Social Science and Geospatial Data Services

Census and Demography

American FactFinder

US Census Bureau, provides tables and maps of all census (1990 & 2000 tracts) geographies to the block level.

County and City Data Book

Wide range of statistical measures for cities, counties, and states in the US. Also available via HOMER.

Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) (UConn Only)

Statistics of the United States, covering population, work and welfare, economics, governance, and international relations. Primary data. Census data starts c1790; some data available from the 1600s; available through 2000 census. 1700s-current.

ICPSR

UConn is a member of of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, allowing students and faculty access to a vast archive of social science datasets for research and instruction.

Poverty, US Census Bureau

Covers poverty thresholds (1980-1998), poverty data from Current Population Report 1958-1998, materials on methodology of poverty calculation, and links to related sites such as Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Current Population Survey (CPS), American Community Survey (APS), Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE).

United Nations statistical databases

Links to: Common Database (UNCDB), Demographic Yearbook system, Distat, the United Nations Disability Statistics Database, Good practices database, InfoNation, Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI), Millennium Indicators Database, National Accounts Main Aggregates Database, Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants, Population and housing censuses: census dates, Population and Vital Statistics on Internet, Social Indicators, Statistics and indicators on women and men.