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Sage Data (formerly Data Planet)

Sage Data (formerly Data Planet) is a collection of U.S. and international datasets sourced from over 90 governmental, commercial, and private organizations. Sage Data allows you to search and browse billions of datasets, compare and contrast variables of interest, and create customized exportable charts and tables. Each dataset also has a detailed description, including information about its source organization and update frequency. The Sage Data platform provides durable web links and DOIs to make it easier to revisit datasets.

Datasets cover: agriculture and food; banking, finance, and insurance; criminal justice and law enforcement; education; energy resources and industries; government and politics; health and vital statistics; housing and construction; industry, business, and commerce; international relations and trade; labor and employment; military and defense; natural resources and environment; population and income; prices, consumption, and cost of living; and transportation and traffic.

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Passport GMID (Euromonitor International)
Economic, marketing, and demographic statistics for the United States, Western Europe, and Asia. Includes country profiles and consumer market data. Market research reports on international consumer, industrial, and service markets.

Research Data Repositories

ICPSR: Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
Download social science datasets for use with statistical software, such as SPSS.
Harvard Dataverse
A free, open-source repository open to all researchers across all disciplines. The Harvard Dataverse Repository is open to all researchers, both inside and outside of the Harvard community.
It contains over 100,000+ multidisciplinary datasets from published studies by researchers within and outside the Harvard community.
DRYAD
Dryad is a non-profit initiative organized by several academic institutions, research societies, and publishers to archive and share data. Covers a broad range of research topics in natural and life sciences.
IEEEDataport
IEEE DataPort provides datasets from studies published in their many scholarly journals.

Free Publicly Available Data

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Datasets
American Economic Association
Data sources linked to from AEA. US Macroeconomic data, Other US Data, World and non-US Data
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
"BEA's economists produce some of the world's most closely watched statistics, including U.S. gross domestic product, better known as GDP. We do state and local numbers, too, plus foreign trade and investment stats and industry data."
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject
Bureau of Labor Statistics National longitudinal surveys
The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) are a set of surveys designed to gather information at multiple points in time on the labor market activities and other significant life events of several groups of men and women. NLS data have served as an important tool for economists, sociologists, and other researchers for more than 50 years.
California Public Opinion
Downloadable Field Poll data. The Field (California) Poll, founded in 1947, has operated continuously as a California statewide survey of opinions and attitudes on social and political issues.
Census Data
A platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Data USA
The most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data. Data USA provides an open, easy-to-use platform that turns data into knowledge. (Source Data USA)
Economic Policy Institute
The State of Working America Data Library provides researchers, media, and the public with easily accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive historical data on the American labor force. It is compiled from Economic Policy Institute analysis of government data sources. Use it to research wages, inequality, and other economic indicators over time and among demographic groups. (Source: EPI)
European data from the EU
The single point of access to open and geospatial data from European countries, EU institutions and EU research projects (Source European Union)
FRED Federal Reserve Economic Data
FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources.
FRASER Data & Stats
From the St. Louis Fed: Data Publications, as well as Statistical Releases from several sources such as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and government agencies such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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General Social Survey (GSS)
The GSS has been a reliable source of data to help researchers, students, and journalists monitor and explain trends in American behaviors, demographics, and opinions. You'll find the complete GSS data set on this site, and can access the GSS Data Explorer to explore, analyze, extract, and share custom sets of GSS data. (Source GSS)
Google Dataset Search
Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Google Dataset Search is a search engine across metadata for millions of datasets in thousands of repositories across the Web. (Source Google Research)
IPUMS USA
"IPUMS USA collects, preserves and harmonizes U.S. census microdata and provides easy access to this data with enhanced documentation. Data includes decennial censuses from 1790 to 2010 and American Community Surveys (ACS) from 2000 to the present." About IPUMS USA
NBER - Data
The NBER Public Use Data Archive is an eclectic mix of public-use economic, demographic, and enterprise data obtained over the years to satisfy the specific requests of NBER-affiliated researchers for particular projects (Source NBER)
Our World In Data
Our World in Data is produced as a collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Oxford, who are the scientific contributors of the website content; and the non-profit organization Global Change Data Lab, who owns, publishes and maintains the website and the data tools (Source Our World In Data)
Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID)
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world
The study began in 1968 with a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 individuals living in 5,000 families in the United States. Information on these individuals and their descendants has been collected continuously, including data covering employment, income, wealth, expenditures, health, marriage, childbearing, child development, philanthropy, education, and numerous other topics. Over 7,600 peer-reviewed publications have been based on the PSID.
Population Reference Bureau
PRB has been providing World Population Data for over 60 years. Source also provides world indicators.
UN Comtrade Database
nited Nations Comtrade database aggregates detailed global annual and monthly trade statistics by product and trading partner for use by governments, academia, research institutes, and enterprises. Data compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division covers approximately 200 countries and represents more than 99% of the world's merchandise trade (Source UN Comttrade)
World Bank Open Data - Data360
Browse World Development Indicators by Economy or Indicator. Free and open access to global development data (Source Word Bank group)
NLSY97 Data Overview
The NLSY97 consists of a nationally representative sample of 8,984 men and women born during the years 1980 through 1984 and living in the United States at the time of the initial survey in 1997. Participants were ages 12 to 16 as of December 31, 1996. Interviews were conducted annually from 1997 to 2011 and biennially since then. The ongoing cohort has been surveyed 21 times as of date. Data are available from Round 1 (1997–98) through Round 20 (2021–22).
Health and Retirement Survey (HRS)
a longitudinal panel study that surveys a representative sample of approximately 20,000 people in America, supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740) and the Social Security Administration.

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