Data Collections

Data collections gather original data produced by scientists and make them available to others. The collections may include census data, health data, economic and social indicators, public opinion surveys, surveys of economic behavior and surveys of electoral behavior, as just some of the possible examples. The collections are most often in numerical, computer file format and are most often used by advanced researchers. See also Statistics.

At UMass Amherst

• Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research (MISER)
  Lead agency in the State Data Center (SDC) program, MISER serves as liaison between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the U.S. Bureau of the Census and houses all the latter's data on Massachusetts.
  
  
• Social and Demographic Research Institute (SADRI)
  Responsible for the maintenance and dissemination of various data archives to the campus community, including access to the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the National Center for Health Statistics Data archive (NCHS), University of Massachusetts; weber@sadri.umass.edu.

Elsewhere

• CDC Wonder
  Single point of access to a wide variety of Centers for Disease Control reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data.

• Data on the Net
  Search or browse sites of addresses, data catalogs, data libraries, social science statistical data and more.
  
  
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  Searchable database of social science data gathered by researches from across the country. Provides access both to local UMass holdings (hundreds of SPSS export files) and also to the full ICPSR data archive, University of Michigan. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use.
  
  
• Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (MassCHIP)
  Access to health and social indicators. Obtain community-level data to assess health needs, monitor health status indicators and evaluate health programs.

   

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