Guides: Numeric Data and Data Sets : Overview

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About This Guide

This guide is designed to help you find data sets to analyze in statistical analysis software such as SPSS, STATA, SAS, etc. To find statistics that have already been processed from raw data (i.e, facts and figures), please use the Social Science Statistics research guide.

Core Resources

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
A free ICPSR account is required to download data. The account must be created on-campus and accessed from on-campus at least once every six months to otherwise access ICPSR restricted data off-campus.
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.
Data Citation Index
Discover data sets from a wide range of international data repositories and cross-reference them with the scientific literature to track data citation in journals, books, and conference proceedings. Discover international repositories, navigate between related data sets within a repository, and connect to repository records to access data. Coverage includes social sciences, physical sciences, life sciences and arts and humanities from 1900-present. Part of Web of Science.

Harvard Dataverse
A large collection of social science research data from the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University.

Statistics Search Engines

Quandl
A search engine for time-series data, specializing in financial, economic, and social topics. Searches and aggregates data published by hundreds of different sources.
Zanran Search
A search engine for data and statistics. Searches for graphs, tables, and charts in PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, etc. Allows you to limit by country, date and file type.

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