Census data on population, housing, businesses, education, income, and many other variables. Data can be filtered by country, state, city and more with datasets available to download as CSV files.
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history.
From a review: "a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in the distant 1975, [...] expanded to include over 37,000 data series -- three times more than in the previous edition -- and dozens of new topics."
NOTE: users need to create a personal account to download data and documents. An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields from various countries. Qualitative studies can be downloaded as text documents while quantitative data can be downloaded as CSV files.
Yale's ISPS Data Archive consists primarily of social science research based on experiments. The Archive is organized by study and includes the data, analysis code, requisite documentation, and other associated materials.
Partnered with Portland State University, the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies makes data related to the Pacific Northwest region available from PSU researchers and students.
Located at Portland State University, the Population Research Center's primary responsibility is to "provide ready access to census and other information on the population of Oregon and to provide timely analyses of the patterns of past, current, and projected future populations in Oregon and of the implications of such patterns for key issues facing Oregon."
ANES conducts national surveys of the American electorate in presidential and midterm election years. The ANES time-series now encompasses biennial election studies since 1948
ANES conducts national surveys of the American electorate in presidential and midterm election years. The ANES time-series now encompasses 23 biennial election studies spanning five decades. The guide provides political observers, policy makers, journalists, teachers, students, and social scientists with immediate access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public opinion and electoral behavior and choice in American politics since 1948.
A biennial personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) and "is widely regarded as the single best source of data on societal trends". Data is collected in order to observe and document current opinions, attitudes, and behaviors.
The survey was conducted every year from 1972 to 1994 (except in 1979, 1981, and 1992). Since 1994, it has been conducted every other year. The website gives access to the data itself, as well as survey documentation, reports on methodological issues & uses of the data, a bibliography and information on the variables. Data is available to download (extract) as CSV files.
The Odum Institute has a large archive of public opinion data, including more than 1,000 Harris Polls from as early as 1958, the National Network of State Polls collection (775 studies from more than 25 states), the Carolina Poll (1977–2005), Monmouth University Polling Institute polls (2011+), the Southern Focus Poll (1992–2001), and some USA Today polls (1984–1993).
The Pew Research Center studies public attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. The Center's main purpose is to serve as a forum for ideas on the media and public policy through its research.
A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the U. S. and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time.
Included in each record is the polling organization that conducted the work, the date the interviews were conducted, the release date of the information, the sample size and the universe. The pollsters included in the database are: US polling organizations e.g., Harris International, The Pew Center Universities e.g., Rice University, University of Maryland Newspapers e.g., New York Times, Los Angeles Times Television news organizations e.g., CBS, NBS, Fox, CNN International polling organizations e.g., Eurobarometer Special interest groups e.g., Boy Scouts, AFL-CIO Each of the 500,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given.
NOTE: users need to create a personal account to download data and documents. A unique, rich data source for US public opinion topics. It includes 650,000 questions and answers from 1935 through last week, gathered from all the major polling organizations in the country (Gallup, Harris, Pew, etc.)
Founded in 1981, the World Values Survey is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. Data is collected globally every 5 years by a comparative social survey. Surveys include questions related to general health, family structure, employment and much more. Maps, time series data, and country-specific responses can be downloaded as Excel spreadsheets or PDFs.