Mathematics & Statistics Research Guide

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• CountryWatch Up-to-date news, reviews, and statistics on social, political, cultural, historical, economic, environmental, and demographic intelligence on recognized countries of the world. Includes maps and global guides on emerging international issues.

• Current Index to Statistics (CIS) Online The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from fully-indexed core journals; non-core journals from which articles are selected that have statistical content; proceedings and edited books; and other sources.

• Historical Statistics of the United States Source for quantitative facts in American history; statistical tables are also accompanied by source documentation and expert essays to provide historical context. Diverse topics include slavery, migration, health, poverty, crime, and more. Users can customize and download data tables.

• International Historical Statistics Statistical data from around the world, covering a wide range of socio-economic topics. Includes data on the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, collected between 1750-2010. Conduct statistical analysis across both time and geopolitical boundaries. Data tables can be downloaded as ePDFs and/or Excel files.

• Polling the Nations Polling the Nations is a compilation of thousands of surveys conducted by hundreds of polling organizations in the United States and other countries. Access more than 750,000 original poll questions and results from 18,000+ surveys conducted in the U.S. and 100+ other countries from 1986 to the present.

• RAND State Statistics Data at the state, county, and city levels. Subject areas include business and economics, community (including crime statistics), education, energy and environment, government finance, health and socioeconomic data, and population and demographics.

• Statista Statistic portals integrated data on over 80.000 topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform. Statista.com provides quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets, categorized into 21 market sectors.

• Statistical Abstract of the U.S. Online Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

• Statistical Abstract of the United States from the GPO (1878-2012) 

• ERSys Data about cities in the United States including population, population density, economic indicators and more

• Dryad Open data publishing platform offering dataset searching by funder, subject keyword, institution or journal

• Google Dataset Search Use simple keyword searching to discover data sets across the Web

• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Division of U.S. Dept. Education responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting complete statistics on the condition of American education; conducting and publishing reports; and reviewing and reporting on education activities internationally. Also see from NCES: • Digest of Education Statistics • 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait • K-12 Practitioners’ Circle • The Condition of Education

• National Library of Medicine Dataset Catalog (Beta release) Catalog of biomedical datasets 

• National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Publishes relevant, objective data on postsecondary metrics to serve the community. 

• Pew Research Center Tools & Datasets Resources to access Pew Research Center data

• Texas Data Repository Houses datasets from Texas Digital Library member institutions

• Texas Education Agency Texas has one of the largest education databases in the world, known as PEIMS. Provides information for researchers, parents and the public at large to mine and learn about the workings of 1,200 school districts and charters, as well as TEA.

• Texas Higher Education Data Texas' primary source for statistics on higher education. Contains reports, statistics, queries, interactive tools, and downloadable data, with links on enrollment and success, course and facilities inventories, interactive institutional locator maps, and degrees offered.

• UNESCO Institute for Statistics Primary source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories. Contains a searchable database of UNESCO education statistics (1970-1997) as well as selected tables from the UNESCO Statistical Yearbook and 16 commonly used statistical indicators on education.

• World Bank Group Data: Indicators

• Zenodo Repository launched in May 2013 by CERN for housing European Commision-mandated open access to scientific research data. Now includes access to datasets from around the world.

   

The sources below will help you find actual sets of raw data, not just aggregated statistics about the data.