LibGuides: Data and Statistics: Social Sciences

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General Purpose Data Sources in the Social Sciences

General Purpose Data Sources in the Social Sciences

Data USA
Draws on US government data to create digestible summaries and interactive graphics related to population, employment, education, and healthcare.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Includes public data such as population, labor, education, etc. from colonial times to the late 20th century.
ICPSR
The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research is a clearinghouse of data sets from public and private research. Note: ICPSR datasets can also be found using Data Citation Index.
Data.Census.Gov
Basic data from the U.S. Census Bureau
U. S. Census Bureau
The full Census Bureau website. Some features of interest include customized maps and current population projections.

Statista
Provides statistical data and information for markets, industries, and society. Includes many infographics to accompany the data, the source for the data, Includes market reports, Statista reports, and company dossiers.

World Bank DataBank
Collects statistics on international development, education, health and nutrition, and other topics. Note: World Bank data is also available within Data-Planet Statistical Datasets.

Data Citation Index
Publication dates: 1900-present.
Provides a single point of access to research data, including data sets, tables and figures, and published studies, from repositories across disciplines and around the world.

Google Dataset Search
An experimental tool from Google that allows you to search for publicly available data sets.
OpenICPSR
An initiative to implement ICPSR tools in a non-curated repository open to all.

Communication Sciences and Disorders

TalkBank
Maintains speech corpora for multiple subfields of communication sciences, including adult and child clinical corpora, multilingualism, and more.

Economics

Mergent Online
Provides business information, including financial reports, company news and securities data, including company data and annual reports for both U.S. and international companies. U.S. company data includes SEC (EDGAR) filings. Also includes historical time series of economic indicators and the D & B 20 Million Plus Private Company Search, as well as historical stock prices.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Access data on productivity, employment & unemployment, pay & benefits, inflation, prices, spending, and more.
ValueLine Investment Survey
Access professional research and recommendations on approximately 1,700 stocks.
World Bank Databank
Collects statistics on international development, education, health and nutrition, and other topics. Note: World Bank data is also available in Data-Planet Statistical Datasets.

Political Science

Quorum Federal
Advanced social media monitoring combined with a comprehensive database of legislative information. Covers issues and activity by Members of Congress in their bills, tweets, Facebook posts, YouTube videos, press releases, floor statements, emails to constituents, and more.

Psychology

National Children's Study Archive
Provides access to data from the National Children's study (2009-2014), which collected environmental quality data as well as health and developmental information for over 12,000 children.
National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program
The scope of the data housed at NAHDAP covers a wide range of legal and illicit drugs and the trajectories, patterns, and consequences of drug use as well as related predictors and outcomes.
National Database for Autism Research
Houses and shares ASD-related data of all types. Includes tools and methodologies.
National Database of Clinical Trials Related to Mental Illness
Shares human subjects data from all clinical trials funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.

Sociology

Data Sharing for Demographic Research
Archives data relevant for population studies.