Downloadable Public-Use Data
The Online Data Archive is a group of datasets that DISC has selected to provide for direct online download. If you are a UW-Madison researcher interested in adding your data to this archive, please visit the Archive Your Data page.
This group of datasets is not a complete set of DISC library holdings. Search the DISC Catalog or the ICPSR website to find more datasets of interest.
- American Catholic Priesthood Survey, 1971
- Argentine Chamber of Deputies, 1904-1955: roll call records and member characteristics
- Argentine Election of 1946 and Census of 1947: raw and transformed datasets
- Belgian Municipal Accounts for 16 Governments, 1870-1933
- The Census and Property Survey for Florentine Domains and the City of Verona in Fifteenth Century Italy--Catasto Study
- Characteristics of Census Tracts for Nine U.S. Cities, 1940-1960
- Characteristics of Municipios: Data from the 1950 and 1960 Censuses of Mexico
- The Council on Foreign Relations: A Case Study of the Societal Bases of Foreign Policy Formation, 1922-1969
- Dynamics of Idealism: Volunteers for Civil Rights 1965-1982
- Ethnicity of Students and Staff in Wisconsin Public Schools, 1974-1975
- An Evaluation of Effects of the Learnfare Program 1993-1996
- Financial Characteristics of Cities in the United States, 1905-1930
- French Old Regime Bureaucrats: Intendants de Province, 1661-1790
- Government Crowd-out of Private Contribution to Public Radio: An Empirical Study
- Governmental Units Analysis Data, 1960: Urban Racial Disorders, 1961-1968
- Growth of American Families, 1955 and 1960
- Health and Wellness of the Elderly (SABE) in Bogotá, Colombia, 2012
- Health and Wellness of the Elderly (SABE) in Colombia, 2015 [NEW!]
- International News Exposure and National Images in a Third World Setting, 1982
- Lumbertowns in the Cutover: Economic Cross-Section of 94 (Mostly Obscure) Wisconsin and Michigan Communities at 4 Decade Long Intervals
- Man and the Variable Vulnerability of Island Life: A Study of Recent Vegetation Change in the Bahamas, 1972
- Medicaid Waiver Dataset: Coverage for Childless Adults 1996-2014
- Migrant Farm Workers in Wisconsin, 1978 & 1989
- Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
- Milwaukee Study of Civil Disorder, 1967
- National Health Measurement Study (NHMS)
- National Institute for Science Education Evaluation of "The Why Files" World Wide Web Site
- National Survey of Families and Households Wave1 (1987-1988), Wave 2 (1992-1994) and Wave 3 (2001-2003)
- Online Politics and Young Voters 2006: The Use of Political Websites by American Youth and Effects on Political Engagement
- Patterns of Interracial Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in the City of Milwaukee, 1970
- Private Prison News Project: Article Data from New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Houston Chronicle, 1985-2008
- Puerto Rican Elderly: Health Conditions (PREHCO)
- Puerto Rico's Padrones: 1779-1802
- Political Elites in Mexico, 1900-1971
- Population and Agricultural Census Schedules of Polk Township Washington County, Wisconsin, 1850, 1860
- Population Census of Indonesia, 1971: .38% Sample (3.8% for Jakarta and Jogjakarta)
- Premarital Sexuality Among Young People, 1973
- Research on Early Life and Aging Trends and Effects (RELATE), 1996-2008
- Roll of Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1843 and Liberian Census Data, 1843
- Russian Imperial Bureaucracy, 1762-1881
- Search for Irish Immigrants Through the Boston Pilot, 1847 and 1848
- Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Socio-economic Role of Nicaraguan Women, 1977-1978
- Soviet Nationalities Data: 1929 and 1956 Censuses
- Study of American Families, 1994
- Summary of Study of Microcomputers in Small- and Medium-Sized Colombian Firms, 1985-1986 [NEW!]
- Survey of Economic Expectations, Waves 1-8, with data from the UW Survey Center's National Survey
- Survey of Financial Characteristics of Consumers, 1962-1963, Survey of Changes in Family Finances, 1964, and Capital Gains Data on Common Stock for Respondents of the Surveys of Financial Characteristics, 1962-1963, and Changes in Family Finances, 1964 (U.S. Federal Reserve System)
- Survey of Food Consumption of Households in the United States, Spring 1955
- Surveys of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates and Surveys of Natural and Social Scientists and Engineers (U.S. National Science Foundation)
- Voting Behavior in the Wisconsin State Legislature: 1965-1966 and 2003-2020 [2019-2020 data added!]
- The Wisconsin Basic Needs Study, 1981-1982
- Wisconsin Children, Incomes, and Program Participation Survey (CHIPPS) of 1985
- Wisconsin Citizen Attitudes Towards Taxes Survey, 1978
- Wisconsin Consumer Attitudes Regarding Acceptance of Food-Related Biotechnology, 1990
- Wisconsin County-Level Historical Data, 1840-1960
- Wisconsin Study of Families and Work 1990-2012[NEW!]