Research Guides: Data & Statistics: Data Collections

Consumer & Demographics

Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) Series provides information on the buying habits of American consumers and data to support periodic revisions of the Consumer Price Index.

General Social Survey is a long running survey of social, cultural and political indicators. In addition to the GSS, topic modules include computer and Internet, racial and ethnic prejudice, and child mental-health stigma. The GSS has participated since 1985 in the International Social Survey Program.

World Values Survey is designed to enable a crossnational comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe. A variety of questions on religion and morality were included. Data is currently available at ICPSR for 1981-1984, 1990-1993, 1995-1997, and 1999-2004.

Data Collections and Search Tools

Harvard Dataverse Access the world's largest collection of social science research data here by searching across or browsing through one of the virtual data archives (called "dataverses") listed below. Data is uploaded by researchers from around the world.

Odum Institute Dataverse Network - data catalog Data catalog for the Odum Institute, which maintains one of the oldest and largest catalog of machine-readable data in the U.S., plus harvest data catalogs for the Dataweb, NARA, IQSS, Roper, and ICPSR.

Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) a global registry of research data repositories from all academic disciplines

The MacroDataGuide a tool that has been especially developed by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services to save researchers and students time and energy in their search for high quality social science macro data. While the main distinction is most often drawn between micro and macro data, the term 'meso data' is also sometimes used. Meso data generally refers to data on collective and cooperative actors such as commercial companies, organizations or political parties.

Wolfram Alpha Enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.

Kaggle: making data science a sport

"Kaggle is an arena where you can match your data science skills against a global cadre of experts in statistics, mathematics, and machine learning. "

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