Data and Statistics for Social Sciences: Data Archives & Services

The Bodleian Data Library provides a range of services for researchers and students at the University of Oxford who need to make secondary use of statistics and data with the initial focus on the social sciences -

• supports researchers and students in finding, accessing and using social science statistics and data;
• manages the access and curation of restricted and sensitive datasets which may not be networked including data supplied by Eurostat;
• offers a new data brokering and clearing house service for the acquisition of datasets by research centres in the Social Sciences Division;
• provides consultancy services and highlights training opportunities;
• alerts researchers to new sources of data.

For data enquiries and help please email data@bodleian.ox.ac.uk, or contact the Data Librarian, John Southall (tel.: 01865 285936) at Bodleian Social Science Library direct.

UK Data Service

UK Data Archive

Create & Manage Data Research data lifecycle Planning for sharing Consent and ethics COPYRIGHT Advice & training	Deposit Data Who can deposit? Why deposit? How to deposit? Are you ready to deposit? Our data in use
Find Data Catalogue   Online data browsing   HASSET Thesaurus   ESRC   Data store   International Data Archives

ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

• Maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction,
• Offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use,
• Preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant,
• Provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects.

National Data Strategy (NDS)

Administrative Data Liaison Service

ADLS supports academic research and is the focal centre for knowledge, help and assistance with the major administrative datasets in the UK.

OECD iLibrary provides access to statistical databases, series,full-text books, periodicals and reports released by the OECD, OECD Development Centre, PISA, and ITF containing citation tool for datasets and tables.

cessda eric

Council of European Social Science Data Archives

An umbrella organisation for social science data archives across Europe. The CESSDA Catalogue enables users to locate datasets, as well as questions or variables within datasets, stored at archives throughout Europe. Data collections include sociological surveys, election studies, longitudinal studies, opinion polls, and census data from the European Social Survey, the Eurobarometers, and the International Social Survey Programme among others.

IASSIST: International Association for Social Science Information & Technology

​An international organisation of professionals working in and with IT and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences, represents data archives, statistical agencies, research centers, libraries, academic and government departments, and non-profit organizations.

IDAN (International Data Access Network) project