Guides: Statistics: Social Sciences

Humanities & Social Sciences

National Historical Geographic Information System (IPUMS)
Download census data along with GIS boundary files from 1790 to date. Register for a free account to find and download data you then will use with other applications (Excel, GIS apps, statistical software).
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR is a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences, hosting specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

Kinder Houston Area Survey (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University)
Since 1981, the Kinder Institute has been conducing social attitude surveys. Explore the Issues and Research tabs at the top of the page for data on specific issues.

Association of Religion Data Archives (the ARDA)
International data on religion. Scroll down to see the various surveys or explore the menu tabs at the top of the page.
Data for the Sustainable Development Goals (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
Select Culture for data on the creative arts, trade of cultural goods & services, and the economic impact of culture.
IPUMS-I (Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation)
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.