ICPSR

The basic search in ICPSR is a keyword search of the dataset descriptions, variables, subject terms, and citations to articles that used ICPSR data.

• Enter multiple words to find all of your search terms.
  • educational attainment
• Phrases must be in quotes.
  • "General social survey"
• Separate terms with commas to search for study variables.
  • household, income, sex
• The minus sign can be used to exclude terms. Results may be inconsistent.

ICPSR offers several ways to limit your search from the results page. You can limit by:

• Subject
• Geography
• Data Format (check here for online analysis)
• Type of analysis (quantitative, qualitative, or GIS)
• Time Period
• Recency (when data were uploaded or updated)
• Restrictions (use this to exclude restricted datasets)

ICPSR has approximately 75% of the variables used in studies available to view online. You can also see the survey question response for these without having to download the dataset.