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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

Qualitative Data Repository
A 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

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) Data Archive This link opens in a new window
Archive of computerized, numeric social science data, including demography, economics, health care, politics, social behavior, and more.

QualiBank
A collection of qualitative data from the UK Data Archive. Data availability varies. Registration required for data access.
Sage Research Methods Datasets
Qualitative 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

Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis
for example, Web of Science citation data in XML
Corpora and Text Collections for Linguistic Analysis
Includes BYU and LDC Corpora
News Content for Text Mining
Social Media Research Guide
Resources for finding and using social media data

Library Support for Text and Data Mining

Library Support for Text and Data Mining
Begin here for text mining. Includes list of library-licensed sources of textual data.

Last Updated: Nov 19, 2024 1:50 PM

Subjects: Social Sciences

Tags: data, data management, data sharing, research, texts