We have a comprehensive guide to finding data. Use the guide linked below to learn the basics, test out repositories, and discover subject-specific data sources.
The ARDA provides free access to the most authoritative religion statistics, data, and church membership reports from around the world, with easy to use online tools and downloadable databases.
Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has provided politicians, policymakers, and scholars with a clear and unbiased perspective on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spending priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions. If you're interested in pursuing quant-data-driven projects, GSS data is easy to access and use.
ICPSR is an archive of behavioral and social science data; most datasets are raw, primary data drawn from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. Several search tools are available for datasets or browse for them by categories such as topic, series, geography, investigator, or international. After finding a data set, users can click on the title to find its Study Home Page.
Special topics include: Aging, Arts and Culture, Criminal Justice, Health and Mental Health, Race and Ethnicity.
To download datasets you must set up an account using your Davidson email. Davidson is a member of ICPSR; use of the data is restricted to Davidson students, faculty and staff engaged in non-commercial research projects.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions.
(c. 1935 to present) Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present. Roper iPoll contains nearly 800,000 questions and over 23,000 datasets from both U.S. and international polling firms. Surveys cover any number of topics including, social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, science, the environment, and much more. When available, results charts, demographic crosstabs and full datasets are provided for immediate download.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
(2013 to present) Important compendium of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Particularly useful as a guide to statistical data generated and published by U.S. Government agencies and non-governmental organizations.Published by ProQuest since 2013. For data from 1789-2012, see the U.S. Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract; click the "earlier editions" tab to access previous years.
The Census Bureau stopped publishing this work in 2012. ProQuest began publishing its own version in 2013.
Contains official statistics produced by countries as well as statistics, estimates, projections, indicators, and other data from United Nations Statistics and Population Divisions and other United Nations agencies. Subjects covered include agriculture, crime, education, energy, industry, labor, national accounts, population, and tourism.
