Research Guides: Qualitative Data Analysis and QDA Tools: Find qualitative data

Repositories with qualitative data

CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC)
The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) data catalogue aggregates the social science data repositories in over 20 European countries and contains more than 40,000 data collections.
Dryad
A repository of discoverable, freely reusable, and citable data. Includes quantitative and qualitative data.

eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
eHRAF World Cultures is a collection of in-depth descriptive information about cultural and social life from all regions of the world written by first-hand observers such as ethnographers.

Figshare
A repository where users can make all of their research outputs available, includes both quantitative and qualitative data.
Harvard Dataverse
Free repository open to all researchers. Searches Harvard's dataverse as well as other dataverses.

ICPSR This link opens in a new window
Note: Users must first create an ICPSR account to be able to access this resource from off-campus. Logging in with Facebook or Google accounts will not work. When prompted, select to 'Continue via Proxy Server'.ICPSR provides access to thousands of quantitative and qualitative studies, surveys, and datasets in the social sciences. ICPSR accepts deposits of public-use and restricted-use qualitative data. Temple is an institutional member of ICPSR. See the library's guide to ICPSR for more details. Filter Data Type = Qualitative for exclusively qualitative data results.

openICPSR
openICPSR includes replication datasets and other self-archived, uncurated research data.
Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)
The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing qualitative and multi-method data. QDR is hosted by the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI) at Syracuse University.

Sage Research Methods Datasets This link opens in a new window
Sage Research Methods Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets that can be used to support the instruction and independent learning of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods used in the social sciences. Filter to exclusively qualitative datasets.

UK Data Service qualitative and mixed methods datasets
Find secondary datasets for use in your analysis or deposit data in the UK's largest social science data repository. They also maintain a Variable and question bank and QualiBank, a searchable collection of qualitative surveys, interview and open-ended questions.

More ways to find data

Data Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Data Citation Index provides access to research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world. Through linked content and summary information, this data is displayed within the context of the scholarly research.

Google Dataset Search
Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web as well as some subscription-based databases. It is similar to Web of Science Data Citation Index, but is not human indexed, has many duplicates, less refined search filters, and lacks studies citing the data,
re3data
Registry of research data repositories. Search for repositories by broad topic area to identify a data archive that contains qualitative information.

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