Analyze Data Online

Online data analysis allows users to:

  • Produce analysis results very quickly (within seconds), even for large datasets with thousands of cases and variables
  • Create statistical tables from the research data without downloading the data file

NADAC data are available for online analysis free of charge. To access data files, users must login to ICPSR with a free ICPSR MyData account or an existing Google, LinkedIn, or Facebook account.

Online Data Analysis Using SDA

...allows users to explore and analyze the data without having to download the data and does not require familiarity with a statistical software package. The online data analysis system uses the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) statistical software. Users may also create custom subsets of the data, e.g., subset of cases and/or subset of variables and download the subsets.

Browse studies available for online data analysis

With SDA, users can:

  • Analyze the data online, i.e., use the data and software from the NADAC Website so the data and statistical software need not be on the data user's computer
  • Perform various types of analysis: frequencies and crosstabulation, comparison of means, correlation matrix, comparison of correlations, multiple regression, logit/probit regression
  • Search for variables of interest in a dataset
  • Review frequencies or summary statistics of key variables to determine whether the data have the needed information to conduct more analyses
  • Review frequencies or summary statistics for missing data
  • Produce simple summary statistics for reports
  • Recode and create new variables
  • Subset variables or cases into an SPSS, SAS, Stata, or comma-separated ASCII dataset for download (easy to do even with large data collections and saves time and storage when using personal computers)
  • Export results for use in spreadsheets and presentations
  • Browse the online codebooks

Learn more about online data analysis using SDA

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