Research paper data sets

Data sets

IPUMS: The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) has put together well-documented, free microdata datasets available for the public. You need to fill out a brief form and wait up to 24 hours to get access
- IPUMS - USA: US Census data (1950-present, decennial)
- IPUMS - CPS: Current Population Survey (1962-present, annual (sometimes monthly)) - data on wages, work, and other special topics
- IPUMS - International: International Census data from nearly 80 countries
- ATUS: American Time Use Survey (2003-present, annual)
- IDHS: Integrated Demographic and Health Series (18 countries, 1980s-present)
- IHIS: Integrated Health Interview Series (US, annual, 1960s-present)
- NAPP: North Atlantic Population Project (complete count Census data from 1800s, select countries)
General Social Survey - Annual survey of US residents’ attitudes towards a variety of social issues, plus demographic characteristics. You can do state-level comparisons with this data.
World Values Survey

ICPSR: Source of wide range of data sets, some very obscure! Well documented. UVM is a member institution of ICPSR, so you should have full access to this resource.
Google dataset search - searchable archive of of publicly accessible datasets
U.S. City Open Census Data
Data is plural archive - from Jeremey Singer-Vine, who runs a free weekly newsletter all about neat data.
Development economics datasets - from Plamen Nikolov
Erik Gahner’s PolData - A LOT of datasets related to politics
DevEconData
Sebastian Tello-Trillo’s guide to finding datasets
Kraggle- Just a lot of data

NYTimes Covid-19 Data - Regularly updated Covid-19 data at the state and county level, over time. Now with a bonus county-level mask usage data set!
Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Data - Regularly updated Covid-19 data at the state and county level, over time
Covid-19 School Response Dashboard Not available yet, as data collection is ongoing, but will (soon?) be a database of K-12 school opening policies

Last updated on May 21, 2021