Social Science Resources

General Reference Pages:

  • Centre for Applied Social Surveys - Question Bank
    The Question Bank is a reference source for question formats and wordings used on major social surveys, provides supporting material on concepts and methodology, and aims to disseminate knowledge about survey data collection methods to achieve comparability of results.
  • CERN/ANU - Demography & Population Studies WWW VL
  • Contents of EconData
    This page lists the "G data banks" that are currently available from EconData. They are divided into three broad categories: A) USNational; B) StateLocal; and C) International. The data is raw and in .zip format.
  • Data on the Net
    Courtesy of the University of California at San Diego, you can search or browse their collection of 726 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
  • Duke guide to Statistics servers
    A fairly comprehensive guide to online statistics resources from Duke University, Department of Statistics.
  • "InfoPower Pages by Larry"
    "Larry" is a librarian at Clarkson. These resources are arranged by subject.
  • The Institute for Professional Education
    This is the Resampling Stats home page, a source for information about statistics in general and resampling methods in particular. This is a collection of pages on statistics worth looking at.
  • International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology
    IASSIST is an organization dedicated to the issues and concerns of data librarians, data archivists, data producers, and data users. This unique professional association assists members in their support of social science research. Contact Paula Lackie to get at the data.
  • ICPSR
    The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. Contact Paula Lackie in ACNS for Carleton College association information and data acquisition.
  • Numeric Data for UN Information at Yale University
    The Social Science Data Archive at Yale University holds numerous datasets on international relations, economic and social indicators, and military expenditures.
  • PennState-Population Research Institute
    A general description of the Institute. Good sources leading to International data sources, among others.
  • POPIN Gopher Server
    POPIN consists of interrelated and interdependent networks of population institutions in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Northern America. The global POPIN Coordinating Unit is located in the United Nations Population Division of the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis.
  • Qualidata
    ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre. This site provides information relating to the work of QUALIDATA and also provides links to other social science research resources. Check out their on-line catalogue QUALICAT.
  • Resources for Economists
    A great place to begin for general Economics resources.
  • StatLib
    Stalib is a large collection of software, datasets and other information. It has a particularly large archive of S code. It is also a system for distributing statistical software and datasets.
  • Virtual Library - Demography & Population Studies WWW VL
    A Magellan 4 star site with an extensive listing of links!
  • World Bank socio-economic data
    Interactive access to the World Bank socio-economic data: 126 countries, 117 indicators, covering 1960-1986.

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    Last modified: Monday, 16-Mar-1998 15:20:51 CST