Data Resources for Sociologists

ASA is pleased to provide this on-line module on Data Resources for sociologists. Information in this module is derived from the Data Resources Poster Session held at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Information collected for the Special Poster Session for the 1999 Annual Meeting will be updated in October 1999. Please contact ASA via e-mail at executive.office@asanet.org if you have any suggestions or additions.

Following is a list of publicly available data sets for primary and secondary analysis:

1. American Religion Data Archive - Purdue University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

2. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

3. Census Data in the Classroom: The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) - Population Studies Center, University of Michigan

4. The Contextual Data Archive: A Data Resource for Contextual Research - Sociometrics Corporation

5. Survey of Income and Program Participation, Survey of Program Dynamics, Current Population Survey, American Community Survey, Population Projections and Estimates

6. In-depth Technical Assistance Program for NCES Data Users, Education Statistics Services Institute

7. The Data Resources Program at the National Institute of Justice and The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

8. Science Resources Studies - National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies

9. National Survey of Family Growth 1995

10. National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

11. National Nursing Home Survey and National Home and Hospice Care Survey