Data Services in the Bartle Library Reference Department provides numeric data for social science research. For assistance contact Dave Vose, ICPSR Official Representative, (607) 777-4907.
Services include:
The following is a selection of data products available in the Libraries. For assistance locating specific data, please contact the Bartle Library Research Assistance Desk.
ICPSR Data Archive 
(Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Datastream (Access on Internet via workstation by the Research Assistance Desk.)
Great American History Machine on CD-ROM (Located in the Data Services area)
Historical Statistics of the United States (Millennial Edition)
Wistat (Women's Indicators and Statistics) (Located in the Data Services area)
1990 PUMS Utilities
Create customized subsets from the rectangularized 1% PUMS files for the 50
states and the District of Columbia, compute a variety of descriptive statistics
for variables in the data files, and do crosstabulations for user defined
combinations of two or three variables in the data sets. The system will create
the customized subset and prepare it for ftp delivery.
American FactFinder
Create tables or maps and download data from the Census of Population and
Housing, Economic Census, or American Community Survey.
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
(CSES)
"The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
(CSES) is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. Participating countries include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district and macro variables. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis."
IPUMS: Integrated Public Use Microdata
Samples
Contains twenty-five high-precision samples of the American population drawn
from thirteen federal censuses from 1850-1990. Some of these samples have
existed for years, and others were created specifically for this database.
Data FERRET: Federal Electronic Research
and Review Extraction Tool
Data mining and extraction tool that allows you to select and recode variables, develop and customize tables and graphs. Software requires download. See list of available datasets.
StatCat
StatCat (formerly the Social Science Data Archive Catalog) includes information
about numeric datasets in the Yale Social Science Data Archive, as well as
datasets available in the Yale University Library and on the Internet.
EconData (INFORUM)
A source for several hundred thousand economic time series data at the U.S.
National, State/Local, and International levels.
EconData.Net
Links to over 1,000 public, university, and private sources of regional socioeconomic
data.
New York State Data
Center
Provides access to the various statistical series for and about New York State's
economy and population including estimates. Download data as spreadsheet files.
Online Data Archive
Datasets and documentation free to download from the Data and Program Library
Service, University of Wisconsin.
HyperStat Online
An introductory statistics book with other good links by David M. Lane, Rice
University.
StatNotes:
An Online Textbook
An online methods textbook by David Garson, a political science faculty member
at North Carolina State.
Numeric Data Available to the BU Community
Sites for Locating and Downloading Data
Instructional Datasets and On-line Textbooks
