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Our search indexes the full documentation for datasets, including descriptions, labels, and survey questions for more than 4 million variables.

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  read newspapers, political party, volunteer access to water drug use, probation, education diet, body mass, difficulty walking

Our search indexes the full documentation for datasets, including descriptions, labels, and survey questions for more than 4 million variables.

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• You can also search for multiple keywords:
  income health china
• Use quotes to look for a phrase. (I.e., words in that precise order)
  "income distribution"

Our search indexes the full documentation for datasets, including descriptions, labels, and survey questions for more than 4 million variables.

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  "World Values Survey" "Jon D. Miller" Afrobarometer