Statistical and Data Resources

A database with hundreds of variables for the US and the world.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg.

Search the U.S. Census Bureau's collection of international data and statistics.

The NSFH was designed to provide a broad range of information on family life to serve as a resource for research across disciplinary perspectives. A considerable amount of life-history information was collected, including: the respondent's family living arrangements in childhood, departures and returns to the parental home, and histories of marriage, cohabitation, education, fertility, and employment. Interviews were conducted in 1987-88, 1992-94, and 2001-2003.

The SDA Archive includes such datasets as the General Social Survey, the American National Election Survey, Current Population Survey, National Health Interview Survey, US and California Census Microdata, the 1998 Dutch Prejudice Survey, the 1997 Chicago African American Survey, the Italian Prejudice Survey and the 1986 Bay Area Race and Politics Survey.

A source for demographic data with lots of tools for visualizing, compiling, and sharing data.

WONDER (Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research) allows researchers to access statistical research data published by CDC, as well as reference materials, reports and guidelines on health-related topics, and query numeric data sets on CDC's computers, via "fill-in-the blank" web pages. Public-use data sets about mortality (deaths), cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, vaccinations, natality (births), census data and many other topics are available for query, and the requested data are readily summarized and analyzed, with dynamically calculated statistics, charts and maps.

The World Health Organization's gateway to health-related statistics for its 194 member countries.

A longitutdinal study of health, retirement and aging sponsored by the National Institute of Aging and housed at the University of Michigan that examines studies the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow. Registration in required to download data.

An annual report on the state of health statistics from the Centers for Disease Control.

NCHS is the nation’s principle health statistics agency.

Includes statistics on the prevalence, treatment, and costs of mental disorders for the population of the United States, in addition to information about possible consequences of mental illnesses, such as suicide and disability.

Examines national health systems from 1960 forward for OECD member countries in a general, demographic, economic, and social context

The Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts database contains detailed health-related information for all 50 states. Raw data can be found and downloaded by clicking the "Resources" tab on the main webpage.