WLS Portal

Announcing the New WLS Portal!

The WLS study team is excited to announce the rollout of our new online Portal, designed to enhance your data exploration and analysis experience. This advanced platform is based on the DDI-Lifecycle metadata standard and supports integrated documentation of longitudinal datasets like WLS. The new Portal will replace our older system of online codebooks (documented in an earlier version of DDI called Codebook), offering richly-described metadata, summary statistics, and data visualizations for all WLS variables.

Researchers can now efficiently navigate and search over 27,000 WLS variables, exploring cross-round variable harmonization, and downloading customized documentation in a variety of formats. Access to datasets, instruments, and supporting documents continues to be available on the main WLS website.

Please bookmark https://wls.portal.ssc.wisc.edu/ to get started today and use the Feedback button to reach out or suggest improvements!