Library Guides: Statistics & Data for the Social Sciences: A Guide: Quick Access Data

Most Popular Data Sources

This guide is designed to provide easy access to the most commonly access sources of data, as well as to provide tips on how to track down those more specialized or obscure datasets. If you need assistance, a librarian is happy to assist you.

Data.census.gov
Data.census.gov (formerly American FactFinder) is the platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau.
SAGE Data
Standardized and structured statistical data including key economic indicators. Covers subjects including banking and finance, criminal justice, education, industry and commerce, housing and construction, population and income, stocks and commodities, and more. See additional information for access details and collections.

Also includes EASI Market Planner with 13 data sets covering consumer behavior, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, consumer spending analytics, demographics, gross domestic product, health, industries, life stages, media, quality of life, and retail sales.

General Social Survey (GSS)
The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest.

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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 (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Social and behaviroal sciences data archive on topics including education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. NOTE: off-campus access to some materials may require creating an account, login, and password with ICPSR.
iPoll
Finding aid to locate national US public opinion polls including data from more than 150 survey organizations. NOTE: You will need to create/register a user account and profile using a Tulane.edu email address to access this database.
Pew Research Center
Information on issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world from the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank.

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Thank you to the following librarians, whose excellent guides provided some of the content here:

Wendy Mann
George Mason University Libraries
Nicole Scholtz
Clark Library, University of Michigan

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Statistics & Data for the Social Sciences: A Guide

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Most Popular Data Sources

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