Data Resources
Locating the data required for a comparative research project can often be the most difficult task.  To aid researchers in finding the correct data, NESSIE has attempted to identify the major social science comparative datasets which are accessible, to give a short overview of their coverage and to point potential users to the access point. To be included, datasets must include data on at least three European Community member states.  Please also see the section on Data Sources. Please also note that some comparative datasets are available from several different sources; further, some are available from different sources but in different formats. We have tried to incorporate this information into our entries.  In some cases, all countries in Europe collect comparable micro data but not all countries make these files available for secondary research. In addition, different sources may impose different access conditions to the data. In many cases, access is open upon payment of a fee or subscription. In others, there is no charge for the comparative data but a small service charge is levied.

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General Purpose Comparative Datasets

1. Central and Eastern Eurobarometer Survey Series
2. Civic Culture Study 1959-1960
3. Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness; 1980-1987
4. Consortium of Household Panels for European Socio-Economic Research (CHER)
5. Coping with Government in the FSU/ECE, 1996-1998
6. The Cost of Social Security 1949-1993
7. Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF)
8. Eurobarometer Survey Series
9. EUROMOD
10. European Community Household Panel Study
11. European Health Survey 2: Cancer Prevention Survey 1992
12. European Longitudinal Study of Ageing Health and Competence (EXCELSA)
13. European Panel Analysis Group (EPAG) Data Set
14. European Social Survey
15. European Survey on Working Conditions
16. European Structure of Earnings Survey (ESES)
17. Eurostat New Cronos Database
18. Eurostat Regio Database
19. Family and Fertility Surveys (UECE)
20. Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children
21. International Crime Victim Survey
22. International and National Data on the European System (INDES) 1945-1980
23. International Social Assistance Database, 1996
24. International Social Survey Programme
25. IPUMS
26. LES (Luxembourg Employment Study)
27. LIS (Luxembourg Income Study)
28. MTUS (Multinational Time Use Study)
29. MZES/Eurodata Family Policy Database
30. NBER Macro- history Database
31. Panel Comparability Dataset (PACO)
32. Penn World Data
33. People at War
34. Reader's Digest Eurodata 1990 (A Consumer Survey of 17 European Countries)
35. Rural Change in Europe : Research Programme on Farm Structures and Pluriactivity in 1987 and 1991
36. Scandinavian Welfare Survey 1972
37. Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
38. Social Change in Baltic Countries 1993
39. Social Consequences of Transition (SOCO)
40. Social Stratification in Eastern Europe After 1989 (SSEE)
41. Socio-Economic Household Panel Studies
42. Unemployment, Poverty and Social Policy: a Comparative Study in the UK,  France and Germany
43. Values and Political Change in Postcommunist Europe, 1993-1994
44. Women's Employment and Family Life in the United Kingdom, Norway, France, Czech Republic and Russia, 1996-1997
45. Working Conditions In The Candidate Countries
46. World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators III, 1948-1982
47. World Values Survey and European Values Survey