Welcome to the Australian Data Archive

The Australian Data Archive (ADA) provides a national service for the collection and preservation of digital research data and to make these data available for secondary analysis by academic researchers and other users.

NOTIFICATION ON DATA DOWNLOADS AND ONLINE ANALYSIS THROUGH NESSTAR, 29 APRIL, 2013

PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR NESSTAR ONLINE DATA ANALYSIS AND DOWNLOAD SYSTEM AND OUR ONLINE USER ACCOUNT SYSTEM ARE CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE, AND WE DO NOT YET HAVE AN ESTIMATE OF WHEN THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE.

IN THE INTERIM, WE ARE MAKING DATA DOWNLOADS AVAILABLE THROUGH A PDF-BASED REQUEST FORM. PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND COMPLETE THE REQUEST FORM AVAILABLE HERE (PDF), AND RETURN TO US VIA EMAIL AT ada@anu.edu.au

WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE, AND WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE THIS SITE WITH FURTHER INFORMATION AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE.

About ADA

The ADA is comprised of seven sub-archives:

• ADA Social Science
• ADA Historical
• ADA Indigenous
• ADA Longitudinal
• ADA Qualitative
• ADA Crime & Justice
• ADA International

The archive is provided by a consortium of leading national Australian universities, managed by the Australian National University (ANU) and including nodes around Australia, at the University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, University of Technology Sydney and University of Western Australia.

Accessing Data

All visitors to the ADA Data Catalogue can browse and search the catalogue, view study and variable documentation (including frequencies) and download related material (questionnaires, codebooks, etc). Registered users can also analyse and visualise most data online and users who have completed the relevant undertaking form(s) can download entire studies or subsets of variables in a range of formats. For more information, explore the Data Access menu above.

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