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Instructional Materials and Books that Use SDA for Exercises and Examples

	ICPSR's Online Learning Center (OLC) The OLC "supports quantitative literacy in the social sciences by providing an effective and reliable means of bringing secondary data into the classroom." The OLC's 'Data-Driven Learning Guides' are powered by SDA.
	SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science) These are instructional modules at ICPSR on voting behavior in the 2004 and 2008 elections using the American National Election Study (ANES) surveys. The SETUPS site was awarded the American Political Science Association's 2006 Rowman & Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science. It was also named the Best Instructional Web Site for 2005-06 by the APSA's Information Technology and Politics section. The examples and exercises use SDA.
	Community and Social Capital is an instructional module at ICPSR that teaches data analysis of social capital, as discussed in Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone. Concepts illustrated include replication, unit of analysis, level of measurement, analysis over time versus cross-sectional analysis, crosstabulation, creating an index, and correlation. The exercises use SDA.
	Hands-on Sociology, 3rd ed. (2005), by William Feigelman and Yih-Jin Young. This book uses SDA -- both at this site and other sites -- to teach beginning sociology students data analysis. "Hands-On Sociology" won the 2005 ICPSR Prize Competition: Best Instructional Module or Instructional Innovation in the Social Sciences and Social Science History.
	Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, 2nd ed. (2009) by Alan Agresti and Christine Franklin. This book uses SDA for various exercises/examples.

SDA Tutorials

	Video Tutorials on Using SDA at ICPSR Video tutorials produced by ICPSR and available for Windows Media Player, QuickTime and other formats.
	Short SDA Tutorial on Frequencies/Crosstabulations From the IPUMS Web site.
	SDA Tutorial Contributed by Two Canadian Universities Contributed by: University of Victoria and University of Toronto's Data Library Services. Includes basic instruction in data analysis. Contact: Laine Ruus (laine.ruus@utoronto.ca)

SDA User Tips and Resources

	MAKEDDL.SPS - Convert an SPSS system or portable file to SDA components MAKEDDL.SPS is an SPSS-Python script that converts an SPSS system file or portable file into the files required to set up the dataset in SDA -- namely, a DDL file and an ASCII data file.
	Analysis curriculum and tutorials -- The IDEA Project Contact: Chip Reichardt (creichar@du.edu), Univ. of Denver.

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Some Other Data Archives that Use SDA

ICPSR - University of Michigan

	Analyze Data Online at ICPSR (Using SDA) Use SDA to analyze hundreds of datasets in the ICPSR archive. From this page you can view a list of all ICPSR datasets available for SDA analysis -- or search for topics within this collection. Also, below is a listing of some of the ICPSR special archives that use SDA extensively.
	Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (Select 'Analyze Data Online' or 'Produce Analytic Tables' for Quick Tables)

	National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (Select 'Online Data Analysis')
	National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (Select 'Data Analysis System')
	International Archive of Education Data (Select 'Data Analysis System')
	Minority Data Resource Center (Select 'Online Analysis')

Other University-Based Archives

	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), University of Minnesota. (IPUMS has a lot of census data -- from the US and other countries -- available for analysis in SDA.)
	UCDATA's archive of California (Field) Polls (UCDATA is UC Berkeley's principal archive of social science and health data)
	Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA), Princeton University (Select 'data sets')
	Scientific Research on the Internet, University of Maryland (Go to 'Direct Links to the Data'; see also the tutorials for SDA and MCA under 'Research'.)
	Survey Research Center Data Archive, UC Berkeley
	Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1843, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Research Institutes

	National Survey of America's Families, Urban Institute, Washington D.C. (Access is free, but registration is required)
	Mexico Data Web Project, University of California at San Diego Bilingual archive of datasets on Mexico.
	Brazil Census Data for 3 States - 1996, Brazilian Census Bureau test site
	Brazilian Health Data - for methodology courses in Brazil