PUBPOL 807: MPP Master's Projects

Finding Statistics (Michigan State) - excellent overview outlining strategies for locating datasets and statistical facts.

Data and Statistics Research Guides (Michigan State) - collection of datasets organized by academic field.  Many are only available to MSU students, but search our site to see if we do as well.

Center for Data and Visualization Sciences, Duke University - get help finding data sources from the library.

• Census Data and Mapping Resources - A comparison of licensed census data and mapping services.
• Data.gov - data collections generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government
• FRED - 41,000 Time Series covering a diverse range of economic, demographic, social indicators from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• IPUMS CPS - The IPUMS-CPS site provides harmonized data and extensive documentation on changes in the Current Population Survey over time.
• IPUMS USA - The IPUMS-USA provides harmonized microdata from the US Census.
• Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
• Quality of Government (QoG) Data -  A collection of data sets covering economic, political, and social issues related to the quality of government.
• WHO Global Health Observatory - Data on health topics around the world.

• IMF E-Library (includes IFS, DOTS, GFS, and BOPS)
• iPoll @ Roper Center
• OECD iLibrary
• SimplyAnalytics
• Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
• World Bank Data Catalog

• ICPSR- a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)- broad selection of economic and policy data with statistical programs
• Odum Institute for Research in Social Science

• ESRI Data and Maps
• GeoLytics Neighborhood Change Database - use Internet Explorer, cd is available on reserve under "Neighborhood Change".
• National Historic Geographic Information System
• SimplyAnalytics
• Social Explorer

• The Quick Guide to Data Citation
• Data Management Guide (Duke)- Advice on planning a data project and/or completing a data management plan.