Social Science and Geospatial Data Services

Public Policy

American FactFinder

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

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).

Regional Economic Accounts, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Includes State & Local Personal Income, Gross State Product (GSP), Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II), BEA's Regional FACT Sheet (BEARFACTS).

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion, mostly from the US. The data held range from the 1930s, to the present.

Roper Center Public Opinion Archives

Roper Center Public Opinion Archives provides access to nearly 8,000 US nationwide public opinion surveys, and nearly as many studies from other countries. The University of Connecticut community has access to the Roper Center's iPOLL online database, a public survey database organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on surveys since 1935 and updated daily. Many more survey datasets can be downloaded in their entirety through RoperExpress.

STAT-USA

Current U.S. and international business, economic, and trade statistics from the Department of Commerce.

U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics

Employment, earnings, occupation & consumer spending statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Labor