Quantitative Data Research: Data Sets

Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows you to replicate others' work more easily. Researchers, journals, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive academic credit and web visibility.

Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has been monitoring societal change and studying the growing complexity of American society. GSS Data Explorer, from NORC at the University of Chicago, makes it easier than ever to use the data collected by the GSS.

The Harvard Dataverse Network within the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard, hosts a large collection of social science research and data.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research provides more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data.

A national longitudinal study of health and well-being. (The University of Wisconsin - Madison, Institute on Aging) Includes MIDUS 1, 2, 3 and Refresher.

Explore the open data behind Purdue's world-class research. PURR publishes and archives digital datasets" from their researchers and includes "all kinds of open data from images and videos to spreadsheets and source code."

A long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957.