Qualitative Research
Help with qualitative research methods and finding qualitative data such as text.
Sources of Existing Qualitative Datasets
Try searching in a data repository for qualitative datasets
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Qualitative Data RepositoryA repository of qualitative data hosted by the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry, a unit of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University
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ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) Data ArchiveArchive of computerized, numeric social science data, including demography, economics, health care, politics, social behavior, and more.
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QualiBankA collection of qualitative data from the UK Data Archive. Data availability varies. Registration required for data access.
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Sage Research Methods DatasetsQualitative and quantitative datasets useful for learning and testing software
Research Guides to Help Find Specific Kinds of Qualitative Data
We have research guides designed to help researchers find specific kinds of qualitative data
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Bibliometrics and Citation Analysisfor example, Web of Science citation data in XML
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Corpora and Text Collections for Linguistic AnalysisIncludes BYU and LDC Corpora
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Social Media Research GuideResources for finding and using social media data
Library Support for Text and Data Mining
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Library Support for Text and Data MiningBegin here for text mining. Includes list of library-licensed sources of textual data.
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Last Updated: Nov 19, 2025 1:38 PM
Subjects: Social Sciences
Tags: data, data management, data sharing, research, texts