General Data Sources

Data Collections @ Hamline

ICPSR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

Bush Library has a subscription to this collection of social science data sets. Click on the blue i icon to see a list of the topics included in this product. All users must Log In/Create Account in the upper left corner to access the full product. All accounts must be created on campus. Off campus access is possible IF the user has logged in from a campus computer once during a semester.
HU Institutional Data

Hamline's Office of Institutional Research and Assessment houses the data files about Hamline's student enrollment, demographics and other basic data, including NSSE results.

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What's Included Here

The Data Sources @ Hamline page highlights Bush Library's subscription products, as well as free data sources available to our student and faculty researchers.

Only sources which include interactive data query applications and tools, such as data libraries and external database management systems which are accessed through a server, are listed on this guide.

Researchers seeking pre-packaged statistics may be able to locate those on our other research guides, in the library catalog, and through general internet searching. For assistance, contact the Bush Library Reference Desk

DataBib
DataBib is a searchable directory/catalog/registry of research data repositories.
Data.gov: Empowering People

Machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government of the United States.
United States Census Bureau

The leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. 9 different data tools are available, depending on the data sources accessed.
International Statistical Agencies
Links to central statistical offices in countries around the world and three datasets: International Data Base, HIV/AIDS Surveillance, and Global Population Mapping.
The World Bank's World Databank
Contains extensive collections of time series data on education, gender, health nutrition, population, poverty, inequality, development, financial statistics and business regulations. The World Bank currently has three different APIs to provide access to different data sets.
Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online

This UN data source presents current economic and social statistics for more than 200 countries and territories of the world.
OECD.Stat Statistics from the OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. This subscription product offers some free data sets.
IPUMS USA: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS-USA) consists of more than fifty high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2010. IPUMS data also includes harmonized income and occupation variables.
City-Data.com
Limited query tool, with a broad range of selected data and interesting profiles about selected US cities.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Centre
The Data Centre contains over 1,000 types of indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication.