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 Description of the Data Archive

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 How to use the Archive?

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 Data Archive Services: Catalogue, Questionnaire search, Topical archive.

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Member-institutions of TÁRKI JRC

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Corvinus University, Budapest

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University of Debrecen

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Eötvös Loránd University

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Institute for Political Sciences of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)

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Institute for Sociology at Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)

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National Institute for Vocational Education

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College of Nyíregyháza

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University of Szeged

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TÁRKI Social Research Institute Inc.

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On the roles of social science archives

Criticism is what inspires the growth of knowledge - at least in societies that are influenced by the Western world's tradition of rational discourse. In this sense, social research archives create a space for the critical discussion of research results by providing access to data already published and analysed by others. Quite apart from their function of placing research datasets in the public domain and ensuring equal access to them, data archives also increase the cost-effectiveness of research by making primary data collections available for secondary analysis. 

Welcome to TÁRKI Data Archive!

Mission statement of TÁRKI Data Archive

We are aiming at

• preserve factographic (ie. numeric) data collections from Hungarian and international empirical social research in digital format;
• provide access to data sources for contemporary and future generations, keeping up with technological change in data storage regarding media and digital standards;
• distribute archived datasets among Hungarian and international scientific community;
• facilitate effective data use by providing access to our own and to our partners' collections.

The mission of our archive is to provide infrastructure service, and support for all stakeholders in social research.

Things You Might Want to Know about TÁRKI Data Archive

• TÁRKI Data Archive stores data collections of empirical social research.
• The data collections contains factographic (ie. numerical) data.
• The research data are mostly from survey research, but we also archives other factographic data collections (eg. historical data, census, etc).
• The datasets are available in digital (machine readable) format.
• The data collections that contains personal data about natural persons - ie. about real people - are anonymized.
• We store the data in SPSS format, but we can supply platform-indepenent formats (ASCII) as well.
• Users need special tools (statistical software) and skills to use the data collections.
• Some of the documentation is available only in Hungarian. We provide translation service to users at cost.
• We provide assistance to Hungarian users in obtaining international data collections from our partners (CESSDA, ICPSR).

Data Archive description.    Open.
How to use the Archive?    Open.
Data Archive Services: Catalogue, Questionnaire search, Topical archive.    Open.