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ICPSR

Temple is a member of the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR), an international research and educational consortium that maintains the ICSPR archive of social and behavioral research data.

Data download formats

ICPSR lets you download data in several common data formats, including:

  • SAS
  • SPSS
  • Stata
  • Comma seperated values (CSV)
  • Other plain text formats

Files are compressed and downloaded as .zip archives.

Restricted data

Most ICPSR data holdings are public-use files with no access restrictions.

ICPSR also provides access to restricted use versions for researchers and sponsor-supervised students that comply with access requirements.

Read more about accessing ICPSR restricted use data.