Finding Statistics and Data Sets
Find data produced by governments IGOs, NGOs, and the private sector on a wide variety of topics including demographic data on local communities, other countries, public opinion polls, criminal justice, incarceration and jails
- Best Bets for Statistics
- Missing US Government Data
- U.S. Government Data
- U.S. Census Data This link opens in a new window
- International
- State and Local
- Public Opinion Polls
- Crime Statistics
- Statistics on Incarceration
- Finding Data by Topic
- Mapping Statistics
- U-M Library Licensed Datasets
- Geospatial Data
Finding Missing Government Websites
A new presidential administration typically brings significant changes to federal government websites. What is not typical, however, is the pressure faced by executive agencies in the second Trump administration to remove data and take down websites that conflict with the president's political views as outlined in his executive orders.
It has become increasingly common for government data sets that were previously publicly available to be removed. Some of these datasets may be altered and made available again, while others may remain offline indefinitely.
Below is a list of non-governmental resources that have some US government-produced data. Please feel free to contact me if you need any help finding US government information.
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End of Term Web ArchiveCoordinated effort starting in 2008 to preserve a copy of U.S. government websites at the end of a presidential term.
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Webrecorder US Government Web ArchiveWebrecorder's archive of US federal government websites.
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Archived Presidential White House WebsitesArchived versions of the White House website starting with the Clinton Administration
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GovWaybackAccess historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025
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RestoredCDC.orgA project to take the archived webpages from before January 21, 2025 and re-build the internal links between pages so that the site can be navigated more easily
Search Across Sites That Have Preserved Federal Data
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Data Rescue Project Data PortalA clearinghouse for information about US government data that are at risk as well as information about the efforts and access points for data that have been saved.
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Data Rescue TrackerA catalog of existing public data rescue efforts created by the Data Rescue Project. The Data Rescue Tracker aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites.
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Find Lost DataSearch across multiple sites that have archived federal data including the Archive.org CDC mirror, Harvard Dataverse, Data Rescue Project, Climate Program Portal, Harvard LiL Data.Gov mirror and Data Lumos
Government Data Archives
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DataLumosICPSR's open access archive that accepts deposits of US government data
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Data.gov ArchiveHarvard Law School Library Innovation Lab archived data.gov. and released on February 6, 2025 the 16TB collection of over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025.
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ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) Data ArchiveArchive of computerized, numeric social science data, including demography, economics, health care, politics, social behavior, and more.
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ICPSR Public Dropbox FolderOver 3,000 read-only files mostly from US Census Bureau and CDC
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CDC Datasets (Internet Archive)CDC Datasets uploaded to Internet Archive before January 28th, 2025
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IPU-MS DHSIPU-MS has archived DHS Program (Demographic and Health Survey) data although USAID approval continues to be required in order to access DHS data.
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Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (Archived)Unofficial copy of the CEJST archived by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)
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Public Data (UCSB)Git for University of California Santa Barbara that has data from NASA, Social Security Administration, NOAA, CDC, NIH and Department of Education data
Department of Education Reports and Data (including ERIC)
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ERICA (ERIC Archive)ERICA is a rescue catalog which preserves over 500,000 Open Access publications originally hosted by the US Department of Education in the ERIC research repository.
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ERIC Archive (Internet Archive)Internet Archive's collection of documents from ERIC (Education Resources Information Center). It's not all of the ERIC documents.
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DataLumosArchived many datasets including NCES, Civil Rights Data Collection and College Scorecard data
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Public Data (UCSB)Git for University of California Santa Barbara that has data from NASA, Social Security Administration, NOAA, CDC, NIH and Department of Education data
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Wayback Machine search eric.ed.govSearch across the millions of captures of eric.ed.gov done by the Internet Archive.
Archive of FEMA Data
Last Updated: Dec 2, 2025 4:44 PM
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