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To request an account on the Social Science Gateway (SSG), please click here.

Request access to the Synthetic Data Server

Account request procedures for the Synthetic Data Server (SDS) are described here.

We support:

The International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013)

QWIPU R2013Q1 (data through 2012:2) available for download

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states are available for download from our download server. The release R2013Q1 covers data through 2012:2, for 47 states and the District of Columbia. [...]

Business Dynamic Statistics (BDS) public use files updated on SSG

The Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) files have been updated on the Social Science Gateway compute nodes. They are available at

/data/clean/bds

in their fully labeled and compressed version. Note that the file names have changed slightly to reflect the changed naming convention of the raw files as made available by the Census Bureau.

QWIPU R2012Q2 (data through 2011:3) available for download

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states are available for download from our new download server. The release R2012Q2 covers data through 2011:3, for 46 states and the District of [...]

QWIPU R2011Q3 (data through 2010:4) available for download

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states are available for download. The release R2011Q3 covers data through 2010:4, for 48 [...]

Important notice to users of SSG: deletion policy

Important note: as of May 1, 2011, we will be enforcing a policy of deleting files older than 4 weeks in /scratch and in users’ home directories’ “Trash” folder.