The Library
Websites by Subject - Social Sciences / Comprehensive
- Africa south of the Sahara: selected Internet Resources -- at Stanford Univeristy
- Afrobarometer
- American Factfinder -- U.S. Census Bureau
- Asian-Nation -- "The landscape of Asian America"
- Background Notes -- factual publications about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty prepared by the regional bureaus of the Department of State
- BBC News: country profiles -- concise information on countries, territories and selected International organizations
- CensusScope -- Social Science Data Analysis Network at the University of Michigan
- Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS): Spatial Resources for the Social Sciences -- Use of GIS in human sciences at Univ. Calif. Santa Barbara
- Chief George Manuel Memorial Library and the Fourth World Documentation Archive -- Center for World Indigenous Studies
- Country Studies (Area Handbooks) -- Library of Congress / Federal Research Division
- CPS: Current Population Survey -- Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of the Census
- Economics Data and Text Resources Guide - Rutgers University
- European Social Servey -- an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations
- geodata.gov: Geospatial One-Stop -- Your one stop for federal, state & local geographic data
- GeoHive: Global Statistics -- population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena; ....... and yet, even more.
- Indianz.com -- news, information, and resources about issues facing Native peoples
- InfoNation -- compare country statistics based on United Nations data
- Institute for Social Research -- University of Michigan
- Intute: Social Sciences -- a searchable database of evaluated quality Web sites
- Kids Count Data and Publications -- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center -- U. Texas, Austin
- Minnesota Population Center -- provides U.S. and international population data and are available free over the internet
- Nationalatlas.gov -- cultural and physical phenomena, including information on health, the environment, demography, agriculture, climate, and geology
- NationMaster.com -- "Web's one-stop resources for country statistics on everything"
- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics On the Web -- metasite that pulls together links to official statistics from countries, government agencies, and intergovernmental organizations.
- Pew Research Center for the People and the Press -- collection of public-opinion surveys and public-policy documents
- Polling and Public Opinion Resources -- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- PollingReport.com -- current polls conducted by U.S. public survey organizations such as NPR, Fox News, Harris, and Gallup. Allows free access to national data.
- Population Reference Bureau
- Question Bank: Social Surveys Online -- funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC]
- Research Resources for the Social Sciences -- McGraw-Hill, Ryerson
- The Roper Center for Public Opionion Research -- links to survey research
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN) -- "...devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research."
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (30th Edition) -- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- StateMaster.com - "research and compare a multitude of data on U.S. states"
- State of the News Media -- An annual report on American journalism
- Statistical Abstracts of the United States -- published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States
- Statistical Resources on the Web -- University of Michigan Library Documents Center
- Statistics Canada -- Canada's official portal to social and economic statistics and products
- Survey Research Center -- University of Michigan
- UNdata --Statistical Division portal combines 15 databases and 55 million records from different UN agencies.
- U.S. Census Bureau Home Page
- University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) -- for readers involved in applied social sciences
- VOANews -- Voice of America on the Web
- World Values Survey -- a worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change. It is conducted by a network of social scientist at leading universities all around world
- Yearbook of Immigration Statistics -- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
