Data Archives and Libraries
Social and Political Data
Economic Data
Government Statistical Agencies
Instructional Sites
Other Web Site Directories

Data Archives and Libraries

Center of Demography and Ecology (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
This research cooperative boasts "one of the country's finest collections of machine-readable data files in demography."

Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Data on world population, environment, health, and geography. Includes several interactive systems to search for data.

Council for European Social Science Data Archives
Home page for the Council for European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). Search for data available from archives around the world.

Data and Program Library Service (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
DPLS is a collection of social science and cross-disciplinary datafiles. Some of the data collected at DPLS is available for purchase and/or ftp.

Institute for Research in Social Science Data Archive (IRSS)
(University of North Carolina)
Public opinion data from the Louis Harris polls, Carolina and Southern Focus Polls, and the National Network of State Polls. Includes a searchable database to retrieve questions and frequencies. Selected data files also available for downloading.

International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
Cross-national collaboration on social science surveys in 34 countries. Served by the data archive, Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung (Universität zu Köln)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. ICPSR provides a searchable database of their archival holdings as well as direct downloading of data for member institutions. ICPSR also co-sponsors the following special topics archives:

Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA)
International Archive of Education Data (IAED)
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)

National Archives and Records Administration--Center for Electronic Records
Information regarding electronic records, including numeric datafiles, generated by the U.S. Government agencies and available for purchase through the National Archives and Records Administration.

National Data Archive of Child Abuse and Neglect
Information regarding NDACAN including their mission, publications, and available datasets.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Provides an extensive archive of opinion polls including Gallup polls and many others.

Social Science and Government Data Library (University of California, Berkeley)
SSGDL Berkeley provides interactive access to selected 1990 Census data files including several Subject Summary Tape Files (SSTF) and is a mirror site for the Census Lookup system (1990 Summary Tape Files 1 and 3). In addition SSGDL Berkeley provides FTP access to numerous census data files including 1970 Census Fifth Count data.

UK Data Archive (University of Essex)
Archives approximately 7,000 datasets in the social sciences.

Social and Political Data

Federal Election Commission
Offers downloadable data on campaign financing.

The Gallup Organization
Public opinion data from the Gallup Organization including some tables and statistics and articles from their newsletter and other reports.

General Social Survey
Information regarding the biennial personal interview survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. Includes a search engine to search the codebook for relevant variables and an extract utility to subset data.

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS World Bank)
Household surveys for numerous countries. Access conditions vary by country.

National Election Studies
NES conducts national surveys of the American electorate. The time-series of studies now spans five decades. This site provides information on the mission and procedures of the NES and other documentation.

Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Information regarding the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a longitudinal study of American families ongoing since 1968. Covers topics such as employment, income, wealth, housing, and health.

Uniform Crime Reports
Interactive system for retrieving county level crime and arrest data.

United Kingdom Election Results
Provides links to election results from British Parliamentary Elections since 1983.

Economic Data

HUD USER
Data pertaining to housing needs, market conditions, and community development, supplied by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Statistics about... (University of Minnesota)
Links to selected statistical tables, publications, and indicators arranged by subject.

USDA Economics and Statistics System
Publications and datasets about agriculture available from the statistical units of the USDA: Economic Research Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service, and the World Agricultural Outlook Board.

Zacks Investment Research
Financial data and investment information for public companies and mutual funds. This is a subscription-based web site, searchable only from computers on campus.

Government Statistical Agencies

Bureau of Census

Bureau of Economic Analysis

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Economic Research Service

Energy Information Administration

FedStats

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

IRS, Statistics of Income

National Center for Education Statistics

National Center for Health Statistics

National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies

Statistics Canada

Statistics Division of the United Nations Dept. for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis

Instructional Sites

Center for Applied Social Surveys
Provides question formats and wordings used on major social surveys and supporting material on concepts and methodology of survey data collection.

Data and Story Library
A useful site for instructors of statistics. Filled with datafiles and stories to illustrate the use of basic statistics methods.

Social Science Data Analysis Network
Offers census data and exercises for instructors wanting to incorporate data into their social science classrooms.

Other Web Site Directories

FedStats
Links to most U.S. Federal Government sites providing access to statistical data.

Research Resources for the Social Sciences
Many links to social sciences sites. Some are data-related.

Statistical Sources on the Web (University of Michigan)
Predominantly links to government-produced data arranged by subject.