Online College Social Life Survey

The Online College Social Life Survey was designed by Paula England and collected between Autumn 2005-Spring 2011 at twenty-one four-year colleges and universities in the United States. This page includes the questionnaire, data, an online codebook, and a list of articles which make use of these data. Contact England for questions about the survey and questionnaire, or Jonathan Bearak for questions about the codebook and source code. Researchers who wish to use OCSLS data should check with their University IRB before using it to see what they require. Often, school IRBs will assign research using the data exempt status given that it is anonymous secondary data. 

Surveys

• 2010 survey (hosted by New York University) 
• 2018+ survey (A new version of the survey, with most of the old questions and some new ones, is now managed by a new team of PIs and is currently in the field. Due to COVID-related delays, it is projected to be available in a few years once the survey period has been concluded. Please contact lundquist@soc.umass.edu (Professor Jennifer Lundquist) if you would like the survey distributed at your school. It is hosted by University of Massachusetts Amherst.)