Research Guides: Finding Data: Source: Data Archives

Data Favorites

ICPSR
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research maintains the world's largest archive of computerized, numeric social science data. Topics include demography, economics, health care, politics, social behavior, public opinion.
iPoll
Polling data from nearly 400,000 questions asked on national public opinion surveys. Searchable by keyword, polling organization, and date.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
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.
SourceOECD
Online library of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Includes full-text of all books, 24 periodicals and the OECD statistical databases.
UN Data
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.

Data Archives

The library purchases subscriptions to data archives and commercial products providing data across the disciplines.

Usually subscription/fee based
Data generally available in formats like SPSS, SAS, Stata or Excel

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research maintains the world's largest archive of computerized, numeric social science data. Topics covered include demography, economics, health care, politics, social behavior, public opinion.

Variable level searching for some studies is available under Data > Browse > Social Science Variables Database

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

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. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented.

Last Updated: Aug 24, 2022 5:29 PM

Subjects: Social Sciences

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