Datasets currently available

Irish data:

• Central Statistics Office (CSO) datasets (SAPS, HBS, QNHS, LFS)
• ESRI School Leavers Survey
• European Community Household Panel survey 
• Irish elections data archive (at Dept. of Political Science, TCD)
• Irish Opinion Poll Archive (at Dept of Political Science, TCD)
• Living in Ireland Survey
• EU-SILC
• Irish Social and Political Attitudes Survey
• ISSHR (Irish Study of Sexual Health and Relationships) 
• Irish National Election Survey
• Opinion poll data
• NCPP Survey of Employee Attitudes
• Irish Survey of Contraception and Crisis Pregnancy 
• Irish National Time Use Survey
• SLÁN (Survey of Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition)

Northern Ireland data:

• Data from the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey can be downloaded from the ARK Social and Political Archive at http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/datasets/ 

International data:

• ZACAT
• Eurobarometer
• European Social Survey  
• European Values Survey
• ISSP
• PISA International Database (PISA is an OECD survey of students’ skills and knowledge as they approach the end of compulsory education - data hosted by OECD)
• TIMSS Database (TIMSS is a series of IEA studies that measure trends in students' mathematics and science achievement - data hosted by Boston College)
• IALS Database (IALS is the International Adult Literacy Survey - hosted by the National Adult Literacy Database, Canada)
• UNdata

Accessing ISSDA data

• Data Format

  Data is available in SPSS format. Currently, there are no facilities to produce data in other formats/files.

• Data Costs
  For the most part, access to ISSDA data for use in teaching or unfunded research is free, excepting costs arising for datasets requested on CD-ROM (see below).  However, certain datasets (eg. ECHP) carry compulsory charges, which will be detailed on the relevant page on this site for the dataset in question.
   
• Data Request forms
  Before accessing ISSDA data (excluiding CSO or ECHP data), users must fill out and return a Data Request Form.  This can either be emailed or sent via normal post to ISSDA using the details found on the Contact page.  If requesting CSO data, the relevant CSO data request form must be signed and sent via normal post to ISSDA.  See the CSO page for the relevant request form.
   
• FTP access
  Access to the ISSDA FTP site is controlled - please check the access conditions attached to datasets, before requesting an account and password.
   
• Ordering ISSDA CD-ROMs
  In certain cases, data may be obtained (or may only be available) by requesting a CD-ROM directly from ISSDA.  In such cases, a minimum handling charge of £25/€31.75 per dataset will be levied (£5/€6.35 for students), in addition to any charges as may be levied by the data owner. 
   
• Documentation
  Documentation will, as far as possible, be supplied in electronic form (usually Adobe Acrobat, a free reader for which can be downloaded from here).  Where documentation is provided in hard copy, a charge of 10p/13¢ per page will be levied.