SDA is a robust tool that allows students to explore numerous surveys at a level of sophistication appropriate to their level of experience. Instructors have produced and published instructional modules on a variety of topics that can easily be incorporated into the further development of a course.

explore basic and in-depth video tutorials for using data available from ICPSR.

Search variable-level information among data sets in the SDA.

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There are four SDA modules focusing on creating frequencies and cross tabulations from separate IPUMS collections:

Harmonized data for 1960 forward, covering 560 million people in 258 censuses from around the world.

Harmonized data on people in the U.S. census and American Community Survey, from 1850 to the present.

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series; an integrated set of data spanning more than 50 years (1962-forward) of the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly U.S. household survey conducted jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Census microdata from Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States from 1703 to 1911.