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A collection of your data representing all of the information (fields or variables) collected about each case (record or observation)

Your dataset may be created based on a survey that you have created. Or you could be collecting data from participants in a study.

Or you could download a dataset from a standard data collection agency (example: IPEDS).

Or you may be given an existing dataset from a research study.