CIS 245: Open Data Sources

Includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).

A standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest, that has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.

Compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals, permanent legal residents, naturalized citizens and maps with various demographic characteristics (1996-present).

Provides a yearly overview of the economic, social, and environmental state of the world. Also provides detailed economic data for most countries, quality of life indicators, and other demographic and environmental information.

Highlights the principal features of social security programs in more than 170 countries. Public use data downloadable as TXT or SAS zip files.

Provides detailed, comparative tables for social protection systems for 31 countries. Areas covered include financing, healthcare, sickness, maternity, invalidity, old-age, survivors, employment injuries and occupational diseases, family, unemployment, guaranteed minimum resources and long-term care.

Data included in FedStats but " this website concentrates on "...statistics and reports on children and families."

These resources provide State and national statistics on child and family well-being indicators, such as health, child care, education, income, and marriage.

Explore hundreds of measures of well-being for kids across the nation, or in your state, city, or community.

State Profiles presents key data about each state's performance in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics, reading, writing, and science for grades 4 and 8.

The Nation's Report Card presents the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which measures student achievement in the U.S. in various subjects over time.

Public health statistics

Major statistical data sources on disability

Datasets, tools, and applications gathered from agencies across the Federal government

Data from all countries and areas with at least 5,000 population, with the exception of Northern America (including the United States) and U.S. territories, on the prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS cases and deaths.

Contains current data from surveys such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), birth and mortality detail files, National Immunization Survey, Longitudinal Study of Aging, and National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)

Uniform Crime Reports - The Uniform Crime Reports (from the FBI) are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States.

Contains statistics for Criminal Justice Characteristics, Public Opinion, "Crime, Victims," "Arrests, Seizures," "Courts, Prosecution, Sentencing," and "Parole, Jails, Prisons, Death Penalty."

Professional sports data for major and minor league baseball, NBA, NFL, NHL as well as college football, college basketball and olympic sports.

Links to sports data on American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Cycling, Fencing, Golf, Hockey, Olympics, Poker, Racing, Rugby, Soccer, Tennis, and Volleyball.