About:
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a partnership of social science data archives devoted to identifying, acquiring and preserving primary source data at-risk of being lost to researchers. Examples of at-risk data include opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys on family growth and income, and many other social science studies.
Contact:
If your research team is interested in using the Data-PASS shared catalog, please see http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/datapass. For general questions, please contact data-pass@icpsr.umich.edu. For technical support, please contact Dr. Micah Altman (Micah_Altman@harvard.edu).
Data collections preserved by the Data-PASS partnership are described on the Data-PASS shared catalog (http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/datapass) in descriptive metadata records. Some of the descriptions link directly to data files and technical documentation. Many Data-PASS data holdings are freely available to anyone, while some content is restricted.
Data-PASS is led by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut, the Howard W. Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, the custodial electronic records division of the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Harvard-MIT Data Center, also a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.