Guides: Numeric Data and Data Sets : Overview

What does this box search?

Searches HoyaSearch, which includes Georgetown and Consortium holdings, many of the Georgetown databases, and a variety of other resources. It includes books, journal and newspaper articles, encyclopedias, images and media, and primary sources.

Advanced Search

or browse databases: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #

What does this box search?

Searches the Database A to Z list for databases by title or subject matter.

What does this box search?

Searches Journal Finder for print and electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers available through Georgetown University Library.

What does this box search?

Searches the Library website, including the Blommer and Woodstock Libraries, Gelardin New Media Center, and Special Collections.

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

Data Planet Statistical Datasets
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.
Data Planet Statistical Ready Reference
Data Planet Statistical Ready Reference provides simple and refined searching of the extensive Data Planet repository of standardized and structured statistical data.

Data Planet Statistical Ready Reference is designed to allow users to quickly navigate the 52 billion points of data contained in the repository, representing 6.2 billion datasets covering thousands of geographic entities. With Data Planet Statistical Ready Reference, users can quickly search and view charts, maps, and rankings of time series at the country, state, county, MSA, postal code, and census-tract/block group levels.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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.

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.

Other Relevant Guides