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Social Sciences Data: Covariates

This guide is a source for finding data to complete research projects and data analysis assignments

Adding Covariates to Your Data

Covariates allow you to control for some of the many factors involved in output from statistical analysis.  These control variables are related to your dependent variable, but may not be the focus of your research question.  The covariates you want to include may or may not be in the same dataset with your dependent and independent variables.

If you need to add covariates to your data, this page is for you.

*Remember to find covariates from the same time periodlevel of observation, and geography as the rest of your data.

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