Research Guides: INQ 260: How People Learn: Social Research Organizations

Social Research Organizations (and their secondary data that you can access)

Census Data
American FactFinder provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data in American FactFinder come from several censuses and surveys.
Data.gov
The home of the U.S. government's open data. Tools, and resources to conduct research, design data visualizations, etc.
The General Social Survey
The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is a unique and valuable resource. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.
ICPSR
The The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data from around the world, accessible to researchers affiliated with member institutions.
Pew Research Datasets
Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Centre
Provides access to UIS.Stat, where you can build your own tables, graphs and maps. The data base contains all the latest available data and indicators, for education, literacy, science, technology and innovation, as well as culture.