Library Numeric Data in Electronic Resources
Find numeric data on ethnic studies from your library.
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.
Henry A. Murray Research Archive
The Henry A. Murray Research Archive is the endowed, permanent repository for quantitative and qualitative research data at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and provides physical storage for the entire IQSS Dataverse Network. The collection comprises over 125 terabytes of data, audio, and video. It preserves in perpetuity all types of data of interest to the research community, including numerical, video, audio, interview notes, and other data. Applications may have to be submitted to access data.
Available through the Harvard-MIT Data Center, this archive browses collections and surveys. It has a strong race/ethnicity component.
ICPSR
ICPSR has a number of race and ethnicity data. For example, there are social surveys and latino and african american surveys.
National Race and Politics Survey, 1991
The 1991 National Race and Politics Survey was a nationwide random-digit telephone survey that included many questions related to racial attitudes and political orientation.
North American Jewish Data Bank
The North American Jewish Data Bank is the central repository of social scientific studies of North American Jewry. The Data Bank archives and makes available electronically questionnaires, reports and data files from the National Jewish Population Surveys (NJPS) of 1971, 1990 and 2000-01. In addition to the NJPS studies, the Data Bank provides access to other national Jewish population reports, including the American Jewish Identity Survey (AJIS) and the Survey of Heritage and Religious Identification (HARI), 2002. Approximately 100 local Jewish community studies from the major Jewish communities in North America are also included in the Data Bank holdings. Registration is required to access data.
Pew Hispanic Center
Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Its mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. The Center focuses on eight key subject areas: Demography, Economics, Education, Identity, Immigration, Labor, Politics, and Remittances.
Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Study
Available through the DISC Data Archive, this study provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica.
