Social Science Data and Statistics Resources

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Gold standard of curation, cleaning, and description of datasets. Includes government data as well as researcher-created data, including election data, opinion polls, more.

Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are up to 2 billion charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data-Planet repository. Link to Ready Reference interface.

Interactive visualization tool that utilizes the decennial censuses and American Community Survey data.

Updated access point for decennial and annual (ACS) US Census data. Includes population, housing, economic and geographic data for states, cities and towns.

Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are up to 2 billion charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data-Planet repository. Link to Ready Reference interface.

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is a unique and valuable resource. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.

Consists of more than fifty high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2011.

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. World's largest archive of social science data. Election data, opinion polls, more. Special collections on Health, Education, Aging, Crime, Substance Abuse. A great place to begin looking for raw data. Many dataset files come formatted for major statistical packages (Stata, SPSS, SAS).

Includes all survey data for which the Roper Center holds the datasets as well as survey data from Pew Resarch Centers, Kaiser Family Foundation, Gallup Organization and more.

Data repository hosted by Harvard University containing raw data files of interdisciplinary research studies in both the sciences and social sciences

OECD iLibrary provides online access to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) resources, covering trade, environment, agriculture, technololgy, economic development, and more. The books, reports, working papers and periodicals are full-text and the databases have extensive statistical information.

Mapping tool much like Social Explorer but integrates other data sources from the Department of Homeland security, Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S Census

Provides access to statistics and tables in reports produced by federal agencies, states, intergovernmental organizations as well as private enterprise.

Searchable catalog of research data repositories

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. Includes over 18,000 datasets across many subjects.

Interactive visualization tool that utilizes the decennial censuses and American Community Survey data. Also includes select data sets on crime, religion, recent presidential approval ratings and more. Can be used to visually study demography and change over time in the United States.

Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

Official statistics produced by countries and compiled by United Nations data system, as well as estimates and projections. The domains covered are agriculture, education, energy, industry, labour, national accounts, population and tourism. Largest aggregator of international data. If you're looking for data from different countries this is a good place to start.