ICPSR conducts a disclosure risk review of every dataset to determine whether any data items could be used to identify individual respondents. ICPSR ensures respondent confidentiality by either removing, masking, or collapsing variables within public-use versions of the datasets. The vast majority of ICPSR data holdings are public-use files with no restrictions on their access.
Researchers can gain access to most restricted data by signing a Restricted Data Use Agreement and by designing a Data Protection Plan.
Downloading data
Most of the ICPSR datasets are downloadable only by current Utah State University students, staff, and faculty. Federally funded data are freely available to the general public.
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