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Social Sciences Data - Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Examples of social science data include:
- survey data (opinion polls, voting records)
- nonsurvey data (images, maps, sound, video, multimedia)
- raw measurments, numeric tables, government statistics, and indices
- text (fieldnotes, transcripts, blogs, e-mails)
- spatial (zonal, event, spatial referent)
Common File Formats
- Text - ASCII, Word, PDF
- Numerical - ASCII, Excel, Access, SPSS, STATA
- Mulitimedia - jpeg, tiff, dicom, mpeg, quicktime
- Spatial - geotiff, KLM, KMZ
- Models - 3D, statistical
Guides
- Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving: IntroductionBest Practice Throughout the Data Life Cycle. ICPSR. 5th edition
- User Guide - The Harvard Dataverse Network documentationDataverse Network Guides
- Data ConservancyAn initiative to develop data curation strategies and infrastructure for supporting research
data from multiple scientific communities. - UK Data ServiceSupports high-quality social and economic data.