Olin Library Research Guides: Sociology: Find Data

Find Data and Statistics

To help understand a topic, you will need to find relevant data. The links on this page are a good place to start your search.

We also have created two additional research guides specifically to help you with finding data and creating visualizations based on that information.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

An international consortium of more than 810 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
Roper Center iPoll

Roper iPoll is a collection of poll data anywhere—from 1935 to present. Contains data from U.S. and international polling firms with broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is the leading educational facility in the field of public opinion.

Pew Research Center
According to their website, "Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research." Data sets cover media & news, social trends, and Internet & technology.
Data.gov
Home to the U.S. government's open data. Users have access to 85,000 data sets.