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The Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) established in 2000, within the auspices of the Geary Institute, fills a long recognised need in Ireland. ISSDA holds an ever-increasing quantity of machine-readable data from surveys and official statistics (such as the Census) and makes them readily available to academic and non-profit researchers.  More

3 Simple Steps to Gain Access to Data

  1. Identify the dataset(s) you require.

  2. Print and complete the relevant consent form. (The forms are requested by the data providers.)  All forms can be located on this website.

  3. Post the signed consent form to ISSDA at: ISSDA, Room B105, Geary Institute, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. You should receive a disc containing your required data within 5 working days.

If you have any queries regarding the above please contact us at issda@ucd.ie


Should you require Qualitative Data please see the Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA). From there you can browse the IQDA catalogue of Irish Qualitative research.

11-02-10: ISSDA is pleased to announce the launch of the 2010 ISSDA ICPSR Summer Program Scholarship for PhD students.  Click here for further details.

16-12-09: Datasets held by ISSDA can now be accessed on-line through Nesstar. Click here for further details.

15-10-09: SLÁN 2007 data has been made available.

16-06-09: Data from Quarter 4 2006 & 2008 QNHS is now available. See QNHS.

22-05-09: Selected data from the Teagasc National Farm Survey 2007 is now available.  See Teagasc

21-05-09: Data from the SILC 2007 is now available. See SILC

16-04-09: ISSDA is pleased to announce the launch of a PhD Scholarship, funding attendance at a four week session at the ICPSR Summer School in Quantitative Methods of Social Research .  See ICPSR09.

17-02-09: The ISSDA server will begin to move from http://www.ucd.ie/issda to http://issda.ucd.ie shortly.  Apologies for any inconvenience caused during the move.

07-01-09: Data from the Irish Study of Sexual Health and Relationships (ISSHR) 2006 are now available.

04-12-08: Selected Findings from the first three rounds of the European Social Survey are now available from the ESS website

20-11-08: ISSDA is pleased to announce the acquisition of a national subscription to the ICPSR data archive for all Irish universities.  See ICPSR.

19-11-08: All Questionnaires held by ISSDA are now available from a single location. See Question Bank

03-11-08: Data from the QNHS Q2-2008 is now available.  See QNHS.

22-04-08: The 2004/05 Household Budget Survey is now available.  See HBS.

07-04-08: Irish data for Wave 3 of the ESS has been released. See ESS for details on accessing this data.

07-04-08: Irish data from the 2006 EU-SILC is now available. See SILC.

 


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