Social Work: Finding Data and Statistics

Provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, this database includes population, census, housing, and economic data for the United States and its territories.

A comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. This resource includes monthly updates to tables, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites.
Note: Previously published by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Abstracts and index to U.S. federal & state government publications, and to privately published & international and intergovernmental statistical sources from 1972.

ICPSR maintains more than 11,000 freely available datasets of research in the social and behavioral sciences.
Note: Only public data is freely available for use.

Sage Data, formerly Data Planet Statistical Datasets, provides access to data from billions of licensed and public domain datasets. Users can scan the contents of the collection, select subjects and variables of interest, and view data in side-by-side tables and charts. All of the data have been standardized and structured, and are described with up to 37 fields of metadata, including a controlled vocabulary.
Note: See our Data Planet guide for more information.

The World Bank Group provides free access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards, finances, and energy data around the globe - over 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English.