Data

The following teaching datasets are included in the data/ folder, in zipped Stata .dta format.

Filename	Dataset	Year(s)
ess0816	European Social Survey (ESS)	Rounds 4, 2008-9, and 8, 2016-7
gss7616	General Social Survey (GSS)	1976, 1986, 1996, 2006 and 2016
nhis1017	National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)	2010 and 2017
qog2019	Quality of Government (QOG)	2015 ± approx. 3 years
wvs9904	World Values Survey (WVS)	Wave 4, 1999-2004

The QOG dataset compiles variables from several high-quality country-level datasets; all other datasets are single-country or cross-country individual-level surveys. All datasets are used in class and in student research projects, except for the NHIS dataset, which is "for class only".

Important notes

• All datasets available in this repository are teaching versions that contain only a selection of the original variables. Please do not redistribute the datasets, and do not use them for any other purpose than instruction.

• Please also make sure to cite the datasets appropriately. Citation templates can be found in the technical documentation of the datasets, as well as in the _readme.txt files present in the [data/][data] folder, which contain more detailed information on each dataset.

Stata compatibility

All datasets are provided in .dta-format 115 and should therefore be readable with Stata 12+.

See the documentation for the srqm_data course utility for further details on how the course datasets were produced.

Additional data sources

My Quantitative Social Science Data page has links to other sources that you might find useful.