Data Resources for Social Sciences

• Subject-Specific Data
• Locating and Using Data
• Data Libraries and Information

• Business
• United States Census
• Crime and Justice
• Economics
• Education
• Health
• Mass Communication
• Political Science
• Sociology

• Data Use Tutorial A beginner's "how-to."
• Citing Electronic Data Files
• Depositing Data Even if you are not planning on deposting data to ICPSR, their guidelines on preparing and documenting data are a must-read for any researcher.
• Site for Instructional Materials and Information The goal of SIMI (Site for Instructional Materials and Information) is to develop and disseminate resources for undergraduate and graduate education. Faculty submit data-based instructional materials that they have developed for their classes.
• Data Documentation Initiative an international effort to establish a standard for technical documentation describing social science data.

• Data on the Net Links to sites of numeric social science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, etc. Provided by University of California, San Diego.
• Research Resources for the Social Sciences Organized into 18 categories including general resources, reference materials, data archives, and various social sciences disciplines.
• SOSIG SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway). Extensive links to social sciences resources worldwide.

University Data Libraries


• Data and Program Library Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a large data collection. Also at DPLS is the Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data, a searchable collection of hundreds of links to data-related web sites all over the world.
• Harvard-MIT Data Center is the home of the Virtual Data Center, a collection of data centers.
• Social Science Data Collection From the University of California, San Diego.
• Yale Social Science Statistical Laboratory Information about the Statlab and other social science resources at Yale.
• Henry A. Murray Research Center A national archive of over 270 studies on wide-ranging topics but specializing in women's studies and mental health.

International


• CASS CASS (Centre for Applied Social Surveys), an ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) Resource Centre run jointly by SCPR (Social & Community Planning Research) and the University of Southampton with the University of Surrey. Offers a survey Question Bank for use by social scientists and social researchers as well as links to relevant sites.
• CESSDA Home page of CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives). Includes access to catalogs of member organizations and a clickable map of Social Science Data Archives all over the world.
• Qualidata Site for information on this Archival Resource Centre of ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) qualitative data.
• Social Science Data Archives From the Australian National University.