LINKS
| Institution / Website | Description |
| Australian Data Archive Social Science (ADA) http://www.ada.edu.au/social-science/home |
ADA Social Science provides a national service for the preservation of and access to data relating to social, political and economic issues, and is the primary facility for the storage of Australian data.. ADA Social Science currently holds over 2000 separate datasets from a variety of academic, government and non-government organisations, covering the spectrum of Australian and international social sciences. |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) http://www.bls.gov/data/ |
BLS is an independent statistical agency for the federal government of the United States in the field of labor economics and statistics. |
| Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) http://cessda.net/ |
CESSDA is an umbrella organization for national social science data archives across Europe. |
| Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) http://www.cpanda.org/cpanda/data |
CPANDA is the world’s first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. It was founded in 2001. It is a collaborative effort of Princeton University’s Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. |
| Gallup http://www.gallup.com/poll/trends.aspx?ref=f |
Gallup is the world’s leading source of public opinion since 1935. |
| The General Social Survey (GSS) http://www3.norc.org/ |
The GSS is the largest project funded by the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation. The GSS contains a standard "core" of demographic and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. The GSS started in 1972 and completed its 30th round in 2014. |
| The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ |
ICPSR was established in 1962. As an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research, it maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. |
| The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science (University of North Carolina) http://arc.irss.unc.edu/dvn/ |
The Data Archieve of the Odum Institute provides services in managing, archiving and preserving social science data. Most of the data holdings are available online. |
| Portal Site of Official Statistics of Japan, e-Stat http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/index.htm |
The site delivers the one-stop service for official statistics of the Japanese government. |
| OECD iLibrary http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/ |
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development provides access to its books, papers, statistics, and the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. |
| Pew Research Center (PRC) http://www.pewresearch.org/ |
PRC provides independent opinion research about American attitude on politics and policy, journalism and media, impact of internet and technology, religion and public life, global attitudes and trends. |
| Princeton University Library: Data and Statistical Services (DSS) http://dss.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/dataresources/guides.cgi |
DSS maintains the University Data Library and provides electronic data. Users can inspect a list and short description of popular datasets, search for and download data. |
| The State of the Nation’s Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities and Suburbs http://pppolicy.rutgers.edu/cupr/sonc/sonc.htm |
As part of a contribution to the United Nations’ Habitat II conference in Istanbul in June 1996, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development contracted with the Center for Urban Policy Research to assemble a comprehensive database on 77 American cities and suburbs. As of January 19, 1998 Version 2.2a of the database brings together over 3,000 variables from a wide variety of sources, allowing easy comparability of indicators on employment and economic development, demographic measures, housing and land use, income and poverty, fiscal conditions, and a host of other health, social, and environmental indicators. |
| Swedish National Data Service (SND) http://snd.gu.se/en/catalogue |
SND is a national resource for the coordination of existing and newly established databases within the humanities, social sciences and health sciences. |
| TransMonEE http://www.transmonee.org/databases.php |
The TransMonEE is a database captures a vast range of data relevant to the social and economic situation and well-being of children, young people and women in the countries of Central Aisa, Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The data are updated annually. |
| United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Statistical Division http://www.unece.org/stats/stats_h.html |
UNECE Statistical Division provides statistical information on the population of 56 countries. |
| UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) http://data.uis.unesco.org/ |
UIS is a primary cross-national source to comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories. |
| The World Bank http://data.worldbank.org/ |
The World Bank Open Data provides free and open access to global development data. |
| World Values Survey http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jsp |
WVS seeks to study the changing values and their impact on social and political life. The WVS, in collaboration with European Values Study, carried out 6 waves of representative national surveys in 100 societies which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, from 1981 to 2014. |