Research Guides: Statistics and Data Sources: Data Sources

Data Sources

Amazon Web Services - Public Data Sets
Awesome Public Datasets
List of topic-centered public data sources of high quality.
DataCite
Find, access, and reuse data.
Data.gov
Access to datasets generated by the federal government.
DataHub
Get, use, and share data.
Data Portals
Open data portals from around the world
The Dataverse Network
Dryad
Non-profit data repository offering data curation and publishing services. CSU is an institutional member as of 2022.
Figshare
Geospatial Centroid Data Hub
Provides geospatial datasets on select locations provided by researchers and students at CSU.
Google Dataset Search
Google Public Data Explorer
Harvard Dataverse
IASSIST Guide to Finding Data About Racism and Ethnic Bias
Guide by the International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology
International Household Survey Network
Kaggle
The Macro Data Guide
Links to and information on worldwide social science data from the NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data
Microsoft Research Open Data
Mountain Scholar Datasets
Data produced by CSU researchers (through 2022).
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Dataset Catalog
Biomedical datasets from various repositories
NIST Science Data Portal
Datasets from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), spanning multiple disciplines of scientific, engineering and technology research.
Open Data Network
re3data.org
Extensive listing of data repositories by subject
The World Bank - Microdata Library
Zenodo

Harvard Dataverse Network
Largest collection of social sciences data.
ICPSR - Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
IPUMS - Minnesota Population Center
Population data (national and international) -home of IPUMS.
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) - Data
Public-use economic data includes macro, industry, international trade, individual, healthcare, demographic, patent, and other data.
PewResearch Internet Project - Datasets
Access to raw data sets from the Pew Research Center's Internet Project.
Population Reference Bureau - DataFinder
Links to information by geographic region and by topic.

Aila - Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Terms and conditions vary by dataset. Some open access data available. Free to browse and search data.
European Data Portal
European Union Open Data Portal
Data produced by various institutions, etc. within the European Union. Data are free to use.
Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
The Macro Data Guide
Links to and information on worldwide social science data from the NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data
UK Data Archive
UK social science and humanities research data.