Sociology

Historical Statistics

Historical Statistics of the United States: Part I
Online and also in Morgan Library REFERENCE HA202 .U45 1975
Historical Statistics of the United States: Part II
Online and also in Morgan Library REFERENCE HA202 .U45 1975
Historical Statistics of the United States : Earliest Times to the Present
REFERENCE HA202 .H57 2006, V. 1-5

Current Statistics

U.S. Census Bureau
World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
"The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented."
Bureau of Labor Statistics

ICPSR OVERVIEW

What is ICPSR?

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an organization of member institutions working together to acquire and preserve social science data, to provide open and equitable access to these data, and to promote effective data use.

ICPSR is the world's largest archive of computer-readable social science data. In addition to archiving collections from disciplines such as sociology, political science, history, and economics, ICPSR has seven special emphases in gerontology, substance abuse and mental health, criminal justice, child care, health and medical care, education, and demography.

While the ICPSR holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, the holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. These data were originally collected for specific research or administrative purposes. However, the data have research potential that outlives the original purposes for which they were collected. ICPSR preserves these valuable data resources and makes them publicly available for secondary analysis.