ECON Honors 2301/2302 Statistical Resources

A wealth of historical and current population, health, business, education statistics and more. For historical census data, begin at the History page and explore.

Search all open U.S. government datasets by keyword, browse by topic and topic categories from the left menu, or use the map to search for datasets for a particular area or location.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research archive for valuable government data resources.

"... captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. Beginning in 2008, the EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012 and 2016."

From the National Center for Educational Statistics, a list of other government agencies that collect statistics.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, this survey is conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) in even years to provide a non-biased view of public opinion on a variety of policy issues and public confidence in U.S. institutions.

Publishes surveys on many current issues and social trends, including impact of media and advertising. Browse their index or search.

Search U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state, and local government web resources and services or use the specific links by department listed to right.

An easy to use table to discover statistics on population, trade, energy, and employment for United Nations member countries.

Searchable database brings together 32 databases with data on population, labor, energy, economics, and more for United Nations member countries.

Find the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Gapminder brings together data gathered from international sources on health, the environment, infrastructure and employment. Search for international statistics on a variety of indicators. Go to the Tools menu to see bubble charts on selected indicators, then How to Use to see help videos and get a link to download the free software for making your own visualizations. "GapMinder [Foundation] is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious, or economic affiliations."

Census and survey data for 98 countries as of July 2020; some data is available for as far back as the 1960s. Register to create a free account that will allow you to download specific data based on criteria you set and use it in other applications.

Explore data sets, micro data or geospatial data by country or by type. Scroll down to see what countries are included.

Portal to Texas state information. Use the Find It link to the right of the screen to browse or search for specific agencies.

Explore "everything Texas" in the current edition or download any edition from 1857 to the present; includes geography, environment, climate, elections, history and more.

This central data hub is under development. Future plans include adding more data from various Texas departments.