A Treasure Trove of Data: Key Agencies/Surveys

A few examples of major originators of statistical data.

• Census https://www.census.gov/
  
  
  • American FactFinder http://factfinder2.census.gov/  Selected Post-2000 Census Bureau Surveys (Decennial, ACS, Economic Census, ASM, etc.)
    
    
  • FTP site (not well publicized) http://www2.census.gov/ ASCII tables of selected Census data, some back to 1960s.
    
    
• Current Population Survey (CPS) http://www.census.gov/cps/ or http://www.bls.gov/cps/
  Can also access CPS data from several of the interfaces mentioned above.
  
  
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/  See the listings under Surveys and Data Collection Systems and Data Access.
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) http://nces.ed.gov/datatools/
  
  
• Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program: Public Use microdata from Cornell
  http://www2.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/data/qwi-public-use-data/
  
  
• Other LEHD data (Census Bureau): http://lehd.did.census.gov/data/ Including restricted-use data