Research Guides: Sociology and Criminology & Justice Studies Research Guide: Websites

Sociology Data Sets

American National Election Studies (ANES)
ANES data enable researchers to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.
Gender Equality Data and Statistics
Data on gender from a variety of sources, organized thematically.
General Social Survey (GSS)
Demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions and topics of special interest.
Oregon Survey Research Laboratory
Survey research methodology data sets.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics - PSID - is the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world.
SESTAT Data Tool
NSF's Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Data helps SAMHSA and the nation assess the impact of the changes to US health care systems and identify and address behavioral health disparities.
WebCASPAR
Statistical data resources for science and engineering at U.S. academic institutions.
National Longitudinal Surveys-U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The NLS Annotated Bibliography is an on-going effort to provide the public with an up-to-date searchable record of research based on data from all cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys.
Data World
Discover and share cool data, connect with interesting people, and work together to solve problems faster.

Women Working, 1800-1930
A digital collection of resources highlighting women's history.
US Census Data
Comprehensive demographic and housing data.
DataLab
Data Analysis System of the NCES.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Archive of social science data available for research and instruction purposes.
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
These unique collections document the lives and activities of African Americans, Asian/Pacific Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and Native Americans in California.
Pew Hispanic Center
The Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization that seeks to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos’ growing impact on the nation.
Center for Immigration Studies
The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.

Reference Maps- search census maps by legislative boundary or geographic area

Thematic Maps - search by subject: natural disasters, income, and race & ethnicity

Homelessness Analytics: mapping and visualization

National Climate Data Center: U.S. climate and data weather sets; current and historical data

Centers For Disease Control and Prevention: health (public, environmental, global, territorial); workplace safety

United Nations: un.org

World Bank Documents & Reports by World Bank
More than 14,000 full-text World Bank Group documents, including project appraisal reports, economic and sector works, evaluation reports and studies and working papers.
United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISNET)
Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. The coverage of UNBISnet is from 1979 onward, however, older documents are being added to the catalogue on a regular basis. Also provides links to full text resources if available.
World Health Organization Data and Statistics by World Health Organization (WHO)
"WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation."
Global Environment Outlook by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
"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.
UN Data
"The UN-system has accumulated over the past 60 years an impressive amount of information. UNdata , developed by the Statistics Division of DESA, is a new powerful tool, which will bring this unique and authoritative set of data not only to the desks of decision makers and analysts, but also to journalists, to students and to all citizens of the world."