Data Repositories

ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Science Research

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

ICPSR data is accessible from any computer on the Illinois campus network, including home users on the campus vpn.

Access to ICPSR data provided as a service to the Illinois campus community by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu

Roper Center data is accessible from any computer on the Illinois campus network, including home users on the campus vpn. Login is required. New users may self-register.

Roper Center data includes the popular iPoll collection of US nationwide public opinion surveys.

Access to Roper Center data provided as a service to the Illinois campus community by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Government Data Repositories

• US Bureau of the Census: http://www.census.gov/
• US Bureau of Justice Statistics: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/bls/proghome.htm
• US Bureau of Transportation Statistics: http://www.bts.gov/
• Canadian Data: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/other/findcans.htm
• National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
• National Center for Education Statistics: http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/
• CPS Supplement Files at NBER: http://www.nber.org/data/cps.html
• NationalATLAS.gov: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/maplayers.html

Other Publicly Accessible Data

• American National Election Studies: http://www.electionstudies.org
• Pew Research Center: http://pewresearch.org/databank/datasets/
• Chicago Area Geographic Information Study (CAGIS) at UIC: http://www.cagis.uic.edu/
• European Social Survey: http://ess.nsd.uib.no/
• East European Data Archive Network: http://www.gesis.org/en/research/networks/data-infrastructure/edan/
• National Bureau of Economic Research: http://www.nber.org/papers/w15902
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Pages/default.aspx
• International Human Development Indicators: http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/build/