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Cite this: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/TH8EW
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2020 Commendation from The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
10 (Birth, 5, 10, 16, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50)
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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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Pairfam – The German Family Panel
Education, competencies
Personality, Relationships, Family, Longitudinal
PairfamGermany2008-now12,000Researchers
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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