Data Sets and Statistics Resources

Provides economic information on gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, federal finance, and international statistics.

Includes population statistics, immigration trends, socioeconomic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data, and much more. To get started, create a free personal account.

Offers free access to 60 million statistical records from 24 UN agencies. Searchable by keyword or browse by topic or country.

The official website of The Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Allows access to statistics on a number of employment related subjects.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 countries.

A reference source for historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history from 1790 to the turn of the 21st century.

The Housing Assistance Council's collection of social, economic, and housing characteristics of communities in the United States.

Largest and most comprehensive directory of information about South Carolina on the Internet.

The NSFH was designed to provide a broad range of information on family life to serve as a resource for research across disciplinary perspectives. A considerable amount of life-history information was collected, including: the respondent's family living arrangements in childhood, departures and returns to the parental home, and histories of marriage, cohabitation, education, fertility, and employment.

QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.

Information site for data and reports on economic development and funding resources for rural communities.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) was founded in 1962 for the purpose of acquiring and preserving social science data.

Data resources frequently used by the American Sociological Association in reports, presentations, and for their trend data.

GSS gathers data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes. Hundreds of trends have been tracked since 1972.

Raw data sets from the Pew Research Center