The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.

U.S. Government’s open data. "Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more."

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES is located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences.

Downloadable public-use data files through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) FTP file server. Users of this service have access to data sets, documentation, and questionnaires from NCHS surveys and data collection systems.

The library does not subscribe to Gallup, but its public website has articles summarizing the results of recent, selected polling data. Older polls available in print. See below.

Call Number: HN 90 .P8 G35 (2nd floor)
Dates available: 1935-2017

An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion.

Public opinion data from polls conducted by major U.S. and international polling organizations, including broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and more. NOTE: For information about appropriate and restricted use of iPoll data, please see The Roper Center's terms and conditions.

To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. NOTE: To download the data, you must register with the site.

The CCES is a 50,000+ person national stratified sample survey administered by YouGov.

"...institutional and electoral results data such as measures of checks and balances, tenure and stability of the government, identification of party affiliation and ideology, and fragmentation of opposition and government parties in the legislature, among others. The current version of the database, which is now hosted at the IDB, expands its coverage to about 180 countries for 40 years, 1975-2017."

Social science data. An open-source repository software application for archiving, sharing, and accessing research data.

​​​Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has provided politicians, policymakers, and scholars with a clear and unbiased perspective on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spendi​ng priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions.

1962 - present. Provides access to an archive of raw social science data for research and instruction. Electronic access to ICPSR is funded by the College of Arts and Sciences. You must create an account here in order to access the data. All questions about ICPSR should be directed to the campus Official Representative for ICPSR, Dr. Ann Beutel, Department of Sociology.

Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape is a partnership between Democracy Fund Voter Study Group and UCLA Political Scientists Chris Tausanovitch and Lynn Vavreck and is one of the largest public opinion survey projects ever conducted — interviewing people in nearly every county, congressional district, and mid-sized U.S. city in the leadup to the 2020 election. Nationscape is fielded by Lucid, a market research platform that provides access to authentic, targeted audiences.

Digital tools and resources to access Pew Research Center data

PolicyMap is an interactive online data and mapping tool that contains thousands of indicators used to understand communities. Regularly updated indicators include demographics, real estate, health, jobs, housing, crime, quality of life, education, socio-economic factors, and much more. Data sources include the Census Bureau, Social Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security, and CDC BRFSS. Data is available at many geographic entities including census tract, zip code, city, state, school districts, and political boundaries.

SDA is a set of programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data.

Create thematic maps using Simmons Insights' demographic, business, marketing, and health data. Includes consumer behavior data. Faculty, staff and students are not required to log-in with a user name and password, however, their work will not be saved using this method which is located at the bottom of the Sign In section - "Sign in as a guest."

The Center has five objectives: to monitor trends in poverty and inequality, to support scientific analysis of poverty and inequality, to develop science-based policy on poverty and inequality, to disseminate data and research on poverty and inequality, and to train the next generation of scholars, policy analysts, and politicians. Check the "Data" drop-down menu at the top of the home page for datasets.

The data shared here derive from the VOTER Survey (Views of the Electorate Research Survey) starting in 2016 and weekly Democracy Fund and UCLA Nationscape surveys spanning July 2019 to December 2020. These data form the basis for Voter Study Group analysis and reporting and are available for use by other scholars and journalists interested in engaging the public in meaningful conversations.

The International IDEA Voter Turnout Website contains the most comprehensive global collection of voter turnout statistics available. Regularly updated voter turnout figures for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945, as well as European Parliament elections, are presented country by country using both the number of registered voters and voting age population (VAP) as indicators.

This database provides access to over 2,000 World Development Indicators (WDI) from the World Bank data sets covering over 200 countries.

The World Values Survey is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars, with the WVS association and secretariat headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.