Criminology, Law & Society: DATA

ACS provides annual data about demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics of the United States (US) population.

"The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing."

"The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the nation's premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services."

"The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is the nation's largest state health survey and a critical source of data on Californians as well as on the state's various racial and ethnic groups."

"The Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) program provides data on expenditures, income, and demographic characteristics of consumers in the United States. The CE program provides these data in tables, databases, news releases, reports, and public-use microdata files."

"The Current Population Survey (CPS), sponsored jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), is the primary source of labor force statistics for the population of the United States."

"The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program includes three longitudinal studies that examine child development, school readiness, and early school experiences."

An index online to 105 so called data "systems." This is an extraordinarily helpful directory of crucial data platforms.

"Study of Current and Former Vegetarians and Vegans. There are no restrictions on using these datasets outside of crediting that any findings are based on a study that was designed and carried out by Faunalytics."

"Proper citation ensures that research data can be: discovered; reused; replicated for verification; credited for recognition; and tracked to measure usage and impact... Citing data is straightforward. Each citation must include the basic elements that allow a unique dataset to be identified over time: Title, Author, Date, Version, Persistent identifier (such as the Digital Object Identifier, Uniform Resource Name URN, or Handle System)."

"Citing datasets used in published research is just as important as citing journal articles, books, and other sources that contributed to the research. By citing your use of a dataset, you are supporting the reproducibility of your research and attributing credit to those who provided the data-including datasets that you have created yourself. Citations also allow for tracking reuse and measuring impact."

"The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is an internationally-recognised centre of expertise in digital curation with a focus on building capability and skills for research data management. The DCC provides expert advice and practical help to research organisations wanting to store, manage, protect and share digital research data."

"Whether you’re a "numbers person" or not, if you’re a psychology student or an early-career psychologist, you may find yourself doing some data mining. Psychologists are increasingly encouraged to provide their data online for other researchers to use and analyze. And big-data psychologist is one of the hot new jobs in the industry. Because big data is a big deal, you’ll want to know how to cite a data set."

"Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful...

Mission Statement: "ICPSR advances and expands social and behavioral research, acting as a global leader in data stewardship and providing rich data resources and responsive educational opportunities for present and future generations."

"Access data through products and tools including data visualizations, mobile apps, interactive web apps and other software."

"The Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research was founded in 1981. Our mission is to anticipate and support the evolving computational and data needs of Cornell social scientists and economists throughout the entire research process and data life cycle."

"Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships."

Data.gov is managed and hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration, Technology Transformation Service.

Search or browse by country or geographic entity, or by reports (Country Report, Country Commerce, or Country Finance).

Online analysis for this important survey

This is a database of time-series data, now migrated to the Web without the need to download Webstract application. To access this database, click on DataInsight-Web on left menu. Time-series data from many international agencies. User Manual.

See also this earlier data page: Data.

"The mission of the Roper Center is to collect, preserve, and disseminate public opinion data; to serve as a resource to help improve the practice of survey research; and to broaden the understanding of public opinion through the use of survey data in the United States and around the world."

MeasuringWorth is a service for calculating relative worth over time of: several factors including ...

Harvard-based data archive covering a variety of social science subjects

Datasets used by researchers at the NBER

An index online to over 100 so called data "systems." This is an extraordinarily helpful directory of crucial data platforms.

Click on Statistics tab for links to data series etc.

Click on Search tab.

Access to tabular statistics across countries and topics.

The Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) is a health and social science resource that consists of data sets from six topically-focused collections.

Part of World DataBank from the World Bank: Statistical tables on development from countries around the world, from World Bank. Includes: More than 550 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to the current year.

"ICPSR advances and expands social and behavioral research, acting as a global leader in data stewardship and providing rich data resources and responsive educational opportunities for present and future generations."

"Institutional open ICPSR is a research data-sharing service developed to meet the needs of universities, journals, research centers, and departments. We offer a fully-hosted, economical, professionally-run, and trusted research data repository that demonstrates the research impact of your organization."

ICPSR studies are discoverable by browse and keyword search. Studies are sorted in several useful ways including "most downloaded". Users can browse by Topic, Series, Thematic data collection, or Global data.

The ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature is a continuously-updated database of thousands of citations of works using data held in the ICPSR archive. The works include journal articles, books, book chapters, government and agency reports, working papers, dissertations, conference papers, meeting presentations, unpublished manuscripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and audiovisual materials.

"ICPSR's Data-Driven Learning Guides can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. In order to be useful to the widest audience, the focal topics are drawn from concepts that are included in standard introductory-level social science textbooks. New guides will continually be added and topic areas expanded. An Instructors Guide to DDLGs is also available."

"ICPSR welcomes and encourages deposits of digital data. Deposits are made using a secure Data Deposit Form to describe the data collection and upload content. You will need a MyData account to create, access, and authenticate your deposit."

FAQ index answers questions about login/password, restricted data, and member-only data, questions or issues specific to statistical software (SAS, SPSS, Stata, R), questions or specific concerns related to the download process, questions related to discovery of information via the ICPSR search engine and other finding aids, and all other general questions about data and documentation.

"RCMD is a recent initiative of ICPSR. The changing demographic composition has expanded the scope of the U.S. racial and ethnic mosaic. As a result, interest and research on race and ethnicity has become more complex and expansive. Initially, ICPSR tapped its archives to assemble existing data files that focused upon communities of color. Since the late 1990's, there has been a marked increase in studies and projects on more minorities communities and exploring a wider range of experiences and relationships. RCMD seeks to assist in the public dissemination and preservation of quality data to generate more "good science" for years to come. Finally, RCMD wants to be part of an interactive community of persons interested and be involved in minority related issues/investigations in order to make possible the broadest scope of research endeavors and examinations."

"The vast majority of ICPSR data holdings are public-use files with no restrictions on access beyond ICPSR's standard Terms of Use. However, in some cases ICPSR provides access for vetted researchers and sponsor-supervised students to restricted-use data versions that retain confidential or sensitive data. We do this by imposing strict legal and electronic requirements for off-site access, or on-site access in a physical data enclave."

"ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) has a number of video presentations on YouTube that address a variety of topics including step by step instructions on using and troubleshooting set-up files and creating a MyData account, and learning about some of the archives housed at ICPSR, such as RCMD and Research Connections or using ICPSR resources in your classroom, such as Inquiry-Based Learning."

"Institutional open ICPSR is a research data-sharing service developed to meet the needs of universities, journals, research centers, and departments. We offer a fully-hosted, economical, professionally-run, and trusted research data repository that demonstrates the research impact of your organization."

ICPSR partners with several federal statistical agencies and foundations to create collections organized around specific topics. These thematic collections bring a dynamism to ICPSR from which the broader social science research community benefits. The sponsors provide new data (in most cases free to everyone), which stimulate more research. The funded collections and ICPSR work together to build additional infrastructure for data discovery and use.