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Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

Afeworki Paulos (apaulos2@andrew.cmu.edu) is the librarian serving as the ICPSR representative. He will be happy to assist in acquiring data from ICPSR.

• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  The ICPSR archive includes studies from the social sciences and related disciplines. Since Carnegie Mellon is a member of ICPSR, faculty and students can order data free of charge. Data files can be downloaded directly to your on-campus workstation from the web site. From off-campus, you can download data using VPN. Most studies include electronic documentation files. Some older studies only have print documentation at the present time but eventually all studies will include electronic documentation. You can search CAMEO to determine if the library already has a particular codebook. ICPSR includes several specialized archives such as:
  
  • Census 2000 at ICPSR
  • Election 2000 @ ICPSR
  • Health and Medical Care Archive
  • National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
  • National Archive of Criminal Justice Data