Data Alphabet Soup

An alphabetized list of data-related acronyms.


AAPOR = American Association of Public Opinion Research (U.S.)

ACSPRI = Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated

AHEAD = Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (a nationally representative longitudinal data collection, U.S.)

APDU = Association of Public Data Users. (U.S.)

ANES = American National Election Studies (national surveys carried out by the Survey Research Center (SRC) and by the Center for Political Studies (CPS) of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan)

ASM = Annual Survey of Manufactures (U.S.)

BAS = Boundary and Annexation Survey (U.S. Bureau of the Census)

BEA = Bureau of Economic Analysis (U.S. Department of Commerce)

BIRON = Bibliographic Information Retrieval Online (The Data Archive, Essex, UK)

BJS = Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. Department of Justice)

BLS = Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S.)

BST = Basic Summary Tabulations (Canadian aggregate census data)

CAI = Computer-Assisted Interviewing

CAPDU = Canadian Association of Public Data Users

CAPI = Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing

CATI = Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing

CDC = Center for Disease Control (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

CDNet = Consortium Data Network (ICPSR's order facility for Official Representatives)

CIESIN = Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network

CISER = Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research

CESSDA = Council of European Social Science Data Archives.

COPAFS = Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics

COPDAB = Conflict and peace data bank (COPDAB) [computer file] / Azar, Edward E.[principal investigator(s)].

CPS = Current Population Survey (U.S. Bureau of the Census) [computer file] / U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census [principal investigator(s)].

CPS = Center for Political Studies (located in the Institute of Social Research at University of Michigan)

CPS = Centre for Population Studies (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)

CRSP = Center for Research in Security Prices

CSES = Comparative Study of Electoral Systems

CTSI = Census Tract Street Index (U.S. Bureau of the Census)

CWBH = Continuous Wage and Benefit History

DDA = Danish Data Archives

DDI = Data Documentation Initiative

DLI = Data Liberation Initiative (Canada)

DOT = Direction of Trade (IMF)

DPLS = Data and Program Library Service (University of Wisconsin)

EA = Enumeration Area (Canadian census geography)

ECPR = European Consortium for Political Research

ESRC = Economic and Social Research Council (UK)

ESRI = Environmental Systems Research Institute

GFS = Government Financial Statistics (IMF)

GIS = Geographic Information Systems

GSS = General Social Survey [computer file] / National Opinion Research Center [principal investigator(s)]

GSS = General Social Survey [computer file] / Statistics Canada [principal investigator]

HANES = Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys [computer file] / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics [principal investigator(s)]

HRS = Health and Retirement Study (a nationally representative longitudinal data collection, U.S.)

IASSIST = International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology

ICPR = Inter-university for Political Research (the original name of the ICPSR)

ICPSR = Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

IFDO = International Federation of Data Organizations

IFS = International Financial Statistics

IMF = International Monetary Fund

IAED = International Archive of Education Data (an ICPSR topical archive)

ILSES = Integrated Library and Survey-data Extraction Service (project of Dutch, German, French, and Irish institutes)

IPEDS = Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (computer file) / U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [principal investigator(s)]

IPUMS = Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (Historical Census Projects, University of Minnesota)

IRSS = Institute for Research in Social Science (University of North Carolina)

ISR = Institute of Social Research (the home of ICPSR at the University of Michigan)

ISSP = International Social Survey Program [computer file] / International Social Survey Program [principal investigator(s)]. Koln, Germany.

ISSR = Institute for Social Science Research (University of California, Los Angeles)

JPMS = Joint Program in Survey Methodology

LUCA = Local Update of Census Addresses (U.S. Bureau of the Census)

MIDAS = Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services (UK)

MTF = Monitoring the Future (a nationwide survey of high school seniors, U.S.).

NACDA = National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (an ICPSR topical archive)

NACJD = National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (an ICPSR topical archive)

NAPA = New Acquisitions Preservation Archive (at ICPSR)

NARA = National Archives and Records Administration (U.S.)

NBER = National Bureau of Economic Research (U.S.)

NCHS = National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

NCES = National Center of Education Statistics (U.S.)

NES = National Election Studies (located within the Center for Political Studies at The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research)

NESSTAR = Networked European Social Science Tools and Resources

NHANES = National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys [computer file] / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics [principal investigator(s)].

NHDA = Netherlands Historical Data Archive

NIJ = National Institute of Justice (U.S.)

NIPA = National Income and Product Accounts

NIWI = Netherlands Institute for Scientific Services

NLS = National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience [computer file] Ohio State University. Center for Human Resource Research and Parnes, Herbert S. [principal investigator(s)].

NLS = National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 [computer file] / U.S. Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics [principal investigator(s)].

NLSY = National Longitudinal Survey [of Labor Market Experience] Youth

NNSP = National Network of State Polls (U.S.)

NORC = National Opinion Research Center (at University of Chicago)

NSD = Norsk samfunnsvitenskapelig datatjeneste (Norwegian Social Science Data Services)

OECD = Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OR = Official Representative (at ICPSR member institutions)

PI = Principal Investigator

PRA = Publication-related Archive (ICPSR's archive for replication studies)

PSID = Panel Study of Income Dynamics [computer file] / Morgan, James N., et al [principal investigator(s)].

PUMA = Public Use Microdata Area (U.S. census geographic unit)

PUMF = Public Use Microdata File (Canadian census)

PUMS = Public Use Microdata Sample (U.S. census)

PUS = Public Use Sample (U.S. census)

r-cade = Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe

REIS = Regional Economic Information System (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of Economic Analysis)

ROAD = Record of American Democracy [computer file] / King, Gary, et al [principal investigator(s)], Cambridge, MA: Harvard University [producer]

SADA = South African Data Archive

SAMHDA = Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (an ICPSR topical archive)

SAR = Sample of Anonymised Records (U.K. census microdata)

SLID = Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (Statistics Canada panel survey)

SRC = Survey Research Center (located at the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan)

SIDOS = Swiss Information and Data Archive Service

SIPP = Survey of Income and Program Participation [computer file] / U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census [principal investigator(s)].

SOSIG = Social Science Information Gateway (University of Bristol, UK)

SSRC = Social Science Research Council (U.S.)

STF = Summary Tape File (U.S. census aggregate data)

SWIDOC = Social Science Information and Documentation Centre (Netherlands)

UN = United Nations

UNIDO = United Nations Industrial Development Organization

WIStat = Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (U.N.)

ZA = Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung (Universität zu Köln)


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