Library Guides: Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies Library Guide: Data

Social Science Data Sources

Social Science Data Sources Library Guide
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Data Bias, Erasure,and Opressive Algorithms

Gender and Sexuality Data

The Social Justice Sexuality Project
The Social Justice Sexuality Project is one of the largest ever national surveys of Black, Latinx, and Asian and Pacific Islander, and multiracial lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. With over 5,000 respondents, the final sample includes respondents from all 50 states; Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico; in rural and suburban areas, in addition to large urban areas; and from a variety of ages, racial/ethnic identities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.
Gender Data Portal
The Gender Data Portal is the World Bank Group’s comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency.
The Social Institutions and Gender Index
The OECD Development Centre’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) measures discrimination against women in social institutions across 180 countries. By taking into account laws, social norms and practices, the SIGI captures the underlying drivers of gender inequality with the aim to provide the data necessary for transformative policy-change.
Genderal Social Survey
For more than four decades, the General Social Survey (GSS) has studied the growing complexity of American society. It is the only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States.
Global Gender Gap
Annual report from the World Economic Forum with country-by-country listings for numerous gender gap indicators.
LGBTData.com
Guide maintained by Drexel University professor, Dr. Randall Sell. Extensive coverage of LGBT research data.
WomanStats Project
Compiles qualitative and quantitative data "on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174 countries". Users must register in order to use the database.
Women Watch
Reports, databases and archives relating to gender equality and women's human rights
Status of Women in the United States
Open data portal maintained by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), a think tank focusing on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of public policy in the United States through a gendered lens.