

The Lesotho Bureau of Statistics (BOS) is a government department set up for the collection, management and dissemination of official national economic, social and demographic statistics to support research and government planning. The Lesotho Bureau of Statistics National Data Catalogue is a web-based catalogue that provides access to information on all national survey data held by the Bureau and other government departments.

Survey and census catalog from the national statistics office of Mali

DANS is the national Dutch organization responsible for storing and providing permanent access to research data from the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The National Bureau of Statistics‘ survey and census catalog

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics’ website provides information on many surveys and the population census.

Data catalog from the national statistics office of the Philippines

RODA is the national Romanian institution specialized in archiving electronic data collections obtained by social research. The archive contains data collections accessible for the academic community and the interested public, for secondary and comparative analysis, under certain access conditions ranging from free access to some level of restriction imposed by owners. The archive serves as an intermediary between the data owners and data users.

Data catalog from the national statistics office of Senegal

DataFirst is a Survey Data Archive and training facility at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The Archive’s holdings include the datasets from all major South African surveys, as well as survey data from other African countries.

ARCES is a Social Studies Archive created to gather the social data in different archives around the world in a single information and access point. It includes not only the surveys carried out by the CIS, but also those carried out by other organizations, both foreign and domestic.

FORS enhances and supports work in the social sciences by conducting survey and methodological research, and by providing researchers with a wealth of information and data for secondary analysis.

The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.

Data catalog from the national ststistics institute of Uruguay