Data

The following teaching datasets are included in this repository, 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

• The zipped versions of the datasets available in this repository are those used in class. They 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 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+. The plan is to make them available in Stata 8/9+ format soon.

• Some datasets might contain more than 2,047 variables, which might be an issue with older versions and/or restricted flavours of Stata.

Additional data sources

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