LibGuides: Social Sciences & Sociology: Data & statistics

Data and statistics

Harvard Dataverse Project (Harvard MIT Data Center)
MIT repository for numeric datasets. Houses data from ICPSR, data produced by MIT faculty, and others. Enables online subsetting and data analysis.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Compendium of U.S. historical statistics from over 1000 sources, plus scholarly essays. Tables can be viewed in PDF/HTML and downloaded in Excel or CSV.
ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
World's largest archive of digital social science data. Search and browse for data and related publications. Provides training in data analysis.
Polling the Nations
Database of questions from public opinion polls around the world. Search question text and get poll results. 1986 to present
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Archive of data from public opinion surveys. Download data from their catalog or search IPoll, their question-level database of survey results.
Social Explorer
Visually displays the demographic change that has occurred in the US since 1790 through the present, from country through tract level.

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