Open Datasets by Topic

Datasets up to 2012.

The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets.

The HHS Data Council is the principal internal advisory body to the Secretary on health and human services data policy. The Council coordinates data collection and analysis activities in HHS, including an integrated data collection strategy as well as coordination of health data standards and privacy policy.

Since 2006, state and federal agencies, research institutes, foundations, and universities have used the Enclave to securely house and provide remote access to confidential data. Enclave-based research informs a wide spectrum of public and private sector decision-making, as well as journal articles, books, position papers, conference presentations, dissertations, etc. At any given time, the Enclave supports over 1000 researchers via contracts and grants with a wide variety of government, academic, nonprofit, and commercial clients.

Site describes how to get an account in the NORC Data Enclave. Requires a .edu or .gov email extension.
Researchers who wish to access the Making Connections Cross-site Survey data are invited to submit application materials including:
1. Brief (1-2 page) project description covering:
Relevance of the project to the AnnieE.Casey Foundation’s mission of improving outcomes for disadvantaged children, families, and communities
Questions to be addressed in the research project
Intended audience and initial products(e.g.dissertation,journal article,report,book chapter,etc).
Timeline for completion of the project
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Graduate Students only: Faculty sponsor contact information

The open source web application designed for sharing, preserving and using research data. UCLA Dataverse will allow data, text, software, scripts, data visualizations, etc., created from research projects at UCLA to be made publicly available, widely discoverable, linkable, and ultimately, reusable.

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