Looking for Data

Data from many important studies in the social sciences have never been archived, and therefore are in danger of being lost. Examples of at-risk data include opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys on family growth and income, and many other social science studies.

The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is working to preserve classic social science studies that meet any of the following criteria:

• Theoretically and/or methodologically ground breaking.
• Representative of national, important regional, or understudied populations.
• Part of a major policy evaluation.
• Part of a seminal collection.
• Tied to unrepeated or rare events.

Please contact us if you know of data collections that meet any of the above criteria. Together, we can ensure that the vital history of social science data will continue to be available to future generations of researchers.