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Data Resources for Penn State Researchers via ICPSR
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
Penn State Social Sciences Library Statistics & Data
Pennsylvania State Data Center (PaSDC)
The Commonwealth's official source of demographic and economic data.
Roper Center For Public Opinion Research
Penn State students and faculty may request data from Roper through the Social Sciences Library.
Recommended Starting Points: Census
American FactFinder
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the United States Census Bureau.
Census 2000
Links to web sites and documents relating to the 2000 Census prepared by PRI's Data Archive.
Census 2010
US Census Bureau site for the 2010 Census
Recommended Starting Points: Education
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Part of the U.S. Department of Education.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The statistical branch of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO).
Recommended Starting Points: Health
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Recommended Starting Points: International
Demographic and Health Surveys
UNData
Access to statistics from the United Nations Statistics Division. The database will be expanded to include statistics from other sources.
United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
Guide to population information on UN web sites, including data and statistics.
World Health Organization (WHO)
Bibliography of Data-Related Literature
Searchable database of published and unpublished works resulting from analyses of data held in the ICPSR archive (from ICPSR).
Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
CIESIN's web site contains a number of online tools and applications and downloadable data relevant to population studies.
Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA)
Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Online data archive.
Data on the Net
University of California, San Diego listing of data resources on the World Wide Web.
General Social Survey (GSS)
GSS data extraction and analysis available.
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
IPUMS includes two data projects at the Minnesota Population Center: IPUMS-USA is a national census database spanning 1850-1990, and IPUMS-International collects and distributes international census data.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
Qualidata - Qualitative Data Service
Part of the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.
UK National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD)
Data from UK government agencies.
University of California, Berkeley Social Science and Government Data Library
AccesSIPP
The Center for Economic and Policy Research has developed the AccesSIPP project, an initiative that puts the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) into a readily-accessible, user-friendly format and makes it available on their website.
DataFERRETT (Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool)
Developed by the U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics to enable users to access and manipulate large demographic and economic data sets online.
EconData.net
Links to socioeconomic data sources on the web.
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Econ Research Service State Fact Sheets
State fact sheets provide information on population, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for each state in the United States. Click on a map or list of states for link to data.
Education Finance Statistics Center
Part of NCES, this site can be used to get finance information on public elementary and secondary education.
Fast Response Survey System (FRSS)
NCES system for collecting education data at the elementary and secondary level quickly.
Federal, State, and Local Govt. Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data
Education finance data include revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets (cash and security holdings) of elementary and secondary public school systems.
International Archive of Education Data
Established by the National Center for Education Statistics and ICSPR
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Quick Tables and Figures
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Survey and Program Areas
National Education Data Resource Center (NEDRC)
Access to data and statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
NCES Data Handbooks
The NCES Data Handbooks provide guidance on consistency in data definitions and maintenance for education data, so that such data can be accurately aggregated and analyzed. Handbooks Online - Version 2 updates the searchable database of elementary/secondary student, staff, and
institutional data elements with revised definitions, additional terms in the areas of food service, discipline and school facilities, and a link to the 2003 edition of Financial Accounting for Local and State School Systems.
NCES State Education Data Profiles
A dynamic Web site providing access to statewide information in elementary/secondary education, postsecondary education, public libraries and selected demographics for all states in the U.S.
PEQIS (Postsecondary Education Quick Information System)
NCES small-scale surveys on emerging issues in postsecondary education.
School District Demographics
Interface to state, county, and school district information.
State Education Reforms (NCES)
This website, which draws primarily on data collected by organizations other than NCES, serves as a general resource on state education reforms, describing major developments in state-level education policies.
A Vision of Britain Through Time
Created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project, this interactive Web site provides a historical view of Britain between 1801 and 2001, including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Geographic Mobility: March 2001-March 2002
This page contains various data tables that can be downloaded as PDF, Excel spreadsheet. or CSV file.
Social Explorer
Customize maps and reports based on Census 2000 and historical data.
Sprawl City
A website about consumption growth and population growth and their roles in urban sprawl. Includes articles, charts, graphs, U.S. federal data, and links to other websites.
State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)
HUD interface to a variety of data for metropolitan areas, central cities, and suburbs.
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Econ Research Service State Fact Sheets
State fact sheets provide information on population, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for each state in the United States. Click on a map or list of states for link to data.
USDA Rural Urban Continuum Codes
The 2003 codes form a classification scheme that distinguishes metropolitan counties by size and nonmetropolitan counties by degree of urbanization and proximity to metro areas.
CDC WONDER
Warehouse of public health data from the Centers for Disease Control.
DOLPHN (Data Online for Population, Health & Nutrition)
An online statistical data resource containing selected current and historial country-level demographic and health indicator data. The database was created for USAID.
Health Poverty Index
The HPI tool will allow groups, differentiated by geography, social or economic position and cultural identity, to be contrasted in terms of their 'health poverty. A group's 'health poverty' is a combination of both its present state of health and its future health potential or lack of it.
Healthy Women Project
NCHS electronic data warehouse on minority and women's health.
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
NCHS Injury Data and Resources
The purpose of this Web site is to
provide an overview of the sources of national level injury data available
from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS.
Reproductive Health Indicators Database
Based on 17 reproductive health indicators compiled by the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization.
statehealthfacts.org
State-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation, from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
WHO: Core Health Indicators by Country
This interactive data extractor allows the user to display one or multiple countries, and any one of 32 variables from the topics of Mortality Indicators, Population, Life Expectancy, and National Health Accounts for
any or all of the years from 1997-2002. Quick graphs can also be generated.
American Religion Data Archive (ARDA)
The ARDA is housed in the Population Research Institute at Penn State.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
CDC WONDER
Warehouse of public health data from the Centers for Disease Control.
Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS)
Disseminates information about federal statistical agencies and related issues (e.g., sampling in the 2000 Census).
Environmental Protection Agency Envirofacts Warehouse
Environmental data and mapping.
Federal, State, and Local Govt. Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data
Education finance data include revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets (cash and security holdings) of elementary and secondary public school systems.
FedStats
Gateway to Federal statistical agencies.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Access to Archival Databases
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Center for Electronic Records
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Part of the U.S. Department of Education.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Pennsylvania State Data Center (PaSDC)
The Commonwealth's official source of demographic and economic data.
State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)
HUD interface to a variety of data for metropolitan areas, central cities, and suburbs.
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Econ Research Service State Fact Sheets
State fact sheets provide information on population, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for each state in the United States. Click on a map or list of states for link to data.
USDA Rural Urban Continuum Codes
The 2003 codes form a classification scheme that distinguishes metropolitan counties by size and nonmetropolitan counties by degree of urbanization and proximity to metro areas.
USDA-NASS 2002 Census of Agriculture
Data and technical reports for the 2002 Agricultural Census are being released via this site. Data is available at national, state, and county levels.
AccesSIPP
The Center for Economic and Policy Research has developed the AccesSIPP project, an initiative that puts the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) into a readily-accessible, user-friendly format and makes it available on their website.
American FactFinder
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the United States Census Bureau.
Census 2000
Links to web sites and documents relating to the 2000 Census prepared by PRI's Data Archive.
Census 2000 Special Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Tabulation
Data are available via web extraction tool.
Census 2010
US Census Bureau site for the 2010 Census
DataFERRETT (Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool)
Developed by the U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics to enable users to access and manipulate large demographic and economic data sets online.
EXTRACT
U.S. Census Bureau software.
Geographic Mobility: March 2001-March 2002
This page contains various data tables that can be downloaded as PDF, Excel spreadsheet. or CSV file.
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
IPUMS includes two data projects at the Minnesota Population Center: IPUMS-USA is a national census database spanning 1850-1990, and IPUMS-International collects and distributes international census data.
Local Employment Dynamics (LED)
A partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau and states to fill local gaps in employment data.
Social Explorer
Customize maps and reports based on Census 2000 and historical data.
U.S. Census Bureau CenStats Databases
U.S. Census Bureau Data Access Tools
Software and data for download or ftp.
U.S. Census Bureau North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) has replaced the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.
U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates
U.S. Census Bureau Question & Answer Center
U.S. Historical Census Data Browser
Census data from 1790-1970. Note: you can view, but not download, data from this site.
Data Finder - Population Reference Bureau
This database contains data on 95 demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the U.S. states. (Not all countries have data on all variables.)
Demographic and Health Surveys
DOLPHN (Data Online for Population, Health & Nutrition)
An online statistical data resource containing selected current and historial country-level demographic and health indicator data. The database was created for USAID.
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
IPUMS includes two data projects at the Minnesota Population Center: IPUMS-USA is a national census database spanning 1850-1990, and IPUMS-International collects and distributes international census data.
Migration Information Source
A project of the Migration Policy Institute, this source provides access to authoritative migration data from numerous global organizations and governments, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends.
Reproductive Health Indicators Database
Based on 17 reproductive health indicators compiled by the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization.
The Values Surveys Database
Online analysis of both the World Values Surveys (WVS) and European Values Surveys (EVS) from all four waves of collection: 1981-84, 1980-93, 1989-1993 and 1999-2004. These files have all been intergrated into one dataset to facilitate time series analysis.
UNData
Access to statistics from the United Nations Statistics Division. The database will be expanded to include statistics from other sources.
United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
Guide to population information on UN web sites, including data and statistics.
WHO: Core Health Indicators by Country
This interactive data extractor allows the user to display one or multiple countries, and any one of 32 variables from the topics of Mortality Indicators, Population, Life Expectancy, and National Health Accounts for
any or all of the years from 1997-2002. Quick graphs can also be generated.
World Population Prospects Population Database
From the United Nations Population Division.
World Urbanization Prospects Population Database
from the United Nations Population Division
Protecting the Next Generation Data
Data from the Protecting the Next Generation: Understanding HIV Risk among Youth study in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda project
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
China Dimensions
Source of socioeconomic data including Geographic Information System (GIS) databases covering administrative regions of China, presented at a scale of 1:1,000,000.
International -- Eastern Europe
SOFIST - System Of Factual Information on Sociological Topics
Archive of Russian sociological data.
A Vision of Britain Through Time
Created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project, this interactive Web site provides a historical view of Britain between 1801 and 2001, including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) [Center for Sociological Research]
CIS collects information on Spanish society, primarily through survey-based research. A limited version of the web site, including the Data Bank, is available in English.
Edinburgh University Data Library
Health Poverty Index
The HPI tool will allow groups, differentiated by geography, social or economic position and cultural identity, to be contrasted in terms of their 'health poverty. A group's 'health poverty' is a combination of both its present state of health and its future health potential or lack of it.
Manchester Information & Associated Services (MIMAS)
MIMAS hosts several large UK datasets.
Qualidata - Qualitative Data Service
Part of the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.
UK National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD)
Data from UK government agencies.
International -- Latin America
Biblioteca Virtual en Población [Virtual Population Library]
From the Centro Centroamericano de Población, Universidad de Costa Rica.
Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe
[Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean]
International -- North America
Research Data Library
Canadian data from Simon Fraser University.
Statistics Canada
Official source for Canadian statistics.
Australian National University Demography and Sociology Program
American Statistical Association's Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Security Website
Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board (CSSPAB)
The mission of this group is to examine issues affecting the security and privacy of sensitive (unclassified) information in federal (Executive Branch) computer and telecommunications systems.
DHHS Office of Research Integrity
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services office responsible for promoting itegrity in biomedical and behavioral research.
Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, Confidentiality and Data Access Committee
This page is part of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology web site. Disclosure potential checklist link found here as well as brochure on confidentiality issues for federal agencies.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Full text of the FOIA in it's most recent form at the U.S. Department of Justice web site.
Global Development Network (GDNet) Promoting Access to Data: Related Links
Links to social science data archives and data access and confidentiality resources.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Data Council Privacy Committee
This page contains several useful links pertaining to the issue of privacy when it comes to data.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Information and Regulatory Policy
The Executive Office of the President presents information on privacy guidance and privacy reference materials.
Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974, May 2002
Found at the United States Department of Justice.
Protecting the Privacy of Patients' Health Information
From the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Social Security Administration (SSA) Privacy Act Notices of Systems of Records
