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1 Air Quality System (AQS)
2 America’s Health Rankings
3 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Participant Use Data File (ACS-NSQIP)
4 American College of Surgeons National Trauma Data Bank (ACS-NTDB)
5 American Community Survey (ACS)
6 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database
7 American Housing Survey (AHS)
8 American Time Use Survey (ATUS)
9 Area Deprivation Index (ADI)
10 Area Deprivation Index (ADI-3)
11 Area Health Resources Files (AHRF)
12 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
13 Big Cities Health Inventory
14 Bridged Race Population Estimates
15 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
16 Chronic Disease Indicators
17 Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD)
18 Common Core of Data, America’s Public Schools
19 Community Resilience Estimates (CRE)
20 Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE)
21 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
22 COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index (CCVI)
23 Current Population Survey (CPS)
24 Distressed Communities Index (DCI)
25 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)
26 FDA Aderse Event Reporting System (FAERS)
27 Food Access Research Atlas
28 Food Environment Atlas
29 General Social Survey (GSS)
30 Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
31 Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
32 Health Data Compass
33 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)
34 Hospital Compare
35 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data system (IPEDS)
36 IPUMS
37 Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID)
38 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
39 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)
40 Medicare Fee for Service Parts A and B (MEDPAR)
41 Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSA-QIP)
42 Minority Health Social Vulnerability Index (MHSVI)
43 National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS)
44 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)
45 National Beneficiary Survey (NBS)
46 National Cancer Database (NCDB)
47 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
48 National Emissions Inventory (NEI)
49 National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
50 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)
51 National Health and Nutrition Epidemiological Survey (NHANES)
52 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
53 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
54 National Household Travel Survey
55 National Immunization Survey (NIS) (Child/Teen)
56 National Inpatient Sample (NIS)
57 National Longitudinal Survey of Mature and Young Women
58 National Longitudinal Survey of Older and Young Men
59 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)
60 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child and Young Adult (NLSYCYA)
61 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)
62 National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS)
63 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH)
64 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
65 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)
66 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
67 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)
68 National Vital Statistics
69 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS)
70 Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample (NASS)
71 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS)
72 Nationwide Readmissions Sample (NRD)
73 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
74 PLACES: Local Data for Better Health
75 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
76 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes
77 School Health Policies and Practices Study (SHPPS)
78 Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR)
79 Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends (SMART)
80 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)
81 Social Deprivation Index
82 Social Determinants of Health Database
83 Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
84 State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases (SASD)
85 State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD)
86 State Inpatient Databases (SID)
87 State of Ohio Public Health Data
88 Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)
89 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
90 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Data
91 Treatment Episode Data Sets: Admissions (TEDS-A) and Discharges (TEDS-D)
92 United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
93 United States Mortality Database (USMDB)
94 United States Renal Data System (USRDS)
95 US Census Data
96 US Religion Census: Religious Congregations and Membership Study
97 US Small Area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP)
98 Walkability Index
99 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
100 500 Cities: Local Data for Better Health
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29 General Social Survey (GSS)

29.1 Organization

NORC at the University of Chicago

29.2 Website

http://gss.norc.org/About-The-GSS

29.3 Description

Gathers data on contemporary American society
Standard core of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions
Additional supplemental content
Among the topics covered are civil liberties, crime and violence, intergroup tolerance, morality, national spending priorities, psychological well-being, social mobility, and stress and traumatic events.

29.4 Vintage/Release Frequency

Annual from 1972 to 1994 and biennial since 1994

29.5 Observational Unit

Household respondent

29.6 Collection Methodology

Sampling methodology has changed over time, with a full probability sample implemented in 1977 and changes to the sampling frames were made about every ten years, adapted from updated census information
Multi-stage area probability sample

29.7 Available at

http://gss.norc.org/get-the-data

29.8 User Guide/Data Dictionary

http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation

29.9 Cost

Free for download

29.10 Proposal or Application required?

No

29.11 DUA required?

No

29.12 Special Notes

Have a tools available for searching and analyzing the data without download
Citation: Smith, Tom W., Davern, Michael, Freese, Jeremy, and Hout, Michael. General Social Surveys, 1972-2016. [machine-readable data file]. Principal Investigator, Tom W. Smith; Co-Principal Investigators, Peter V. Marsden and Michael Hout, NORC ed. Chicago: NORC, 2017. 1 data file (62,466 logical records) and 1 codebook (3,689 pp).