The Social Sciences Data search engine is programmed to search selected data rich websites and then the entire Internet. It automatically searches the terms 'data' and 'codebook' to zero in on datasets (most datasets have an accompanying codebook AND searching 'data' or 'dataset' alone typically does not yield actual datasets).

Alert: you are searching text on websites containing the data, usually not the data/codebook itself, so searching terms like |'education' 'hispanic' 'high school'| and then another search on |'education' 'population' 'high school'| will improve results. Websites often describe datasets in general terms without referencing all of the available variables.

FYI: most freely available datasets are created by some level of government (from local to international), so using official 'jargon' typically improves results.

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Electronic Resources