Cite this: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/TH8EW

2020 Commendation from The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science

Can you help fill this in? EDIT DIRECTLY or contact Cameron Brick c.brick@uva.nl. Also see the other tabs.

N descriptive text

Access Restriction

Difficulty (Cleaning, etc.)

Codebook or Search Engine

Database Email

Level of student and design/analysis

Link to teaching resources; add reflection on what worked

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

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

millionwomenstudy@ndph.ox.ac.uk

Responses and some demographics for ~45 online personality questionnaires

varies, as many as a million

Maybe not free?

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

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

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)

need passcode

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/

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/

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

attitudes, beliefs, values. support for democracy, tolerance of foreigners and ethnic minorities, support for gender equality, the role of religion and changing levels of religiosity, the impact of globalization, attitudes toward the environment, work, family, politics, national identity, culture, diversity, insecurity, and subjective well-being.

Representative national surveys

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

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

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

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

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

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

Multi-cohort study, ongoing

varies by cohort and measurement wave

Application required

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

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

FINNTWIN16

Unclear if you can even access/request the data at all

kaksostutkimus@helsinki.fi

German Longitudinal Election Study

Voting behavior, media coverage, personality

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

N for campaing panel. Different modules available

http://gles.eu/

gles@gesis.org

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/

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

For the past decade, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (Mason 4C) have conducted nationally representative surveys of U.S. adults twice a year. The dataset includes 26 waves of nationally representative surveys of U.S. adults aged 18 and older collected between 2008 and 2022. These data include measures of global warming beliefs and attitudes, risk perceptions, policy preferences, and information acquisition behaviors. The dataset also includes measures of political views and party affiliations as well as sociodemographic information such as gender, age, education, and income. The codebook contains information about survey methods, statistical procedures (e.g., using sampling weights), variables and survey questions, as well as data tables.

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

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

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

alissa.goodman@ucl.ac.uk

Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia

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

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)

1971 British Cohort Study

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

~16000 respondants in ~7000 households

available online with an account

https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/documentation/codebooks

hrsquestions@umich.edu

28 social psychology replications conducted in countries around the world

Mexican Health and Aging Study

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

English Longitudinal Study of Aging

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

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

Pairfam – The German Family Panel

Personality, Relationships, Family, Longitudinal

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

Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe

Twins, developmental psychology, education

Twin sample

10,738 twin pairs; 7000 unrelated individuals

Requires a TEDS team collaborator for data access

https://www.teds.ac.uk/researchers

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

Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort Study

Psychopathology, cognition, development

Large Philadelphia-based dataset with planned followups

>9500, diverse, representative

dbGap application

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/variable.cgi?study_id=phs000607.v3.p2&phv=375707&phd=5001&pha=&pht=3445&phvf=&phdf=&phaf=&phtf=&dssp=1&consent=&temp=1

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

1997/8(born)-now

available on request

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

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

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

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

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

http://midus.colectica.org/

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

13 social psychology replications conducted in countries around the world

Growing up in Ireland (child cohort)

social, developmental, home environment, schools

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

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/

UK National Survey of Health and Development - Medical Research Council

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

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

Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen

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

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.

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/dcs/ContactUs/Form

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

demographics, values, politics

national coverage of voting age adults

20 countries in 2018/2019

attitudes, beliefs, demographics, household composition, occupation, SES, religion, political attitudes, prejudice, Social Network

1972-now (annually from 1972-1994; even years from 1994-now)

1500 per year from 1972-1994; 3000 per year from 1994-now

https://gss.norc.org/get-documentation

GSS@norc.org

Welfare, Children, and Families: A three-city study

longitudinal, child development, family

welfare@jhu.edu

http://web.jhu.edu/threecitystudy/Public_Release/documentation.html#User_Guides

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

Brain Genomics Superstruct Project

neuroimaging and genomics

Application required

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

info@neuroinfo.org

epidemiology, psychological functioning, health, stress

8 categories of measures that were collected across the 5 studies.

Study 1: 399 Study 2: 276 Study 3: 334 Study 4: 193 Study 5: 213

Registration Form and Data Sharing Agreement

https://www.cmu.edu/common-cold-project/data/codebooks/index.html

scohen@cmu.edu

NICHD Study of Early Childhood and Youth Development

developmental; childcare; maternal employment

NICHD SECCYD

need an ICPSR account

beginning through advanced

Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics Study

Multi-site imaging study of US children and young adults

National brain imaging study with genetic data

PING / see PLING

1100 with brain imaging data

dbGap application

Very easy, organized data, but different parts require different applications

PING@ucsd.edu

art, stimuli, valence, arousal, paintings

open access

witte@cbs.mpg.de

Eugene-Springfield Community Sample

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/51565229/the-eugene-springfield-community-sample-oregon-research-

neuroimaging, personality, health

request access to restricted data

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

Family Intervention for Empowerment through Reading and Education (FIERCE)

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

Cambridge Centre for Ageing Neuroscience

neuroimaging and cognitive data of younger and older adults

Application required

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

Personality Interaction Laboratory Study

personality and social relationships

Clinical Evaluation Of Remote NotificatioN to rEduCe Time to Clinical Decision

Application required

Speed-dating, romantic attraction, free-standing conversational groups

personality, speed-date responses, video and accelerometer data

developmental; childcare; maternal employment

NIMH-ChEFS

37 countries

help@ukdataservice.ac.uk

politics, values, beliefs, health

English (and other languages)

American National Election Studies

political science, household

anes@electionstudies.org

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)

Association of Religion Data Archives

support@thearda.com

Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22507742

Paul_Froese@baylor.edu

adil.saribay@khas.edu.tr

borninbradford@bthft.nhs.uk

political science, household

ed.fieldhouse@manchester.ac.uk

iser@essex.ac.uk

Since 1983 e ach 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

patrick.fournier@umontreal.ca

Center for Social Research (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas)

Center for Vital Longevity (Park Aging Lab; PAL) Database

Application required

cgss@ruc.edu.cn

Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources

closer@ucl.ac.uk

kgauthier@health.sdu.dk

Dartmouth Database of Childrens' Faces

developmental, physiology, faces

Developmental Emotional Faces Stimulus Set

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

Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies

child development; school experiences

Each survey consists of approximately 1000 face-to-face interviews per country. Reports are published twice yearly

https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer-data-service/search-data-access/data-access

https://zacat.gesis.org/webview/

Last one is for the data

Face Research Lab Young Adult White Faces

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."

hate crime, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation