Secondary Data Sources

US Data

Census

Demographics, population counts, housing information, occupation, income and wealth, religion, education

Controversies with Census:

• Race (U.S.)
• Same-sex (Canada)
• Sample:

• Missed 1000’s of people (homeless, low income, immigrants, minorities)
• Politics of sampling (political agendas)

ICPSR

NORC and the General Social Survey

• Attitudes, beliefs, values, behaviors about just about every topic a social scientist would study. 

• GSS International Social Survey Program: Australia, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland

Area Resource File

North Carolina

North Carolina Dept of Environment and Natural Resources

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

North Carolina Center for Health Statistics

State Bureau of Investigation

Health

National Institutes of Health

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

Center for Disease Control

National Center for Health Statistics

Crime and Deviance

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

National Institute of Justice

Department of Justice

Bureau of Justice Statistics

FBI

World Data

World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators

World Population Data

UNICEF

World Bank

United Nations

World Health Organization