Israel Social Sciences Data Center - ISDC
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Address:
The Hebrew University - Mount Scopus
Jerusalem 91905 - Israel
Phone: 972-2-5883008, Fax: +972 2 588 3004
Website:
http://isdc.huji.ac.il/ |
Affiliation:
Established by the Hebrew University, the
Faculty of Social Sciences. The SSDA now serves as a central data
archive for all Israeli universities.
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Data collections:
The ISDC now houses approximately 1200
datasets including national sample survey data, local studies, census
micro-data and government records in selected fields as well as
macro-economic series. Several macro databanks are available on the
Web. Sources of data include
- the Central Bureau of Statistics,
- central and local government
agencies,
- research institutes as well as
- independent researchers from the
affiliated academic institutes.
Since 1995, the ISDC serves also as an
authorized distributor of micro-data from Israel Central Bureau of
Statistics. Major source of foreign data is the ICPSR Archive in
Michigan, where the ISDC serves as the Official Representative of the
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Data holding, retrieval & provision:
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Online catalogue (part of ALEPH inter-university library network)
provides
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Info: Catalogue structure and description
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Browse a list by: dataset names, data sources, keywords,
variable names
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Search a dataset by: dataset name, dataset number or data source
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CESSDA
Integrated Data Catalogue - field search in study descriptions
- Provision & rules of access:
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Further services & facilities:
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Special
Datasets:
- Home Made CD-ROM Products
- Economic Time Series for Israel
(ETSI)
- CD-ROMs Library in the ISDC
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GEOBASE:
Israel regional database joint venture of SSDA and GIS Center -
organized as a geographic Data Warehouse
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Newsletter:
- The SSDA Newsletter, annually
published, in Hebrew, ISSN 0334-5971
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Publication:
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