Social Science Data Services
Finding and Managing Data for Research

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Archiving & Disseminating Your Data
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Software Availability

All MIT Affiliates | Affiliates of Particular departments

Note: these selected programs are all on the Windows platform, with the exception of Athena on Unix.

Want to purchase a copy of Stata for your computer? Stata is available to members of the MIT community for Institute or personal purchase at discounted pricing via the Stata GradPlan.

Available to all MIT Affiliates
Location	DBMS/ Copy	R	SAS	Splus	SPSS	Stat/ Transfer	Stata
Athena		X	X	X			X
Dewey Library, Workstation 15					X	X	X
Harvard-MIT Data Center	X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Available Only to Affiliates of Particular Departments
Location	R	SAS	Splus	SPSS	Stat/ Transfer	Stata
Department of Economics	X	X			X	X
Department of Political Science					X	X
Department of Urban Studies & Planning						X
Sloan School of Management - Note: requires login to SloanPoint		X	X	X	X	X

Quick Links

- Harvard-MIT Data Center

- ICPSR

New Resources

- China Data Online (MIT only)
- Historical Statistics of the United States (MIT only)

Katherine McNeill, Social Science Data Services and Economics Librarian, mcneillh@mit.edu
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Social Science Data Services Finding and Managing Data for Research

Software Availability

All MIT Affiliates | Affiliates of Particular departments

Available to all MIT Affiliates

Location

DBMS/ Copy

R

SAS

Splus

SPSS

Stat/ Transfer

Stata

Available Only to Affiliates of Particular Departments