Sources of secondary data

Here are some commonly used sources of secondary data and research data catalogues in the social sciences that may be useful to explore when planning a research project.

  • DataDOI – the University of Tartu's research data repository, which also contains datasets from the former Estonian Social Science Data Archive (ESTA)
  • Statistics Estonia database – Estonia's official statistics and open data portal
  • Estonian Data Portal – a gateway to open datasets provided by government institutions and the wider public sector
  • DIGAR – the digital archive of the National Library of Estonia, containing digitised newspapers, journals, books and other publications

Good to know

A longer list of data sources of interest to social scientists, as well as an overview of the specific considerations involved in collecting social media data, can be found in Chapter 7 of the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide.