| Some Data Sources for
Sociologists (in no particular order, search by using Ctrl F) IPUMS: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series census microdata for social and economic research http://www.ipums.umn.edu/ IPUMS has added international Data http://www.ipums.umn.edu/international/index.shtml IPUMS has added Current Population Survey (CPS) data http://beta.ipums.org/cps/ NSFH: A National Survey of Families and Households http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/home.htm MEPS: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/ ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ PSID: Panel Study of Income Dynamics http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid/ Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/ http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet CPS: CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/cpsmain.htm Geographic Products http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ Economic Census http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/economic.html FERRET: Federal Electronic Reseach and Review Extraction Tool http://ferret.bls.census.gov/ Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) http://www.sipp.census.gov/sipp/ United States Historical Census Data Browser http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/ Vietnam Longitudinal Survey (1995-present) http://csde.washington.edu/research/vietnam/vls.html Vietnam Life History Survey 1991 http://csde.washington.edu/research/vietnam/vlhs.html SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVES - EUROPE http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/europe.html National Survey of America's Families http://www.urban.org/Content/Research/NewFederalism/NSAF/Overview/NSAFOverview.htm ARDA: The American Religion Data Archive http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home Australia NATIONAL POLLUTANT INVENTORY http://www.npi.gov.au/index.html Economic Time Series Page http://www.economagic.com/ National Longitudinal Surveys National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY79) NLSY79 Children and Young Adults National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Mature Women (NLSW National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Men and Older Men http://www.bls.gov/nls/ UK Data Archive http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/ ADDS: Africa Data Dissemination Service http://edcw2ks21.cr.usgs.gov/adds/ World Health Organization: WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/ Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC) http://fjsrc.urban.org/ CEPI Center for Educational Performance and Information collects and reports data about Michigan's K-12 public schools. http://www.michigan.gov/cepi/0,1607,7-113-21423---,00.html UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES ADMISSIONS SERVICE UCAS Annual Datasets are designed to provide you with applicant, course and institution statistics at a national level. They are free to download and are available for 1996 to 2002 entry. From 2000 entry they are also available separately for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. http://www.ucas.ac.uk/figures/fps/ads.html NES: National Election Studies http://www.umich.edu/~nes/ Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/download.php Worldbank Data on Poverty http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/ Economy.com's FreeLunch provides access to economic and financial data series http://www.economy.com/freelunch/ Scanned Census Manuscripts (Fee) http://www.ancestry.com GSS, General Social Survey http://www.icpsr.umich.edu:8080/GSS/homepage.htm Demographic and Health Surveys http://www.measuredhs.com/ National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS) http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/nels88/ 3/18/03, from Grace Ning Gu: PDQ (Public Data Queries) is a user-friendly program for manipulating the Census PUMS from the 2000 5% files all the way back to the 1850 I-PUMS. It's developed by the U of Michigan Library and hasn't been publicized it yet on the Web. You can get a preview at http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/census2/pdqexp.ppt. If interested, you may send a message to info@pdq.com and ask for free password to the PDQ Toolbox and information on how to download the software. |