GU-Q: SOCI 161: Sociology of Gender

Key data is collected to monitor social behavior within the U.S. and to compare the U.S. to other countries. From: National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. They do not take policy positions.

Since 1962, ICPSR has gathered and maintained a vast data archive to facilitate research and instruction in the social sciences. Topics include education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. From: Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan.

Forty nine member countries collaborate on surveys on topics important to social science research.

Over 300 sets of economic, social, and financial statistics from a wide assortment of United Nations agencies and other international organizations. Most data are available in time series from 1970 or 1980 to the present. (Statistics for some items lag by several years.)

Provides worldwide statistics on population, birth, mortality, marriage, and divorce. The web version has the latest edition and earlier years back to 1948. The latest print copy is Ref. HA 17 .D45; earlier years at the same call number, fourth floor Lauinger Library.