Data Services: Data Sources by Subjects

U.S. Census - Economics, housing, population demographics

• American Factfinder:  This website provides access to data about the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.  Data includes statistics on population, housing, poverty, income, age, race, sex and education, business and economics.
• DataFerrett: DataFerrett is a data analysis and extraction tool to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements. Using DataFerrett, you can develop an unlimited array of customized spreadsheets that are as versatile and complex as your usage demands then turn those spreadsheets into graphs and maps without any additional software.
• NHGIS: The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2014.
• ATUS: Time use data from the U.S. Census.  Started in 2003, it "provides detailed information about the activities in which respondents engage together with extensive information about the characteristics of those respondents and other members of their households."

Country

• Governments on the WWW:  This site provides access to embassies of foreign nations.
• International Data Base (IDB):  This website provides access to data for countries around the world.  Data includes demographic, economic, social and geographic information.
• Library of Congress Country Studies:  This site provides an indepth view of people, religion, vales on issues.
• NationMaster:  Provides world statistics and country comparisons.  
• Progress of Nations:  A country’s ranking on child health, nutrition, education, and women. 
• Data Finder: International database touching on many topics

World

• U.S. Department of State Background Notes: Provides data on country/s population, government, economy, etc.
• World Factbook (CIA):  Information on geography, population, government, economy, communications, transportation and more.

Criminal Justice

• Bureau of Justice Statistics:  This site provides data on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime and the operation of justices systems at all levels of government.
• Uniform Crime Reporting:  The site provides FBI gathered crime statistics from law enforcement agencies across the Nation that voluntarily participate in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

Economics

• American Factfinder:  This website provides access to data about the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.  Data includes statistics on population, housing, poverty, income, age, race, sex and education, business and economics.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis:  This site provides data from the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Bureau of Labor Statistics:  The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor measures market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics-Ohio: At a glance information about Ohio's economy.
• Key Business Ratios: Dun and Bradstreet's ratios for hundreds of business lines.
• Ohio Labor Market Information: Links to publications about this state's employment.
• Observatory of Economic Complexity: Data and visualization of imports and exports.

Education

• National Center for Education Statistics:  The National Center for Education has the primary federal responsibility for collecting and analyzing U.S. Education data.

Energy

• U.S. Energy Information Administration:  The U.S. Energy Information Administration collects and analyzes data pertaining to energy production, stocks, demand, prices, etc.
• International Atomic Energy Agency Power Reactor Information System:  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) developed the Power Reactor Information System and provides nuclear power reactor statistics to the general public.

Environment

• Climate.gov:  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency site provides scientific data and information about climate.
• Environmental Protection Agency:  This site will provide data and statistics for any geographic location in the U.S.
• National Centers for Environmental Information:  This NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency) site provides climatological data and statistics.

Health

• Medline Plus:  This website provides health data such as the percentage of overweight children, the rate of people catching the flu, the average cost of a procedure and much more.  
• National Center for Health Statistics:  This website provides access to health data such as for life expectancy, death rates or birth rates, etc.  You may also wish to utilize the Mortality Data from the National Vital Statistics System as well.
• Office on Women’s Health:  This site provides health information and data for women.
• Women’s Health Topics:  This U.S. Food and Drug Administration site provide data and statistics on health topics related to women.
• County Health Ratings: U.S. community health data

Labor and Employment

• American Factfinder:  This website provides access to data about the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.  Data includes statistics on population, housing, poverty, income, age, race, sex and education, business and economics.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics:  This website provides data regarding the labor market, working conditions, and inflation in the economy.  This website will also provide access to the Occupational Handbook and information on careers.
• O*NET: descriptions of skills needed for various occupations, job projections.

Medical

• Protein Data Bank: 3-D shapes of proteins and related molecules.
• NIH Data Sharing: list of medical data repositories

Population

• American Factfinder:  This website provides access to data about the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.  Data includes statistics on population, housing, poverty, income, age, race, sex and education, business and economics.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics:  This website provides data regarding the labor market, working conditions, and inflation in the economy.
• Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Counts:  This website will provide historical census data from 1790 population counts to the present.  Some information may not be available for all years.
• International Data Base (IDB):  This website provides access to data for countries around the world.  Data includes demographic, economic, social and geographic information.
• ICPSR: Raw survey results for Political and Social Science research.  See the ICPSR tab for more information

Multiple Subjects

• Figshare: Figures, charts and data from articles and research papers.  Generic, multidisciplinary.
• Dryad Digital Repository: Data underling scientific and medical literature.
• Dataverse: Multi-disciplinary, but most datasets are social sciences or medical.
• Deep Blue Data: U. of Michigan research data repository
• data.gov: Portal to nearly 200,000 U.S. government datasets.  
• DataOne: Ecological data