LibraryGuides: Encyclopedias &amp; Reference: Data & Statistics

Datasets and Data Retrieval Sites

Tips for Finding Datasets

Downloading data sets from PEW Research Center
American National Election Studies (ANES)
A collaboration of Stanford University and the University of Michigan, producing data on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Department of Justice federal crime statistics released as searchable data
https://www.bjs.gov/
CDC Wonder
Large collection of datasets on U.S. public health
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Comparative health outcomes and health factors by county.
http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
Data.gov
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government
Gallup Publicly Available Datasets
From the website: Explore datasets made freely available to the public by Gallup's clients.
General Social Survey (GSS)
Provides access to questionnaires, codebooks and dowloadable datasets regarding the structure and development of the American society. Requires users to create an account.
Global Consumption Database
Extensive consumption data on economically developing countries for research and market analysis.
Global Open Data Index
Ranks countries based on accessibility of national data across 13 categories. Datasets can be viewed, when available, with a text search or by clicking on infographics.
Open Secrets
Contains data on the political activity of nonprofits, political campaigns, and lobbying activities
Pew Research Internet Project Datasets
Raw data sets from the Pew Research Center, available as single compressed archive files (.zip file).
SEER
Large dataset on cancer incidence in the United States
UNdata
Statistical information from U.N. member states on a range of economic and societal topics, as well as Millennium Development Goals indicators.
Uniform Crime Reports (FBI)
Annual compilation of U.S. crime statistics from the FBI. See also Crime in the United States.
U.S. Census Data
Replaces American FactFinder. U.S. Census data portal on population and housing, including aging, disability, education, employment, poverty, language, race, and ethnicity.
World Bank
https://www.worldbank.org/

Data Repositories

FigShare
A general-purpose file repository that accepts all forms of research output from data files to presentation files
GDELT
"Global Data on Events, Location, and Tone," a constantly updated dataset of news events.
ICPSR
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains a data archive of 500,000 files in the social sciences.
Open Science Data Cloud
"Repository for public data sets of scientific interest, hosted on the OSDC."
Re3data.org
Re3data is a registry of data repositories, covering a wide range of disciplines from around the world. It allows researchers to search for repositories in their discipline and to identify relevant polices and terms of use.
Registry of Open Data on AWS
Centralized repository of public data sets hosted by Amazon Web Services.
The Qualitative Data Repository

Subscription-based Statistical Sources

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Historical Statistics of the United States
Population, economic, and other quantitative data on American history from colonial times to present.

IMF eLibrary
Database of economic statistics produced by the International Monetary Fund, with annual data on banking and trade for countries and the world.
International Trade Statistics Yearbook
United Nations trade by country and trade by commodity (1992-present). Previous years in Reference Storage: HF 55.U5 Y4 (1952-82, incomplete) and HF 55.U5 I58 (1983-91).

OECD iLibrary
An online library of statistical databases, books, and periodicals from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) about various topics, including education; energy; finance and investment; science and technology; social issues; urban, rural and regional development; transport; and more.

Statistics Sources
Guide to U.S. and international data on business, economic, social, and educational topics available from a range of sources. Part of the Gale Directory Library.
World Development Indicators (The World Bank)
World Bank statistics for developing nations on health, education, welfare, natural resources, and economic growth, with 10-20 years of comparative data, plus Global Development Finance.
World Health Organization Data and Statistics
"WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation."

Polls and Surveys

Pew Research Center
Find polling data from the Pew Charitable Trusts on a range of public policies and civic issues.
Polling Report.com
"An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion."
www.pollingreport.com

International Data Sources

UN Data
World Bank Open Data
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Site
World Justice Project Rule of Law Index
Rule of law around the world.
Fragile States Index
IPUMS Data (census and survey data from around the world)
International Criminal Court (ICC) Case Law Database
World Happiness Data
Correlates of War Dataset
UN Human Rights Document Search
Harvard Dataverse
Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) -
World Legal Information Institute
Data4SDGs
Fragile States Index
Freedom House
Including map of global freedom, internet freedom, and democracy status of post-Soviet countries.