Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States, from 2013 to the present. Volumes covering 1879-2012 are on the US Census site.
The NHGIS provides aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2012. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
Web version of data analysis tool for the General Social Survey (GSS) using NESSTAR from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
PUMAs are statistical geographic areas defined for the dissemination of Public Use Microdata Sample data. Each PUMA is identified by a five-digit numeric census code.
SDA is a set of programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data. SDA is developed and maintained by the Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM) at the University of California, Berkeley. In archives you can find US Census and California microdata from 1990, 2000, 2000-2003, 2005-2007 and 2006-2008.
A web-based mapping, analytics, and data visualization application with 100,000+ data variables, including: demographic data from the US Census dating back to 1980, the American Community Survey (ACS), consumer spending data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), and D&B's Premium business directory providing access to over 20 million US business profiles. Additionally, users have access to the MRI-SimmonsLOCAL consumer behavior dataset, which includes data on over 8,000 brands and 450 categories as well as crosstab functionality with the Simmons NCS data. Premium market segment data is available from the PRIZM, ConneXions, and P$YCLE datasets enabling researchers to identify target market segments based on lifestyle, tech usage, and income. Localized survey data is available from the Nielsen Scarborough dataset, along with detailed financial data from the Financial CLOUT dataset. Data is available down to the Census Block Group level.
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Online data and mapping application with access to more than 10,000 indicators for U.S. demographics, housing and real estate, income, mortgages, health, and more. Create custom maps, tables, and reports and upload your own data without expensive software and training. Online access restricted to UCLA.
DataFerrett is a unique data mining and extraction tool. DataFerrett allows you to select a databasket full of variables and then recode those variables as you need.
Neighborhood Change Database. It consists of tract-level data from 1970 to 2010 that's been adjusted, so that the data from the earlier decades fits the geography of 2010, which makes it much easier to do historic analysis.
Statistical Atlas of the United States, showing the expansion of settlement by plotting the westward encroachment of population density on maps from each census
Allow researchers to analyze census tract data with constant boundaries for the period 1970-2010. Users can import their own data (such as crime or health data for census tracts) and convert it themselves to 2010 boundaries
Estimates of the population for the United States, its states, counties, cities, and towns, as well as for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its municipios.
Is intended to include metadata for the comprehensive corpus of U.S. federal documents.
Useful to genealogy research are the population schedules of the census, which lists individual heads of households. They can be found at the UCLA library on microfiche and some digitized copies are available in the Ancestry Library database. The nonpopulation census schedules would be another good source.
Tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications.
One of the largest archives of surveys useful in secondary analysis and quantitative research. Holdings include political and election studies, education studies, population research, economic attitudes and behavior, social indicators, and studies on health status from the United States and many countries worldwide.
Raw US Census data from Los Angeles area. Collection of surveys, enumerations, public opinion polls, and de-identified administrative records. Topics of studies include political attitudes and behavior; social and economic attitudes and behaviors; studies of health status and health outcomes; families, children, and women; international surveys of occupational and social mobility; the Los Angeles County Social Surveys; California Polls; and, census data for the United States and other countries.
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