Access to SHARE Data
SHARE
data are available in an open access regime for
scientific purposes.
Access
to the data collected and generated in the SHARE
projects is provided free of charge for scientific use
globally, subject to European Union and national data
protection laws as well as the publicly available
Conditions of Use.
Access services are rendered through two public data
archives in cooperation with the Central SHARE
Coordination Team: the CentERdata Archive located at
Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the Data
Archive for the Social Sciences, a public data archive
run by GESIS Leibniz-Institute for Social Sciences in
Cologne.
Available data sets
An overview of the up-to-date data sets of the
different SHARE waves as well as additional data sets
that are available via the SHARE Research Data Center can be found
here: SHARE Data Releases.
Registration
1. All data of the SHARE project are publicly accessible and can be downloaded for free at the official website of the SHARE ERIC project, after registration.
2. The data are located in the central
data archive of the CentERData and the GESIS
Archive.
3. The data can be downloaded after completing the
registration.
4. The data are in the STATA, SPSS and R data
format.
5. The text documentation for the data can be found
here.
6. Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) can
be found here.
Please visit the main website of the SHARE ERIC project to read the conditions for data use, the registration process and data access, at www.share-project.org.