Research Guides: Data Resources & Tools: Find Data

Multidisciplinary Data Resources

State Statistics
Contains datasets covering critical social science statistics for the U.S., states, counties, cities, ZIP Codes, and Census Tracts. Access through the Oxy VPN when off campus.

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
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.

Explore and search ICPSR data by discipline.

IPUMS
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge.
General Social Survey
Contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings.
Google Dataset Search
Google's dataset search engine enables users to search 25 million publicly available datasets. The search tool includes filters to limit results, and the results include the dataset description and citation.
Pew Research Center: Datasets

U.S. Census Bureau

Leading source of up-to-date demographic data about the United States people and economy.

World Bank
Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
YouGov
Online polling platform founded in 2000.