Other Data Resources
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Key Resources
Remember to check the key resources:
- ICPSR Data Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess to thousands of social science datasets for research and instruction. A first place to start in looking for social science data for secondary analysis.
- Roper Center For Public Opinion Research This link opens in a new windowone of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion.
- data.census.govData.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau and has been designed to simplify access to the Bureau’s many data products. This chart shows data available. The 2020 Census data will be released on this site.
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- what data is available
- where to find software for analysis
- directing you to self-paced software learning resources
NUIT Research Computing provides support for a variety of software and analytic methods.
International Data
- Cross-National Equivalent File, 1970-2009contains population panel data from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Korea, Switzerland and the United States. Each of these countries undertakes a longitudinal household economic survey. The data are made equivalent, providing a reference dataset which cross-links each of the individual studies and allowing cross-national comparisons. The CNEF is managed by the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. Data Services must be contacted to use the data.
- Cross-National Time Series Data ArchiveThe archive has almost 200 variables and contains data for over 200 country units, with provision for entries from 1815 (excluding the two modern wartime periods, 1914-1918 and 1940-1945).
- European Social SurveyThe European Social Survey (the ESS) is a biennial multi-country survey covering over 30 nations. The project is funded jointly by the European Commission, the European Science Foundation and academic funding bodies in each participating country, and is designed and carried out to exceptionally high standards. The project is directed by a Central Co-ordinating Team led by Roger Jowell at the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University, London.
- German Socio-Economic Panel Study 1984-2008A longitudinal panel dataset of the population in Germany. It is a household based study which started in 1984 and which reinterviews adult household members annually. It is part of the Cross National Equivalent File. Data Services owns these restricted data. To access the data, researchers must have an approved research proposal and sign a confidentiality agreement.
- 2018 South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) Questionnaire 1From the Human Sciences Research Council, the data files are in the open access domain.
- Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)A catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data. Data made available for download can be used, shared, modified, or built upon via the Open Data Commons Attribution License. Search by country name, survey series name, organization, or keyword. Types of datasets included are national population censuses, clinical trials, disease registrations, epi surveillance, financial or health records, modeled data, natural phenomena, vital registration, and more.
- International Country Risk Guide (Methodology)Annual country-level data (2011, 2014-2016 data available at NU) compiled by the PRS Group on these topics:
Political Risk - annual averages for 12 components
Financial Risk - annual averages for 5 components
Economic Risk - annual averages for 5 components
Available to NU-affiliates only: Request by sending email to datalibrarian@northwestern.edu - International Information Resources LibGuideThis LibGuide provides access to NUL resources as well as online resources for statistical data on economics, education, health, environment, immigration and a host of other topics.
- Latinobarómetro This link opens in a new windowLatinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. These data are owned by Data Services and are on all the public computers in Governement Information. To acces the data, you need to come to Government Information.
- Latin American Databank @ RoperHosted by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, this collection includes data from public opinion surveys conducted by the survey research community in Latin America and the Caribbean, including universities, institutes, individual scholars, private polling and public opinion research firms.
- Minnesota Population CenterProvides microdata and summary demographic data sets for the US and other countries. Historic and current data available.
- Tsimane Amazonian Panel StudyTsimane Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS) aims to assess the effects of trade opening or market exposure on well-being and on the use of natural resources in a native Amazonian society, Tsimane, of foragers-farmers in Bolivia. These data are archived by Data Services and are on all the publice computers in Governement Information. To acces the data, you need to come to Government Information, and sign a confidentiality agreement to obtain the data.
- UNdata This link opens in a new windowStatistical time series for countries from around the world covering a wide range of topics including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
- UN Comtrade This link opens in a new windowInternational commodity trade statistics for over 130 countries, detailed by commodity and partner country. For many countries data coverage is 1962 to present.
- World Bank MicroDataThe World Bank Microdata Library facilitates access to raw data collected through sample surveys of households, business establishments or other facilities in low- and middle-income countries. MicroData sets may also originate from population, housing or agricultural censuses or through an administrative data collection processes conducted by international organizations, statistical or other agencies in low- and middle-income countries.
- World Bank Open DataWorld Bank statistical data relates to the Bank's mission of reducing poverty and promoting development in low- and middle-income countries around the world.
- Correlates of War (COW) Project 1816-2007COW seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations.
International Historical Statistics: 1750-2010 by Call Number: E-BookPublication Date: 2013Tables for Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas.
- IMF Data (via IMF eLibrary) This link opens in a new windowIMF eLibrary Data Includes domestic and international financial data from the International Financial Statistics as well as Government Finance Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, Balance of Payments, African Regional Economic Outlook, and more.
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowWith some exceptions, access limited to content published between 2001 and August 2020.
OECD iLibrary contains publications and datasets released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and International Transport Forum (ITF). Includes journal articles, chapters, working papers, multi-lingual summaries, e-book titles, and tables and graphs.
- GESIS: Leibniz Institute for Social SciencesGESIS is the largest European institute supporting social sciences research. Search for datasets using their catalog; some data will be open and others will require application for access.
- CESSDA Consortium (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives)In June 2018 CESSDA will release a shared catalog for the data repositories hosted by the member institutions in 16 countries. The catalog will provide metadata only; access to the data will require working with the appropriate host institution.
- Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) Data CenterHosted by Qatar University, studies are available for analysis and use by researchers, students, policymakers, journalists, and the general public.
- GDELT"GDELT is the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open database of human society ever created. [GDELT] monitors the world's news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every day and that stretches back to January 1, 1979 through present day, with daily updates."