Research Guides: Public Policy: Data / Statistics / Government / Other

Data / Statistics

How to Find Data & Statistics: Data vs. Statistics
Guide from Michigan State University Libraries
How to Find Data: Data Repositories
Guide from Davidson College Library, NC.
Census Data and Information
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Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR is the world's largest collection of digital social science data and cover topics from sociology, political science, economics, demography, education, child care, health care, crime,minority populations, aging, terrorism, substance abuse, mental health, public policy, and international relations. More information about accessing data in ICPSR can be found here: https://www.lib.umd.edu/data/icpsr.
Policy Map
Policy Map provides access to over 15,000 indicators related to housing, crime mortgages, health, jobs, demographics, and education from more than 150 authoritative public and proprietary sources \. Data is cleaned and standardized , and updated regularly. the database basic GIS tools to create reports and maps.
Social Explorer
Social Explorer provides access to demographic information about the United States from 1790 to the most current dataset. Available data includes census data, data from the public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), and American Community Survey (ACS) data. The database includes basic GIS tools to create reports, maps, and slide shows.

GAO
"GAO provides Congress, the heads of executive agencies, and the public with timely, fact-based, non-partisan information that can be used to improve government and save taxpayers billions of dollars.
Our work is done at the request of congressional committees or subcommittees or is statutorily required by public laws or committee reports, per our Congressional Protocols."
Data.gov
"The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more."
OpenDOAR
"OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. We host repositories that provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. Each repository record within OpenDOAR has been carefully reviewed and processed by a member of our editorial team which enables us to offer a trusted service for the community. The service launched in 2005 as the product of a collaborative project between the University of Nottingham and Lund University, funded by OSI, Jisc, SPARC Europe and CURL"
Dryad Digital Respository
"Dryad’s Members are part of a non-profit, shared community working together to promote data publishing, curation, and preservation. The community benefits from Dryad’s services designed specifically for the Member community. Our community is open to a full spectrum of stakeholder organizations including universities, research institutions and academic libraries"

Google Dataset search
"Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web."

google searching:
keywords and site:gov
examples:
disengaged youth* site:gov
union organizer* college* site:gov

keywords and add any of the following:
data
statistics
examples:

state legislative activity community schools data
value based procurement cities data

Online Sources of International Statistics
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