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Council of European Social Science Data Archives

Searchable catalog of Western European data archives plus ICPSR and an archive in Israel
Links to data archive catalogs from around the world

Council of Professional Associations of Federal Statistics

Policy papers on federal data, such as rebasing the consumer price index and data dissemination
Links to affiliate members and their web pages

Country Rankings Guide (American University)

Wonderfully complete guide to rankings of countries
Includes links for civil liberties, corruption, development, economics, the environment, governance, press freedom, and social factors
Annotations provide source information for many of the web sites

County and City Data Book

Summary demographic and vital statistics; employment, education, government, housing, production and weather data. The population and economic censuses form the basis data also includes copyrighted material on community hospital beds.
For states, counties, and all cities of 25,000+
Statistics are a compilation from various sources, including the Census
To choose multiple geographic areas, click on the first area with a mouse; press the control key and click on the next area

Data and Information Services Center (U.Wisc)

Twelve social science data files including
- U.S. riot and civil disorder data, 1961-68
- Slave movements in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- Russian and French Bureaucracies in the 17th-19th Centuries

Data Archive (University of Essex)

Data Ferret (BLS/Census)

Data sets from the Current Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program Participation for easy or expert manipulation
- Surveys update and enhance the Decennial Census with national, state, and metropolitan area information
- Subjects include income, poverty, employment, education, health insurance, housing, aging, household and marital status
- Income, poverty, and health insurance were the trial data sets as of May 31, 1997

Data on the Net (UC-San Diego)

Searchable and browsable data base of approximately 800 numeric data sites, data archives, catalogs, and commercial vendor web sites
All entries are annotated and provide direct links to the web site

Data Sets and Statistics (University of Pennsylvania)

Annotated guide to free and licensed data sets for a broad range of science and social science topics
Especially good for area studies, such as Africa or Latin America

Data.Gov

Pan-government web site for microdata (raw, uncalculated data) produced by the major statistical-producing agencies
Searchable by keyword and/or category, agency, and file type (xml, csv, kml/kmz, esri, and other)
As of June 2009, this is a fledgling web site with 204 data files, primarily from the Environmental Protection Agency and Internal Revenue Service; expansion expected