Research Guides: Sociology: Data & Statistics

Data & Statistics

Minnesota Compass
Minnesota Compass is a social indicators project that measures progress in our state, its seven regions, 87 counties and larger cities. Compass tracks trends in topic areas such as education, economy and workforce, health, housing, and public safety.

ICPSR (Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Social Science data archive. Contains data files that are used with statistical packages such as SPSS. N.B. To download data you must create an account. In order to download data from off-campus, you need to have accessed your account from on-campus within the past 6 months. Please contact Whitney Court (wcourt@csbsju.edu) or Bennett Frensko (bfrensko@csbsju.edu) if you need assistance in using this resource.

Pew Research Center
The Pew Internet & American Life Project provides information on the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping America and the world. It produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.
U.S. Census Bureau: Explore Census Data
U.S. Census Bureau (U.S. Department of Commerce)
Provides links to population, housing, economic, and demographic data. Also includes census related news.
U.S. Census Bureau: Data Access Tools
The main page of the U.S. Census with quick links to different data sets.
American Community Survey (U.S. Department of Commerce)
The American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files show the full range of population and housing unit responses collected on individual ACS questionnaires.
UN Data
A data access system to UN databases and national data/statistics agencies.