Statistics and Data

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

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.

Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.

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.

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.

Research and data collected and published with the aim of helping to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Covers around 300 topics.

A public repository of local, state and federal government datasets.

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 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.

An inventory of databases created by state agencies.

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.

Share, archive, and get credit for your data. Find and cite data across all research fields.

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.

The Microdata Library is a collection of datasets from the World Bank and other international, regional and national organizations. Users need to create an account to access the data and may need to create additional accounts when using data hosted by other agencies.

DataONE is a community driven program providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data.

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.

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.

ResearchDataGov.org is a single portal for discovery of restricted data in the U.S. federal statistical system. Users can search for data by topic, agency, and keywords. Users apply for access to these data using a single-application process built into ResearchDataGov. Questions related to the data should be directed to the owning agency, using the contact information on the page that describes the data.

The data described in ResearchDataGov.org are owned by and accessed through the agencies and units of the federal statistical system. Data access is determined by the owning or distributing agency and is limited to specific physical or virtual data enclaves. (A "research data enclave" allows an approved researcher to log into a secure, remote server to access and analyze restricted-use data from a remote location.) PLEASE NOTE: agencies may require users to pay access fees. Gleeson Library does not cover any access fees.

The Food and Agriculture Microdata (FAM) Catalogue provides an inventory of datasets collected through farm and household surveys which contain information related to agriculture, forests, food security, and nutrition. The FAM catalogue is populated by datasets which are collected directly by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and datasets whose collection are supported in some way by FAO. The aim is to be a one-stop-shop containing metadata on all agricultural censuses and surveys which are publicly available as well as provide direct access and/or links to the microdata.