Data Services: Additional Resources
Census Data
Datasets
Cyberspace Policy Research Group
The Cyberspace Policy Research Group (CyPRG), at the Univ. of Arizona, Tucson and George Mason Univ., studies diffusion and use of World Wide Web in governments worldwide, particularly in terms of organizational openness and internal effectiveness.
Includes global data on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and more.
Homeland Security website offers Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, trends in naturalization rates, demographic characteristics of immigrants, and maps of U.S. migration data.
Interactive U.S. Census Demographic Maps (1940-2000)
Data from Social Explorer also includes interactive U.S. Religion Maps (1980-2000).
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Consortium at the University of Michigan maintains large archive of social science data.
Murray Research Archive Dataverse
Harvard University's collection comprises over 125 terabytes of quantitative and qualitative research data, audio, and video.
Project collects and organizes data from various archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public policy outcomes since World War II.
Source of polling information anywhere from the United States and more than 100 other countries with 500,000 entries from 1986–present. Includes 1,400+ polling sources and 5,800+ individual topics.
Princeton University Data and Statistical Services
Click on the Data Resources to see what's available.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Specializes in data from public opinion surveys. The University of Connecticut's Roper Center has data from 1930s-present.
University of California San Diego Social Sciences Data Collection
University of Michigan Documents Center
This site has a huge collection of datasets.
University of Virginia Geospatial and Statitical Data Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Data and Information Services Center
The site also offers a discussion of the background to the 2004 election and voting behavior in national elections, and exercises that explain how to analyze the data and understand the results. Data on the site are accessible for free to APSA departmental members and ICPSR members.
Other Data Sources
Here are a selective list of links that will take you to a wide range of datasets
Page lets you search or browse the University of California San Diego Social Sciences Data Collection's listing of 363 internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
A unique data mining and extraction tool. DataFerrett allows you to select a databasket full of variables and then recode those variables as you need.
Over 10,000 data series in FRED offered at county-level data for the entire United States.
Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Reports
Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) Market Indicators and Forecasts Data
Data-mapping tool which displays color-coded data on the state, MSA, and county levels. For example, GEOFRED can display the unemployment rate for all counties in the United States.
Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences
University of Wisconsin Madison Data And Program Library Services provides a listing of 650 links to data-related resources on the Internet.
Princeton University Data and Statistical Services provides links to datasets arranged by federal agency or subject.
Social Science Gateways on the Net
Another great page by the University of California San Diego.
Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library
World Development Indicator Online
Data from World Bank.
Access U.S. Census data by ZIP Code. Database provides demographics and allows for comparisons between ZIP Codes.
GIS Data Sources
Refer to the "Links to Other GIS Sites" page, part of the GIS-AZU web site.