Gleeson Library: Statistics and Data: Find Statistics and Data

General Statistical Sources

Statista
Easy to use statistics search engine with access to more than a million statistics and facts.

Categorized into over 20 market sectors, Statista provides business customers, researchers, and the academic community with direct access to relevant quantitative facts on agriculture, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest.

Sources of information include market researchers, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

On-campus link
Data Planet
A repository of standardized and structured statistical data. This tool allows users to scan and search contents of billions of datasets, compare and contrast variables of interest, and create customized views in tables, maps, rankings, and charts.

On-Campus Link
ProQuest Statistical Insight
The database includes complete tables and abstracts for publications that include statistical information.

The sources for the data are government agencies at all jurisdictional levels and some non-governmental organizations. Most of the U.S. Government publications are available full-text, and the state, foreign government, international intergovernmental organization, and non-governmental publications are increasingly available full-text. Use Power Tables to search for complete tables and use Search Abstracts to access summaries of statistical publications. The summaries include links to the full-text when available. All tables are in image format, and many are available in spreadsheet format as well.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

On Campus Link

Statistical Abstract of the United States - Historical Editions
Scanned copies (PDFs) of the Statistical Abstract of the United States. Includes volumes from 1878 to 2011, with some gaps in coverage.

Historical Statistics of the United States
See also, Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 and Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957 .

On-Campus Link
RAND State Statistics
This database contains information on California and U.S. public policy issues. The database is divided into three primary sections: 1) California Statistics, also called Databases; 2) Online Library; and 3) What's New. You may also search the entire database and some archived reports.

On-Campus Link

Data USA
Bills itself as "The most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data." Provides easy access to U.S. data on places, industries, occupations, and education.
USA.gov - Data and Statistics
Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.
Google Dataset Search
Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.
StatsAmerica
Provides socio-economic and demographic data, tools, and reports with a focus on community innovation capacity, resilience, equity and distress. Data are aggregated from dozens of federal and state sources, along with some commercial or private source data.

more... less...

StatsAmerica is a service of the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and receives generous support from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

Datasets

Data.gov
A public repository of local, state and federal government datasets.
ICPSR
a data repository which collects research data on a wide range of topics. Not all of the data is accessible for the general public. USF does not have a subscription to ICPSR, so you will only be able to access the public data. You'll need to create an account to download the data.
DataLumos
DataLumos is an open data repository at ICPSR specifically designated for government data in the social sciences for which there is concern about its long-term availability or discoverability.
State Agency Databases Project
An inventory of databases created by state agencies.
DataCite
To find shared datasets related to your research, use the advanced search and enter "Dataset" into the "Resource Type" field.
GDELT
GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tones) is a realtime open data index of global human society, inventorying the world’s events, emotions, images and narratives as they happen through mass live data mining of the world’s public information streams. It is one of the world’s largest social sciences datasets, and spans news, television, images, books, academic literature and even the open web itself.
Harvard Dataverse
Share, archive, and get credit for your data. Find and cite data across all research fields.
IPUMS Center for Data Integration
The IPUMS Center for Data Integration provides access to census and survey data from around the world, integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge.

more... less...

IPUMS originally stood for Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. In 2016, all of the data projects of the IPUMS Center for Data Integration took on the IPUMS prefix as part of their project name (e.g., IPUMS NHGIS, IPUMS Terra, etc.). Since not all these projects are microdata and some have access conditions that limit their usage, it became inaccurate to describe IPUMS as a "public use” microdata series. Since then, IPUMS is simply a name and no longer treated as an acronym.
World Bank Microdata Library
The Microdata Library is a service established to facilitate access to microdata that provide information about people living in developing countries, their institutions, their environment, their communities and the operation of their economies. It participates in the Bank's commitment to wholesale and democratize research, in line with the Bank’s philosophy of Open Data, Open Knowledge, and Open Solutions.

more... less...

The Microdata Library includes datasets that have been produced by the World Bank, such as impact evaluation of the Bank’s operations or research on development issues. The Microdata Library also includes datasets from other international organizations, statistical agencies and other agencies in low and middle-income countries.

The microdata in the Microdata Library have been collected through sample surveys of households, business establishments or other facilities. Datasets may also originate from population, housing or agricultural censuses or through an administrative data collection processes.
DHS Program (Demographic and Health Surveys)
Ready-to-use data for over 90 countries from over 300 surveys covering the topics of demographics, health, and nutrition. The DHS Program is a USAID-funded project implemented by ICF International.

more... less...

The DHS Program is authorized to distribute, at no cost, unrestricted survey data files for legitimate academic research. Registration is required for access to data.
Google Dataset Search
Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.

Statistics and Data

General Statistical Sources

Datasets

Follow Us