Datasets for Research Projects

Explore data by topic, place, or economic accounts.

"The interactive application makes it easier to access and use our statistics by providing a common look and feel...."

Broken down by topic or source, this will help you analyze statistics.

All Data Collections, or use the left-hand links to select by topic.

A number of sources for gathering data.

Use the drop-down menus to find data and show on map, if desired.

Uses a single search box. Be sure to follow the instructions under the search box!

Find information by geographic region, topic, year, survey, etc. Consider using the Advanced Search to apply desired filters.

There are many options for finding data, so you may want to view these "Data Gems".

"Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has been monitoring societal change and studying the growing complexity of American society. GSS Data Explorer, from NORC at the University of Chicago, makes it easier than ever to use the data collected by the GSS."

This is the home page for the EconData service of Inforum, at the University of Maryland. Several thousand economic time series, produced by a number of U.S. Government agencies and distributed in a variety of formats and media, can be found here. Data has been put into a standard, highly efficient, easy-to-use form for personal computers and made publicly available through this site. These series include national income and product accounts (NIPA), labor statistics, price indices, current business indicators, and industrial production. The EconData Contents page contains a more complete list of the series covered. The EconData Archive page contains U.S., State and Local, and International databanks that have not been updated for several years. These series are all in the form of banks for the G regression and model building program.

The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to an extensive collection of downloadable data. For a list of health-related datasets,

From Michigan's Open Data Portal

From Michigan's Open Data Portal

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United States census mircodata sets with census data back to 1790.

General data from the Social Security Administration

"USA Spending tracks federal spending to ensure taxpayers can see how their money is being used in communities across America. Various datasets are available.