Information Literacy: Data Discovery
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.htmlIncludes Archives and projects: Census 2000; Child Care and Early Education Research connections; CrimeStat; Data Documentation Initiative (DDI); Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS); Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSCR); General Social Survey Data and Retrieval Information Systems (GSSDIRS); Grammars of Death: Nineteenth Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmas to Germ Theory; Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA); Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG); Human Subject Protection and Disclosure Risk Analysis; ICPSR General Archive; International Archive of Education Data (IAED); Mexican American Trajectories: Family, Geography and Intermarriage Across a Century; Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC); National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA); National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD); Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains; Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN); Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA). Includes Thematic categories: Census enumerations; Community and urban studies; Conflict, aggression; Violence, wars; Economic behavior and attitudes; Education; Elites and leadership; Geography and environment; Government structures, policies, and capabilities; Health care and facilities; Instructional packages; International systems; Legal systems; Legislative and deliberative bodies; Mass political behavior and attitudes; Organizational behavior; Social indicators; Social institutions and behavior; Publication-related archive; External data resources.
UK Data Archive
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/"The UKDA provides resource discovery and support for secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data in research, teaching and learning."
Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA Portal)
http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/home.html“The CESSDA Portal is a gateway to many kinds of research data and metadata, including sociological surveys, election studies, longitudinal studies, opinion polls, and census data. Among the materials are international and European data such as the European Social Survey, the Eurobarometers, and the International Social Survey Programme. Users are able to locate datasets, as well as questions or variables within datasets, stored at CESSDA member archives throughout Europe.”
American National Election Studies (ANES)
http://www.electionstudies.org/"The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes."
Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA).
http://www.cpanda.org/"[T]he world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States."
FAOSTAT Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
http://faostat.fao.org/An online, multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in: production, trade, food-balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest and fishery products, agricultural machinery and population. Free online access to all data; in addition, an annual subscription service provides extended online query and download limits and access to FTP bulk download files.
Economic data FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/Database containing U.S. economic time series. Data can be downloaded in in Microsoft Excel and text formats.
FRASER Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research.
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS65364Web site maintaining scanned images of historical serial statistical publications, and individual monographs. A companion to the FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) database, both maintained under the auspices of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. All bank statistics, 1896-1955 -- Annual statistical digest -- Banking and monetary statistics, 1914-1941 -- Banking and monetary statistics, 1941-1970 -- Business statistics (Supplement to the Survey of Current Business) -- Concordance of statistics -- Economic indicators -- Productivity and costs -- Senate documents.
Historical Census Browser (University of Virginia)
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/Includes state and county level census data from 1790 through 1960. The available data differ somewhat from decade to decade, according to what was collected in the census. For the early decades, most of the enumerated items are included. For later decades, only a portion of characteristics are included. No information is available below the county level, and only states are included (no information on western territories before statehood, or for the District of Columbia). In addition to basic counts of population and housing units, all decades contain information on race, gender, and some measure of household size and composition. Beginning with 1840, some economic characteristics such as education and occupation are included. Later decades have many variables, including ancestry, literacy, and income variables.
Historical statistics on banking HSOB.
http://www2.fdic.gov/hsob/National Cenetr for Education Statistics.
http://nces.ed.gov/"The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education."
Panel study of income dynamics Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a nationally representative longitudinal study of nearly 8,000 U.S. familes; following the same families and individuals since 1968, the PSID collects data on economic, health, and social behavior. The site also includes the Child Development Supplement (CDS) which focuses on the children and caregiveers within PSID families, collecting information on education, health, cognitive and behavioral development, and time use.
Penn World Table
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.phpThe Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level. Roper Center For Public Opinion Research http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu
U.S. Census Bureau home page
http://www.census.gov/"This is the place to go for quick access to U.S. demographic information. The U.S. Census Bureau site continues to improve as more and more of the 2000 census information becomes available. The "State & County Quick Facts" link helps to easily locate information such as education and income levels of a given state. The "Access Tools" section helps users navigate the census data. For example, in "Access Tools" the "Census Tract Street Locator" allows the user to very quickly identify the tract the user lives in by simply entering his/her address. The "American Fact Finder" helps users to easily obtain particular information by state, county, county subdivision, or even a general "place." In addition, the entire Census site is keyword-searchable. Considering the difficulties of using census data in the past, this site is a remarkable asset to those who need census information quickly."--Reviewed Apr. 2, 2001. "Best Free Reference Web Sites 2001," RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2001. Comp. by the MARS Best Free Websites Committee, RUSA, ALA.
Bureau of Labor Statistics home page
http://stats.bls.gov"As a division of the U.S. Department of Labor, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) web site presents up-to-date U.S. economic statistical information in a comprehensive and clearly organized format. Information is arranged under broad categories such as "Inflation and Spending" and "International Statistics." The latest numbers for the Consumer Price Index, unemployment rate and the Producer Price Index are prominently positioned on the home page. The BLS site provides past and current statistics for the U.S. economy as a whole, but individual state economic data can be obtained easily by clicking the state on a color-coded map. The gem of this web site is the "Economy at a Glance" section. A handy tool bar on the home page provides quick links to this section as well as 1999 MARSBEST winners Occupational Outlook Handbook and FEDSTATS. Overall, the Bureau of Labor Statistics site is a one-stop web resource for finding current U.S. economic data."--Reviewed March 8, 2001 "Best Free Reference Web Sites 2001," RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2001. Comp. by the MARS Best Free Websites Committee, RUSA, ALA.
Integrated public use microdata series census data for social and economic research
http://www.ipums.umn.edu/PUMS-USA consists of high precision samples of the American population drawn from a number of federal censuses. The IPUMS-International database is currently under development, and will eventually contain international census data from countries through out the world.
