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2020 Commendation from The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science

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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

politics, values, beliefs, social capital

First cross-national survey focused on democratization in East Asia (also first led by Asian scholars)

14 countries (in the fourth wave)

Genomics; human behaviour

Summary statistics from GWAS of behavioural outcomes/phenotypes

Varies; typically 400k-1.1m

Supplementary information linked on page

contact@ssgac.org

confidence studies in perception and memory

150+ individual datasets

total across studies; increases over time

https://osf.io/s46pr/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0813-1

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

art, stimuli, valence, arousal, paintings

witte@cbs.mpg.de

demographics, values, politics

20 countries in 2018/2019

implicit 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).

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

Psych. Science Accelerator 001 Social Faces

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.

Open download; CSV

https://osf.io/v46q8/

schnarrd@gmail.com

Progress In International Reading Literacy Study

https://osf.io/y9hiq/wiki/home/

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study

Voice of the People Millennium Survey

ICPSR-help@umich.edu

Program for International Student Assessment

International survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students who are nearing the end of their compulsory education.

2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018

Large and relatively complex files. Takes some time getting familiar with them

anchoring, number estimates, judgment and decision making

Anchored estimates, table of anchoring articles, meta-analytical datasets (effect sizes and reliabilities)

Argentina, brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Serbia, UK, Uruguay, USA, others

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

https://metaanalyses.shinyapps.io/OpAQ/

Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia

1971 British Cohort Study

Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

childhood development, health, psychology, education

Two representative samples; birth cohort & 4-year-old cohort

birth cohort = 5000; 4-yr-old cohort=5000

Requires permission from data guardians

https://growingupinaustralia.gov.au/data-and-documentation/data-dictionary

patrick.fournier@umontreal.ca

Application required

cgss@ruc.edu.cn

N descriptive text

Access Restriction

Difficulty (Cleaning, etc.)c x

Codebook or Search Engine

Database Email

Level of student and design/analysis

Link to teaching resources; add reflection on what worked

kgauthier@health.sdu.dk

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

via UK Data Service: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000052

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

England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

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

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

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/

Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe

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.

8 (every two years, 9 is ongoing)

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/

FINNTWIN16

kaksostutkimus@helsinki.fi

Clinical Evaluation Of Remote NotificatioN to rEduCe Time to Clinical Decision

Application required

ongoing, bimonthly data collection, open access for researchers

29 (07/2019)

anonymized version openly available for scientists, full version locally available in secure environment

https://www.gesis.org/gesis-panel/documentation/

gesis-panel@gesis.org

German Longitudinal Election Study

epidemiology, psychological functioning, health, stress

campaign panel, long-term panel, representative cross-section

N for campaing panel. Different modules available

http://gles.eu/

gles@gesis.org

Multi-cohort study, ongoing

varies by cohort and measurement wave

Application required

https://www.neps-data.de/tabid/794/language/en-US

Pairfam – The German Family Panel

Personality, Relationships, Family, Longitudinal

Personality Interaction Laboratory Study

personality and social relationships

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

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

initial 17,000 (4,000 twin pairs)

via paneldata.org --> https://paneldata.org/twinlife#

info@twin-life.de

household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators

1984-now (every year)

30000 respondents in 11000 households per year

available on request

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

longitudinal survey data on privacy concerns, literacy, disclosure, support

real-world scenes and objects

password request

animals, furnitures, indoor and outdoor scenes

Facebook Climate Conversation Maps

"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."

National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

https://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/documentation/ace/ace

Growing up in Ireland (child cohort)

social, developmental, home environment, schools

3 (9y, 13y, 18/19y)

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/

Growing up in Ireland (infant cohort)

social, developmental, home environment, schools

4 (9mo, 3y, 5, 8/9years)

5344 at wave 4

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/

1997/8(born)-now

available on request

http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/tilda/

segreteria@itanes.org

refugee families, mental health, literacy, family relationships

322 mother-child dyads, 156 fathers from those same families

Data is cleaned

https://osf.io/es8ud

kristin.hadfield@tcd.ie

Latin American Public Opinion Project

refugee families, mental health, literacy, family relationships

Latin America (many)

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

Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment

also see Temperament data: http://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jopd.al/

Varies by variables 350000+ for IPIP

need passcode

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/SAPA-Project

Responses and some demographics for ~45 online personality questionnaires

varies, as many as a million

Maybe not free?

related Medium posts have R syntax

quick registration, no application needed

More/finer-grained variables are sometimes available for researchers. Ask if you wish for something specific.

varies. readme files are available with every dataset

info@pewresearch.org

English, some questionnaires use local languages

Mostly task fMRI, but a lot of tasks and other modalities

raw data and some processed

Easy to access

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rsVlKg0vBzkx7XUGK4joky9cM8umtkQRpJ2Y-5d6x7c/edit#gid=1226202843

ffein@stanford.edu

13 social psychology replications conducted in countries around the world

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0029-2

28 social psychology replications conducted in countries around the world

Health along cognitive and physical aging

Longitudinal, Panel, Aging, Health, Cognition

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

Inventory open data in fear conditioning research (~70 datasets)

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

Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies

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.

No; disparate datasets

Not Available

marion.wittenberg@dans.knaw.nl;

English and Dutch

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

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

social media use; social capital

3367 wave 1 861 in all 8 waves 1745 in wave 8

registration needed

https://www.redeftiedata.eu/concepts

s.utz@iwm-tuebingen.de

New Zealand Attitudes and Values survey

Request data from Professor Chris Sibley

nzavs@auckland.ac.nz

A picture stimulus-set of real-world objects and scenes

South African National Election Study

support@data1st.org

Center for Social Research (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas)

media, political behaviour and attitudes, government, political systems and organisations, elections

Request the data from the Swedish National Data Services: https://snd.gu.se/en/catalogue/order-data

password reqd

https://www.str.com/submitcase

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.

avaliable on request

https://forscenter.ch/projects/swiss-household-panel/documentation/

swisspanel@fors.unil.ch

Normative perception, environmentally friendly behaviours

the Netherlands

varies in different waves wave1 has 890 not sure about wave 2

Free account registration at LISS

english + dutch

9 (Birth, 5, 10, 16, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50)

Most data available through UK data service for BCS70 (https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=200001)

1971 British Cohort Study

developmental

10 (Birth, 5, 10, 16, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50)

iser@essex.ac.uk

Since 1983 each year asking up to 4,000 people up to 300 questions about attitudes from education to welfare, politics and genomic science. (The survey was not run in 1988 and 1992 when we ran the British Election Study series, which included relevant attitudinal questions.) Users from non-commercial organisations can download the data directly from the UK Data Service. Access to the data requires Athens registration. You can download the data as SPSS or STATA files, or as a TAB file. Data is archived around a year after the completion of fieldwork (giving time for analysis and reporting). Commercial organisations must notify the National Centre for Social Research by email (BSA@natcen.ac.uk) stating their intended use and seeking permission for download. Permission to download may incur a charge.

bsa@natcen.ac.uk

Cambridge Centre for Ageing Neuroscience

neuroimaging and cognitive data of younger and older adults

neuroimaging and cognitive data of younger and older adults

Application required

https://camcan-archive.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/dataaccess/

Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources

closer@ucl.ac.uk

English Longitudinal Study of Aging

ageing, health, well-being, financial, cognition, biomarkers, longitudinal

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

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

mpahor@aging.ufl.edu

Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating

developmental: psychosocial, generational (parent-teen), and environmental correlates of cancer-related behaviors

12 (Birth, 7, 11, 16, 23, 33, 42, 44 ,46, 50, 55, 62)

via UK Data service with end-user license

usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk

Twins, developmental psychology, education

10,738 twin pairs; 7000 unrelated individuals

Requires a TEDS team collaborator for data access

TEDS Research

Ageing, Neuroimaging, Genetics, Mental health, Civilisation diseases

Large dataset of mid-aged adults including genetic, neuroimaging, and health data (including mental health)

3-4, but complicated; follow-ups and health data is integrated from health records but the timing between follow-ups differs a lot between participants and not all participants have all follow-up data per design

500000 for baseline

Application is required and needs a proposal, have to pay processing fee (1750 pounds)

Overall, the data is very well documented, but understanding the timeframe is complicated and often ignored, the cognitive data is hardly usable (ceiling effects, not reliable)

http://biobank.ndph.ox.ac.uk/showcase/

access@ukbiobank.ac.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

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

grocery store purchase data

Maybe be a fee for the data -amount is on case to case basis

1.32 mill at wave 1

millionwomenstudy@ndph.ox.ac.uk

borninbradford@bthft.nhs.uk

political science, household

ed.fieldhouse@manchester.ac.uk

bsa@natcen.ac.uk

Tufts Equity in Health, Wealth, and Civic Engagement

environmental exposure, self-reported climate stress/anxiety, civiv engagement

1,267 in 2020, 1,449 in 2021 and 1,831 in 2022

will be made available

list of veg restaurants in US

Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development

adolescent development; neurocognition

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

American National Election Studies

political science, household

anes@electionstudies.org

Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies

child development; school experiences

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

Brain Genomics Superstruct Project

neuroimaging and genomics

Application required

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/25833

info@neuroinfo.org

neuroimaging, personality, health

request access to restricted data

https://wiki.humanconnectome.org/display/PublicData/HCP+Data+Dictionary+Public-+Updated+for+the+1200+Subject+Release

Longitudinal study on heatlh and well-being of mid-aged adults in the US (also contains daily diary cognitive and neuroscientific data)

7108 at wave 1

http://midus.wisc.edu/helpdesk.php

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

https://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/participants/questionnaires + https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27459447

NICHD Study of Early Childhood and Youth Development

developmental; childcare; maternal employment

NICHD SECCYD

need an ICPSR account

beginning through advanced