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These sites allow you to download data to your floppy or hard drive, or to extract only the data you need. Most are available to the public; some, as marked, require the user to be using a UM computer. Most of these sources are available on the World Wide Web; please be aware that these resouces change frequently, and sometimes without any warning. We will update this list as resources change and new resources become available. Please send comments, additions or suggestions to nsds@umich.edu.
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1996 American National Election Study
Using the SDA software, users can do cross-tabulations, comparison of means, comparison of correlations or make a customized subset of the 1996 American National Election Study.
Provides users with the capacity to browse, search, tabulate and map data from many Census Bureau sources: the 1990 Census of Population and Housing (Decennial Census), the 1997 Economic Census, and the American Community Survey. The 2000 Census of Population and Housing is currently being rolled out; check the schedule to see whether the data you need is available yet.
American Religion Data Archive
Collects data for the study of American religion including surveys of the general public, surveys of selected religious groups, surveys of religious professionals as well as aggregate data. Data sets can be searched by variable, frequencies and cross-tabulations can be produced and data and codebooks may be downloaded.
Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old
The Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) is a nationally representative longitudinal data collection that examines retirement and the aging of society. Data may be downloaded directly or it may be necessary to apply for the data. Registration is required.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics maintains this page from which users can submit forms to extract data or ftp data directly.
Many of the statistical series listed on this page are available to download as ASCII files.
Comparative Study of Electoral System(CSES)
Data for the first countries can be downloaded from this site. Registration is required.
Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource
The Department of Energy (DOE) has developed the Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) Program to provide public access to health and exposure data concerning DOE installations. Most of the data are from epidemiologic studies conducted by DOE-funded researchers as part of the DOE Worker Health and Mortality Study. Additionally, studies of populations residing near DOE installations, and other studies of radiation health effects, such as classic studies of atomic bomb survivors and the radium dial painters, are represented in CEDR.
Correlates of War Interstate System, 1816-1997
This is a revised version of the state list periodically updated and distributed by the Correlates of War (COW) Project at the University of Michigan. This version extends the temporal domain of the collection to 1997 and dates system membership at the day level.
The 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books are available on a web site developed at the University of Virginia. Tables can be produced and displayed online or customized subsets can be created and made available through ftp.
The National Center for Education Statistics has a Web site where users can obtain the Windows software applications called the Data Analysis System (DAS) which can be used with nearly all the postsecondary ED surveys.
The Data Ferret (Federal Electronic Research Review and Extraction Tool) provides access to the Current Population Survey (CPS). The basic monthly files since February 1996, the March Supplement for 1992-1997, the Displaced Workers Supplement from 1996, the Job tenure supplement for 1996, the Race & Ethnicity Supplement for 1995 and the 1995 Contingent Worker Supplement are included. The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 1992 Wave 10 Longitudinal Files is also available. Users can find tables that have already been created, create their own tables or download a datafile.
DRI/Webstract
Former name of Webstract, which can be found at the bottom of this list.
A privately-owned guide to socioeconomic data about state, regional and local economies. Includes a 100-page User's Guide.
Economic Information Systems, Inc.
This company provides access in spreadsheet format to a number of economic series collected by the US Government.
More than 200,000 series of economic data are available for downloading as excel files or charts. Mainly US data.
Fairmodel provides a macroeconometric model of the United States (denoted the "US Model") or a multicountry econometric model (denoted the "MC Model") to forecast, analyze policies, and examine historical episodes. For example, you can change government policy variables and examine the estimated effects of the changes. It is possible to create tables or graphs on line and/or download all or part of the historical data, forecast data, and data you create.
The Federal Election Commission makes available downloadable databases containing data about candidates, parties and other committees. Data cover the 1993/94 campaign and are in zip format. Data for the 1995/96 campaign are available and updated on the 2nd of every month.
FedStats (Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy) brings together data from the more than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government which produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use.
FRED, historical U.S. economic and financial data made available by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, is a rich source of data to download on money supply, interest rates, employment and population, consumer and producer prices, exchange rates, balance of payments data, gross domestic product, reserves, business and fiscal data and regional information. Some series are daily or weekly but most are monthly and most begin in 1959 or later.
The General Social Survey (GSS) is a personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) with James A. Davis and Tom W. Smith as principal investigators. The first survey took place in 1972 and since then more than 35,000 respondents have answered over 2500 different questions. Many of the questions are repeated from survey to survey so that trends over time can be studied. Users can access data from 1972-2000 through ICPSR, for analysis or extraction. The University of Michigan Library makes the General Social Survey available using the SDA software. The GSS is also available using SDA software on a site maintained by the Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM) at the University of California, Berkeley. Queens College provides a bibliography of publications based on the GSS and has developed additional software touse with GSS.
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and is a nationally representative longitudinal data collection that examines retirement and the aging of society. Data may be downloaded directly or it may be necessary to apply for the data.
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
IPEDS consists of institutional-level data that can be used to describe trends in higher education at the institutional, state and/or national levels. This facility will give you the ability to browse the data on your screen and to download selected records in delimited ASCII format. It is also possible to download IPEDS data bases from 1988-89 to present.
The International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Data Archive provides access to the latest release of data on international crisis behavior involving members of the international system and spans the period 1918 to 1994. Data can be downloaded in several formats.
The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world.
The Integrated Public Use Microdata Samples (IPUMS) contain samples from the US Census from 1850-1990. One sample exists for each census year. These are microdata samples which allow analysis of individuals and households. The data can be downloaded. Academic researchers can also arrange to have extracts of the data created.
Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt
External debt data in an online database or downloadable as a .csv file.
Journal of Applied Econometrics Data Archive
This archive contains the data for all papers accepted for publication by the Journal after January 1994, unless the data are confidential. Data can be located by issue number.
The Kansas Event Data System uses automated coding of English-language news reports to generate political event data. These data are used in statistical early warning models to predict political change. Data sets can be downloaded. There are four data sets: the Levant, April 1979-June 1997; the Gulf, April 1979-June 1997; Bosnia, 1991-1995; and Middle East Political Events Data, 1979-1995.
Citations and substantive abstracts from 300 newspapers and periodicals, the Congressional Record, and Congressional hearings. AMOF functions as a handy, current source of statistics and facts, much like an almanac. In order to access A Matter of Fact, verify your password with MIRLYN, then find AMOF under "Index Databases."Militarized Interstate Disputes
The Militarized Interstate Disputes is a revised version (2.10) of the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) data collection compiled by the Correlates of War (COW) Project. It covers the years 1816-1992 and provides information about conflicts in which one or more states threatens or uses force against one or more other states. Data are in a zipped file.
Minorities at Risk is an independent, university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in the larger countries of the world. The project is designed to provide information in standardized form that will contribute to the understanding and peaceful accommodation of conflicts involving communal groups. Selected project materials on 268 groups are available.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Many datasets distributed by NCHS are available with extractions capabilities via CDC Wonder. Others are available from ICPSR. In addition, many of the datasets from NCHS are distributed on CD-ROM through the Depository Library Program and are listed in MIRLYN. Some NCHS datasets are also locally mounted.
American National Election Sudies
This page also provides access to the 1952-1994 Cumulative Data File as well as the 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997 studies. Some of these files can be downloaded and some have on-line subsetting or statistical analysis capabilities.
National Health Interview Survey
The 1996 and 1997 National Health Interview Surveys have been placed on the web by the University of Michigan Library. The 1991 Health Interview Survey is also available on the web from the University of California Berkeley. Using the SDA software, users can do cross-tabulations, comparison of means, comparison of correlations or make a customized subset.
National Race and Politics Survey, 1991
The National Race and Politics Survey, 1991 is available on the web. Using the SDA software, users can do cross-tabulations, comparison of means, comparison of correlations or make a customized subset.
NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
The NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior contains tabulated information on social and religious characteristics of the electorate, partisanship and evaluation of the political parties, ideological self-identification, public opinion on public policy issues, support for the political system, political involvement and participation in politics, evaluation of the Presidential candidates, evaluation of Congressional candidates, and vote choice.
NBER, the National Bureau for Economic Research, provides access to a number of data files. Examples include the Penn-World Tables, Mark 5.6, the NBER Macro History Database, Balence Sheets and Income Statements for US Commercial Banks, and Imports and Exports by SIC category 1958-1994. Some may be downloaded and others allow online extraction of data.
Panel Study of Income Dynamics
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US individuals and the families in which they reside. It has began in 1968. The data are collected annually, and the data files contain the full span of information collected over the course of the study. PSID data can be used for cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intergenerational analysis and for studying both individuals and families. This is a huge dataset containing information about almost 9000 families and 50,000 individuals as of 1995.
Political Science Replication Archive
This site maintained by Richard Tucker contains the quantitative data used in published articles in Political Science.
The Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)
The Sociometrics Corporation has compiled this library of datasets from various studies; the datasets cover seven major categories, including AIDS/STD; Disability in the US; American Family; Adolescent Pregnancy and Pregnancy Prevention; Aging; Maternal Drug Abuse and Contextual Data. The SSEDL is also available on a set of CD-ROMS, which are on reserve at the Social Work Library.
StatBase: UK National Statistics Online
StatStore Datasets which link from this page contain a full range of economic and social indicators for the UK.
Statistical Universe contains bibliographic references to tables of statistics published by the U.S. Government, international and intergovernmental agencies, U.S. state governments and private organizations. About 15% of the statistics from the U.S. Government are included in full-text formats.
The Social Sciences Data Collection at the University of California, San Diego provides a searchable list of many more internet data sources.
This site by the U.N. is a good source for international information and points to sites maintained by individual governments. Each site listed may include only tabluated data but may also include data available to download.
The Urban Institute is a social policy think tank; their enormous web site includes a great deal of data including the 1997 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF). This is available at the Urban Institute's site Assessing the New Federalism.
Webstract is the name of the software used to access many economic databases maintained by DRI-WEFA. Webstract client software must be installed on a computer running Windows before it can be used. When the client is installed an icon is created on the desktop. Use the icon to connect directly to DRI/Webstract. For information and installation instructions, please go to http://www.lib.umich.edu/nsds/numeric_data/webstract.html . Please note: DRI/Webstract is licensed only for the Ann Arbor Campus. For information on searching and downloading data, see Webstract Quick Tips.
The WLS is a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957. Survey data were collected from the original respondents or their parents in 1957, 1964, 1975, and 1992 and a selected sibling in 1977 and 1993.
The World Bank compiles data on a wide variety of indicators for poverty. Here you can find tables of indicators by region as well as many downloadable datasets.
