Library Services: Statistics &amp; Data: Frequently Used Data

Key Resources

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Roper Center
The Roper Center maintains several thousand polls taken in some 50 foreign countries. Data can be downloaded by topic, by question, or by dataset.
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The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of 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.
U.S. Census Bureau
The homepage for the U.S. Census Bureau.
USAgov: Statistics
Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.

Current Population Survey
The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
General Social Survey
The GSS gathers data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes.