The Urban Communes Data Set (UCDS) is a longitudinal, multi-group study consisting of data collected at the group, individual, and dyadic level  (Benjamin Zablocki, principal investigator).   Sixty groups from six different urban regions in the United States entered the data frame in 1974.  Further waves of the data collection process occurred in 1975, 1976, 1984, 1985, and are currently underway.  The data from 1974 alone probably constitute the largest set of comparable network data from independent naturally occurring communities, and offer many possibilities for secondary analysts.  Portions of this data set are currently being made public to other researchers; we hope to be able to make additional portions public in the future.  From here, you may read further about the data set; download the data files and codebooks; download special programs to analyze the network data; browse a list of publications using the data set; or contact us if you require additional information, or need a version of the data in a different format, or on disk. You may also follow this LINK to an article discussing use of the social network components of this data set.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9906452.  Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).