Statistical and Data Resources

The mission of the BJS is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. There is both annual and periodic reporting of data.

The UCR Program collects statistics for violent crime (murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) and property crime (burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft). By congressional mandate, arson was added as the eight Part 1 offense category in 1979. Arson statistics are not included in this tool. By using the table-building tool, users can specify offenses, locality (city, state), and year(s).
Includes a table building tool.

The 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. Provides data on public and private schools, school districts, colleges and universities and public libraries.

A part of NCES, IPEDS is the primary source for data on colleges and universities.

The purpose of this project is to improve the accuracy of statistical software by providing reference datasets with certified computational results that enable the objective evaluation of statistical software. Useful for testing statistical software and learning statistical methods.

U.S. Energy Information Agency provides data on consumption, prices and expenditures for fuel by state 1960-2008.

The Gender Data Portal is the World Bank Group’s comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency.

​​​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.

Annual report from the World Economic Forum with country-by-country listings for numerous indicators.

Guide maintained by Drexel University professor, Dr. Randall Sell. Very good coverage of major data sources in LGBT research.

Facts and figures about the LGBT community from Williams Institute policy analysts and social scientists.

Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers. Data included in the ARDA are submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world. It is currently housed at Pennsylvania State University.

The Pew Forum conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research on important aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world. It also provides a neutral venue for discussions of timely issues through roundtables and briefings. Data is presented on issues, by denomination or by geographic region.

CPANDA, is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. It is a collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. It includes datasets representing all forms of the arts.