Research Guides: Statistics &amp; Datasets: Online Datasets &amp; Statistics

Agriculture

National Agricultural Statistics Service
Published annually by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Statistics provides information on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns.
USDA Census of Agriculture
The Census of Agriculture is the leading source of facts and figures about American agriculture. It is the only source of uniform, comprehensive agricultural data for every state and county in the United States.
Earth Policy Institute Data Center
Provides datasets on environmental issues in the areas of population, health, society, natural systems, climate, energy, transportation, food & agriculture, and economy & policy.
AQUASTAT - Global Information on Water and Agriculture
US Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) global water information system.

Chemistry

The NIST Chemistry Webbook
The NIST Chemistry WebBook is a site on the Internet that provides convenient access to a variety of physical and chemical property data on well defined chemical species and reactions. The site is used by scientists, engineers, educators and the general public.
Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
This is a free site organized by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
NMRShiftDB
nmrshiftdb2 is a NMR database (web database) for organic structures and their nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectra. It allows for spectrum prediction (13C, 1H and other nuclei) as well as for searching spectra, structures and other properties. The nmrshiftdb2 software is open source, the data is published under an open content license.
Department of Defense - Military Casualty Statistics
Military casualty data and Active Duty military/civilian personnel statistics by rank/grade, service totals, service by Region/Country.
The General Social Survey
The General Social Survey (GSS) is a nationally representative survey of adults in the United States conducted since 1972. The GSS collects data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends in opinions, attitudes and behaviors.

Criminal Justice

FBI - Uniform Crime Reporting Program
The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program generates reliable statistics for use in law enforcement. It also provides information for students of criminal justice, researchers, the media, and the public. The program has been providing crime statistics since 1930.
New York Criminal Justice Statistics
The Division of Criminal Justice Services maintains, analyzes and publishes criminal and youth justice system data, including incidents of crime and arrests and dispositions.

Demographic/Social - United States

Social Explorer
Provides access to historical census data and demographic information. Visualize and interact with the data by creating maps, charts, and reports. Includes the entire US Census history from 1790 to 2010, all annual updates from the American Community Survey, and more.

Census.gov
Find business and industry information compiled by the United States government. Topics include population, education, housing, education, business, trade, employment and economy.
American Religious Data Archive
Includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).
Child Welfare Information Gateway
These resources provide State and national statistics on child and family well-being indicators, such as health, child care, education, income, and marriage.
Disability Statistics
Online Resource for U.S. Disability Statistics
National Center for Children in Poverty
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is the nation’s leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children.
National Survey of Families and Households
The NSFH was designed to provide a broad range of information on family life to serve as a resource for research across disciplinary perspectives.
Department of Homeland Security - Immigration Statistics
Compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals, permanent legal residents, naturalized citizens and maps with various demographic characteristics (1996-present).
Survey of Consumers - University of Michigan
University of Michigan Index of consumers sentiment as well as surveys of investors, affluent consumers, and regional data.

Demographic/Social - International

United Nations - Human Development Reports
Data related to development: literacy, health, poverty, income inequality, climate change, crime, population, and more.
National Centre for Social Research
Data and research studies cover all areas of social policy in the UK.
Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
Includes multidimensional poverty index and specific summaries on the results of the MPI analyses in 104 developing nations.
Our World in Data
"Research and interactive data visualizations to understand the world’s largest problems." Created by the University of Oxford.

Economic/Financial - United States

Business Insights: Essentials
Provides information on U.S. and international companies, industries and products.
Contains investment research reports, SWOT reports, company profiles, market research reports, industry research reports, company histories, key competitors, and full-text articles from journals and news reports.
Key Business Ratios
Provides access to competitive benchmarking data compiled from Dun & Bradstreet’s database of public and private companies.
Data may be used to evaluate the performance and stability of a business through solvency ratios, efficiency ratios, and profitability ratios. Historical data is available.
Mergent Market Atlas
Provides Company, Sustainability, Industry, Country and Economic analysis. Covers over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading. Formerly known as Mergent Online.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Offers real-time access to trading data and independent analysis on investments, including mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds. With portfolio tools and calculators, investment articles, and videos. Simultaneous user limit: 2.
Value Line
Provides research, data, analysis, information, and advice on stocks, options, securities, industries, stock market, and the economy. Includes ratings and reports, summary and index, selection and opinion, and the Value Line Investment Survey. Simultaneous user limit: 6.

Bureau of Economic Analysis
Interactive national, international, regional economic data or industry statistics.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Offers a vast array of national, state, county and local labor statistics on topics such as unemployment, wages, and workplace injuries.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Futures and options markets data.
FDIC - Data & Statistics
Statistics from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)
HMDA data provide information regarding home mortgage lending activity.
National Bureau of Economic Research
The NBER data collection here is an eclectic mix of public use economic, demographic, and enterprise data obtained over the years to satisfy the specific requests of NBER affiliated researchers for particular projects.
US Aid - Foreign Assistance Dashboard
USAID data--Explains where U.S. foreign aid is invested in over 100 countries.

Economic/Financial - International

Business Insights: Essentials
Provides information on U.S. and international companies, industries and products.
Contains investment research reports, SWOT reports, company profiles, market research reports, industry research reports, company histories, key competitors, and full-text articles from journals and news reports.
IMF eLibrary
Provides direct access to the IMF's periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools.
Mergent Market Atlas
Provides Company, Sustainability, Industry, Country and Economic analysis. Covers over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading. Formerly known as Mergent Online.

The World Bank
Statistics are available online from the World Bank with 331 indicators from the World Development Indicators (WDI) covering 214 countries from 1960 when available.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Data
Contains World Economic Outlook databases.
European Commission - Macro-economic Database
AMECO is the annual macro-economic database of the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs.
Eurostat
The statistical office of the European Union
OECD Statistics
The Organization for Economic Development (OECD) provides statistics on such topics as aid, income, education, GDP, interest rates, and retirement for countries around the world.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Interactive national, international, regional economic data or industry statistics.
United Nations Conference on Trading and Development
World Investment Report (annual) covers trends and analysis in foreign direct investment.
UNdata
Statistical databases and publications on social & demographic indicators, energy & environment, national accounts, trade, and other topics. Some content limited to subscribers only.
NationMaster
Online statistical database for country comparisons. Statistics are culled from the CIA WorldFactbook, W.H.O., the U.N., UNESCO, the WorldBank, World Resources Institute, and the OECD.

Education

ChildStats.gov
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics is a partnership of 22 federal government agencies involved in research and activities related to children and families.
Education Watch Online
Data on educational performance and equity by race and class, kindergarten through college.
Higher Education General Information Survey
Data are available for both public and private two-year and four-year institutions. There are eight components: Earned Degrees/Completions, Employees, Finance, Residence and Migration, Salaries, Fall Enrollment, Institutional Characteristics, and Libraries.
Kids Count Data Center
Explore hundreds of measures of well-being for kids across the nation, or in your state, city, or community.
The Nation's Report Card
The Nation's Report Card presents the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which measures student achievement in the U.S. in various subjects over time.
National Center for Education Statistics
The U.S. Department of Education's NCES collects and presents survey data regarding education at all levels.
IMSS & Pearls Student Achievement Data
IMSS and PIRLS are international assessments that monitor trends in student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading.
UNESCO Education & Literacy Data
Contains over 1,000 types of indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication for more than 200 countries and territories
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
Your primary source for information on U.S. colleges, universities, and technical and vocational institutions.

Elections/Voting - United States

American Presidency Project
This project at UC Santa Barbara contains a comprehensive index of the State of the Union Address throughout history, a document library that includes presidential papers, election information and maps, and an audio/visual archive.
American National Election Studies (ANES)
Statistics on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
Center for American Women and Politics
Presents data and analysis of women's voting behavior, including statistics on turnout and the gender gap in voting.
House of Representative Election Statistics
Official vote counts from 1920 to the present for presidential and congressional elections compiled by the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives.
US Election Assistance Commission
Data and analyses of US elections, including data on presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections, political parties, campaigns, and demographic information.
Harvard Election Data Archive
A space to share and improve election data. You can create an account and either correct the cataloging information for the studies in this dataverse or upload new data files.
Library of Congress - US Election Statistics Guide
A list of online and print resources that contain U.S. election statistics for both federal and state elections.
National Archives - Election Results
The Office of the Federal Register at the National Archives coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, the States, and the Congress. This site contains the electoral votes and popular votes from 1789 to the present.

Elections & Voting - International

Constituency-Level Elections Archive
Contains approximately 1100 elections from 70+ countries at a constituency level for lower house legislative elections.
Global Elections Database
Build data sets on national and subnational elections around the world 1940s-2010s. Accessible in multiple formats: spreadsheets, tables and GIS maps.
Election Guide
Information on international elections.

Energy

Energy Sector Management Assistance Program
Data on environmentally sustainable energy programs in developing countries.
International Energy Agency
Energy statistics by country.
Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI)
Monthly data for the biggest oil producing and consuming countries.
Nuclear Energy Agency
Contains both experimental and evaluated nuclear data including nuclear reaction ((the properties of interacting nuclei, e.g. cross sections) and nuclear structure (the properties of single nuclei) data.
US Energy Information Administration
Company level data on the supply and disposition of natural gas in the United States, Electric power data collected by surveys, international energy statistics, energy country profiles for 217 countries, state and territory energy profiles for the U.S., financial data collected from major energy producers, short-term and historical energy outlook data & projections, and real energy prices.
UN Energy Statistics Database
Provides energy data for more than 215 countries, areas and regions on the production, trade and intermediate and final consumption for primary and secondary conventional, non-conventional and new and renewable sources of energy from 1990 onwards.
World Resources Institute
Provides data sets on energy, climate, forests, water, & sustainability.
Earth Policy Institute Data Center
Provides datasets on environmental issues in the areas of population, health, society, natural systems, climate, energy, transportation, food & agriculture, and economy & policy.

Environment

Environmental Studies in Context
This database includes magazines, academic journals, primary source documents, country information, statistics, background sources, videos, and images in environment, energy, and natural resources. Formerly known as GREENR.

World Resources Institute
Provides data sets on energy, climate, forests, water, & sustainability.
Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative
FEMC is a repository for data collected and used by academic, governmental and non-profit partners in the Northeast United States Region.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network
CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment.
Earth Policy Institute Data Center
Provides datasets on environmental issues in the areas of population, health, society, natural systems, climate, energy, transportation, food & agriculture, and economy & policy.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Provides climate, socio-economic and environmental data, both from the past and also in scenarios projected into the future.
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Provides datasets and climate reports (land-based stations, satellite, radar, modelling, weather balloons, marine/ocean, paleoclimatology, and severe weather).
AQUASTAT - Global Information on Water and Agriculture
US Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) global water information system.
UN Water Statistics
United Nations agency providing data on fresh water issues around the globe.
USDA Web Soil Survey
Provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Federal Geographic Data Repository
A repository of Federal, State, and Local Maps and Data.
GADM Maps and Data
A spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas including countries and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, bibhag, bundeslander, daerah istimewa, fivondronana, krong, landsvæðun, opština, sous-préfectures, counties, and thana.
Geospatial data from Data.gov
Datasets from the federal government, including the USGS and other agencies.
UN Food & Agriculture Organization Map Catalog
Interactive maps, GIS data sets, satellite imagery and related applications.
Geospatial Data Gateway
The Geospatial Data Gateway (GDG) provides environmental and natural resources data.
Harvard Geospatial Library
A collection of 7,908 worldwide and regional geographic data layers, scanned historic maps and associated descriptive information that can be searched mapped and downloaded for use with your GIS software.
National Geospatial Program
A gateway to resources that help visualize national geospatial data in map format.
National Historic GIS
Free aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2015.
National Weather Service GIS Portal
Many of the National Weather Service data sets are available in formats that are able to be imported directly into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or your own custom map viewers or web pages.
Natural Earth
Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
OpenGeoPortal
An open source, federated web application framework to rapidly discover, preview and retrieve geospatial data from multiple repositories.
UN Environmental Data Explorer
The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP.

Geosciences

Geospatial data from Data.gov
Datasets from the federal government, including the USGS and other agencies.
Earthchem.org
Geochemical data from a variety of sources worldwide. Advanced search interface allows users to define many parameters to find appropriate information.
Geogratis
Geospatial information from the Canadian federal government, including topographic maps and GIS data.
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Provides datasets and climate reports (land-based stations, satellite, radar, modelling, weather balloons, marine/ocean, paleoclimatology, and severe weather).
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
Data for Earth Sciences.

Health

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
The CDC creates data and statistics sections for each of the diseases listed on their website. Click here to go directly to the Data and Statistics section.
World Health Organization
Health statistics
HealthData.gov
Dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of better health outcomes for all.
Dryad
The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of data types.
WHO - Global Health Observatory
A centralized and comprehensive source of information and analyses on global health R&D activities for human disease.
National Center for Health Statistics
Contains current data from surveys such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), birth and mortality detail files, National Immunization Survey, Longitudinal Study of Aging, and National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
NIH Data Sharing Resources
NIH-supported data repositories that make data accessible for reuse.

Labor

International Labor Organization
International labor statistics, standards, key indicators of the labor market, labor force surveys, safety, work conditions, child labor, and labor legislation.
United Nations Conference on Trading and Development
World Investment Report (annual) covers trends and analysis in foreign direct investment.
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Provides international labor force and wage information and other economic statistics (1990-present).
OECD Employment Database
Up-to-date statistics for making comparisons between countries and identifying trends over time.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Offers a vast array of national, state, county and local labor statistics on topics such as unemployment, wages, and workplace injuries.

Psychology

APA - Data Sets & Repositories
A wealth of shared data are available for use in psychological science research. These data span a wide variety of topics.
Gender & Achievement Research Program
Interested in the psychological and social factors that influence individuals’ achievement-related choices and activity involvement.
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
NDACAN acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis.
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Add Health has collected rich demographic, social, familial, socioeconomic, behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, and health survey data from participants and their parents; a vast array of contextual data from participants’ schools, neighborhoods, and geographies of residence; and in-home physical and biological data from participants, including genetic markers, blood-based assays, anthropometric measures, and medications.
Neuroscience Information Framework
Provides access to neuroscience data repositories.
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive
SAMHSA collects data through multiple sources and surveys and provides access to public-use data files and documentation to support a better understanding of mental illness and substance use disorders in America.

Transportation

Airline Data Project
Provides statistical and financial data for the airline industry.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Part of the division of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The BTS compiles, analyzes, and publishes statistical information on U.S. transportation systems.
International Transport Forum
Contains data relevant to a range of transport policy issues including investment & maintenance, transport statistics, emissions, road taxation and safety.

Other

DBpedia
A community effort to extract structured info from Wikipedia and make that data publicly available on the web.
NASA Planetary Data
The PDS archives and distributes scientific data from NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements.
Gapminder
Gapminder combines data from multiple sources into unique coherent time-series that can’t be found elsewhere.
The Odum Institute Data Archive
Providing trusted long-term preservation and stewardship of research data assets to broaden scientific inquiry, promote research reproducibility, and foster data fluency now and into the future.

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