Research Guides: Sociology -- Statistics and Data Sets: Statistics & Public Opinion Databases

Contents --- Statistics and Public Opinion Databases

General Statistics Databases

American Statistics Index
Collects data from most major statistical and research U.S. government agencies.
Langsam REF Z1223.Z7 A5
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Replaced but not superceded by the ProQuest Statistical Data Set.
Record date: 1/5/2012
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets provides access to an extensive repository of standardized and structured statistical data. The Data-Planet repository contains more than 6.2 billion data setss from more than 70 source organizations. The over two billion time series in Data-Planet provides immediate access to data presented in charts, maps, graphs, and table form, via multiple points of entry. There are up to 2 billion charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data-Planet repository. All of the data have been standardized and structured, and described with up to 37 fields of metadata, including a controlled vocabulary.
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Data can be viewed, compared and analyzed. Data sets are accessible via an easy to use expandable contents menu and via a simple search box. Data sets available covering the following period: 1909 to the present.

Record date: 7/2/2018
Data-Planet User Guides
Provides nearly 300 guides with information about how to find statistics in hundreds of areas.
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Record Date: 7/2/2018
Data-Planet website
This site provides information and access to hundreds of Date-Planet statistics guides.
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Record date: 11/4/2019
DataFinder | U.S. and World Data by The Population Reference Bureau
The U.S. data comes from the Census Bureau's decennial census, the American Community Survey, and population estimates. The international data comes from Population Reference Bureau data sheets and reports compiled by PRB staff, primarily using national surveys.
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Record date: 11/4/2019
Global Road Warrior
Though Global Road Warrior is not a statistics database, it does provide a wealth of factual and statistical information about the countries of the world.
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Record date: 12/20/2011
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
A search of the NCJRS Web site includes more than 3,500 Full Text Publications, more than 210,000 summaries of publications from the NCJRS Abstracts Database, related links, over 500 questions and answers from the NCJRS knowledge base, conferences, and Federal Justice Web pages including the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and National Institute of Corrections. Many of these publications contain substantive statistical information.
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NCJRS hosts one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world, the NCJRS Abstracts Database. The collection, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present, contains more than 210,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.

The abstracts include the title, author, sponsoring agency, purchasing address, and journal citation, as well as a 100- to 200-word summary of the document's contents. Keyword and index term searches of the database are easy. With the search capabilities offered, you can quickly retrieve all the citations relevant to your question or area of interest.
Record date: 12/13/2011

Sage Stats - see Data-Planet
SimplyAnalytics (formerly SimplyMap)
SimplyAnalytics (formerly SimplyMap) is a web-based mapping application to create professional quality, interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of U.S. demographic, business, and marketing variables. Select, sort, and compare data across multiple geographic locations and create custom reports exportable to spreadsheets. First time users must create an account to login.

UNdata
Access point to hundreds of United Nations statistical databases and official country databases. UNdata includes the International Homicide database.
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Record date: 11/4/2019

Public Opinion Databases

Atlas of European values: Trends and traditions at the turn of the century (print resource)
Study, begun in 1980, of values and beliefs in Europe. Includes around 130 maps with data for 27 European countries. Data reflects attitudes toward citizenship, family life, religion, society, work and well-being.
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Record date: 11/7/2019
European Public Opinion
This is the website for the Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission.
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Record date: 11/18/2019
Harris Vault
From Harris Interactive, the internet-based successor to Louis Harris Associates (provider of the Harris Poll). Provides reports of the Harris polls. Also -- See iPOLL
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Record date: 4/25/2018

iPOLL
iPOLL is a comprehensive¸ up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion. A full-text retrieval system¸ the iPoll online database is organized at the question level¸ providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys¸ 1935 to present. Surveys archived in the Roper Catalog were originally gathered by academic¸ commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization¸ Harris Interactive¸ Pew Research Associates¸ and many more.
Coverage: 1935 to present

Polling the Nations
Polling the Nations is a comprehensive collection of public opinion, with information from the United States and also more than 100 countries around the world. The database includes the full text of the questions and responses covering 5,000 topics and issues.
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Record date: 6/11/2012
PollingReport.Com
This site provides a compilation of public opinion polls from a wide variety of sources.
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Record date: 6/21/2012
Roper Center for Public Opinion
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research maintains an archive of data from polls and surveys conducted by major survey organizations for use by researchers, students, and journalists. The service includes a searchable database and browsing access.
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Record date: 1/30/2020
Roper Center for Public Opinion -- iPoll
Access to the Roper collection of public opinion polls at the "Question" level.
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Record date: 10/23/2013