Sociology Research Guide

To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

ARDA strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world.

ARG makes its National Alcohol Survey datasets available to the public.

U.S Government's open data where you'll find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

A project of NORC at the University of Chicago, with principal funding from the National Science Foundation. Since 1972, the GSS has been monitoring societal change and studying the growing complexity of American society. GSS has been a reliable source of data to help researchers, students, and journalists monitor and explain trends in American behaviors, demographics, and opinions.

Maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

A system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). IPEDS gathers information from every college, university, and technical and vocational institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs.

Associated with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, NLS is a set of surveys designed to gather information at multiple points in time on the labor market activities and other significant life events of several groups of men and women. NLS data have served as an important tool for economists, sociologists, and other researchers for more than fifty years.

Promotes secondary analysis of child abuse and neglect data by providing researchers with high quality datasets, documentation and technical support, and encourages collaboration within the scientific community.

A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.

Curates, stores, preserves, publishes, and enables the download of digital data generated through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences.

Serving as a recent initiative of ICPSR, RCMD grew out of an increasingly expansive and complex interest and research on race and ethnicity. Initially, ICPSR tapped its archives to assemble existing data files that focused upon communities of color. Since the late 1990's, there has been a marked increase in studies and projects on more minorities communities and exploring a wider range of experiences and relationships. The changing demographic composition has expanded the scope of the U.S. racial and ethnic mosaic.

Free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe.