Please note:  This dataset collection was made possible through a grant to explore migration-related data; only data with migration-related variables are listed here.

last updated: December 8, 2008

American Time Use Survey (ATUS)
http://www.bls.gov/tus/#data
Survey of how over 60,000 people in U.S. spend time throughout their entire day; each year from 2003 - 2006.

American's Changing Lives
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/04690.xml
4 waves between 1986 and 2002 of 3,617 persons living in the U.S. aged 25 and older focus on a wide variety of topics including health, relationships, socio-cultural meanings and psychological health. Longitudinal. Oversample of Blacks and persons over age 60.

Australia: Families, Social Capital and Citizenship Survey, 2001
http://assda-nesstar.anu.edu.au/search/
2001 Study of persons aged 18 and older living in Australia focusing on social networks, trust, and community involvement.  Random sample of 1,506; stratified by state/territory. 

Bangladesh: Baseline of Supporting Household Activities for Health, Assets and Revenue (SHAHAR)
http://www.ifpri.org/data/dataform.asp
Survey examining household composition and characteristics, along with measurements of health, social networks, food security and more of low-income settlements in Jessore and Tongi, Bangladesh in 1997.  1,110 total households surveyed.

British Household Panel Study (BHPS)
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/aandp/access/access.asp
Representative sample of British households assessing socio-economic characteristics; 5,500 households in 1991, Wave 1.

Canada: Economic, Security and Community Project (ESC)
http://www.yorku.ca/isr/download/ESC.html
Examines Canadians, their social networks, participation in society and attitudes toward government.  2001 survey with a national sample of 4,101; an urban oversample of 1,051 and a British Columbia resource community sample of 1,427.  Persons 18 and older. Multi-stage sampling design.

Canada: National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/nlscy.htm
Surveys experiences and demographics of Canadian children and youth over time.  3 cycles available in public use micro files: 1994-95; 1996-97; 1998-99.  Nationally representative with over 20,000 respondents.  Longitudinal and cross-sectional samples included.

Canada: Workplace and Employee Survey (WES)
http://www.statcan.ca/english/survey/business/wesquest.htm
Survey of employees and workplace to assess training, human resource management, earnings and other work-related variables. 

Caribbean Urbanization in Years of the Crisis
http://cmd.princeton.edu/data.shtml
1991-94 survey examines urbanization, political and community participation and reasons for poverty in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti and Jamaica.  Probability samples of urban households.

Cultural Participation Survey 1998
http://www.cpanda.org/cpanda/getDDI.xq?studyID=a00218
Study of participation in and attitudes toward cultural and art activities of adults aged 18 and older in Gilroy, Milpitas, and Mayfair California; Humbolt County, California; Kansas City, Missouri.  Single-stage random digit dialing of residential phone numbers; 2,406 interviews.

European Community Household Data (ECHD)
http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/echpanel/info/data/information.html
Survey assessing health, education, housing and demographics of adults aged 16 and older from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Most countries available from 1994-2001; 60,500 nationally representative households in 1994 followed longitudinally. 

European Social Survey (ESS)
http://ess.nsd.uib.no/index.jsp?year=2003&country=US&module=download
Survey designed to monitor changes in demographic, social, economic, political, health and other attitudes and behaviors across time for over 30 countries. Conducted biennially since 2003/4 using random probability sample types varying by country.

European Values Survey
http://www.jdsurvey.net/web/evs1.htm
http://zacat.gesis.org/webview/index.jsp
Survey of mostly European countries to monitor values and value change over time. Nationally representative samples for persons over age 18; random or quota sampling techniques varying by country. Given in 3 waves: 1981, 1990 and 1999-2000; 15 European countries and USA in first wave; countries added and removed in later waves.

German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
http://www.diw.de/english/data_center/33894.html
Representative longitudinal annual survey of German households and individuals since 1984 focusing on socio-economics, values and family dynamics.  Immigrant sample added in 1994/5. 5, 921 households in 1984 with 12,290 individuals; 3,476 households and 6,203 respondents sill participating in 2006; several supplemental samples added with more households and individuals. 

Heritage, Ancestry and Religious Identification Survey 2001-02
http://www.jewishdatabank.org/users/register.asp
Surveys of 5,100 persons in 2001 and 5, 104 in 2002 assessing the examining the religious and cultural heritage of persons living in the U.S.  Probability sampling.

Houston Area Survey
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/20428.xml
http://houstonareasurvey.org/
Survey of a representative sample of Harris county residents age 18 and over since 1982 conducted to assess the changing lives and demographics of Houston area residents.

Impact of Immigration on Ethnic-Specific Violence in Florida, 1997
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03872.xml
Study examining relationship between presence of immigrants and violence in 79 census tracks in Miami in 1997.  Census level variables on race/ethnicity and Haitian country-of-origin variables.

International and Domestic Trends in Sex Trafficking in the U.S. 1999-2000
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/03438.xml
1999-2000 Survey of 25 international and U.S. women who were currently or had been in the sex industry in the U.S.; 25 law enforcement personnel, 35 social service providers and 6 health care workers in the U.S. familiar with the U.S. sex trade and/or immigration in order to study international and domestics sex trafficking in the U.S.  Targeted sample.

International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
http://zacat.gesis.org/webview/index.jsp
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/SERIES/00124.xml
Yearly survey of changing social topics to assess attitudes of member countries since 1985/6.  Sample sizes and procedures vary by country; country availability varies by year. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, U.S.

Irish Time Use Survey 2005
http://www.ucd.ie/issda/dataset-info/timeuse.htm
Survey of the daily time-use habits of 1,089 persons living in Ireland in 2005 for one weekday and one weekend day. 

The Jewish Community Centennial Study of Greater Atlanta: 2006
http://www.jewishdatabank.org/users/register.asp
2006 survey assessing the socio-economics and religious activities of Jewish persons in greater Atlanta.  Stratified random sample from two sampling frames; 1,007 Jewish households.

Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
http://www.lisproject.org/dataccess.htm
Focus on income, but also includes demographic and labor information for Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, and the US at various points in time.  Sample sizes and techniques vary by country; began in 1983.

Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS)
http://www.lisproject.org/dataccess.htm
Focuses on measures of wealth, but also includes demographic and labor market information for Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, UK and the U.S. Sample size and techniques vary by country; begun in 2002.

Malaysian Family Life Survey (First), 1976-77; 1988-89 (Second)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/NACDA/STUDY/06170.xml
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/NACDA/STUDY/09805.xml
Life histories collecting fertility, employment, education and migration history of 1,262 households containing ever-married women aged 50 and younger for years 1976-77.  Second survey in 1988-89 included a follow-up of the original study as well as a sample of their children along with new samples of women and seniors. 

National Congregations Survey (NCS) 1998
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03471.xml
http://www.cpanda.org/cpanda/getDDI.xq?studyID=a00189#dataDscr
Nationally representative survey conducted in conjunction with the 1998 General Social Survey asking 1,236 congregations about their practices and demographics.  Hypernetwork/multiplicity sampling. 

1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97)
http://www.nlsinfo.org/ordering/display_db.php3#NLSY97
Longitudinal survey of 8,984 persons from 6,819 households representing U.S. residents born during 1980 - 1984.  Examines the transition from school to work and adolescence to adulthood each year since 1997.  Parent questionnaire also included. 

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/
U.S. nationally representative longitudinal study since 1968 collected to examine economic behavior and demographic changes; also includes sociological and psychological information. 4,800 families in 1968 expanded to 7,000 families in 2001. Includes a new immigrant sample in 1997 and a sample of low-income families.

Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS)
https://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/rlms/data/availability.html
Longitudinal survey assessing health status, time use, employment and community level data for persons living in the Russian Federation since 1992.  Nationally representative sample.

Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey 2000
http://www.cfsv.org/communitysurvey/index.html
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
Nationally representative sample of 3,003 adults plus 26,730 individuals in 42 communities in 2000 in order to measure social capital and social networks in the U.S.

Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
http://www.census.gov/sipp/access.html
http://www.nber.org/data/survey-of-income-and-program-participation-sipp-data.html
http://www.bls.census.gov/sipp_ftp.html
Survey of longitudinal data on income and participation in government transfer programs since 1984.  Multi-stage stratified sample design; oversample of low-income population.  Sample sizes range from 14,000 to 36,700 households. 

Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)
http://www.sipp.census.gov/spd/access.html
http://dataferrett.census.gov/
Follows a sample of nationally representative households participating in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) from 1997 - 2002 in order to evaluate the impact of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.  In particular, the study examines welfare use and dependency, and out-of-wedlock births.  16,395 households in 1998; some households added in later surveys.  Cross-sectional and longitudinal files available.

Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) 2002
http://www.cpanda.org/cpanda/getDDI.xq?studyID=a00080
Conducted as part of the 2002 Current Population Survey (CPS) with 17,135 persons asking about adult participation in and frequency of attending the arts.  Stratified, multi-stage, clustered design of non-institutionalized adults aged 18 and older in the U.S.

Sweden: Family and Working Life in the 21st Century – Study number: SSD 0786
http://www.ssd.gu.se/index.php?p=order&lang=en
Longitudinal survey of persons born in Sweden in 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980.  Nationally representative random sample; includes second generation immigrants with at least one parent born in Poland or Turkey.  2,273 respondents in 1999 survey;  1,773 in 2003.

Swedish Level of Living Survey - Study number : SSD 0718
http://www.ssd.gu.se/index.php?p=order&lang=en
Panel survey designed to assess level of living in Sweden, including questions such as work and income, housing, social welfare and political participation.  Based on a .0001 random sample of Swedish population aged 15 to 75 for 1968, 1974, and 1981 surveys.  Ages 18 to 75 for 1991 survey.  Expanded to include younger cohorts and immigrants in the 1974, 1981, and 1991 panels. Over 6,500 respondents per survey.

Uganda Business Register 2006/2007
http://www.ubos.org/nada1/index.php?editable=no&page_type=catalog
Survey examining approximately 20,000 businesses in Uganda and assessing their demographic characteristics in 2006-07. 

Uganda National Household Survey 1999/2000 Socio-Economic Survey
http://www.ubos.org/nada1/index.php?editable=no&page_type=catalog
Assessed the socio-economic situation of 10,700 households in Uganda in 1999-2000.  Stratified two-stage sampling design.

Uganda National Household Survey 2002/2003 Economic Survey
http://www.ubos.org/nada1/index.php?editable=no&page_type=catalog
Survey examining the socio-economic characteristics of 9,711 households in Uganda.  Stratified two-stage design; some over-sampling of urban areas.

U.S. Current Population Survey - March Supplement
http://cps.ipums.org/cps/
Nationally representative survey of U.S. households conducted each March; measures employment, unemployment, occupation, wages and includes socio-demographic data.  Data available since 1962; most migration variables not available until 1994 or after.

World Bank Survey of Africa in the Diaspora - Belgium
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/0,,contentMDK:21122877~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:476883,00.html
2005 survey examines remittance activities of Nigerian, Senegalese and Congolese (DRC) immigrant to Belgium. Snowball sampling based on key informant nominations of community members to interview.