ICPSR

ICPSR holds over 17,000 studies including over 5 million variables (aka the questions a researcher asks in a survey). Types of data include administrative data, surveys, video data, social media data, and more. Data searches can be filtered by topic, geographic location, subject terms/tags, funding agency, time period and more.

Over 40 academic disciplines use ICPSR data, including Anthropology,  Communications, Criminology, Economics, Education, Gender Studies, Geography, Information Science, Law, Medicine, Social Work, Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy and more.

All data found at ICPSR include a copy and paste version of the data citation for your papers or projects.

Thematic data collections include:

• CivicLEADS - Civic Learning, Engagement & Action Data Sharing

• Data Sharing for Demographic Research

• Health and Medical Care Archive

• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

• National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture

• Resource Center for Minority Data

• And many more

Faculty members please note these resources:

• A Bibliography of Data-Related Literature (useful for finding data that has been used in journals and other professional literature)

• Data-driven Learning Guides (for use teaching with data in the classroom)

• Data you can analyze online (no statistical packages required)