The UK Data Archive, a service provider for the ESDS, is a member of:

• Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
• International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST)
• International Federation of Data Organizations for the Social Science (IFDO)
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR - the largest social science data archive in the world)

Through the above memberships and international data exchange agreements, ESDS International is able to acquire and disseminate key cross-national survey datasets, such as the Eurobarometers, the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) and the World Values Surveys. For more information on how to request data from other national data archives, see Finding and accessing international micro data.