GCDS Libraries: Upper School Library: Free Data Sets for Research

Political Science/Public Policy

Demographics

Business and Economics

Consumer Expenditure Surveys microdata
National Bureau of Economic Research data
National Longitudinal Surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Panel Study of Income Dynamics
International industrial development
(manufacturing, mining, utilities, etc.) data from the United Nations (UNIDO)

Health

Biologic Specimen and Data Repository Information Coordinating Center (bioLINCC)
Demographic and Health Surveys
Mainly countries of the Global South
Global Health Observatory data repository
From the World Heath Organization
ICPSR Health and Medical Care Archive
ICPSR National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program
National Center for Health Statistics Public Use Data Files
From the U.S. CDC
Missouri Information for Community Assessment (MICA) health datasets
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
National Cancer Institute SEER data
TBI Endpoints Development (TED) Initiative
Traumatic Brain Injury

Psychology

Brick, Cameron, Laura Botzet, Cory Costello, Anatolia Batruch, Ruben C Arslan, Melissa Kline Struhl, Nicolas Sommet, et al. 2019. “Directory of Free, Open Psychological Datasets.” OSF, July. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/TH8EW.

Science

DataONE
Earth and environmental data
EPA Environmental dataset gateway
TBI Endpoints Development (TED) Initiative
Traumatic Brain Injury
OpenNeuro
A free and open platform for validating and sharing BIDS-compliant MRI, PET, MEG, EEG, and iEEG data
Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS)
Neuroimaging data sets of the brain
multiBrain
A list of brain imaging databases with multiple (e.g., more than 3) scans per subject

Sociology

General Social Survey
National Longitudinal Surveys
US Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Survey of Households and Families
Pew Internet & Technology
World Values Survey
Mapping Inequality

Upper School Library