Timely Resource
- Black Lives Matter: 80 Years of Black Americans’ Public Opinion and How the U.S. Public Views Black AmericaRoper Center for Public Opinion Research, Cornell University, June 2020
Public Opinion
- Harris VaultSearch over 40 years of data, spanning a wide array of social issues, from the longest running proprietary survey of public opinion in the world – The Harris Poll®.
- Polling the Nations This link opens in a new windowDatabase of over 350,000 questions from more than 14,000 public opinion surveys conducted by more than 700 different organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
- Roper Center For Public Opinion Research This link opens in a new windowAccess to archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. Roper Center data 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.
Data Services
- Civil Rights Data CollectionData about "key education and civil rights issues" in schools around the country every other year since 1968. Choose a school name, school district, city, street address, or other information to access detailed and specific data on Student Enrollment, Staffing and Finance, and other fields.
- Data.govHome of the U.S. Government’s open data.
- Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave TradeFrom the Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences at Michigan State University.
- Google Datasets SearchCompanion to Google Scholar, metadata tags will be indexed by Dataset Search and have input from Google’s Knowledge Graph.
- Gov Info, Maps, DataSee "Race and Ethnicity" in Sources of data by subject
- GSS Data ExplorerGeneral Social Survey (GSS) on American society, by NORC (formerly the National Opinion Research Center) "an objective non-partisan research institution" at the University of Chicago.
- ICPSR Data Archive This link opens in a new windowAbstracts and data sets in the largest archive of social science data, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Science Research, part of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
- Joint Center for Political & Economic StudiesDataBank, Roster of Black Elected Officials, and National Opinion Polls.
- Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesAccess to the raw data and documentation to analyze variables such as length of voyages, number of slaves, slave deaths en route, etc. [Univ. of Wisconsin]
- USAFacts"...data-driven portrait of the American population..." partners include Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Penn Wharton Budget Model, and Lynchburg College. (2017)
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowIncludes Data Citation Index, data sets and data studies, 1900-present.
Statistics
- Black Americans: A Statistical SourcebookAnnual. Boulder, CO: Numbers & Concepts, 1990-2009. ISSN: 1048-6992. Oak Grove Library Center--Request Online; Call number: 305.89607 B6278
- Bureau of Justice StatisticsCollects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
- Civil Rights Data CollectionThe U.S. Department of Education conducts the Civil Rights Data Collection, formerly the Elementary and Secondary School Survey, to collect data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation's public schools.
- Current Index to Statistics This link opens in a new windowBibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. Contents of core journals, additional journals in related fields, & books in statistics. Coverage extending back to 1974, earlier in some instances.
- DataUSAWebsite and visualization engine of public US Government data.
- Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new windowThe standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.
- Our World in DataMeta-database by Oxford University.
- ProQuest Statistical Insight This link opens in a new windowAccess to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Features include descriptive abstracts, detailed indexing, full-text PDFs of source documents, tables, and downloadable spreadsheets containing table data.
- Sentencing Project: State-by-State DataCriminal justice data from a variety of sources.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowProvides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
- UNdata This link opens in a new windowPortal to 24 databases from UN Statistics and Population Divisions, UN specialized agencies (International Labour Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Health Organization), and member states (statistics collected by their national statistical agencies).
- World Inequality DatabaseWealth and income inequality data developed by an international academic consortium.