Criminology, Law & Society: DATA

"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.

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."

"The coronavirus pandemic has spread rapidly across California. Experts say the true number of people infected is unknown and likely much higher than official tallies.To better understand the spread of the virus, The Times is conducting an independent, continuous survey of dozens of local health agencies across the state."

Daily information shares from UCI on COVID-19.

Coronavirus Updates for the UCI Community: UCI is closely monitoring the coronavirus ("COVID-19") situation and associated communications from the county, state and federal authorities. We will continue to provide updates through this website and email communications, and take steps to ensure the health and safety of our community.

"The University of California is vigilantly monitoring and responding to new information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which has been declared a global health emergency."

The State of California government clearinghouse for COVID-19 information.

"The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) works to protect the public's health in the Golden State and helps shape positive health outcomes for individuals, families and communities. The Department's programs and services, implemented in collaboration with local health departments and state, federal and private partners, touch the lives of every Californian and visitor to the state 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

CDC's platform for COVID-19 related information. Major headings include How to protect yourself, What to do if you are sick, Symptoms, Cases in the U.S., Healthcare and Public Health, CDC Guidance, Keeping communities safe, Latest [Daily] Updates, and more.

A federal government information clearinghouse site maintained by CDC, the White House, and FEMA. Includes specific resources for travelers, households, pregnant women & children, people who are sick, small business owners, schools, businesses, healthcare professionals, health departments, laboratories, emergency management. Updates on cases of coronavirus in the U.S. and latest COVID-19 news.

Selected databases and journals to help researchers find scholarly articles about COVID-19 (2019 Novel Coronavirus).

"A Free, Open Resource for the Global Research Community: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a free resource of over 45,000 scholarly articles, including over 33,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community."

The Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library is collecting COVID-19 (2019 Novel Coronavirus) research articles and compiling them into an easily accessible and downloadable database to help researchers find the latest COVID-19 research.This database is updated by systematically searching various bibliographic databases and hand searching selected grey literature sources.

Below are selected secondary data and statistics sources to help researchers find data on COVID-19 (2019 Novel Coronavirus). Materials listed in these guides are selected to provide awareness of quality public health literature and resources.

"ECDC is an EU agency aimed at strengthening Europe's defences against infectious diseases. The core functions cover a wide spectrum of activities: surveillance, epidemic intelligence, response, scientific advice, microbiology, preparedness, public health training, international relations, health communication, and the scientific journal Eurosurveillance."

Database compiled by the National Library of Medicine from COVID-19 articles in PubMed: "LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to 2431 (and growing) relevant articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access."

"CSSE takes a multidisciplinary approach to modeling, understanding, and optimizing systems of local, national, and global importance. These include medicine, health care delivery, national infrastructure, information security, disaster response, and education."

A graphical demonstration of global disease dispersion. "The Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is a cooperative of faculty and technologists working to advance the existing body of computing knowledge and expertise at UCLA."

"Contributing to a global effort. What are the impacts and consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on our lives and our societies – and what are some of the solutions we can find to boost our healthcare systems, secure our businesses, maintain our jobs and education, and stabilise financial markets and economies?"

"The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis"--Publisher's brochure

The USA.gov mission is to "create and organize timely, needed government information and services and make them accessible anytime, anywhere, via your channel of choice." Includes index headings like "Government Response to Coronavirus, COVID-19," "What is the Federal Government Doing in Response to COVID-19?" "Travel, Immigration, and Transportation," "Money and Taxes," "Education," "Scams and Fraud," "Benefits and Grants," "Housing," "Voting and Elections," "Courts," and more.

"WHO is gathering the latest scientific findings and knowledge on COVID-19 and compiling it in a database. WHO updates the database daily from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searches of the table of contents of relevant journals, and the addition of other relevant scientific articles that come to our attention. The entries in the database may not be exhaustive and new research will be added regularly... The WHO database is searchable by author, key word (title, author, journal), journal, or by general topic."

"WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. WHO's goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being." This WHO site collects and disseminates global data and information resources related to the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

"Established in 1962, ICPSR is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. We acquire, preserve, and distribute original research data and provide training in its analysis. We also offer access to publications based on our data holdings."

"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

See also this earlier data page: Data.

Roper Center collects, preserves, disseminates public opinion data."

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.

"Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 700,000+ questions and responses, from 18,000+ surveys and 1,700+ polling organizations, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world."

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."

"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."