You are right, but the parent is on point. When I was a student I tried many times to download datasets, with very little success. Only statistical institutions

You are right, but the parent is on point. When I was a student I tried many times to download datasets, with very little success. Only statistical institutions like INE, Igape and so on happily provided the data used for their studies, which is a given since they publish most of their datasets in their website anyway. This sucks, because maybe you have more questions that could be answered with their datasets, but you can't do shit because this shitty system. I'm not a scientist, and partly because though the uni I was really put of by the bureaucracy and the smell of endogamy, obscure and old system and so on. It's so hard to build new knowledge when everyone is taking care of their little yard and keeping everyone else away... and social sciences need this openness like farmers need their rain.