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MATH 240: Finding Data Sets
This guide is designed to help you find data sets that you will then analyze in statistical analysis software such as SPSS, STATA, R, and SAS.
A free ICPSR account is required to download data. The account must be created and accessed every 6 months from on-campus or through the proxied link above. Visit this guide for more information.
Provides access to computerized social science data collected by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries
Still in Beta, Dataset Search is a single interface for searching across multiple repositories. Google hopes this project "will have the additional benefits of a) creating a data sharing ecosystem that will encourage data publishers to follow best practices for data storage and publication and b) giving scientists a way to show the impact of their work through citation of datasets that they have produced."
Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue to grow as datasets are added. Federal, Executive Branch data are included in the first version of Data.gov.
Mostly scientific data but now includes some humanities and social sciences. Use facets to narrow to datasets. Search by license type (e.g., CC by 4.0), relevance, and popularity.
Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data
Social science data, including opinion polls; voting records; surveys on family growth and income; social network data; government statistics and indices; and GIS data measuring human activity
From the European University Institute, this database compiles publicly available data from over 100 sources, offering statistical information on globalization, sustainability, and human development. Users can search on a range of topics including income distribution, energy consumption, water resources, dwellings, migration, land use, food production, nutrition, school enrollment, and life expectancy and create data visualizations. From the chart displaying your desired information, see the "i" icon next to the title of that page to learn the data source (e.g., for "Fuel pump prices," it's World Bank, World Development Indicators).
A vast collection of US and international statistics in Data Planet Statistical Datasets. Allows you to scan and search the contents of billions of datasets, compare and contrast variables of interest, and create customized views in tables, maps, rankings, and charts. Views also include descriptive summaries of the datasets and data sources.
Datasets cover a wide range of subjects including, business, finance, banking, economics, sociology, political science, demography, agriculture, education, international studies, criminal justice, energy, housing and construction as well as labor and employment. Dataplanet also incorporates all of the content previously available in Sage Stats.
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries
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