Archive Search

1)  Choose which items(s) to search:
Titles may include descriptive words indicating content, geographic focus, chronological year(s) of coverage, source of information, major sponsor, and sequence numbers.
Abstracts contains brief summaries which include the research focus and a description of what kind of data were collected.
The producer is the person or agency with financial or administrative responsibility for the physical processes of creating the data file. This includes the place of production, the name of the person or agency, and, when known, the date of production. Similar to publisher.
The principal investigator is the person, persons, or agency responsible for the dataset's intellectual content or for initiating the study.
For data obtained from ICPSR, you may search using ICPSR's study number.
CISER assigns its own codebook numbers for studies for internal organization.
2)  Retrieve listings for files on:   
Most files are available to be downloaded from the catalog.
File access depends on permission levels which are displayed using traffic light icons.
The "Time period" option (below) is not available when searching CDROM / DVD.
CDROM / DVD files are not available to be downloaded from the catalog.
CDROM / DVD studies do not have abstracts.
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6)   Truncation includes trailing characters.
For example, when searching for child:
Leave unchecked to include child, childish, children, and childhood.
CHECK ✓ to include only child.  Results will NOT include childish, children or childhood.

7)  Time period:       Enter 4-digit years only.  If left blank all years are searched.