Social Policy & Practice

Social science data sets from academic and government organizations. ICPSR offers thematic collections, including Integrated Fertility Survey Series, and Data Sharing for Demographic Research. HINT! Look for the "analyze online" filter ... but remember that you'll be creating tables directly from microdata.

Search for social, behavioral, and health related datasets

Search through over 300,000 datasets provided by the US government and use their online tools for data projects. (Open Data)

Provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. (Requires Registration)

Easy to access maps and tables from 1790-2010 census, plus American Community Survey through 2015. Downloadable in Excel, CSV, SPSS, SAS, and Stata file formats.

UK’s largest collection of social, economic and population data resources

Provides access to statistical time-series data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.

All DHS datasets are free to download and use. To download datasets, you must complete a short registration form. (Supported by USAID)

National public opinion datasets and datasets from North Carolina and other states. Hosted by UNC Chapel Hill.

Repository for quantitative and qualitative research data at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science

A catalog of open data in the Philadelphia region.

Use of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey (SEPA HHS), as well as through tailored tabulation and analysis of other population-level datasets, such as Pennsylvania Vital Statistics and the US Census

The Enterprise Data Dissemination Informatics Exchange (EDDIE) is an interactive health statistics dissemination web tool with datasets

Gathers data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes.

Seek out national crime and justice data from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

A set of surveys designed to gather information at multiple points in time on the labor market activities and other significant life events of several groups of men and women.

A longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-95 school year.

This dataset seeks to explore the state of social capital in the United States

US Census Bureau's LEHD program produces new, cost effective, public-use information combining federal, state and Census Bureau data on employers and employees

Questions from U.S. nationwide polls, 1935-present. Includes many Gallup polls. Links out to RoperEXPRESS to download microdata for individual polls and to RoperExplorer to create on-the-fly crosstabulations.

Provides access to nearly a century of U.S. data and a decade of global tracking data from the Gallup World Poll.

Contains polls taken on a variety of subjects all over the world

Use various data layers and data points to find trends in certain parts of the country.

Easy to access maps and tables from 1790-2010 census, plus American Community Survey through 2015. Downloadable in Excel, CSV, SPSS, SAS, and Stata file formats.

The Opportunity Atlas is an initial release of social mobility data, the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University.

Mapping tool that incorporates demographic, business, health, and marketing data.