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Data Collection & Services

Dataset Collections

This list focuses on CMU subscriptions. 

  • The Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive Political, Legislative and Economic Data on Domestic Conflict Events: Assassinations, Revolutions, Riots, General Strikes, Terrorism/Guerrilla Warfare, Major Government Crises, Anti-Government Demonstrations and Purges (1815-2016 excluding the two modern wartime periods, 1914-1918 and 1940-1945)
  • DemographicsNow Search for people, businesses, or access a demographic report on any geography – or compare multiple geographies - for information including income, housing, race, age, education, retail spending, consumer expenditures, businesses and more.
  • General Social Survey (GSS) contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. GSS home page
  • Life Sciences Datasets This research guide provides links to data repositories in the life sciences and will allow you to download existing datasets for your research.
  • ResearchDataGov is a web portal for discovering and requesting access to restricted microdata from federal statistical agencies
  • Roper Center Data various topic and collections, such as elections, presidents, Latin American Databank, etc.

Data repositories allow you to download existing datasets for your research.

  • FAIRsharing A cross-disciplinary platform that houses manually curated metadata on standards, databases and data policies. It is searchable and provides a list of certified data repositories.

 

  • DATA.gov Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.
  • Data Sheets by PRB "Search hundreds of indicators, thousands of locations, and easily create custom reports to print, download, and share."
  • Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is following a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents) by Princeton University
  • Henry A. Murray Research Archive at Harvard University "is Harvard's endowed, permanent repository for quantitative and qualitative research data at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and provides physical storage for the entire IQSS Dataverse Network.”
  • IPUMS Integrated Public User Microdata Series by Minnesota Population Center (MPC) at University of Minnesota.
  • Medeley Data Search 10.3 million datasets from domain-specific and cross-domain repositories
  • MDRC Created in 1974 by the Ford Foundation and a group of federal agencies, MDRC is best known for mounting large-scale demonstrations and evaluations of real-world policies and programs targeted to low-income people.
  • The Panel Study of Income Dynamics - PSID - is the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world. The study began in 1968 with a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 individuals living in 5,000 families in the United States.
  • UK Data Service the UK's largest collection of economic, social and population data for research and teaching.
  • UNICEF plays a central role in monitoring the situation of children and women – by assisting countries in collecting and analyzing data.

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