SOCIOLOGY: 
Data and Statistical Resources
for Social Science Research

The flags represent the country of website origin. Some sites also have data available from and on other countries. These sites provide data and/or statistics for analysis. Many provide download capability. Updated 09/27/98.
If I've chosen the wrong flag, please accept my apologies and send a correction request to: Linda Lambert .
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 Statistical Resources

DATA RESOURCES

Australia 

Australia National University's Social Science Data Archives WWW Server On-line Analysis

Demography Page over 150 links to demographic sites

Ron Hyndman's Time Series Data Over 500 time series
 
 

Canadian Association of Public Data Users provides data sites

Guide to Primary Social Science Research Data available on the InternetU. of Toronto

International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology[IASSIST] Membership fee: Regular $40.00, Student $20.00; membership allows access to data sets

U. of Alberta Data Library

U. of Toronto CHASS Data Centre limited access

U. of Western Ontario Social Science Computing Lab
 
 

Danish Data Archives (DDA)

Danish States Archive social science, medical research, and historical demography

EURODATA Research Archive coverage of Europe; focus on socio-economic and political data at the national and regional level.

The Zeus Database Project restricted use for the time being
 
 

Estonian Social Science Data Archive [ESSDA] surveys by keyword, chronology, or alphabetical
 
 

 Netherlands 

Norway

Council of European Social Science Data Archives main catalogue

Norwegian Social Sciences Dataservices English version; online databases; project descriptions, public references, statistics, extraction capabilities

Social Science Data Archive [Clickable Map] Focus on Europe with submaps for the rest of the world [requires graphical browser]

Vienna Institute for Social Data and Documentation
 
 

International Federation of Data Organizations

Swedish Social Science Data Archive machine-readable data in the social sciences and humanities; Göteborg University.
 
 

ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre text files

UK Datasets from the Central Statistical Office via BizEd net at Bristol

U. of Essex Web SiteBritish data resources
 
 

United Nations Development Programme offers a comprehensive list of WWW and Gopher servers available in the U.N. System of Organizations and other related International Organizations where empirical data can be found.
 
 

American Slave Narratives collected by the WPA   Ex-slave Narrative Collection

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Carnegie Mellon U.'s StatLib Datasets Archive data sets from a variety of textbooks; mostly for classroom applications

Bureau of the Census "The Official Statistics" Social, economic and demographic statistics from the 1990 census with links to other years.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a monthly household survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau that provides accurate and up-to-date profiles of America's communities every year.  Our customers have asked for timely economic, social, and housing indicators for communities and population subgroups.   The ACS will meet that need.

Census Data for the Classroom [SSDAN] Course materials such as data and exercises

Census Data for the US:1790-1860 [Harvard] Census data browsing; no downloads; but includes questions asking about slave ownership, etc.

Center for Social Science Computation and Research Census data available in SPSS format

Consortium for International Earth Sciences Information Network [CIESEN] Interactive US Census retrieval facility, create maps on line, obtain geocoded data and more.

Current Population Survey [Bureau of Census and Labor Statistics] data and documentation

Data and Analytical Software from Jim Spickard; software designed for crosstabs, etc. mostly with GSS data subsets; shareware and freeware

Data and Program Library ServiceSee the on-line data archive; includes Catasta: Online Census for Florence and Verona in the 15th century; download data and documentation.

Federal Government: General Information Page -- An opening into the fascinating world of government!

FedStats Site Maplinks to all federal agencies that maintain data

FERRET: Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool create your own demographic- and income-based tables; from the U.S. Bureaus of Labor Statistics and of the Census; data files available include CPS March Supplements from 1992-1997; CPS Displaced Workers Supp. 1996; CPS Job Tenure Supp. 1996; CPS Race & Ethnicity Supp. 1995; CPS Contingent Worker Supp. 1995.

Gallup Organization world's premier source for public opinion data

General Social Survey Resources Queen's College; data, searchable bibliography -- both can be downloaded

General Social Survey Home Page -- The GSS is a series of large personal interview surveys of U.S. households by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) done by James A. Davis and Tom W. Smith.  Surveys were first conducted in 1972 and since then more than 35,000 respondents have answered over 2500 different questions. This site has a lot of data but user needs to be knowledgeable about surveys, etc.   Can perform crosstabulations on site.

Global Computing Inc. -- US State Home Pages links to all state homepages

HRS/AHEAD data from the U. of Michigan (Health & Retirement; Asset & Health Dynamics Among the Oldest of the Old)

ICPSR -- Home Pagefree to member institutions (list and contact person available on site)(For UTSA see Dr. Richard Harris)

Interactive Databases [U. of Virginia] includes World Bank Tables of Economic and Social Indicators 1950-1992 and the US Census County and City data books; some data here is restricted

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series  Historical Census Projects University of Minnesota

IRSS at the University of North Carolina (Gopher)

Institute for Research In Social Science (UNC)  data set archives, downloadable data sets searchable by keywords

Louisiana Population Data Center

More Links to Data Archives

The Murray Research Center at Radcliffe Research on the "changing lives of American women," as well as others [requires registration, but no fee.
        Data Sets Available at Murray by Title

National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging Includes links to gerontological sites

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

National Election Studies  download the 1948-1996 cumulative data set

1996 Statistical Abstract of the United States

NIH'S Institutes, Centers, And Divisions

Nizkor Holocaust Databasetext database; against the denial of the holocaust; anti-semitism explored
Interactive Databases U. of Virginia; US Census County and City Data books 1988 and 1994; Crime Reporting; State Income, and others

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics [PSID] download the data or subsets

Princeton U. Data Library

SDA Archive at Berkeley  GSS Cumulative Datafile 1972-1994; NES for 1996; NES Cumulative Datafile 1952-1992;  Multi-Investigator Survey 1994 (an attitudinal survey);  National Race and Politics Survey 1991; Italian Prejudice Survey (English version); National Health Interview Survey 1991; Health Studies from Brazil

Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library

Social History Research Lab, University of Minnesota free public use samples for the US Census' 1850 thru 1990, including documentation; download or create extracts for download; also includes Integrated Canadian-American Public Use Microdata Services

Sociological Databases and Search Engines University of Texas at Austin; links to data on demography, health, aging, and international data

Statistics and Social Science Data Archives American Communications Association; links

UCSD Data on the Net

U. of Michigan Data Archives

U. of Virginia's Interactive Social Sciences Data Center

The Urban Institute Home PageAssessing the New Federalism downloadable data set, variables include income security, health, child well-being, demographic, fiscal and political conditions and social services for the fifty US states and Washington D.C.. Policy analysis divisions and papers.

The USA CityLink Project City maps and sights for the 50 states

Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey begun 35 years ago, following members of the 1957 high school graduating class; documentation, data, & data extraction tool

Yahoo!--Social Science: Data Collections

Yale Statlab Home Page
 
 

Australian Polls Online WAIS search of Australian Polls by year, month, keywords
 
 

Family Indicators basic data and projections on Canadian families

IMF Financial Statistics for governments, international trade, and direction of trade U. of Alberta

StatCan 1989 to 1996; birth rates, family statistics, labour force participation, etc.
 
 

 Netherlands 

Social Science Information and Documentation Centre [SWIDOC] Netherlands
 
 

ACLU Fact Sheet on Juvenile Crime

African American Population Statistics 1993 & 1994, Tables and Graphs

AskERIC

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Bureau of Labor Statistics

CDC's Health and Selected Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Family: US, 1988-1990 free data for National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey [NAMCS] and National Hospital Ambulatory Care Survey, 1993, 1994, 1995

1990 Census Lookup

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence: Facts and Stats on Youth

Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics from the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse

City and County Data Book

The Complete Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report [FBI]

Crime Statistics Site

Demographic Data - Countries of the World

Department of Commerce

Dictionary of Occupational Titles [DOT] Index

EasiDemographics: The Right Site Searchable web interface featuring 1,000,000 free pages of census and BEA data

Income Statistics from the US Census Bureau

International Organizations Information Publications

National Center for Educational Statistics (U.S.) many free publications; Youth Indicators 1996

National Center for Health Statistics

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect

1995 Digest of Education Statistics

Poverty Areas from the US Census Bureau

 Social Indicators of Development Database Search

Social Indicators Site [CCSD]

Statistical Abstract of the United States  State and Metropolitan Area Data Book - 5th Edition

Statistical Briefs

Statistical Resources on the Web University of Michigan
Statistics Resources on the Web
Statistical Sources
 
 

1995: The Progress of Nations

1996: The Progress of Nations table of contents

1997: The Progress of Nationstable of contents

UNICEF's 1996 Progress of Nations

UNICEF's 1997 Progress of Nations Statistical Profile

United Nations Cyber School Bus  This site has InfoNation, an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations; Global Trends, where you can get a visual overview of what is happening around the world in the form of charts and graphs, on topics such as literacy, population, irrigation, food production, infant mortality, and more; Country at a Glance, which has a brief description of each country; and more.
UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online

United Nations and Other International Organizations

The World Bank Home PageSocial indicators of development, scientific and technical information on development, living standards measurement study, policy research

Site under construction. Data links tested 06/25/98. Statistics links under testing.
 
 
 

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