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How to use TÁRKI Dataarchive?
General procedure
1. Search our collection using either catalogue search or documentation search. Note: catalogue search will search on datasheets (metadata on data collections either by title, researchers, institutes, abstracts or keywords); documentation search is for searching in codebooks and questionnaires. Some of the documentation is only available in Hungarian.
2. Select the identifier of the data collection you want to use. The ID number is made up of a letter and a two-digit number (e.g. A01, F99, etc.). These numbers are used to identify a data collection (dataset) unambiguously. ID number details are needed to retrieve your data requests as quickly as possible.
3. Check the data access category. Note: some of the data collections are embargoed for a period of time (maximum of 5 years). These restricted-access data collections are identified as category D - that is, Delayed dissemination. If you want to use such a collection, you can contact the researcher (primary investigator) or us (mail to: dataarchive@tarki.hu) to request individual access to a restricted-use (category D) data collection. You can check the access categories we use here.
4. Complete the user declaration form if you are eligible for a discounted data access fee. You can check here whether or not you are eligible.
Download user declaration form (pdf)
Please, complete all requested fields that are marked.
5. Send us your request by e-mail, fax or post. If you are eligible for a discounted data access fee, please complete, sign and send us the declaration form. Fax: +36 1 309 766 / Address: TRKI Data Archive, 1112 Budapest, Budarsi t 45, Hungary / e-mail: dataarchive@tarki.hu
6. If you have to pay a data access fee, we will invoice you, and therefore we need your postal address. Note that we provide free access within the CESSDA and ICPSR network. (See special rules for CESSDA countries and ICPSR members.)
7. After your invoice is settled, we will send you the requested data collections and documentation via e-mail, or you can download it from our site.
Special rule for CESSDA countries and ICPSR members
- Data access via CESSDA and ICPSR network is free. To be eligible to use this option you must be employee or student at an ICPSR institution, or citizen of a CESSDA country. Note that we must invoice for additional costs incurred, if any, such as for shipping, copying or supply of data media.
- Once you have performed step 1-3 described above in the section of general procedure, you can contact your local (national) CESSDA representative or ICPSR staff. Local CESSDA representatives are listed here. See list of ICPSR members here and ICPSR contact details here.
Note on access to aggregate cross-national ISSP, Eurobarometer, WVS and ESS surveys
Cross-national comparative data collections are stored in archives appointed by the research programmes. These archives are responsible for creating user documentation and for distributing the most up-to-date versions of datasets.- The ISSP archive is the Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung at the University of Cologne, Germany. The archive is responsible for archiving, integrating data and documentation and for the distribution of the merged international datasets for the Programme. Since 1997 the ZA is supported in the processing of data by the Spanish ISSP partner ASEP, Madrid. Visit the archive's own pages for detailed information on the ISSP archive. The ISSP Service Guide provides information about search facilities, codebooks and field-questionnaires, data-sets and products available, research, news and also about the archiving rules. Any questions about archiving and data should be sent to the Zentralarchive.
- Aggregate Word Value Survey File Distributors: Análisis Sociológicos Económicos y Políticos (ASEP) and JD Systems (JDS), Madrid, Spain / Tillburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands / Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA) Cologne, Germany. For direct accession to WVS via web see WVS website.
- Eurobarometer data and documentation (questionnaires, codebooks etc.) are stored at the ICPSR and at the Zentralarchiv and made available by the Social Science Data Archives for social science research purposes.
- ESS data (Round 1, Round 2, and aggregated file) are accessible via the ESS data archive at http://ess.nsd.uib.no. Check for details at ESS website. (www.europeansocialsurvey.org), where registered users can download data collections from ESS data archive.
Data access categories
The depositor of a data collection base can choose from four data access categories:
A– Free access without any limitation.
B
– Free access for Hungarian scientific research institutions and public bodies; for others with the owner's permission only
C
– Free access for institutions that are members of TRKI; for others with the owner's permission only
D
– Delayed dissemination. Access with the depositor's permission only (for max. 5 years)
Data access fees at TRKI Data Archive
List price*| Date of data collection | Simple dataset** | Aggregate (complex)** dataset |
| Data collected less than 12 months | 375 EURO | 1200 EURO |
| Data collected 13-48 months earlier | 250 EURO | 800 EURO |
| Data collected earlier than 49 months | 125 EURO | 400 EURO |
** Simple datasets are cross-sectional datasets that geographically do not extend beyond a single country. Complex databases are data collections that are multidimensional in geographic space and/or time (e.g. international comparisons or longitudinal analyses, or data sets made up of more than one database).
Dissemination policy
According to our mission statement and dissemination policy, and in line with our funding structure, we provide special discounts on the list price to our target groups:Category I.
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66 percent of list price |
Category II.
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33 percent of list price |
Category III.
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0 percent of list price |