D'Amour Library: Statistics & Data Sources: Government Docs, Stats, & Data

Data & Statistics

This LibGuide is directed to Western New England University students interested in accessing data and statistical sets. Some of the resources will require a University affiliated library login and password for off-campus access.

Find Data and Statistics by thinking about who would collect them.

Data Set Index

Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
"An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community."
Kaggle
Index to data sets in many different subjects. Also includes tutorials on data skills and educational competitions.
Machine Learning Datasets
Open source, high quality datasets to use in machine learning. Includes images.
Re3data
A registry of research data repositories.
UK Data
UK public data sets. Also includes modules on Data Skills.
US Data
Data sets within the US government

Data Software Tools

Social Explorer
Census mapping software...some open source data set mapping

Data Journals

Big Data & Society

Freedom of Information

FOIA requests

Governmental Statistics and Data Sources

Crime Statistics
Produced by the Department of Justice.
Massachusetts Department of Education
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
"The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education." Includes lists of public and private schools.
National Center for Health Statistics
From the Centers for Disease Control. Health statistics and disease prevalence data.
National Center for Juvenile Justice
The National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), located in Pittsburgh, PA. is the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and is the oldest juvenile justice research group in the United States, having conducted national and sub national studies on crime and delinquency since 1973.
National Center of Juvenile Justice: Easy Access to FBI Arrest Statistics
National Science Foundation
U.S. Census
U.S. Census: Quarterly Selected Services (QSS)
Quarterly reports on selected Service Industries that update the 1-year Annual Reports and 5-year Economic Census.
Uniform Crime Reporting (By FBI)
"The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the nation. The program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet the need for reliable uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics."

ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
"ProQuest Congressional provides access to legislative and regulatory information from the United States government. Users can search the full text of Congressional reports, documents, prints, bills; find Congressional testimony (1985-present); and track bills as they move through the House and Senate." Users can also search the CIS Legislative Histories (1969/1970-present), and the full-text of the U.S. Serial Set (1789-1969).
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista provides "direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets." Access to industry overviews, company reports, and statistics, charts and infographics.
USA.gov This link opens in a new window
Online guide to government services, information and data.

International Statistics & Data

National Bureau of Statistics of China
Access to abundant data from China
International Statistics
Country statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
UNICEF
Country statistics from UNICEF.
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
"The United Nations Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system. We compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries' efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems."
World Development Indicators
World Development Indicators. Produced by the World Bank indicates GNI, Education, Poverty, access to clean water, etc. by country
World Health Organization (WHO)
International public health advocacy and information.