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Publicly Available Data Sets / Data Repositories

Data.Census.Gov
US Census Bureau is the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. Data.Census.gov is the Bureau's newest data portal.
APA compilation of data sets
A list of publicly available data sets and repositories compiled by the American Psychological Association.
re3data.org
Global registry of research data repositories that covers repositories from different academic disciplines. Search or browse by discipline.
Data.World - Psychology
Data sets tagged "Psychology" on data.world, an open platform for sharing and finding data sets. Search by keyword to locate all sorts of datasets in Data.World.
LGBT Data
LGBTData services as an open-access clearinghouse for the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data and measures. Knowledgeable analysis, commentary, and expert "how to" information on gather similar data effectively is also provided. Links to data sets and reports are also provided.
National Drug Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program
The National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program acquires, preserves and disseminates data relevant to drug addiction and HIV research. The scope of the data housed at NAHDAP covers a wide range of legal and illicit drugs (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, synthetic drugs, and others) and the trajectories, patterns, and consequences of drug use as well as related predictors and outcomes. By preserving and making available an easily accessible library of electronic data on drug addiction and HIV infection in the United States, NAHDAP offers scholars the opportunity to conduct secondary analysis on major issues of social and behavioral sciences and public policy.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Religion scholars and research centers from around the world have submitted data into the ARDA. This interactive data repository allows you to explore high quality data on American and international religion. Over 450 surveys and other data collections are available for online preview and almost all can be downloaded free of charge. Additional tools allow you to create national profiles, GIS maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and many other reports.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) archives and disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. The archive contains data from over 2,600 curated studies or statistical data series. NACJD is home to several large-scale and well known datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).
UNC Dataverse, hosted by the Odom Institute
The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) collaborates with the Harvard University Library and Harvard University Information Technology organization to make the installation of the Harvard Dataverse openly available to researchers and data collectors worldwide from all disciplines, to deposit data.
Child Care and Early Education Research Connection
Promoting high-quality research and informing policy through free access to thousands of publications and datasets
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, located at Cornell University, is one of the world’s leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys. The Center’s mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate public opinion data; to serve as a resource to help improve the practice of survey research; and to broaden the understanding of public opinion through the use of survey data in the United States and abroad. Founded in 1947, the Roper Center holds data ranging from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Its collection now includes over 23,000 datasets and adds hundreds more each year.
Data Archiving and Networked Services
The collection includes datasets from the Humanities, e.g. History and Archaeology, Social sciences, and Geospatial sciences, primarily with a European focus. DANS is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
UK Data Archive
UK Data Archive acquires, curates and provides access to the UK's largest collection of social and economic data.

Data Resources available via UNT Libraries

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ICPSR
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. An international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields
IPoll databank
iPoll Databank Contains over half a million of U.S. national public opinion surveys in a variety of topics. Includes questions and answers from over 150 survey organizations. Dates of Coverage: last 70+ years
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Topic areas include population demographics, vital statistics, education, law enforcement, elections, federal/state/local government finances and employment, national security and veterans affairs, social insurance and human services, labor force, poverty and wealth, business enterprise, science and technology, agriculture and natural resources, energy and utilities, construction and housing, manufactures, wholesale and retail trade, transportation, information and communications, banking and finance, arts and recreation, accommodation and food services, foreign commerce and aid, Puerto Rico and the island areas, and international statistics. Dates of Coverage: 1878 (with some data back to 1789)–2012.
Social Explorer
Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical census data and demographic information. The easy-to-use Web interface lets users create maps and reports to better illustrate, analyze, and understand demography and social change. In addition to being a comprehensive data resource, Social Explorer also offers features and tools to meet the needs of both demography experts and novices. To learn more about Social Explorer, visit http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/aboutus/home.aspx.

SOWK 5403: Social Work Research Methods: Find Data

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