Leading up to the annual release of new datasets, the Census Bureau publishes a schedule, notes about new estimates or new guidance, and technical information about geography and product changes.
The Census Bureau provides poverty data from several household surveys and programs. Here you can find poverty estimates, learn about these surveys and programs, and get guidance on how to choose the right estimate for your needs.
SIPP collects data and measures change for topics including: economic well-being, family dynamics, education, assets, health insurance, childcare, and food security.
The U.S. Census Bureau terminated the collection of data for the Statistical Compendia program effective October 1, 2011. The Statistical Compendia program is comprised of the Statistical Abstract of the United States and its supplemental products—the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book. To access the most current data, please refer to the organizations cited in the source notes for each table of the Statistical Abstract.
These sources of data include the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations.
Using information collected through various monitoring and reporting systems, the Children's Bureau analyzes and reports data on a variety of topics, including adoption, foster care, and child abuse and neglect.
CESSDA provides large-scale, integrated and sustainable data services to the social sciences. It brings together social science data archives across Europe, with the aim of promoting the results of social science research and supporting national and international research and cooperation.
The United Nations Statistics Division collects, compiles and disseminates official demographic and social statistics on a wide range of topics. Data have been collected since 1948 through a set of questionnaires dispatched annually to over 230 national statistical offices and have been published in the Demographic Yearbook collection. The Demographic Yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce, as well as respective rates, on an annual basis. The Demographic Yearbook census datasets cover a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing characteristics, ethnicity, language, foreign-born and foreign population.
A University of Chicago site, the General Social Survey (GSS) studies the growing complexity of American society. It is the only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States.
Data presented here were used in the preparation of the 2020 Human Development Report “The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene", released on 15 December 2020. The Human Development Report Office releases five composite indices each year: the Human Development Index (HDI), the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
The National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) series was designed and carried out at the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the aim of providing improved understanding of both the structure and functioning of American families in order to overcome the limitations of previously available data on family structure, family process, and family relationships.
The Forum's annual report, America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, provides the Nation with a summary of national indicators of child well-being and monitors changes in these indicators over time.
The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets.
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. Study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community context.
The Odum Institute Data Archive is home to one of the largest catalogs of social science research data in the U.S. that includes the Harris Polls, North Carolina Vital Statistics, and the most complete collection of 1970s U.S. Census data.
Since 2006, state and federal agencies, research institutes, foundations, and universities have used the Enclave to securely house and provide remote access to confidential data. Enclave-based research informs a wide spectrum of public and private sector decision-making, as well as journal articles, books, position papers, conference presentations, dissertations, etc. At any given time, the Enclave supports over 1000 researchers via contracts and grants with a wide variety of government, academic, nonprofit, and commercial clients.
Site describes how to get an account in the NORC Data Enclave. Requires a .edu or .gov email extension.
Researchers who wish to access the Making Connections Cross-site Survey data are invited to submit application materials including:
1. Brief (1-2 page) project description covering:
Relevance of the project to the AnnieE.Casey Foundation’s mission of improving outcomes for disadvantaged children, families, and communities
Questions to be addressed in the research project
Intended audience and initial products(e.g.dissertation,journal article,report,book chapter,etc).
Timeline for completion of the project
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Graduate Students only: Faculty sponsor contact information
The open source web application designed for sharing, preserving and using research data. UCLA Dataverse will allow data, text, software, scripts, data visualizations, etc., created from research projects at UCLA to be made publicly available, widely discoverable, linkable, and ultimately, reusable.
Replaces the University of Virginia's Historical Census Browser site.
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides easy access to summary tables and time series of population, housing, agriculture, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for years from 1790 through the present and for all levels of U.S. census geography, including states, counties, tracts, and blocks.
The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets.
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. Study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community context.
