Data Sets/Statistics

A monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides a comprehensive body of data on the labor force, employment, unemployment, persons not in the labor force, hours of work, earnings, and other demographic and labor force characteristics.

Is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows you to replicate others' work more easily.

Datasets from the federal government. Browse topics such as agriculture, climate, consumer, education, energy, finance, health, manufacturing, ocean, public safety, and science & research.

Powered by the Gallup World Poll, these datasets, collected on behalf of partners at different organizations, allow researchers to access data on a wide range of issues.

Similar to how Google Scholar works, Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher's site, a digital library, or an author's personal web page.

Explore and analyze the GSS data, create data visualizations, and generate custom extracts to analyze in your statistical program.

Provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community context. Is a part of the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota.

Provides free and easy access to summary tables and time series of population, housing, agriculture, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for years from 1790 through the present and for all levels of U.S. census geography, including states, counties, tracts, and blocks.

Datasets curated on the Appen platform. Free to download for the entire data science and machine learning community. Includes the raw data, job design, description, instructions, and more.

Datasets from the Pew Research Center, available for free (some requiring registration first). Pew Research Center projects cover journalism, the internet, religion, social trends, and more

A global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines and has over 2000 data repositories.

Provides a variety of demographic data. Contains the online series up to the 2012 edition. The U.S. Census Bureau terminated the collection of data for the Statistical Compendia program effective October 2011.

USAFacts is a data-driven portrait of the American population, government’s finances, and government’s impact on society. It is a non-partisan, not-for-profit civic initiative and has no political agenda or commercial motive.

Is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life.

Dryad is an international repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. Dryad enables scientists to validate published findings, explore new analysis methodologies, repurpose data for research questions unanticipated by the original authors, and perform synthetic studies. Dryad is governed by a consortium of journals that collaboratively promote data archiving and ensure the sustainability of the repository.

The genetic sequence database maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Sequences are annotated, and free to download.

SRA, maintained at the NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information, is a repository of raw, high-throughput genetic sequencing data "from all branches of life."

Statistics on children and families in the United States across a range of domains, including family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.

Use this for current and historical data.

Education Week is an award-winning independent news organization that has covered K-12 education since 1981. It is known for providing both news and analysis, along with explanatory and investigative journalism.

Authoritative source for current statistics, survey results, cumulated data and more. Maintained by the U.S. Department of Education

Find key data for state/jurisdiction performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments in mathematics, reading, writing, and science at grades 4, 8 and 12 (where applicable). View trends and demographics, download snapshot reports, and compare results for each state/jurisdiction to the nation and to the other states.

You will discover a world of wonderful information. This site is HUGE and somewhat difficult to find your way around in. Bookmark whenever you see something of interest! Be prepared for it to change structurally and visually.

"IPEDS is the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. It is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). IPEDS gathers information from every college, university, and technical and vocational institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs. The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, requires that institutions that participate in federal student aid programs report data on enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty and staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid. These data are made available to students and parents through the College Navigator college search Web site and to researchers and others through the IPEDS Data Center. "

The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) was established in the 1970s and updated in 1997 and 2011 to categorize information on education systems in a way that facilitates cross-national comparisons of education statistics. For all countries outside of the OECD and the European Union, these systems are now available in diagram form and in multiple languages thanks to joint work by the UIS and the GEM Report.

The United Nations Statistics Division collects data on literacy, educational attainment, and school attendance, as well as some statistics and indicators on illiteracy and education, from national statistical offices around the world. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics is a major source of these statistics and indicators. This site allows the user to browse by country.

The United Nations Statistics Division collects data on literacy, educational attainment, and school attendance, as well as some statistics and indicators on illiteracy and education from national statistical offices around the world, derived from population censuses, and disseminates them in tabular form in special issues of the United Nations Demographic Yearbook. This link takes you to the list of special issues, including those with education information.

The World Bank Development Data Group maintains a number of macro, financial, and sector databases. Much of the data comes from the statistical systems of member countries. This link takes you to the Education data interface.

The World Bank EdStats (Education Statistics) portal is a comprehensive data and analysis interactive resource for key topics in education, such as access, completion, learning, expenditures, policy, and equity.

Provides data on expenditures, income, and demographic characteristics of consumers in the United States. Provides these data in tables, databases, news releases, reports, and public use microdata files. Is the only Federal household survey to provide information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes.

Fed Reserve data on interest rates, GDP, exchange rates, and more

Source of information for [U.S.] income and program participation. SIPP collects data and measures change for many topics including: economic well-being, family dynamics, education, assets, health insurance, childcare, and food security.

Data sets available include Word Development Indicators, GDP, Landmine Casualties, and more

Provides geophysical data and information covering the sea floor, Sun, observations of Earth from space, and solid earth.

Provides a federated repository search of environmental and Earth data.

Provides oceanography data sets and Antarctic organism and ecosystem data.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on health-related issues of American people.

Dryad is an international repository of open data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences.

Data hub for the HHS Community Health Data Initiative. Contains clinical care provider quality information, nationwide health service provider directories, databases of the latest medical and scientific knowledge, consumer product data, community health performance information, government spending data and much more from CMS, CDC, FDA, NIH, etc.

Find, share and use humanitarian data from around the world. Part of the United Nations Secretariat and is responsible for bringing together humanitarian efforts to ensure a coherent response to emergencies.

The Centers for Disease Control is the main agency for compiling health statistics in the United States. The National Center for Health Statistics is the site through which they provide access to these statistics

Allows you to explore WHO's key data tools, data sets and databases

"Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade....Healthy People 2030 includes 355 core — or measurable — objectives as well as developmental and research objectives."

The Bureau's Data and Product Finder search box of data and related documents and reports. Also includes an Alphabetical Index and categories by Topic. The Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics (FCCPS) tool is an interface that can be used to analyze federal case processing data.

Prisoner data, US prison population.

Annual FBI publication compiling volume and rate of criminal offenses for the nation, states, and individual agencies. Also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data. U.S. local police agencies have participated in cooperative reporting to this publication since 1930. Includes Hate Crime statistics.

Facilitates research on drug addiction and HIV infection by acquiring, enhancing, preserving, and sharing data produced by research grants, particularly those funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Downloadable files and online data analysis tools available for a range of criminology and criminal justice topics. Download and create your own tables.

A resource and advocacy organization for crime victims and those who serve them. Website includes extensive statistical, publications, resource links, and direct online guides to assist victims of crimes and their advocates. There also is a searchable directory of service agencies.

An agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons. Website includes information about services, current projects, and a library of corrections-related online research documents.

An annual survey of law enforcement agencies to assess the extent of youth gang problems in the U.S. Survey data available.

SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities. Use the Fast Finder menu for quick access to statistics.

Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.

From the 1870s to 2012 (as of 2017).

Information about U.S. federal immigration enforcement. Check out the Latest Figures section for the most recent reports and sections on Reports & Bulletins or Facts & Figures.

Includes the Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book for January - December 2016.

National injury reports 1981-2015. Data by urbanization level now available.

National Opinion Research Center's projects relating to criminal justice. Includes findings that focus on (1) Prisons; (2) Drug Markets; (3) Crime; (4) Juvenile Justice; (5) Restorative Justice; & (6) Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking.

A nonprofit with a mission to open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions through economic and social policy research. Crime and justice briefs and research reports.

From the University at Albany. Topics: criminal justice characteristics, public opinion, crime, victims, arrests, seizures, courts, prosecution, sentencing, parole, jail, and prison. Data mostly from 2000-2013.

PDF Amnesty International Global Report.

Links for crime statistics and criminal justice reports published by country agencies, institutes, or organizations. Not typically very recent.

Established in 1967 to support nations in preventing crime and facilitating justice.

UNODC is mandated to assist Member States in their struggle against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.

A global center whose mandate is to generate evidence-based, impartial, and policy-relevant knowledge on all aspects of small arms and armed violence. Data and reports on all aspects of small arms weapons sale and use.

The core of the AidData database currently encompasses multilateral and bilateral donor foreign aid projects spanning the years 1945-2009. The AidData team includes scholars in economics, political science, sociology, and computer science, development practitioners, and NGO researchers based out of Development Gateway in Washington, DC, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, and Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.

Survey comprises a set of three large replicate, representative, national surveys of adults in the continental U.S.A. (48 states & DC) in 1990, 2001 and 2008. It is the largest national survey on American religion.

Browsable data and downloadable data sets for religions in the United States. This data is deliberately not collected by the U.S. Census Bureau (religious affiliation).

ASARB brings together data collectors from American faith groups. It sponsors the decadal U.S. Religion Census and reports comparable statistics to the organization annually.

Provides access to survey data and questionnaires from Eagleton's quarterly statewide polls of New Jersey residents on matters of political and social interest. You can view polls and question responses from 1971 through today. Users may search or browse subjects of available polls.

The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is a unique and valuable resource. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades. Download (SPSS or STATA) or browse data online.

ICPSR offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. The fourteen special archives include aging [gerontology], criminology, demography, economics, early education, education, history, international studies, law, mental health, racial and ethnic minorities [underrepresented groups], political science, psychology, public health, substance abuse, sociology, and terrorism. To use ICPSR, you will need to create a free user account.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

Statistics "Measuring child well-being in North Dakota, county by county"

Maintained by The University of Auckland, NZ.

Research goals include (1) Improving public policy; (2) Informing the public; & (3) Stimulating civic life. You may view the Center's list of subject categories for which it has data and publications available.

View topics or go directly to the Datasets page to explore available content.

See at a glance where racial populations are located as self-identified in population surveys. Map can be set to show various demographics (age, race) and mouse-cursoring reveals specific county or metropolitan area statistical breakdown

Provides public opinion polls outside of the United States. The project is managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland.

The WVS in collaboration with EVS (European Values Study) carried out representative national surveys in 97 societies containing almost 90 percent of the world's population. These surveys show pervasive changes in what people want out of life and what they believe. In order to monitor these changes, the EVS/WVS has executed five waves of surveys, from 1981 to 2007.
Download data or reports from website, or use online data analysis tools.