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General Help

• Glossary of Social Science and Computering Terms

Help Locating Data and Getting the Files You Need

• How to Download Data or Documentation Files
• Decompressing Zipped Files

Help with Study Documentation

• Types of Documentation Files
• Codebook Files
  • Example of a Codebook File

Help with Data Files

• Types of Data Formats
• Types of Data Structures
• How to Interpret a Record from an ASCII Data File

Help with Setup Files

• SAS, SPSS, and Stata Setup Files
• Examples of Setup Files
  • SAS
  • SPSS
  • Stata
• How to Use Setup Files to Read ASCII Data
  • SAS
  • SPSS
  • Stata