Research Guides: Primary Sources: Datasets / Statistics

Statistics

Association of Religion Data Archive Collection of surveys and polls; national profiles, U.S. congregational membership, and denominations; and GIS maps.
Data USA Visualization of U.S. public data
Federal Reserve Economic Data FRED is an online database consisting of more than 240,000 economic data time series from 76 national, international, public, and private sources. FRED, created and maintained by Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, goes far beyond simply providing data: It combines data with a powerful mix of tools that help the user understand, interact with, display, and disseminate the data.
Global Health Observatory Global Health Observatory (GHO) [is a] gateway to health-related statistics from around the world. The aim of the GHO is to: compile and verify major sources of health data; provide easy access to country data and metadata; present scientifically sound information in user-friendly formats. GHO theme pages will cover global health priorities such as the health-related Millennium Development Goals, women and health, mortality and burden of disease, disease outbreaks, health equity and health systems. Each theme page will present: highlights showing the global situation and trends, using regularly updated core indicators; data views customized for each theme, including country profiles and a map gallery; publications relevant to the theme; links to relevant web pages within WHO and elsewhere. The GHO will provide access to an interactive repository of health statistics. Users will be able to download data sets in various formats, display data for selected indicators, health topics, countries and regions, and download the customized tables in Excel format. The GHO will issue analytical reports on priority health issues, including the World Health Statistics annual publication, which compiles statistics for key health indicators. Analytical reports will address cross-cutting topics such as women and health.

Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window U.S. historical data and statistics. Tables may be graphed, customized, and downloaded.
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International Financial Statistics 1948 - present. Source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
International Statistics (Statistical Datasets)

Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 This link opens in a new window Market research reports, business correspondence, and notes, of Ernest Dichter, a foremost consumer analyst and market researcher, from 1935-1965.
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Roper Center Public Opinion Archives (with iPOLL) This link opens in a new window Thousands of U.S. and international survey datasets. Sign-in to download data sets and do analyses.
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Social Progress Index

Statista This link opens in a new window Statistical analysis platform with quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and other areas of interest or markets. Data sources include market research reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.
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Statistical Abstract of the United States (ProQuest) 1878-2012 This link opens in a new window Comprehensive summary of historical statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Coverage from 1878 to 2012.
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Sage Data This link opens in a new window Statistical data in a wide range of subject areas. Find, visualize, and share U.S. and international statistics from trusted sources that cover business, crime, health, labor and more
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World Bank Data Freely available open data catalog providing download access to over 8000 indicators from World Bank data sets.

World DataBank This link opens in a new window Data analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of economics topics.
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World Development Report The Complete World Development Report Online is freely available and includes every World Development Report published by the World Bank since 1978 in one convenient, cross-searchable website.

Datasets

GSS Data Explorer This link opens in a new window Data analysis tool that contains all the datasets from the GSS (General Social Survey) from 1972-present. You must create an account if you want to save variables, analyses, or visualizations.
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Harvard Dataverse This link opens in a new window Free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore data across research fields.
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ICPSR - Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new window Data archive of research in the social sciences wtih over 11,100 studies included. Create a MyData account to download members-only data and other functionality.
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IPUMS This link opens in a new window Census and survey data from around the world and includes records from U.S. censuses from 1790-present and records from the international censuses of over 100 countries.
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Kaggle Data analysis competitions using interesting data sets
re3data re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines.
UK Data Archive UK's largest archive of digital research data in the social sciences.

Guides

Data and Statistics Resources

Census

data.census.gov The data.census.gov site provides easy to access to aggregate data on population, housing, economic and geographic information from several censuses and surveys.
Census Data
on microfilm

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window A U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform. Data can be used to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis and research.
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Social Explorer This link opens in a new window Interactive data maps of United States demographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau from 1790-present.
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International Data Base
International demographic data from the US Census Bureau

Demographics / Country Profiles

Demographic Yearbook (United Nations)
1948 -

Statista This link opens in a new window Statistical analysis platform with quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and other areas of interest or markets. Data sources include market research reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.
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