Seminar w/ Dr. Kristi Hoffman: Looking for Secondary 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.

The home of the U.S. government's open data. Tools, and resources to conduct research, design data visualizations, etc.

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.

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 Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time.

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.

Assesses child well-being and inequality in the United States.

Select data from the Uniform Crime Reports or National Crime Victimization Survey to search crime trends.

Examine data on a variety of government sources on criminal justice issues.

A set of programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data

This page leads you through the process of gaining access to Pew data sets.

The eHRAF databases can be used for a variety of research purposes from single-society studies, small-scale comparisons, to systematic worldwide or regional comparisons.