Specific Data Sets

  • Capital Punishment
    At this site you will find several sets of statistics on the death penalty, garnered from a variety of sources.
  • Government Units Analysis Data, 1960: Urban Racial Disorders, 1961-1968
    From the Data and Program Library Service Archival Data On-line Repository, this file consists of individual riot and riot summary information for civil disorders which occurred between 1961 and 1968 in cities with a 1960 population exceeding 25,000.
  • INTERNATIONAL DATA BASE, FEBRUARY 1990 -
    This link shows the details of the ICPSR Study # 8490.
  • The Legal Information Institute: Cornell Law School.
    Especially the service located on theStatistics on Federal Court Cases page.
  • Morbidity and Mortality
    This gopher menu provides health statistics and AIDS information.
  • Office of Population Research
    This site at Princeton University offers a population index for 1986-1996 that can be searched by author, subject matter, geographical region, and year of publication, as well as a data archive that holds a number of specialized data sets (American and international).
  • Penn World Tables
    Forms based extraction program to retrieve subsets of the PWT dtat, also known as the Summers-Heston data. Data comprise 29 variables and 138 countries, and cover the period 1950-1992.
  • PSID-Panel Study of Income Dynamics
    The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US individuals and the families in which they reside. It has been ongoing since 1968. The data are collected annually, and the data files contain the full span of information collected over the course of the study. PSID data can be used for cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intergenerational analysis and for studying both individuals and families.
  • Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    From the Data and Program Library Service Archival Data On-line Repository, this site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, and English slave trade (House of Lords Survey). There will be six more studies added to this site in the near future.
  • Social Indicators of Development
    This contains the World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development. Data are presented for over 170 economies, omitting only those for which data are inadequate.
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
    Courtesy of ICPSR, the SAMHDA was created to promote research on substance abuse and mental health. A key feature of the site is an online data analysis system that enables users to perform analyses without the need for any particular statistical software. Its current data holdings include the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, the Treatment Episode Data Set, Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth, the National Youth Survey, and the Policy Research on Aging and Mental Health Services, with plans to include at least nine more studies in the future.
  • Trends in Developing Economies
    Trends in Developing Economies (TIDE) provides brief reports on most of the World Bank's borrowing countries. It digests information from national sources and adds staff commentary to explain recent developments for the benefits of readers who are familiar with macroeconomics but not, perhaps, with every country under review.
  • U.S. Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS)
    The geographic boundary files are available for the 5% and 1% Public Use Micro Sample Areas (PUMA). The PUMA boundaries were generated based on equivalency files generated by "Geocorr", the geographic correspondence engine. A national census tract to PUMA geography correspondence file was used in merging the former into the new PUMA geographies. The results are available in 3 standard formats for easy use within desktop geographic information systems. This is a popular site that -- should this one be busy -- can be accessed at:
    http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/plue/geocorr
    http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ulysses
    ftp://ftp.ciesin.org/pub/census FTP site -- a little different from the others
  • World Demographic Trends
    Gopher menu offering information on United Nations World Populaton Estimates & Projections, child mortality rates, fertility, abortion, and AIDS.



  • Population & Global Food Policies

  • Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE)
    University of Wisconsin-Madison -- CDE is a multi-disciplinary faculty research cooperative for social scientific demographic research. Current and planned research activities of CDE focus on population composition and distribution within the United States, especially on changes in family structure and process and social inequality.
  • Children, Youth, Families
    This gopher menu contains statistics, resources for development, journals and newsletters, and research and policy information on children, youth, and families.
  • GCRIO Home Page
    The U.S. Global Change Research & Information Office provides access to data and information on global change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global change related educational resources.
  • Gridded Population of the World
    Population information taken in sections demarcated by latitudinal and longitudinal lines.
  • Indigenous Peoples-bibl./UMN
    This is a gopher menu of information that focuses mainly on forestry, agriculture, economy, and the indigenous communities of Latin America, Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
  • lc marvel-soc
    This is a gopher menu with links to sociology journals, DEVLINE, the International Development Research Center, Relief Net, the Human Rights Gopher, and much much more.
  • Model Visualization and Analysis Service
    Model which uses environmental data to examine the relationship between human activities and global climate change.
  • NativeWeb Home Page
    This site lists enterprises which focus on Native issues, the Native Events Calendar, internet resources on genealogy, and a site dealing with issues of cultural property.
  • Policy Instruments Data Base
    Online searching and browsing of full-text, summaries, and status of treaties, etc. related to global change.
  • Population Census of Indonesia (1971)
    The data file 1971 Population Census of Indonesia contains personal data on the individuals place of birth, age, sex, relationship to head of household, marital status, ethnic origin, religion, language spoken, literacy, educational attainment, migration patterns, number of children born and living, and employment history and present status.
  • Population Organizations: Finder's Guide
    A practical tool for population professionals to use to locate organizations that publish, distribute or post population or family planning documents. Entries include acronyms, the address, and telephone, telex, cable, FAX, institutional Email addresses and any Internet site offering publications information or the publications themselves.
    There is also a gopher site here.
  • Social Indicators of Development
    Contains World Bank data for assessing human welfare and the effects of economic development.
  • Socioeconomic Data & Applications Center
    PUMS access, land use, population, and emissions data; Ulysses Cross Tabulation Engine (login: ulysses).
  • Sustainable Consumption and Production Public Home Page
    Magellan enviromental site of the week. The International Institute for Sustainable Development presents a collection of documentation and links to relevant material on the issue of sustainable production and consumption. Join their virtual policy dialog..
  • UN-Desertification and Drought
    This site features the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa. It includes background information, past and current negotiations, and other desertification resources on the Web.
  • US Demography
    Hypertext links to national data resources, online supporting documentation, extraction tools.
  • WorldBank article-PlunderAgri
    In order to better understand the effects on agriculture of price interventions, a recent World Bank study looked at 18 developing countries over 1960-85. The study came up with a number of findings that question the conventional wisdom regarding the impact of price interventions on agricultural prices, income transfers, growth, the budget, and income distribution.
  • WorldBank-Full Text index
    Search categories of information including: news, World Bank publications, topics in development, countries and regions index, World Bank Group business, and more.
  • WorldBank-OED projects
    This site has project evaluations from Nigeria, the Central African Republic, and Senegal.
  • The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Latin American Studies
    Search various country and subject indices.

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    Last modified: Monday, 16-Mar-1998 15:21:14 CST