Research Guides: Finding Data & Statistics: Home

General Resources

The Reference Guide to Data Sources by Julia Bauder
ISBN: 9780838919637
Publication Date: 2014
This concise sourcebook takes the guesswork out of locating the best sources of data. Subjects covered include agriculture, the earth sciences, economics, energy, political science, transportation, and many more.

How to Cite Data

Credit

Guide organization and content has been informed by several examples from other libraries:

Data and Statistics in Bunch Library Databases

For a quick list of the database that include data in Bunch Library, click here.

Bunch Library Research Guides: Data and Statistics by Subject

These Research Guides include a tab with data and statistical sources specific to this discipline that are available through the library or on the web.

Machine-Readable Data

Datasets from ICPSR can be used with statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata.

*Some free data sources on the second tab of this guide also contain machine-readable datasets.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
An international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.

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