Social Sciences Data
Social Sciences Data
General
Crime and Justice
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Data
- International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS)
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) at ICPSR
- Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities
- Violence Against Women Resource Guide
- United Nations International Study on Firearm Regulation
- UN Surveys of Crime Trends
Children and Families
- Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
-
Kids Count Data from the The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF)
Demographics
Economics
- Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) - Economagic.com.
- Comsumer Spending at BEA
Education
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Household Education Surveys (NHES)
- Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
- Monitoring the Future
- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997
- National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS)
Elections & Voting
- 1991 National Race and Politics Survey
- American National Election Studies 1948-
- American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy Series
- Annual Survey of Governments
- British General Election Studies
- Canadian National Election Study Series
- Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
- Eurobarometer Survey Series. 1970+
- Federal Election Commission
- German Election Studies
- National Black Election Studies
- Pew Hispanic Center
- Political Events Project, 1948-1965
- Polity IV: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
- United States Congressional Biographical Data from ICPSR
- United States Historical Election Returns
Healthcare
- AIDS Public Data Set
- Area Resource File
- California Consumers Experiences with Managed Care
- Demographic and Health Surveys
- Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, 1995
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
- ICPSR Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA)
- Joint Canada-US Survey of Health
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
- Mexican Health and Aging Study
- National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey series 1973-present
- National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
- National Survey of America's Families
- OECD Health Data
- Population Research Center at NORC and The University of Chicago
- World Health Organization Statistical Information System
Public Opinion
Social Attitudes & Values
- Biennial Media Consumption Survey 1998 - 2002
- British Social Attitudes Survey Series, 1983+
- Eurobarometer Survey Series. 1970+
- General Social Survey
- German Social Survey. 1980+
- International Social Survey Program
- Monitoring the Future: 1976+
- Pew Research Center
- World Database of Happiness: States of Nations
- World Values Survey
Data Sets
- Social Sciences
- Sciences
- Engineering
- Digital Humanities
Working with Data
Got data?
NSF and other grant agencies now require that data gathered with grant agency funding be made available to other researchers, at some point. Even if it isn't required, there are excellent reasons to deposit data.
- CDL Guide sharing/archiving data
- DMPT - Making a data plan for a grant
- Depositing your Data with UC Data Repository (Merritt)
Cool Data Projects
- OpenContext (currently mostly Archaeological and Medical, GPS linked)
Last modified: 1/17/2013 3:47 PM by M. Potter
