Economic
- Census Bureau Economic StatisticsEconomic Census, Economic Indicators and other economic programs
- Economagic (personal subscription required)This personal subscription service provides access to data files, many of which are freely available by going directly to the source agency or organization.
Economic Indicators
- Center for Economic Forecasting & Analysis (CEFA) (Florida State University)"The FSU Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis (CEFA) specializes in conducting economic research and performing economic analyses to examine public policy issues across a spectrum of research areas. CEFA provides advanced research and training in energy, aerospace, environmental economics, and economic development, among other areas."
- Economic Indicators (U.S. Government Publishing Office) (1995+)"Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly publication is prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers for the Joint Economic Committee. It provides economic information on gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, Federal finance, and international statistics."
- Financial Forecast Center"The Financial Forecast Center is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the understanding of the complex, dynamic systems that are the global financial markets and economies."
Health
- Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) This link opens in a new window"NIF offers a Discovery Portal: An innovative semantically-enhanced search engine of the largest collection of neuroscience information that allows users to customize and refine their searches via NIF's terminologies."
Psychological
- Databrary This link opens in a new window"The Databrary Project aims to promote data sharing, archiving, and reuse among researchers who study human development. The project focuses on creating tools for scientists to store, manage, preserve, analyze, and share video and related data."
Public Policy
- Explore Census Data (U.S. Census) This link opens in a new windowprovides current & historical Census data
- Data.gov This link opens in a new window"public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government"
"includes searchable data catalogs providing access to data in three ways: through the "raw" data catalog, the tool catalog and the geodata catalog" - UNdata (United Nations) This link opens in a new window"The numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators."
- World Development Indicators (World Bank) (1960+) This link opens in a new window"provides a comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960."
Sociological
- Data Resources on Sociology as a Profession (American Sociological Association)This site provides links to NSF’s WebCASPAR: Integrated Science and Engineering Resources Data System, NSF’s SESTAT: Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System, National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences’ DAS: Data Analysis System, and National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences IPEDS Data Center
- ICPSR Data Archive (Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research) This link opens in a new window"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."
UCF is an ICPSR member, so faculty, students, and staff may create an account to deposit or download data sets. - Pew Research Center This link opens in a new window"Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions."