Women's and Gender Studies

Great starting place for statistics; downloadable into Excel or Powerpoint

Ceased publication in 2012, but still a good resource.

Find reports by topic or by state.

This collection of resources provides information about the discipline of sociology and ASA.

Covers a wide range of student characteristics: parental income & education, ethnicity, other demographic items; financial aid; secondary school achievement & activities; educational & career plans; and values, attitudes, beliefs, and self-concept.

The 1972-2012 GSS cumulative data file for the National Opinion Research Center’s General Social Surveys (GSS) is available from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research via RoperExpress immediate download or on CD-ROM.

From the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at Univ. of Michigan.

Food policy issues at local (household and community), national, and global levels.

Education, religion, civic participation, immigration and more.

Datasets from the Pew Research Center.

Datasets on poverty, trade, development, sustainability, migration, finance and more.

Specifically global warming and climate change.

A worldwide network of social scientists studying changing values & their impact on social and political life. The WVS has carried out representative national surveys in 97 societies containing almost 90 percent of the world's population since 1981.