Datasets & Statistics Guide: Getting Started

U.S. and international datasets sourced from governmental, commercial, and private organizations (including the China Data Center).

Global statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics in areas such as business, education, finance, media, politics, society, and technology.

The GSS is a nationally representative survey of adults in the United States conducted since 1972. It contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Explore, analyze, extract, and share custom sets of data using the GSS Data Explorer.

NOTE: Users must create a free GSS account for full functionality (dataset download, etc.)

Help/guidance:

• The GSS Data Explorer video
• GSS Data Explorer Tutorial video
• Learn more about the GSS

Provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space (including from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey, see IPUMS-USA). Users can create and download a custom dataset once they have created a free IPUMS account.

Datasets from the social and behavioral sciences and specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. Register for a (free, required) Researcher Passport account using your St. Thomas email address (and independent password) to download data sets. Click on "More Info" below for guidance.

Create custom thematic maps, datasets, and reports using extensive data on demographics, consumers, real estate, housing, employment, crime, health, and more. Data includes MRI-Simmons consumer survey data, Nielsen Scarborough local insights, consumer expenditures and buying power, as well as public data sources such as the U.S. Census, American Community Survey, FBI uniform crime reports, NOAA climate data, and CDC health data. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.

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Quantitative data on American history. Topics covered include: population, work and welfare, economics, international relations and governance.

Data on consumer brands by product category.

Data, reports, and articles about sports fan demographics, sports participation, sports venue revenues, sporting goods sales, and much more.

Annual time series data on demographic, political, legislative, economic, and social science variables from 1815 to the present for over 200 countries.

The IHS series contains statistical data for the countries of the world from 1750-2010. Data series include population, economic, infrastructure, media, education, etc. Frequency and coverage of data vary by series and country.