Discovering datasets for statistical research

Discovering datasets for statistical research

On this page you find starting pages with publicy available datasets for statistical research for different fields of study.

General datasets for researchers

General datasets for researchers

This blog offers a handful of useful websites with commonly used datasets for general research.

Data and statistics: Open Data Sets by topic

  • Datasets with the following topics: Agriculture; Chemistry Data & Spectra; Criminal Justice; Demographic-Social; Economic & Financial; Education; Elections & Voting (International); Elections & Voting (U.S.); Energy; Environment; Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/Geotechnology; Geosciences; Health; Labor; Polling Data (US & International); Social Media Data & Stats; Sports; Transportation; Other specialized data sets

Eurostat

  • Datasets about anything and everything European

NCU Research process

  • Searching datasets made easy

OECD.stat

  • Data and metadata for OECD member states and selected non-member states

Pick10chart

  • Datasets with the following subjects: Business and Employment; Crime/Conflict/Drugs; Internet; Finance; Health; Entertainment; Government; Transportation; Weather & Environment; Miscellaneous

R-dir

  • Some really good starting places for further exploration of the free data set you want

Statistical Data Sets

  • Many, many interesting links with emphasis on mathematical research

World Bank Open Data

  • Arguably the most commonly used datasets in the world
Psychology datasets for researchers

Psychology datasets for researchers

This blog presents a selection of starting pages with publicly available social datasets for research. From here, you can visit 1000+ datasets for Psychology research.

APA Links to Data Sets and Repositories

  • 15+ links to datasets and repositories for a large range of subjects

Data World: Psychology

  • 130 datasets available for you (sign in needed)

Psychdata

  • Datasets for the following topics: Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Work, Organizational, and Business Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Personality Psychology, Other Areas

Registry of research data repositories

  • Search a topic you are interested in, sit back and enjoy!

SNHU Psychology Research Guide

  • Information on funding, methods, databases, datasets and repositories to use for your psychological research

UCLA library

  • Several data repositories and sets

More knowledge and assistance for Encountering, Understanding and Applying Statistics

How to get results from data!

Socio-economic datasets for researchers

Socio-economic datasets for researchers

This blog features useful websites with commonly used datasets for socio-economic research.

AMECO database

  • The database contains data for the EU, the euro area, EU Member States, candidate countries and other OECD countries, for a total of over 40 countries

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • The official site of the Federal Reserve includes information about interest rates, monetary policy, and economic indicators for both consumers and financial professionals.

Correlates of War datasets

  • The Correlates of War project collects and disseminates quantitative data in international relations.
  • Contains citations and some full text of articles, monographs, and working papers written by Federal Reserve researchers from 1960 to present.

IDEAS

  • Database of more than 300,000 economics books, articles and working papers, many with downloadable full text.

IMF Publications

  • Searchable database of the IMF's economic reports, country studies, and working papers, most with full text.

Investopedia

  • Investopedia helps you understand complex financial concepts, improve your investing skills, and learn how to manage your money.

OECD Statistics

  • OECD.Stat enables users to search for and extract data from across OECD's many databases.

Pew Research Center

  • Data sets cover media & news, social trends, and Internet & technology.

Transparency International research

  • Free data on corruption

UNdata

  • Offers free access to 60 million statistical records from 24 UN agencies. Searchable by keyword or browse by topic or country.

United Nations iLibrary

  • UN iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations

World Bank Open Data

  • Arguably the most commonly used datasets in the world
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