Primary Urban Studies Data Sets & Statistics

Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition
The best starting-place for statistical information on the United States, for the colonial era and 1790-2000 (including the Confederate States of America). Presents 37,339 data series on population (i...   [more]

Social Explorer
The Social Explorer produces maps and reports of US Census Tract level data from 1940-2000. Using high quality maps and data, they make available the full contents of the tract data for the United Sta...   [more]
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State of the Cities Data Systems
Also Known as: SOCDS, HUD User
Statistics for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and suburbs. Data include decennial census, current unemployment rates, jobs, business establishments, and average pay, violent crime and ...   [more]
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Important Urban Studies Data Sets & Statistics

1940 Census
National Archives and Record Administration's site for accessing manuscript census schedule from the 1940 census....   [more]
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American Communities Project
Also Known as: Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences
Geographic mapping tools, statistical data, and reports on trends affecting US neighborhoods, cities, and regions regarding population, public schools, public health, crime, elections, economic condit...   [more]
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American Factfinder
Population, geographic, economic and geographic data....   [more]
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Assessing the New Federalism
Also Known as: ANF, Urban Institute, National Survey of America's Families
DATA USE MAY REQUIRE FREE REGISTRATION. Urban Institute research project analyzing the devolution of social programs responsibility from the federal government to state governments. Topics include h...   [more]
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    Publications (by topic)
    National Survey of Americas Families (inc. CrossTabMaker)
    State Database
    Welfare Rules Database
    State TANF Income Calculator

Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation
Also Known as: transtats
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Supplemental URLs
    transstats - provides data for downloading

Circular Area Profiles
Also Known as: CAPS
A tool to aggregate 2000 and 2010 Census data to approximate circular areas using a point location -- latitude and longitude or ZIP Code -- and radius values. Data from Summary File 3, the standard MC...   [more]
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Community Health Data Base - Berks-Lancaster-Schuylkill Household Health Survey microdata
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Community Health Data Base - Online Data Analysis Tool
Also Known as: Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey, CHDB, Community Health Database
USE INTERNET EXPLORER. Online data analysis tool for biennial Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey, 2000-2008 (and 2010 when available), surveying 10,000 households in each wave and repor...   [more]

Community Health Data Base - Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey microdata
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Consolidated Federal Funds Report
Also Known as: CFFR
Federal expenditures or obligations for the following categories: grants, salaries and wages, procurement contracts, direct payments for individuals, other direct payments, direct loans, guaranteed or...   [more]
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County and City Data Book: 2000
Contains official population and housing data from the 2000 Census plus business and other data for all US counties, cities with 25,000 or more inhabitants, and places of 2,500 or more inhabitants....   [more]
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County and City Data Books (1944-2000 editions)
Interactive US Census Bureau historic demographic, social, economic, and industry data on US cities, counties, and states. Produced from CCDB data files by University of Virginia Library...   [more]
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County Health Rankings
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CPS on Web
Also Known as: Unicon, CPS Utilities
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Current Population Survey data, 1962-2001. Provides subsetting and extraction, crosstabulations, regression with supporting statistics, and graphing. Questions are matched ...   [more]
Holdings: 1962-present, monthly surveys.
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Criminology Data and Statistics
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Data.gov
U.S. Government open data. Identifies and links to U.S. federal, state, and local data, tools, and resources....   [more]
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DataFerrett Extraction and Review Tool (U S Census Bureau)
Also Known as: Data Ferrett DataWeb
A tool developed and supported by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in collaboration with the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other statistical agencies. Datasets are from CPS - Current Population Survey, ...   [more]
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Decennials - Census of Population and Housing
Also Known as: Historical census volumes
PDF-format versions of historic US decennial census volumes, 1790 to present. Topics covered include basic counts of population and housing, with race and gender, for the nation, states, counties, tow...   [more]
Holdings: 1790 to present (backfile in progress: 1790-1860, 1990-2000 available)
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EconData
A great first stop for identifying public and private data source on U.S. demographic, economic, social, and other topics....   [more]
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Esri Data and Maps
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Federal Assistance Award Data System
Also Known as: FAADS
Data on all types of financial assistance awards made by Federal agencies to all types of recipients, by quarter. Provides Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) program code number and name, t...   [more]
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FedStats
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies ...   [more]
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Field Poll (also known as California Poll)
Public opinion survey microdata from the leading statewide poll. Provides crosstabulation engine for 4 to 7 polls each year, 1956-2007....   [more]
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GaWC World City Relational Data
Also Known as: Globalization and World Cities study group & network
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HMDA On-Line Reports
Also Known as: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
Information on home mortgage lending activity reported by HMDA depository institutions (banks, savings associations, and credit unions) and nondepository institutions, and mortgage insurance activity ...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    FFIEC Census Reports (Census Tract data supporting HMDA analysis)

Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930
Searchable database of Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index describing 11,000 homicides....   [more]
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ICPSR
Also Known as: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research SIMI Variables
USE OF ICPSR DATA REQUIRES STATISTICAL PROCESSING SOFTWARE AND GZIP DECOMPRESSION SOFTWARE. Direct-download access to social science quantitative data sets archived by ICPSR. Subjects covered includ...   [more]
Holdings: 1962-present.
Supplemental URLs
    ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature
    SDA Online Data Analysis System
    Publications-Related Archive
    SIMI: Site for Instructional Materials and Information
    SSVD: Social Science Variables Database

iPOLL
Also Known as: Roper Center, RPOLL
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Question-level data from public opinion polls. Almost 400,000 questions from polls, 1935 to present, based upon Roper Center-archived surveys with US national adult samples...   [more]
Holdings: 1935 to present. Updated daily.

IPUMS
Also Known as: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, IPUMS-International, IPUMS-USA
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Census microdata from historic national censuses, U.S. and worldwide. Only provides microdata data sets, with data subsetting and extraction, and documentation. Frequency d...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    IPUMS-USA

MABLE/Geocorr 2K Geographic Correspondence Engine
Presents relationships between geographic coverages for the United States, especially for Census 2000. MABLE/Geocorr v3.0 presents 1990 Census and 1980 Census. Geography covered: states, counties, cou...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    MABLE/Geocorr 3.0 (for 1990 Census and 1980 Census geography)

Measure of America: American Human Development Project
The Human Development Index for the United States, providing graphical tools to present data on social and economic development among states and metropolitan areas. Produced by the American Human Deve...   [more]
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Medical Assistance, Food Stamps and Cash Assistance statistics reports (PA Dept of Public Welfare)
Archives of MA-FOOD-STAMPS-AND-CASH-STATS@LISTSERV.DPW.STATE.PA.US. Provides MS Excel tables for monthly data releases from Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. Data releases cover PA counties w...   [more]
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Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project
Provides community indicators for the Nine County Metropolitan Area. Indicators include: arts, health, education, quality of life, taxes, etc. Each indicator includes an essay describing the region an...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    MetroPhilaMapper

National Archives Access to Archival Databases
Also Known as: AAD
Online access to a selection of databases and other highly structured electronic records collections held by the U.S. National Archives. Series include military and defense-related payments to foreign...   [more]
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National Crosswalk Service Center
Also Known as: xwalkcenter, NCSC, ALMIS
Provides concordances, indexes, and tools for comparing different U.S. government-produced occupational classifications and training program classifications. Crosswalks available include SOC or Standa...   [more]
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National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
The NHGIS is a project at the University of Minnesota designed to collect GIS data for the United States at the smallest possible Geographic level. Currently the geographic boundary files include sta...   [more]
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National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
Also Known as: NNIP, Urban Institute
Urban Institute program to facilitate the development of advanced information systems for conditions in U.S. city neighborhoods....   [more]
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openICPSR
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Philadelphia Data and Shapefiles
Philadelphia Census tract data and Shapefiles from 1940-2000. Block group data from 1990-2000. ...   [more]

Philadelphia Vital Statistics Reports
Births, deaths, and fetal death statistics for Philadelphia and for Philadelphia ZIP Codes and census tracts....   [more]
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PhilaDox - Historical Index Info
PDF-format page images for Philadelphia County deed registers. Accessible through DOR Parcel Explorer, which provides Register, Sheet, and Line numbers as parcel identifiers....   [more]
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ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (Online Edition)
Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States....   [more]

Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]

REIS (Regional Economic Information System)
Available in Lippincott Library Only.
The REIS database provides local area economic data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas for 1969-1999. Statistics in the data base...   [more]
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Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Numeric data archive for public opinion polls. Access is mediated through requests from Penn Library to Roper Center. Related online resources include: Roper Center's online catalog of data sets; and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1936-present.
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    Roper Center Interactive Collection Map
    Topics at a Glance (inc. Presidential Approval)
    Roper Center Select Bibliography
    Roper iPoll
    Health Poll Database

Social Science and Government Data Library, University of California Berkeley
Berkeley provides a lookup service, and downloadable data for 1990 census data. Also provides some 1970 files. ...   [more]
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Statistical Abstract of the United States - U.S. Census Bureau
Also Known as: Historical Statistics of the United States ;
The National Data Book. Annual statistics, 1878-present (with seperate volumes covering Colonial Times to 1970), covering population, vital statistics, health and nutrition, education, law enforcement...   [more]
Holdings: 1878-present (backfile in progress)
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TRACfed
Also Known as: TRAC Reports, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Trac Fed, TRAC
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U.S. Census - Research Guide
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U.S. Census Bureau
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UK National Digital Archive of Datasets
Also Known as: NDAD
FREE BUT REQUIRES REGISTRATION. Documentation and data downloading from British central government agencies' data sets preserved by the UK National Archives (formerly Public Records Office). Data sets...   [more]
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UN - Habitat : Global Urban Indicators Database
Also Known as: GUO - Global Urban Observatory ; United Nations Commission on Human Settlements
ACCESS TO GUO DATA REQUIRES MICROSOFT EXCEL AND GZIP DECOMPRESSION SOFTWARE.
UNCHS (Habitat) has developed an indicators system that contains a set of 23 key indicators and nine lists of qu...   [more]
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United States Census Bureau data repository
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Urban Institute Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Summary Data
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UrbanInfo
Also Known as: UN Human Settlements Programme
Interactive data tool providing time series data for cities worldwide....   [more]
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USA Counties
US Census Bureau data for US counties and states. Comparable to County and City Data Book and State and Metropolitan Area Data Book....   [more]
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World Bank Research Datasets
Datasets compiled for World Bank research in agriculture, domestic and household finance, education, environment, globalization, governance, health, population and demography, industry, infrastructure...   [more]
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Related Urban Studies Data Sets & Statistics

Aging Statistics / U.S. Administration on Aging
Includes decennial census Special Tabulation on Aging, Key Indicators of Well Being...   [more]
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Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
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    BJS Data for Analysis
    Publications List

Census 2000 Special Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Tabulation
Also Known as: EEO Data Tool
Serves as the primary external benchmark for comparing the race, ethnicity, and sex composition of an organization's internal workforce, and the analogous external labor market, within a specified geo...   [more]
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    Descriptions and Additional Information

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access
Also Known as: PASDA
The Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access system (PASDA) is Pennsylvania's official geospatial information clearinghouse. Included are Philadelphia municipal, census, and environmental shapefiles, as well ...   [more]
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    Philadelphia City Files

Social Science Electronic Data Library
Also Known as: Sociometrics SSEDL
- from Sociometrics
A numeric data archive providing microdata for research into AIDS/STD, disability in the U.S., the American family, adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy prevention, aging, and maternal drug abuse, ...   [more]

UNdata
The central statistical information service for the United Nations and its affiliates and international partners. Replaces UNSTATS....   [more]
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UNSTATS
Also Known as: United Nations Common Database, UNCDB
Time series statistical information for countries collected from UN and related international governmental organizations. Topics covered include population composition and change; human settlements, h...   [more]
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