Sociology Resource Guide

Immensely helpful. Guided and advanced and basic search capabilities. Can limit search retrieval to data sets. Provides statistics from the Economic Census, the American Community Survey, and the 2010 Census, among others. 2013 estimates provided.

Browse its data archive on world religions using online features for generating national profiles, GIS maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other reports

Provides labor and price related statistics including unemployment figures and the Consumer Price Index.

User friendly access to reports on Census data

Interactive data sets by state, by county, by school district. Downloadable sets. Mapping.

Gallery portraying historical changes in the growth and redistribution of the U.S. population as well as other data collected through the US Census.

Easy Stats gives you quick and easy access to selected statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau through the American Community Survey.

Site includes the latest report, as well as fact sheets and interactive maps

Link to a variety of reports as well as data sets

To view the links to data files for each study, you must register and agree to terms of use.

This site provides links to over 100 United States government agencies which produce statistics. It is possible to search by topics, to look within individual agencies, and to search other ways.

Summaries of reports, studies and summary data charts and graphs. No data sets.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides weekly statistics on selected notifiable diseases in the United States and U.S. territories. Click on Weekly Report then on Current Volume to see the current issues

"OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money's influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you're a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use our free site to shine light on your government."

Nonpartisan organization that surveys the public about the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the world, including public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis, and other data-driven social science research. Some datasets available - must set up a free account.

Summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Data is drawn from both government and private sources.

Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the US, including 1400+ individually indexed tables (with attached spreadsheets), both searchable and browsable.

Independent nonpartisan analysis of the problems facing America's cities and their residents including colorful map-based displays of data

Click on "Country" (twice) and choose letter "U" to get to United States.

Data and reports on myriad public health issues

Link to reports on a variety of topics related to victims of crimes, such as children, the elderly, etc

Link to a variety of reports and data regarding education in the US

statistical office of the European Union

literacy rates,education, population, water supply