The listings below will continue to be updated, but we highly recommend you try the above web site.
- U.S. Demographic Data from CIESEN
- Includes census data from MANY sources, including Current Population Survey, County Business Patterns, County City Data Book, AIDS data and much more.
- 1990 Census Data Lookup server
- Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
- Historical U.S. Census data from 1850 through 1990 from the University of Minnesota Department of History.
- Data Access Tools
- Includes Mapping Functions
- U.S. Census Data at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1970, 1980, 1990)
- Census Data and Exercises for College Classes
- Social Science Data Analysis Network, University of Michigan
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- ftp.psc.lsa.umich.edu
- Census data that have been made available for public use by the Population Studies Center via anonymous ftp.
- Banque de Données Socio-Politiques (BDSP), Grenoble
- The B.D.S.P. is the French partner to the CESSDA (Council of European Social Sciences Data Archives)
- British Election Studies Information System - BESIS
- BESIS is a compilation on CD-ROM of data and documentation from British general elections, 1964 to 1992. The web page simply provides information about the CD-ROM and the opportunity to order online (U.S. Orders: £53)
- Centre for Applied Social Surveys
- Home of the Question Bank, which has 3 main aims. The first is to provide a structured store of information about the way in which attributes, circumstances, behaviour and attitudes of households and individuals have beeen measured in major surveys. The second is to encourage appropriate standardisation of measurement procedures in quantitative survey research, with a view to making the acquisition of knowledge about the social world more systematic and cumulative and less plagued by lack of comparibility. The third is to encourage a critical and insightful approach to problems of survey measurement. The Question Bank aims to contain the questionnaires from the main British surveys and commentary on the topics included in these questionnaires.
- Centre for the Study of Public Opinion (gopher)
- Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
- CERRO (gopher)
- Data on Central Europe
- CESSDA
- Council of European Social Sciences Data Archives. CESSDA promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe. Includes a clickable map of data archives around the world.
- Danish Data Archives
- The Data Archive
- The Data Archive at the University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other national archives, internationally. There does not appear to be any data available online.
- Data Sources
- A huge list of links to data available online.
- Dutch SRM Documentation Centre (gopher)
- EURODATA Research Archive
- Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. The basic function of EURODATA is to support comparative European research at the MZES. The archive covers all of Europe and focuses on socio-economic and political data. There does not appear to be any data available online.
- Federal Election Commission: Campaign Data
- Downloadable databases containing data about candidates, parties and other committees. Files covering 1995-96 are updated and made available on the 2nd of every month.
- The Gallup Organization
- Includes information about the Gallup Poll - The world's premier source for public opinion data since 1935. Summaries and marginals online.
- General Social Survey Data and Information Retrieval System
- From ICPSR
- General Social Survey resources developed at Queens College
- GPO Gate
- a World Wide Web interface to the Government Printing Office's suite of databases known as GPO Access. GPO Access databases contain the full text of the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, United States Code, Economic Indicators and GAO Reports.
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- Searchable archive of data collections housed at ICPSR. Searchable study descriptions and codebooks. Data is downloadable for authorized users. Students and faculty involved with the Social Science Data Lab at the University of Colorado should contact jahayes@Colorado.EDU to gain access to these datasets. The latest additions to the archive are available at ICPSR Bulletin - a quarterly publication.
- Institute for Research in Social Science: Data Archive
- Allows searches by question wording, date, and state to identify questions of interest. The index displays the full question text and marginals for each item retrieved.
- Lijphart Elections Archive (SSDC)
- A research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. The catalog of holdings details archive holdings of both print and online data as well as access to data when it can be freely disseminated. Data will not be available online until the summer of 1997.
- Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services (MIDAS)
- MIDAS is a national research support service based at the University of Manchester, specialising in on-line provision of strategic research and teaching datasets, software packages, training and large-scale computing resources for the UK academic community.
- National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
- The mission of the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is to facilitate the secondary analysis of research data relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect. Data is available for purchase at a fairly reasonable cost.
- The American National Election Study
- The mission of the National Election Studies (NES) is to produce high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation. NES conducts national surveys of the American electorate in presidential and midterm election years, and carries out research and development work through Pilot Studies in odd-numbered years.
- American National Election Study - Custom Subsetting & Statistical Capability
- This web page allows non-ICPSR members (and members who can't wait for someone official to create a subset for them) to create subsets from the latest NES or the cumulative NES. Data is available in SPSS portable and ASCII formats. Also available are searchable codebooks and the ability to run descriptive statistics online.
- National Election Studies (NES)
- This web site includes descriptions of current projects, browsable codebooks, and the ability to produce descriptive statistics online.
- The NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
- The Guide provides political observers, policy makers, journalists, teachers, students, and social scientists with immediate access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public opinion and electoral behavior and choice in American politics since 1952.
- PCL Map Collection
- has over 230,000 maps covering every area of the world
- The People & the Press
- An independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward press, politics and public policy issues. Summaries and marginals online.
- Political Data Archive - Michigan State University (gopher)
- This is a listing of political data housed at ICPSR. I have a feeling it would be much easier to simply go to the ICPSR archive and search there. Gophers just aren't very user-fiendly!
- Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
- SEDAC's mission is to develop and deliver information products and services that integrate social and natural science data in ways useful for decision making. Includes access to a large amount of data under Data Resources.
- Social Indicators of Development
- Contains the World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development.
- Social Science Data Archives - SSDA
- From The Australian National University. Set up in 1981 with a brief to collect and preserve computer-readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs and to make the data available for further analysis. SSDA charges include a standard service fee of $60 for each request plus other possible fess based on the type of request.
- Social Science Data Lab -- Available Datasets
- From the University of Colorado at Boulder. Data access is restricted to University affiliates.
- Sociometrics Data and Instrument Archives
- The Sociometrics Social Science Data Library is a rich source of high-quality health and social science data sets. This web site contains pricing information for the datasets provided in the archive (fairly expensive).
- SPSS Data Sets
- Downloadable, mostly instructional datasets.
- Swedish Social Science Data Service
- SSD is the Swedish data archive for machine-readable data in the social sciences and humanities. It is placed at Göteborg University. The web page contains information for ordering datasets.
- Trends in Developing Economies
- Provides brief reports on most of the World Bank's borrowing countries.
- UC Data - Archive and Technical Assistance (UC Berkeley)
- From the University of California, Berkeley. Data access is restricted to University affiliates.
- UK Home Office - Research and Statistics Directorate
- Tables of data avilable on a variety of topics. Format is similar to what is available in The Statistical Abstract of the United States.
- World Bank Group
- The World Bank Group comprises five organizations: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Last Modified: April 1, 1997
Index of Political Science Resources
Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
Index of Sociology Resources
Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder