Library Guides: Social Sciences Datasets and Statistics: Overview

Popular Databases

CEIC Data
Database of macroeconomic time series data. Hesburgh Libraries' subscription consists of these databases: World Trend Plus, Global, Daily, Brazil Premium, India Premium, and China Premium. Topics include national accounts, construction and properties, financial and capital market, labor market, price levels, etc. Restrictions: Access is limited to 10 users at a time. Registration is NOT required.
Global Financial Data
Database of current and historical financial and economic data.
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Data Planet Statistical Datasets
Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are up to 2 billion charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data-Planet repository. Data-Planet Statistical Datasets offers powerful capabilities to compare & contrast multiple data series, perform statistical calculations on the data, and customize output views.
Statista
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

Gallup Analytics
Analyze, visualize, and export data from Gallup's U.S. Daily tracking and World Poll surveys. Does not include access to microdata.
Dave Leip's Atlas of the U.S. Presidential Elections
Highly detailed U.S. general election vote data from Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Hesburgh Libraries' collection contains the following data files:
Presidential (county-level) 1912-2016
Presidential Primaries (county-level) 2000-2016
Senate (county-level) 1990-2016
House of Representatives (county-level) 1992-2016
Gubernatorial (county-level) 1990-2016
Voter Registration/Turnout (county-level) 1992, 1996, 2002-2016
Presidential (state-level) 1824-2012
Village Potential Statistics (PODES)
Village Potential Statistics, or Potensi Desa (PODES) are household surveys on village/desa characteristics in Indonesia. Available waves: 2011, 2014.
United Nations International Trade Statistics Database (UN COMTRADE)
Annual international trade statistics provided by over 200 countries to the United Nations, detailed by commodity and partner country. All values are converted into US dollars and metric units. Coverage dates as far back as 1962.

The Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship has a wide range of software on its machines, including RStudio, Stata, SAS, SPSS, Stat/Transfer, and ArcGIS. CDS also offers a range of services.

The Office of Information Technologies maintains a comprehensive list of Windows and Mac software available in campus computing clusters and/or for download.

For advanced computing resources, check out the Center for Research Computing.

Online guides are available for Stata, GIS, text mining, and LaTeX.