Social Science Data Services

ICPSR (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/) The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to thousands of social science datasets for research and instruction. This is a first place to start in looking for social science data for secondary analysis.

Roper (http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/): The Roper Center maintains several thousand polls taken in some 70 foreign countries. Data can be downloaded by topic, by question, or by dataset.

The following list of data sources by subject have been identified from the Internet, U.S. overnment and international agencies, and subject guides at other universities with data centers. For additional resources NU users may connect to those centers listed below.

Data Resources on the Web: Subject list of statistical data available on the web compiled and maintained by Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center, University of Michigan Library.