Getting Started Guide: Statistical Resources: Raw Data & Data Sets

"... produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. ...
ANES is a collaboration of Stanford University and the University of Michigan, with funding by the National Science Foundation."

Publicly available health data files that provide access to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) surveys and data collection.

Access data collected by the center or its members. Covers Latin America/Cuba/Mexico/Haiti/Caribbean migration.
"Data sets are available as ascii data files, Stata, and/or SPSS system files."

"... offers both research data suitable for further analysis and statistical results generated from public sources."

"The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. "

"The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is a unique and valuable resource. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades."

"... ccess to the original data sets generated by PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUD median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population. "

Harvard Dataverse is a repository for research data.

"The Odum Institute Data Archive is a leader in research data stewardship, with over 50 years of experience beginning with the acquisition of the Louis Harris Data Center in 1965. Our longstanding commitment to data access and research transparency has been a driving force behind ongoing efforts to enhance our infrastructure, workflows, and policies to ensure that the data assets in our care remain FAIR—findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable–now and into the future.

We are home to one of the largest catalogs of social science research data in the U.S. which includes the Harris Polls, North Carolina Vital Statistics, and the most complete collection of 1970s U.S. Census data. In addition, we manage and provide access to the UNC Dataverse, a web-based data repository, that enables scientists, research teams, scholarly journals, and other members of the research community to archive and share their own datasets."

"Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis. "