Access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections.
PRRI’s research explores and illuminates America’s changing cultural, religious, and political landscape. PRRI’s mission is to help journalists, scholars, pundits, thought leaders, clergy, and the general public better understand debates on public policy issues, and the important cultural and religious dynamics shaping American society and politics.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. Using the downloaded data requires some basic knowledge of statistical analysis techniques and some familiarity with statistical analysis software packages (SAS, SPSS, Stata).
Disciplines represented include political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, terrorism, health and medical care, early education, education, racial and ethnic minorities, psychology, law, substance abuse and mental health, and more.
The Roper Center archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. iPOLL includes data survey results from academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and many more.
Subject covered include: economic issues; education; elections; health issues; international affairs; news media; personal characteristics, beliefs, and lifestyles; polls and polling; science and technology; social issues; and US defense and foreign policy. Coverage: 1935-present
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Emphasis is on the United States, but some tables cover regions, states, cities, and comparative international statistics. Information is gathered from all agencies of the federal government and from private, commercial, and professional sources. Earlier print editions are located in ASU Reference HA 202 (main floor) or online from the U.S. Census Bureau (1878-2012).
