Research and Course Guides: Social Science Data Sources: Finding Datasets

Finding Data Sets

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
ICPSR offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. Disciplines represented include political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, terrorism, health and medical care, early education, education, racial and ethnic minorities, psychology, law, substance abuse and mental health, and more.

Data.gov
Datasets from state and federal agencies
World Data Atlas
More than 2.4B time series published by more than 1K sources downloadable by country or topic
Sociometrics
downloadable data sets for social science and health; formerly Social Science Electronic Data Library
Open Data Network
Socrata's initiative designed to foster data-centered collaboration between governments and the private sector.
Healthdata.gov
Data from US Health and Human Services
Data Citation Index
Discover research data sets and data studies from a wide range of international data repositories in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Figshare
Open source repository of international research data