Statistical Data

To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

Amazon Web Services hosts freely accessible big data sets related to science, the Web, 990 filings, and more.

Regional, national, and international industry statistics and data sets.

Data sets from the U.S. Department of Labor.

DASL provides data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find interesting, real-world examples for their students.

Open data repository for the U.S. government. Browse by topic or search for specific data sets.

Thousands of free data sets from the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Economic and demographic data sets and statistics for the European Union.

The Fiscally Standardized Cities (FiSC) database makes it possible to compare local government finances for 150 of the largest U.S. cities across more than 120 categories of revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets.

Economic data sets and information to promote economic education and enhance economic research.

Downloadable data sets and visualizations covering global economic, health, and social statistics.

​​​Since 1972, the GSS has provided politicians, policymakers, and scholars with a clear and unbiased perspective on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spendi​ng priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions.

Google Public Data pulls together data sets from a variety of government and educational organizations.

United Nations Development Programme Human Development Reports includes downloadable data sets and visualizations.

A social science data repository from the Institute for social research from the University of Michigan.

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.

Data sets from the National Bureau of Economic Research on trade, industries, health, and more.

Downloadable public opinion data sets from the Pew Research Center.

The Registry of Research Data Repositories is the largest repository of downloadable data sets. Browse by country, topic, or content type.

Over 20,000 public opinion data sets going back to the 1930s.

A global data repository for the United Nations.

Microdata Library data sets come from surveys of households and businesses, census data, and more.

Global data sets covering the economy, health, poverty, trade, public and private sector, and more.