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Data Holdings

The Odum Institute Data Library is physically located in the basement of Manning Hall, however almost all of the data files and their associated documentation are downloadable directly from the Institute's Web-based Data Catalog. Institute staff will assist UNC-CH faculty and students with locating and accessing data of interest. E-mail Jonathan Crabtree for these services.

The Odum Institute maintains one of the oldest and largest archives of machine-readable data in the U.S. Its Louis Harris Data Center is the exclusive national repository for Louis Harris public opinion data. The Institute has an extensive collection of U.S. Census data, including one of the most complete holdings for 1970 Census files. Other major sources of data include the North Carolina State Data Center, which distributes North Carolina census data; and the National Center for Health Statistics. Its National Network of State Polls archive is recognized as the largest available collection of state-level surveys. Also available are data from studies conducted by UNC social science faculty. More information about these data collections, which include national and international economic, electoral, demographic, financial, health, public opinion, and other types of data to meet a variety of research and teaching needs, is provided below.

In addition, the Institute provides assistance to UNC-CH faculty in locating and ordering data from other locations, including the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, which provides access to a large collection of nonproprietary public opinion data, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which stores and distributes data from both individual researchers and many federally funded social science studies.

Social Psych Data

The Odum Institute is the exclusive archive for social psychological data from the Computer-Administered Panel Study (CAPS), which collected demographic, personality, attitudinal, and other data from annual samples of UNC undergraduates from 1983 to 1988. Data are available for five samples of 100 students each. Over 250 measures are available for each sample.

NC Data

Data from North Carolina includes the Carolina Poll, the Odum Institute Data Archive, Log Into North Carolina (LINC), and North Carolina Data-Net.

Roper Center

The Roper Center, located at the University of Connecticut, is the largest library of public opinion data in the world. Roper Center holdings cover over 60 years of academic and commercial surveys from more than 100 countries.

Data Holdings

Social Psych Data

NC Data

Roper Center

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