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"Data Citation Index provides access to research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world. Through linked content and summary information, this data is displayed within the broader context of the scholarly research, enabling users to gain perspective that is lost when data sets or repositories are viewed in isolation. These connections allow researchers to access an array of data across subjects and regions."
ProQuest Statistical Insight
ProQuest Statistical Insight indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980, and international agencies since 1983. The UCF Library has the full text of some reports in print or microfiche formats.
Statistics Sources
Statistics Sources
Call Number: Reference HA36 .S84 [Shelved at Research Assistance Desk]
"This easy-to-use alphabetically arranged dictionary serves as a guide to current sources of factual quantitative information on more than 20,000 specific subjects, incorporating almost 100,000 citations and more than 2,000 sources."
"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"
ICPSR Data Archive
provides access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data, including
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. UCF is a member institution.
"a relational database of over 400,000 public and private bills introduced in the U.S. House and Senate since 1947...organized in a format that facilitates quantitative studies, and also includes detailed information about each bill's sponsor."
"The Correlates of State Policy Project includes more than seven-hundred variables, with observations across the U.S. 50 states and time (1900 – 2016). These variables represent policy outputs or political, social, or economic factors that may influence policy differences across the states."
"Data collections include sociological surveys, election studies, longitudinal studies, opinion polls, and census data. Among the materials are international and European data such as the European Social Survey, the Eurobarometers, and the International Social Survey Programme."
links to several hundred "Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more"
Most of the data sets listed are free. If an R! appears after a source it means that the data are already in R format or there exist R commands for directly importing the data from R.
Categories of Data: Data Science -- Economics -- Finance -- Government -- Health Care -- Machine Learning -- Networks -- Public Domain Collections -- Science -- Social Sciences -- Time Series -- Universities -- Microsoft R Server .XDF Datasets
"an open source application to publish, share, reference, extract and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows to replicate others work."
"contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings."
"include surveys of health care professionals and organizations, investigations of access to medical care, surveys on substance abuse, and evaluations of innovative programs for the delivery of health care"
"provides interested researchers with access to the original data sets generated by PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUD median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population."
"an integrated set of data from 50 years (1962-2011) of the March Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly U.S. household survey conducted jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
"an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research."
"consists of more than fifty high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys"
JEDI for evidence-based education (link broken as of 4/28/14)
"an educational data archive service that collects, preserves, and distributes empirical data for academic, educational and governmental administrative purposes."
"Inside Kaggle you’ll find all the code & data you need to do your data science work. Use over 19,000 public datasets and 200,000 public notebooks to conquer any analysis in no time."
"a static research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries that was maintained through 2003."
"acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research, processing as needed to promote effective research use, disseminates them to researchers, and facilitates their use"
"Publications: The Bibliography of Data-related Literature is a continuously-updated database of thousands of citations of works using data held in the ICPSR and NACDA archive. The works include journal articles, books, book chapters, government and agency reports, working papers, dissertations, conference papers, meeting presentations, unpublished manuscripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and audiovisual materials."
"The mission of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is to facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data."
Publications - Online Bibliography of Data-related Literature: "contains over 37,000 citations of published and unpublished works resulting from analyses of data held in the ICPSR archive. Publications include journal articles, books, book chapters, government and agency reports, working papers, dissertations, conference papers, meeting presentations, and unpublished manuscripts."
"collects and organizes data from various archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public policy outcomes since the Second World War."
"promotes the access and use of SAMHSA's substance abuse and mental health data by providing public-use data files and documentation for download and online analysis tools to support a better understanding of this critical area of public health"
"the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world. The Project facilitates understanding the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states. We comb the extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174 countries. Our Database expands daily, and access to it is free of charge."