We were discussing datasets in our graduate student proseminar yesterday, and started brainstorming a list of popular ones. I posted it on Twitter and lots of people chimed in with others. I culled the list down with some arbitrary criteria: Current or ongoing surveys, with microdata from individual/household/family units of analysis, with US samples, publicly available data (some with permission required). More or less.
Then I took the 43 qualified surveys and searched for them in the Web of Science database of research articles (All Fields survey name in quotes in Wos Category sociology Document Type article Year 2012-2022; conducted 15 Oct 2022 [with some name variations]). I posted the result as a Google doc.
Please feel free to take this list and do anything you want with it. It would be great if someone (with a library?) maintained something like this, with links to resources like data and code and bibliographies, and kept it up to date.
Better yet, someone should automate it.
Anyway, here it is:
Survey title | Article count |
General Social Survey | 433 |
Add Health (National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health) | 331 |
World Values Survey | 203 |
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth | 172 |
Panel Study of Income Dynamics | 147 |
American Community Survey | 141 |
International Social Survey Programme | 131 |
Current Population Survey | 106 |
Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study | 101 |
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study | 67 |
American Time Use Survey | 50 |
National Survey of Family Growth | 46 |
National Health Interview Survey | 43 |
Decennial Censuses | 39 |
Survey of Income and Program Participation | 39 |
American National Election Studies | 38 |
Cooperative Election Study (formerly Cooperative Congressional Election Study) | 34 |
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study | 32 |
National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project | 29 |
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey | 22 |
Survey of Consumer Finances | 22 |
Monitoring the Future | 16 |
National Crime Victimization Survey | 16 |
Midlife in the United States | 15 |
Consumer Expenditure Survey | 12 |
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System | 11 |
Americans’ Changing Lives | 10 |
NCHS Birth and Death Records | 7 |
Health and Retirement Survey | 5 |
Human Mortality Database | 5 |
American Housing Survey | 5 |
Understanding America Study | 3 |
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System | 2 |
CDC Wonder | 1 |
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System | 1 |
Human Fertility Database | 1 |
National Survey of Early Care and Education | 1 |
Comparative Panel File | 1 |
NYC Community Health Survey | 1 |
National Couples’ Health and Time Study | 1 |
National Survey of Children’s Health | 0 |
National Wellbeing Survey | 0 |
National Center for Education Statistics – National Longitudinal Study | Search failed |
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