Primary Communication 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]

Important Communication Data Sets & Statistics

AAM Media Intelligence Center (formerly ABC E-Statements Historical)
Also Known as: ABC E-Statements Historical
current and historical ABC publication member reports, including Audit Reports, Publisher's Statements, ABC Interactive Audit Reports, Insert Verification Service Reports (IVS), Supplemental Data Repo...   [more]
Holdings: 1996-current for Periodicals and 1997-current for Newspapers.
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American National Election Studies
Also Known as: ANES National Election Studies NES
Time series data from surveys conducted during U.S. presidential and congressional election years, 1948-present....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    ANES data sets and codebooks (via ICPSRdirect)
    SDA interface to ANES 2000 data (crosstabs, subsetting, extracts)
    NES Bibliography
    NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
    ANES data sets and codebooks (alternative via ICPSRdirect)

Arab Barometer
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Unrestricted Access

CivicLEADS : Civic Learning, Engagement, & Action Data Sharing
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Community Health Data Base - Berks-Lancaster-Schuylkill Household Health Survey microdata
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Unrestricted Access

Community Health Data Base - Centre County Household Health Survey microdata
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Unrestricted Access

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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Unrestricted Access

Council of European Social Science Data Archives
An umbrella organization for social science data archives across Europe....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Catalog

Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive
Also Known as: CPANDA
Interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. Includes data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    SDA Online Analysis
    Search Survey Questions

Data.gov
U.S. Government open data. Identifies and links to U.S. federal, state, and local data, tools, and resources....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

DevInfo
USE INTERNET EXPLORER. UN time series data tool, providing interactive interface to specific national, regional, and global project data. Regions covered include: India, Palestinian Authority, Zimbabw...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    DevInfo 6.0 (2011)

Eagleton Poll Archive
Public opinion survey data and questionnaires from quarterly statewide polls of New Jersey residents, 1971-present....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Esri Data and Maps
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Unrestricted Access

FACTS : Firearm Safety among Children and Teens
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Unrestricted Access

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]
Unrestricted Access

Gallup World Poll Reference Tool
Requires free registration. Searchable database of variables in Gallup World Poll. Provides QTAP (variable ID), question text, valid question responses, countries asked and years asked within a countr...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

General Social Survey
Also Known as: GSS
Omnibus personal interview survey of U.S. households, conducted almost annually....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Quick download: GSS 1972-2010 datasets (Roper Express)
    GSS Bibliography
    GSS 1972-2010 Quick Tables (with charts) (Berkeley SDA Archive)
    NORC Official GSS Site
    Extracting Data from the GSS into SPSS

GESIS
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Unrestricted Access

Harvard Dataverse Network
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Unrestricted Access

Health Indicators Warehouse
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Unrestricted Access

Health Poll Search
Searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues, including abortion, alcohol an drugs, bioterrorism and biological weapons, political campaigns, elections, leaders and health, children...   [more]
Holdings: 1935-present.
Unrestricted Access

HMCA : Health and Medical Care Archive
Also Known as: HMCA ICPSR
USE OF HMCA DATA MAY REQUIRE STATISTICAL PROCESSING SOFTWARE AND GZIP DECOMPRESSION SOFTWARE. Direct-download access to quantitative data sets archived by ICPSR on U.S. health care providers, health ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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.

Latin American Public Opinion Project
Also Known as: AmericasBarometer
Surveys of citizens of Latin America on their political views - specifically on democratic values and their behaviors related to democracy. Topics covered include the extent to which women may be excl...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    LAPOP data analysis and crosstabs

NADAC : National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture
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Unrestricted Access

National Annenberg Election Survey
Also Known as: NAES
Reports from public opinion survey conducted daily during presidential election campaigns in 2000 and 2004 in a rolling cross-section design....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

National Women's Health Indicators Database
Produced by the Office of Women's Health and the National Women's Health Information Center. National, regional, state and county data are available by gender, race, ethnicity, and age. You can make ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Odum Institute Data Archive
Also Known as: Harris Polls
Social science data archive, with holdings in economic, electoral, demographic, financial, health, and public opinion data. Repository for the Harris Polls. Also maintains the Public Opinion Poll Ques...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Public Opinion Poll Question Database

OECD iLibrary
Also Known as: Source OECD, SourceOECD
Publications and statistical information from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) covering agriculture and food, education and skills, emerging economies and transition e...   [more]

Open Doors
Information on international students in the US and worldwide. Since UPenn is a member of IIE, students, faculty, and staff may request an individual, temporary password from IIE. Send email to membe...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Peristats
Maternal and infant health data, covering US, states, counties, and cities. Produced by March of Dimes....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Pew Internet and American Life Project
Survey data sets and reports on the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Downloadable data sets

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Also Known as: News Interest Index, Pew Global Attitudes Project
Research center polling public attentiveness to major political and public policy issues and to the media. Includes cross-national Pew Global Attitudes Project. News Interest Index polls Americans on ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Pew Center survey data sets (free downloading)
    News Interest Index -- most closely watched news stories of the decade
    Pew Global Attitudes Project

Political Forecasting Special Interest Group
Also Known as: PollyVote, politicalforecasting.com
Public opinion poll summaries and analysis. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Polling the Nations
Primary data, fulltext for approximately 250,000 individual questions and aggregated responses, often cross tabulated by respondent characteristics, compiled from public opinion surveys. Topics cove...   [more]

Project Atlas: Resources for Mental Health
WHO reports and statistics on mental health worldwide, produced by Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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.
Supplemental URLs
    Roper Center Interactive Collection Map
    Topics at a Glance (inc. Presidential Approval)
    Roper Center Select Bibliography
    Roper iPoll
    Health Poll Database

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]

State Health Facts Online
Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online. This resource contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and s...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
Also Known as: SAMHDA ICPSR
USE OF SAMHDA DATA MAY REQUIRE STATISTICAL PROCESSING SOFTWARE AND GZIP DECOMPRESSION SOFTWARE. Direct-download access and online data analysis for quantitative data sets archived by ICPSR on substan...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

TRACfed
Also Known as: TRAC Reports, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Trac Fed, TRAC
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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]
Unrestricted Access

UrbanInfo
Also Known as: UN Human Settlements Programme
Interactive data tool providing time series data for cities worldwide....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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]
Unrestricted Access

World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators
Also Known as: ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
Contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975-present for almost 200 sets of telecommunication/ICT statistics covering telephone network size, mobile services, Intern...   [more]

World Values Survey
Also Known as: WVS
Cross-national survey, 1981 to present, on basic values and beliefs of national societies....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    WVS data (via ICPSR)
    Online analysis tool (SDA interface via UMich Library NSDS)

Worldwide Governance Indicators (World Bank)
Aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the past decade, for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Vi...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Related Communication Data Sets & Statistics

American Factfinder
Population, geographic, economic and geographic data....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

ARDA - Association of Religion Data Archives
The Association of Religion Data Archive collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion. The ARDA was established to meet four goals: preservation of data, improved access to data,...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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]
Unrestricted Access

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Also Known as: HCUPnet
Provides aggregate national statistics and trends and selected state statistics about hospital stays, using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), and the...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

NACDA : National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
Also Known as: NACDA ICPSR
USE OF NACDA DATA MAY REQUIRE STATISTICAL PROCESSING SOFTWARE AND GZIP DECOMPRESSION SOFTWARE. Direct-download access and online data analysis for quantitative data sets archived by ICPSR on aging an...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Also Known as: NACJD ICPSR
USE OF NACJD DATA MAY REQUIRE STATISTICAL PROCESSING SOFTWARE AND GZIP DECOMPRESSION SOFTWARE. Direct-download access and online data analysis for quantitative data sets archived by ICPSR on U.S. and...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

UNdata
The central statistical information service for the United Nations and its affiliates and international partners. Replaces UNSTATS....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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]
Unrestricted Access

World Development Indicators
Also Known as: World Bank WDI Online
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financi...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
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