Friday, January 20, 2012

How do I search SAMHDA's holdings for datasets or particular variables?

The SAMHDA website provides three ways to search SAMHDA holdings:

  • The Search/Compare Variables option searches question text, value, and variable labels for all SAMHDA studies.

  • The Data option searches for keywords or phrases within the descriptions of all the studies in SAMHDA's holdings. This search is available on each page of the SAMHDA site in the upper-right corner (outside of SDA).

  • The Reports & Publications option searches SAMHDA's bibliography that contains thousands of citations referencing data archived by SAMHDA.

SAMHDA's search utility is provided by ICPSR. SAMHDA’s holdings can also be searched on the ICPSR website. Note that searching on the ICPSR website may return studies that are not held or supported by SAMHDA, and that may be restricted to ICPSR member institutions.