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Getting Started with finding datasets to use for your research
Think about the following questions
Who?
If you could imagine the smallest unit you'd like to analyze, would it be individual people, households, firms, or something else?
What is it that you hope to draw conclusions about?
What?
What should the data tell you about these people or other units?
How would you measure that?
What kind of categories would you create?
These will become your variables of interest.
When?
Do you need a snapshot (i.e. cross-sectional data) or changes over time (i.e. a time series)?
Do you need data from a particular historical period?
Is the series yearly, weekly, once a decade?
Where?
Do you need to know about a particular place--a city, county, state, or country?
Within that place, are there smaller areas you would like to compare, e.g. neighborhoods within a city?
Why?
Why would someone record data on this subject?
Make an inference on who would be interested in generating this data.
Browse this
guide
on finding datasets and related tools.
What format is the dataset in?
Do you have access to the software to view and analyze the dataset?
Are you interested in collecting this data yourself?