Sometimes you may need a simple (or complex!) data set or piece of quantitative information. Often, you don't need to dig through peer-reviewed articles to find this information—it is collected in databases like the ones listed below.
Datasets, tables, and calculators on inflation and prices (such as the CPI – Consumer Price Index), employment and unemployment, pay and benefits, spending and time use, productivity, workplace injuries, and occupational requirements. Focuses on US national data but also has regional and international data.
Repository of standardized and structured statistical data, data points, and time series; presented in charts, maps, graphs, and table form, via multiple points of entry.
Data and statistics related to education, from the U.S. Department of Education. Primary focus is on United States but also includes data from other countries.
Comprehensive summary statistics on the United States from U.S. federal and state agencies and a number of other sources, with citations to sources for full statistical and data sets.
Print copies are available in Olin Library Stacks at call number HA 202.
Indexes and abstracts the content of selected U.S. government publications, state government publications, business and association publications, and intergovernmental publications for statistics.
Archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. 1930s-current
A standard core of demographic and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings.
