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MatchNMingle Dataset
Speed-dating, romantic attraction, free-standing conversational groups
personality, speed-date responses, video and accelerometer data
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Application required
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Personality Interaction Laboratory Study
personality and social relationships
PILSGermany311
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Greener than Others?
Normative perception, environmentally friendly behaviours
the Netherlands
22022 (May, June)890
varies in different waves wave1 has 890 not sure about wave 2
Free account registration at LISS
english + dutch
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Midlife in JapanMIDJAJapan1,027
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Eugene-Springfield Community Sample
personality, healthUSA19961134
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/51565229/the-eugene-springfield-community-sample-oregon-research-
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Art.Pics
art, stimuli, valence, arousal, paintings
art.pics2 countries20191,296open access
witte@cbs.mpg.de
English
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Human Penguin ProjectthermoregulationMany91,755
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0029-2
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Welfare, Children, and Families: A three-city study
longitudinal, child development, family
USA31999, 2001, 20052,400
welfare@jhu.edu
English
http://web.jhu.edu/threecitystudy/Public_Release/documentation.html#User_Guides
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General Social Survey
attitudes, beliefs, demographics, household composition, occupation, SES, religion, political attitudes, prejudice, Social Network
USA
1972-now (annually from 1972-1994; even years from 1994-now)
3,000
1500 per year from 1972-1994; 3000 per year from 1994-now
available online with an account
https://gss.norc.org/get-documentation
GSS@norc.org
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Americas Barometer
demographics, values, politics
20 countries in 2018/2019
2004-20193,105English
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Vietnam Experience StudyWar veterans
The Vietnam Experience Study was a multidimensional assessment of the health of Vietnam veterans. From a random sample of enlisted men who entered the U.S. Army from 1965 to 1971, 7,924 Vietnam and 7364 non-Vietnam veterans participated in a telephone interview. A random subsample of 2,490 Vietnam and 1,972 non-Vietnam veterans also underwent a comprehensive health examination, including medical examination, laboratory tests, and a psychological evaluation. During the telephone interview, Vietnam veterans reported current and past health problems more frequently than did non-Vietnam veterans. The Vietnam veterans also reported more health problems among their children, including more birth defects, and more problems with impaired fertility.
VNEUSA4,462midus
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/dcs/ContactUs/Form
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Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungenwide set of data
ongoing, bimonthly data collection, open access for researchers
GESISGermany
29 (07/2019)
2013-now5,000
anonymized version openly available for scientists, full version locally available in secure environment
Tidy
https://www.gesis.org/gesis-panel/documentation/
gesis-panel@gesis.org
German
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UK National Survey of Health and Development - Medical Research Council
health; development
20,000 variables collected over the lifetime of the study.The archive preserves data and meta-data (descriptions of the data) in electronic, paper, fiche, and, increasingly, image form, and includes biological samples.
MRC/NSHD
241947-now5,362
5362 at baseline
Requires registering an account on Skylark. Sensitve data is restricted (namely NHS Digital).
https://skylark.ucl.ac.uk/NSHD/doku.php?id=introduction
mrclha.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk
English
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Growing up in Ireland (child cohort)
social, developmental, home environment, schools
GUI-childIreland
3 (9y, 13y, 18/19y)
6,216
6216 at wave 3
Anonymised file available after (easy) application; sensitive data available with much more paintful process
Pretty tidy, but variable naming evolves between waves
http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/growingupinirelandgui/
http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/guichild/
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ManyLabs 1social psychology
13 social psychology replications conducted in countries around the world
Many16,344
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Midlife in the USpersonality
Longitudinal study on heatlh and well-being of mid-aged adults in the US (also contains daily diary cognitive and neuroscientific data)
MIDUSUSA37,108
7108 at wave 1
noneYes
http://midus.wisc.edu/helpdesk.php
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OpenNeuro
Mostly task fMRI, but a lot of tasks and other modalities
raw data and some processed
Many2012-now7,300Open data
Easy to access
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rsVlKg0vBzkx7XUGK4joky9cM8umtkQRpJ2Y-5d6x7c/edit#gid=1226202843
ffein@stanford.edu
English
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Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development
adolescent development; neurocognition
ABCDUSA82016-20297,500
short application (https://nda.nih.gov/ndapublicweb/Documents/NDA+Data+Access+Request+DUC+FINAL.pdf)
https://github.com/ABCD-STUDY?page=1
AdolescentBrain@mail.nih.gov
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Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences
Health, Religion and Ethnicity, Social Integration and Leisure, Family and Household, Work and Schooling, Personality, Politics and Values, Economic Situation
Ongoing, annual collection, including psychological variables
LISSNetherlands2008-now7,500
5,000 households comprising 7,500 panel members
Accessable for scientific, non-commercial use
Available in the LISS Data Archive
info@lissdata.nl
Dutch and English
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Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageinghealth, agingindividuals are 50+TILDAIreland3
1997/8(born)-now
8,504
available on request
http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/tilda/
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Confidence Database
confidence studies in perception and memory
150+ individual datasets
18 countries20209,000
total across studies; increases over time
NoneVery low
https://osf.io/s46pr/
English
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0813-1
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Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
childhood development, health, psychology, education
Two representative samples; birth cohort & 4-year-old cohort
LSACAustralia82003-now10,000
birth cohort = 5000; 4-yr-old cohort=5000
Requires permission from data guardians
https://growingupinaustralia.gov.au/data-and-documentation/data-dictionary
English
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Twins Early Development Study
Twins, developmental psychology, education
TEDSUK1994-now10,738
10,738 twin pairs; 7000 unrelated individuals
Requires a TEDS team collaborator for data access
TEDS Research
English
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Psych. Science Accelerator 001 Social Faces
Face perception
The primary dataset contains ratings from over 11,000 participants across 11 world regions, 48 countries, and 28 languages. Each participant rated 120 faces twice on one of 13 traits.
PSA00148 countries2018-201911,000
Open download; CSV
https://osf.io/v46q8/
schnarrd@gmail.com
English
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Pairfam – The German Family Panel
Education, competencies
Personality, Relationships, Family, Longitudinal
PairfamGermany2008-now12,000Researchers
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English Longitudinal Study of Aging
ageing, health, well-being, financial, cognition, biomarkers, longitudinal
ELSAUK1612,099
12099 at wave 1
The data documentation is spread out over several documents and not easy to understand, somethimes the coding of the variables remains unclear from the documentation, variable naming is different between waves
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=200011
ELSA@ucl.ac.uk
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Mexican Health and Aging Study
Health along cognitive and physical aging
Longitudinal, Panel, Aging, Health, Cognition
MHASMexico42003-202115,186
selected persons and spouse/partners
Main datasets free to download after registering
Mainly cleaned, but coding for unique participants differ between waves
info@MHASWeb.org
Spanish/English
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ManyLabs 2
28 social psychology replications conducted in countries around the world
Many115,305
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Health and Retirement Studyhealth, aging
1992-Ongoing Older Adults in US, multiple cohorts Health, finances, cognition, personality, SWL, lots more, some variables available in easier to use format through RAND
USA16,000
~16000 respondants in ~7000 households
https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/documentation/codebooks
hrsquestions@umich.edu
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1970 British Cohort StudydevelopmentalBCS70UK
9 (Birth, 5, 10, 16, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50)
1970-202016,568
Most data available through UK data service for BCS70 (https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=200001)
1971 British Cohort Study
developmental
BCS71UK
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Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia
comprehensive2001-ongoingHILDAAustralia2001-ongoing17,000
1971 British Cohort Study
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TwinLife
Development of social inequality - six main domains: I) skill formation and education, II) career, labor market attainment, and welfare, III) social integration and participation, IV) quality of life, V) health, VI) psychopathology and deviant behavior + environment and twin-specific questions
TLGermany
releases: face to face wave one and telephone wave one aim is to assess four waves (face to face and telephone) - we are currently assessing telephone wave 3
2014-202417,000
initial 17,000 (4,000 twin pairs)
via paneldata.org --> https://paneldata.org/twinlife#
info@twin-life.de
English
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Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating
developmental: psychosocial, generational (parent-teen), and environmental correlates of cancer-related behaviors
NCDSUK
12 (Birth, 7, 11, 16, 23, 33, 42, 44 ,46, 50, 55, 62)
1958-202117,415
via UK Data service with end-user license
usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk
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Millennium Cohort Study
physical, socio-emotional, cognitive and behavioural development over time; economic circumstances, parenting, relationships and family life
Panel study of young people born across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2000-01
MCS
England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
72001-now18,818
18818 at wave 1
Requires registering an account with the UK data service, otherwise none. https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/data-access-training/access-ukds/
clsfeedback@ucl.ac.uk
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Open Anchoring Quest
anchoring, number estimates, judgment and decision making
Anchored estimates, table of anchoring articles, meta-analytical datasets (effect sizes and reliabilities)
OpAQ
Argentina, brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Serbia, UK, Uruguay, USA, others
2010-now21,884
As of 2023, this database is continuously updated
open download
datasets ready for meta-analyses are available
Variable explanations: https://osf.io/mdgze
roeseler.lukas@gmail.com
english
https://metaanalyses.shinyapps.io/OpAQ/
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German Longitudinal Election Study
epidemiology, psychological functioning, health, stress
campaign panel, long-term panel, representative cross-section
GLESGermany142009-now25,000
N for campaing panel. Different modules available
free
http://gles.eu/
gles@gesis.org
ger/eng
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Finnish Twin Registrytwin studies / genetics
FINNTWIN16
Finland25,932
kaksostutkimus@helsinki.fi
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Swiss Household Panel
Commodities; Conflict; Demography; Division of labor; Education; Expenses; Family; Gender; Geographic mobility; Health; Household and family; Household finances; Housing; Income; Interview; Leisure; Life event; Life style; Living standard; Media; Network; politics; Quality of life; Religion; Satisfaction; Social origin; Social participation; Social support; Sport; Stratification; Subjective evaluation; Time budget; Values; Victimization; Volunteer work; Work; Youth;
The principal aim is to observe social change, in particular the dynamics of changing living conditions and representations in the population of Switzerland. Covering a broad range of topics and approaches in the social sciences, SHP is a yearly panel with rotating modules following three random samples of private households in Switzerland over time, interviewing all household members, mainly by telephone.
SHPSwitzerland201999-now29,445
avaliable on request
Yes
https://forscenter.ch/projects/swiss-household-panel/documentation/
swisspanel@fors.unil.ch
English
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Climate Change in the American Mind
climate change surveys. climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, policy preferences, and behavior, and the psychological, cultural, and political factors that influence them. nationally representative, panel, longitudinal
First cross-national survey focused on democratization in East Asia (also first led by Asian scholars)
USA172008-202230,000opencodebookEnglish
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German Socio-Economic Panel
household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators
Germany
1984-now (every year)
30,000
30000 respondents in 11000 households per year
available on request
minimal
https://data.soep.de/ ((searchable website, no pdf codebook))
soepmail@diw.de
beginning through advanced
SOEP dataset for teaching: https://www.diw.de/en/diw_02.c.222839.en/soep_in_the_college_classroom.html#SOEP%20practice%20dataset%20for%20teaching
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Arab Barometerpolitics, values, beliefs
Arab Barometer is the largest repository of publicly available data on the views of men and women in the MENA region
18 countries in the MENA-region
5 waves,2006-201943,200English
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Understanding Society UK
Multi-topic study, key areas: Education, Employment, Family & Households, Income & Welath, Health & Wellbeing, Ethnicity, political and Social Attitudes
Longitudinal survey of nationaly representative sample of UK households
UKHLSUK82009-now50,000
40-50000/year 16+ year old respondents AND 3000-5000 10-15 year old respondents; Plus basic information (age sex marital status employment status) is available for all household members including 0-9 year olds and non-responding 10+ year olds
There are different levels of data access (EUL, Special License, Secure Access), data can be accessed via the UKDS and is free for non-commercial use
Data checking & some cleaning are done, well documented, additional derived variables are provided. https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/getting-started
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage
usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk
English, questionnaires are translated into 9 languages
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Life Study
Impact of inequality, diversity and social mobility on children’s life chances; Education and school readiness; Early life origins of childhood illnesses, child health and wellbeing; Social, emotional and behavioural development; Neighbourhoods and environment
LIFEUK2014, 201880,000
mpahor@aging.ufl.edu
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Youth Omnibus Feb 1993General themesNotes/KeywordsWVS100 countries1981-now100,000
1000+ per country per year; often more
open download. SPSS, Stata, Ascii text, Excel
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp (All Waves), http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV1.jsp (codebook wave 1), etc
wvsa.secretariat@gmail.com
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Nurses' Health Studypsychology and health
3 Large cohort studies of 100K+ nurses each (so ~300,000 total), followed up for several decades. Has several psychological variables (e.g., depression, anxiety, ptsd, happiness) and also verified medical factors over time. You can find psych factors by looking through the questionnaires on this website: https://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/participants/questionnaires
NHSUSA1976-pres100,000
https://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/participants/questionnaires + https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27459447
English
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European Social Survey
attitudes, beliefs, values concerning several domains such as: family, politics, religion, solidarity, gender equality, work, environment, national identity, European identity, migration, welfare, social cohesion
Large-scale, cross-national, repeated cross-sectional survey research programme on basic human values in Europe
EVSEurope51981-now221,365
cases in the integrated dataset 1981-2008 + 2nd pre-release of evs2017 (july2019). Country sample size: about 1200
openly available as SPSS and STATA files (https://gss.norc.org/get-the-data)
https://dbk.gesis.org/dbksearch/sdesc2.asp?no=7500&db=e&doi=10.4232/1.13314
secretariat.evs@gmail.com
English (master questionnaire is translated into the local languages using TRAPD approach https://europeanvaluesstudy.eu/methodology-data-documentation/survey-2017/methodology/the-trapd-method-for-survey-translation/
https://europeanvaluesstudy.eu/education-dissemination-publications/education/
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European Social Survey
attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns; also, political/economic beliefs, environmental perception (2016) and social capital measurements
Academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since its establishment in 2001. Every two years, face-to-face interviews are conducted with newly selected, cross-sectional samples. Over 350,000 face-to-face interviews have been completed since 2002. There are over 100,000 registered users of the data, who can analyse it online using a web-based programme called Nesstar or download it for detailed analysis in programmes such as SPSS, R or STATA. Users are also aided through an online training programme called ESS EduNet. The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of diverse populations in more than thirty nations. The main aims of the ESS are: to chart stability and change in social structure, conditions and attitudes in Europe and to interpret how Europe’s social, political and moral fabric is changing; to achieve and spread higher standards of rigour in cross-national research in the social sciences, including for example, questionnaire design and pre-testing, sampling, data collection, reduction of bias and the reliability of questions; to introduce soundly-based indicators of national progress, based on citizens’ perceptions and judgements of key aspects of their societies; to undertake and facilitate the training of European social researchers in comparative quantitative measurement and analysis; to improve the visibility and outreach of data on social change among academics, policy makers and the wider public. The ESS data is available free of charge for non-commercial use and can be downloaded from https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/ after a short registration. Overview of topics in the ESS rounds: In the ESS prospectus you will find more information.
ESSEurope (36)
8 (every two years, 9 is ongoing)
330,342
330342 (number of responendts includerd in the round 8 cumulative dataset)
Unclear if you can even access/request the data at all
The data are available without restrictions, for not-for-profit purposes.
https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data/round-index.html
ess@city.ac.uk; essdatasupport@nsd.no
English, questionnaire traslated by participating countries
beginning through advanced
http://essedunet.nsd.uib.no/
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Million Women Studyhealth; disease
Maybe be a fee for the data -amount is on case to case basis
UK31996 to 20071,320,000
1.32 mill at wave 1
millionwomenstudy@ndph.ox.ac.uk
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Project Implicit Open Access dataimplicit social cognition, implicit attitudes, explicit attitudes, diversity
Large datasets across 15+ years on over a dozen of Project Implicit demonstration tests. International datasets from Project Implicit international websites test (40 countries).
PI40 countries2003-201825,000,000
None - IRB approval required for zipcode data
Some processing and cleaning needed
see project on OSF
nicole@projectimplicit.net
English and several others
beginner through advanced
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Neurosynth
Activation coordinates extracted from over 14,000 fMRI studies
None
Easy to access, but not very useful without technical/neuroimaging background
neurosynth-data
tyarkoni@utexas.edu
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ObScene Database
A picture stimulus-set of real-world objects and scenes
Portugal2022-nowOSF data
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Scene-Object DatabaseGermany2019-nowOSF data
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies
child development; school experiences
3 cohortsECLSUSA
The data documentation is spread out over several documents and not easy to understand, somethimes the coding of the variables remains unclear from the documentation, variable naming is different between waves
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Facebook Climate Conversation Maps
climate in online discourse
"Climate conversation maps provide insight into where, when and how often people share or react to links related to climate change on Facebook. These maps fill a gap in the available data on the topic of climate."
Global?
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Adult Psychatric MorbiditycognitiveKi
37 countries
help@ukdataservice.ac.uk
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Born in BradforddevelopmentalUK
borninbradford@bthft.nhs.uk
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Dartmouth Database of Childrens' Faces
developmental, physiology, faces
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NICHD Study of Early Childhood and Youth Development
developmental; childcare; maternal employment
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National Longitudinal Surveys
education and training, work history, wages, health, family
labor market activities and other significant life events of several age cohorts of men and women.
NLSYUSA
1966-now; older cohorts retired; active cohorts 1979-now
most variables public use; restricted access available on request within the USA
https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/pages/search.jsp#
NLS_INFO@bls.gov
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Taking Part Survey
Engagement in: Arts, Museums and galleries, Archives, Libraries, Heritage, & Sport and related areas including: social media use; free time activities; volunteering; charitable giving; and tv and internet use
England142005-now
via UK Data Service: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000052
English
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10k US Adult Faces Databasefaces
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Basel Facefaces
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Bogazici Face databasefaces
adil.saribay@khas.edu.tr
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Center for Vital Longevity (Park Aging Lab; PAL) Database
faces
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Chicago Face databasefaces
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Developmental Emotional Faces Stimulus Set
faces
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Face Research Lab Young Adult White Faces
faces
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FEI Faces (Fundaçao Educacional Inaciana)
faces
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Max Planck FACES databasefaces
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NICHD Study of Early Childhood and Youth Development
faces
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Oslo Face databasefaces
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Face Research Lab London setfaces, attractiveness
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Todorov Lab Social Perception
faces, computer generated
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Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces
faces, emotionKDEF
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UT Dallas Face Databasefaces, emotion
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#ERROR!
Genomics; human behaviour
Summary statistics from GWAS of behavioural outcomes/phenotypes
SSGAC15 countries
Varies; typically 400k-1.1m
Supplementary information linked on page
contact@ssgac.org
English
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Tesco 1.0
grocery store purchase data
UK2015
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US Gun Violence 2013-2018gun violence
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IPUMS-International
Harmonised international census data for social science and health research
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FBI Hate Crimes 2013
hate crime, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation
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Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies
health, psychology, values
Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies (DPES) are a series of national surveys carried out under the auspices of the Dutch Electoral Research Foundation (SKON). These surveys have been conducted since 1970. Many questions are replicated across studies, although each has questions not asked in the others. The major substantive areas consistently covered include the respondents' attitudes toward and expectations of the government and its effectiveness in both domestic and foreign policy, the most important problems facing the people of the Netherlands, the respondents' voting behavior and participation history, and his/her knowledge of and faith in the nation's political leaders.
DPESNetherlands501970-nowOpen
No; disparate datasets
Not Available
marion.wittenberg@dans.knaw.nl;
English and Dutch
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MR2 Faceshealth; disease
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Lifelines Biobankhealthy aging
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Heads' Stimulus Sethigh-quality bald faces
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British Household Panel StudyhouseholdBHPSUK
iser@essex.ac.uk
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Time UseHow time is spent
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FEAR-BASE
Inventory open data in fear conditioning research (~70 datasets)
mostly EU2005-ongoing
inventory of open data in fear conditionig research. work in progress with the aim to provide a data-base for re-use and to agree on common practices in the field (beyond generally valid practices)
currently working on it and drafting emails to data curators
work in progress
t.lonsdorf@uke.de
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Privacy Longitudinal Study
longitudinal survey data on privacy concerns, literacy, disclosure, support
Germany2014-2017
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Global Alzheimer's Association Interactive Network
neuropsychological, functional and psychiatric variables, and many are accompanied with neuroimaging data as well. Cognitively healthy controls are also often included.
Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases
GAAINMany
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Comparative Manifestos ProjectOpinion parties USA, UK1945-nowEnglish
112
Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
parents and childrenCCAM
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22507742
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Comparative Manifestos Project
Passive and automatic sensing data from the phones of a class of 48 Dartmouth students
USA
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Australian Election Studypolitical scienceAESAustralia1987-now
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Association of Religion Data Archives
political scienceARDA
support@thearda.com
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British Election Study
political science, household
UK
ed.fieldhouse@manchester.ac.uk
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American National Election Studies
political science, household
ANESUSA1948-2016
anes@electionstudies.org
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Canadian Election StudypoliticsCanada
patrick.fournier@umontreal.ca