LibGuides: Graduate Research in Social Sciences: Data-Statistics

Locating Data and Statistics

ICPSR -- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Historic and current (Restricted to ODU)
Provides access to a vast archive of social science data. ICPSR's data holdings are for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. A unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, ICPSR has over 780 member colleges and universities around the world. First time users must access this link to create an account.
OECD iLibrary
Coverage varies (Open Access)
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) features its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
1878 - present (Restricted to ODU)
The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. The online version includes monthly updates to tables, deep searching at the line-item level, powerful facets for narrowing search results, and image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables.

Government Links for Statistics and Data
List of links to government sites with statistics and data

International Financial Statistics
1948 - Present (Restricted to ODU)
Provides a complete library of continuously updated international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.