Find Data - General Data and Data by SubjectGeneral Data ResourcesInter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) ICPSR provides access to an extensive collection of downloadable data. You'll need to register to download data. It is free to MSU faculty, staff, and students. DataFerrett is a data mining and extraction tool. DataFerrett allows you to select a databasket full of variables and then recode those variables as you need. You can see the datasets available here, which provides links to the specific studies and surveys and further information. You'll need to download DataFerret software to use it. DISC (Data & Information Services Center) This data site has an online archive of different studies covering many subject areas like ethnicity, religion, families, and Wisconsin data. The data is more historical including from the 1700s and 1800s. This is the main page for the Michigan Government. This is the best place to start looking for Michigan data. The government collects and distributes a lot of data. Unfortunately, it is scattered around the web site. Some popular web sites within the Michigan web site are listed under appropriate topics listed below. This is the main page for the U.S. Government. The U.S. government collects and distributes a lot of data...much more than individual states. This is a good starting point for any data search. It searches both national and state web sites. This resource indexes and abstracts statistical publications from the US government, state governments, international organizations, and professional associations. Links to selected full-text materials are provided, some in spreadsheet format. The Library owns almost all the materials indexed in LexisNexis Statistical. Statistical Abstract of the United States The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. This is a great web site for national and more general research or as a starting point. Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Historical Statistics of the United States has long been the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history. The U.S. Bureau of the Census published the prior editions in 1949, 1960, and 1975, the last known as the Bicentennial Edition. Cambridge University Press publishes this, the Millennial Edition, with the permission of the Census Bureau. It includes information on U.S. Population, Work and Welfare, Economic Structure and Performance, Economic Sectors, and Governance and International Relations. This new edition adds thirty years of data and contains coverage of topics that received little or no coverage in the 1975 edition: American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. Older editions can be found at the link above. The most recent edition is from 1996. Social Science Electronic Data Library SSEDL is a premium health and social science resource that consists of over 300 data sets from 200 different studies. Topics include: AIDS/STD, Aging, Adolescent Pregnancy, Disabilities, Families and Maternal Drug Abuse. Data on the Net provides a listing of 363 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more. intute is a free online service providing you with access to web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. Some subject areas include anthropology, Business, Economics, Education, Environmental Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Women's Studies among others. Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Roper Center has social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. MSU maintains a membership. Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information in the form of maps and reports on the U.S. from 1940 to the present, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The OFFSTATS database provides access to free statistics from official national and international sources on the web. Web links are arranged by country, region or subject. The database can be searched by a single category, or a combination of categories. All of the content of the database is held in the public domain and is available through the Internet. Data-PASS (Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences) The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a broad-based partnership devoted to identifying, acquiring and preserving data at-risk of being lost to the social science research community. Examples of at-risk data include opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys on family growth and income, and many other social science studies. Need help getting started? Search for data resources:
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