Sue Erickson, Data Services Librarian
Phone: 322-0155  E-Mail: Sue Erickson

• Finding Data for Research (including What is Data?)
• Handout for HOD graduate student sessions

• Data Archives & Data Libraries (U.S.)
• Databases
• Specific Datasets
• Datasets on VUSpace
• Economic Data/Statistics
• Education Data/Statistics
• GIS (Geographical Information Systems)
• Guides and Directories to Sources of Data (General)
• Guides and Directories to Sources of Data (Specific Topics)
• Healthcare Data Sets (Walker Management Library)
• ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
• International Data Resources
• Ready Reference and Research Tools
  
• Statistical Software & Related Resources
  

Guides and Directories to Sources of Data (General)

• Census Data (U.S. Census Bureau)
• CIESIN Dataset Guides
• Data on the Net (SSDC at UCSD)  Searches a collection of over 700 Internet sites of numeric data.
• General Social Survey (GSS) Resources (Queens College)
• International and National Statistical Agencies (ECE Region)
• Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data (DPLS at Univ. of Wisconsin)
• Other Federal Internet Sites (for Non-Census Statistical Data)
• Searchable Catalogs of Data (SSDC at UCSD)
• Social Science Data Archives
• U.S. Demography Resources (via CIESIN)

11/16/2005   

Guides and Directories to Sources of Data (Specific Topics)

• Advance Data From Vital and Health Statistics (National Center for Health Statistics) (U.S.)
• Archaeology Data Service   A digital archive for data created by archaeologists.
• CIESIN's Guide to Metadata
• Corrections Statistics (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
  
• MIT's Dewey Research Advisor - an FAQ for where to find quick answers to business and economics statistics or data
  
• Monthly Energy Review (Energy Information Administration)  "Provides custom access to nearly 700 data series."
• Current Employment Statistics (CES)
• National Population Estimates (U.S.)
• NOAA Environmental Services Data
• Occupational Employment Statistics (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• TEA (Tennessee Electronic Atlas)
     Provides social and economic data at the county level. Offers interactive mapping with GIS.
  
• TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse)
    A data gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University, analysing the enforcement activities and staffing patterns of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the U.S. Customs Service.
• U.S. Department of Education, Research & Statistics
  
• Vital Records Information (U.S.)
• Voting and Registration Data (U.S. Census Bureau)

9/22/2006

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

• ICPSR Services at Vanderbilt
  
  Special Topic Archives at ICPSR:
  
• Census 2000 at ICPSR
  
• Election 2000 at ICPSR
  
• General Social Survey (GSSDIRS)
  
• Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA)
  
• Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG)
  
• International Archive of Education Data (IAED)
  
• National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
  
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
  
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)
  
  
• ICPSR Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
• Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
  
• Site for Instructional Materials and Information (SIMI)
  

9/22/2006

Ready Reference and Research Tools

• American Factfinder
     Easy access to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, including the Decennial Census and the American Community Survey
• CIESIN's Guide to Metadata
• Consumer Price Indexes (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• County and City Data Books (via GSDC at UVA)
• Data Documentation Initiative (DDI at ICPSR)
• Digest of Education Statistics (2001)
• Division of Corporation Finance: Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code List
• Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
• Glossary of Social Science Data & Computing Terms
• ICPSR Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
• International Price Program (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
     Produces Import Price Indexes (MPI) and Export Price Indexes (XPI)
• MPI Data Hub (Migration Policy Institute)
  
• North American Industry Classification System Search (Occupational Safety & Health Administration)
     Allows searches of the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification codes.
• Research Randomizer
   "This web site is designed to assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions."
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
  
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

Return to Menu -- Data Archives and Related Resources

6/05/2007

Data Archives & Data Libraries (U.S.)

• American Factfinder
     Easy access to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, including the Decennial Census and the American Community Survey
• American National Election Studies (ANES)
• American Religion Data Archive
    "Includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)."
  
• Archaeology Data Service
    A digital library providing access to archaeological archives and publications for Great Britain and Ireland.
  
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
• Carolina Population Center (UNC-CH)
• Center for Disease Control (CDC) Data & Statistics
• CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information) 
    Provides interactive applications and other data resources.
• CPANDA: Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (Princeton University)
    "An interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture."
  
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention Data and Statistics
    Offers statistical tables, charts, graphs and other files.
• EPI DataZone (Economic Policy Institute) 
    "Access 50 tables of historical labor market, earnings, and income data."
• Economic Research Service/US Dept of Agriculture Data Sets
• Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
• GEOSTAT (Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, Univ. of Virginia) 
    Impressive site with interactive access to selected datafiles (some restricted to UVA faculty, staff and students).
• Harvard-MIT Data Center
  
• ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
• Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction: Data and Codebooks
• LAPOP: Latin American Public Opinion Project
   Hosted by Vanderbilt University, this is a gateway to "databases of public opinion information about political viewpoints across Latin America."
• Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC)
  An initative of ICPSR, the "MDRC provides data resources for the comparative analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States."
  
• Murray Research Center (Radcliffe College) 
    Emphasis on data related to human development and social change. Many longitudinal studies are available.
• NACJD (National Archive of Criminal Justice Data)
• National Center for Education Statistics Catalog
• National Center for Health Statistics
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) 
    Provides access to 35,000 time series online
• Odum Institute for Research in Social Science (UNC-CH) (formerly IRSS)
• Online Data Archive (DPLS, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  A selection of datasets that the Data Program Library Service provides for direct download.
  
• OPR Data Archive (Office of Population Research -- Princeton Univ.)
• OSEDA (Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis)
     A unit of University Outreach and Extension at the University of Missouri, "transforming data into information."
• Pew Internet and American Life Project Data Sets
    "The Pew Internet & American Life Project will create and fund original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internet's growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial. "
  
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (Archive of Polls and Surveys)
   An archive of polling information from organizations such as Gallup, Harris and others.
   Roper Center Services at Vanderbilt
    Includes direct downloading of survey data through the iPOLL database.
     Free post- 9/11 data sets from the Roper Center
• SDA Archive (Berkeley)
   "A set of programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data. There are also procedures for creating customized subsets of datasets." The archive includes several datasets, including the General Social Survey and the American National Election Study.
  
• Social Science and Government Data Library (U. Cal., Berkeley)
• Social Science Data Collection (SSCD at UCSD) 
      A well-designed site with many useful resources.
• Survey Research Center (Princeton Univ.)
• Survey Research Center (Univ. of Michigan)
• Yale Social Science Data Archive

6/05/2007

International Data Resources

• Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA) (formerly Social Science Data Archives (Australian National University))
• Centre for Applied Social Surveys (ESRC)
• CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives)
• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (cross-national election studies)
• Danish Data Archive
• UK Data Archive (University of Essex)
• Data Library (Edinburgh University)
• Demographic and Health Surveys (Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean)
• Estonian Social Science Data Archive (ESSDA)
• EUROSTAT (Statistical Office of the European Communities)
• GESIS (German Social Science Infrastructure Services)
• H.M. Treasury Directory
• IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology)
• IPUMS International (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series)
   "the world's largest collection of publicly available individual-level census data. The data are samples from population censuses from around the world taken since 1960." Access to the data is free, but application is required.
  
• IBGE (Fundação Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística)
• INFORUM EconData (University of Maryland)
• International and National Statistical Agencies (ECE Region)
• International Data Base (IDB)
    "The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world. "
• International Labour Organization
• International Price Program (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Israel Social Sciences Data Archive (Hebrew University)
• LADARK (Latin America Development Archive)
• LAPOP (Latin American Public Opinion Project)
• Latin American Databank (Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)
• National Archives of Ireland
• National Statistics, Geography and Informatics Institute -- INEGI (Mexico)
• Norwegian Social Science Data Services
• OECD Statistics
• Office of National Statistics (United Kingdom)
• Social Science Data Archives - Europe
• Statistics Canada
• Swedish Social Science Data Center
• TARKI -- Social Research Informatics Center (Hungary)
• WHOSIS 
      Provides access to statistical and epidemiological data and other information primarily from the World Health Organization.
• ZUMA -- Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (Germany)

06/04/2007

Databases

• Access to U.S. Demographic Data (via CIESIN)  Offers a menu of databases and other sources of demographic information.
• CDC (Center for Diseases Control and Prevention) Web Search  Searches CDC database.
• Data on the Net (searches a collection of over 700 Internet sites of numeric data)
• DDA (Danish Data Archives) 
• CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network)
     Includes downloadable data.
  
• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service (CIESIN) searchable database
• FAOSTAT Database Collections
• Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
• Global Change Master Directory (NADA)  Primarily Earth science data, but also covers "human dimensions of global change."
  
• IDB (International Data Base) Data Access  Submit a search of the IDB from menus of variables.

• iPOLL (Roper Center for Public Opinion Research) (Vanderbilt Users Only)
  Offers full-text, question-level summary data from major survey research organizations in the United States, including Gallup, Roper, Harris, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press.

• IRSS Poll Item Database Query Page
• Longitudinal Research Database (U.S. Census Bureau)
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Data
• NBER Macro History Database
• Population Index
• Public Opinion Poll Question Database (Odum Institute)
  "The Odum Institute's Public Opinion Poll Database allows any researcher to search for specific poll questions among the more than 230.,000 questions in the Institute's archive by key words, date, study number, study title or state. The system displays the full question text, study information, and frequency distributions..."
  
• QSearch and GSS (searches Annotated Bibliography of Papers Using the GSS)
• RAND Abstracts and Subject Indexes
• Regional Accounts Data (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
      Provides local area personal income data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas.
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Databases
  Includes data on international relations, military expenditures, and arms transfers.
  
• TradeStats Express
    Includes National Trade Data and State Exports Data.
  
• U.S. Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions
• WHOSIS 
     Provides access to statistical and epidemiological data and other information primarily from the World Health Organization.

11/16/2006

Specific Datasets

• Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health) - UNC Carolina Population Center
  "a nationally representative study that explores the causes of health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 and their outcomes in young adulthood. Add Health seeks to examine how social contexts (families, friends, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and communities) influence adolescents' health and risk behaviors."
  
• American Factfinder
     Easy access to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, including the Decennial Census and the American Community Survey
• Data Sets on VUSpace
• AHEAD: A Study of Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (see HRS)
• American National Election Studies (ANES)
• Annual Demographic Survey (March CPS Supplement)
• Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 1995 (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (cross-national election studies)
• County Business Patterns (U.S. Census Bureau)
• County Business Patterns, 1977-1995 (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Employment Projections (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• General Social Survey
  Guide to General Social Survey (GSS) Data and Documentation Sources on the Internet
  Quick Tables for the GSS (SDA archive at Berkeley)
  
• Health Care Quality Survey
  
  
• Historical Census Browser (Geostat at the University of Virginia)
  
• HRS (Health and Retirement Study)
• IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series)
• Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
• National Latino and Asian American Survey (NLAAS)
  "The National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) provides national information on the similarities and differences in mental illness and service use of Latinos and Asian Americans, as compared to non-Latino whites and African Americans."
  
• National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)
• National Survey of American Life: Coping with Stress in the 21st Century (NSAL)
  "...undertaken by the Program for Research on Black Americans at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. NSAL was developed under sponsorship of the National Institute of Mental Health.
  The primary goal of NSAL was to gather data about the physical, emotional, mental, structural, and economic conditions of African Americans at the beginning of the new century...." Note: the data are currently unavailable, but you can view the questionnaires and diagnostic instrument.
• National Survey of Physicians and Quality of Care
  
• NCHS Products-U.S. Decennial Life Tables-1989 to 1991
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics
• Real Earnings (U.S. Department of Labor)
• Social Capital Benchmark Survey  
      Offered via The Roper Center--data and documentation available for downloading.
• Social Explorer
   Provides easy access to historical US Census data for 1940-2000 through the use of interactive maps and reports.
  
• Social Indicators of Development (via CIESIN) 
      Allows on-line searches of this database using menus of variables.
• Socioeconomic Role of Nicaraguan Women, 1977-1978
• State Government Finance Data, by State)
• State Tax Collection Data by State
• Uniform Crime Reports (FBI)

6/04/2007

Statistical Software & Related Resources

• GIS
   GIS Services at Vanderbilt
• The R Project for Statistical Analysis
  "R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS."
  
• SAS
• SDA Archive (Berkeley)
   "A set of programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data. There are also procedures for creating customized subsets of datasets." The archive includes several datasets, including the General Social Survey and the American National Election Study.
  
• SPSS
• STATA
  
• StatLib 
     A system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW. Contains a software archive.
• StatTransfer
  A software program for transferring spreadsheets and statistical software from one package to another. A trial copy is available from the website.

Where to find software at Vanderbilt:

• Arts & Sciences Microcomputer Lab, Garland Hall: ArcView, SPSS, STATA, and SAS.
  http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cas/computers/garland
• Peabody College's Computer Labs and Open Access Computer Kiosks: SPSS, SAS
  http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x791.xml
  
• Peabody Library's Learning Commons: ArcView 3.3, SPSS, SAS, R, and StatTransfer.

12/27/2007