LibGuides: Data Sets: Demographic Data

Demographic Data

The availability of demographic data sources has become an invaluable resource for businesses, researchers, policymakers, and organizations across the globe. These diverse and comprehensive data sets offer a window into the ever-evolving tapestry of human populations, capturing crucial information about age, gender, ethnicity, location, and a myriad of other demographic factors. As we navigate a world of increasing complexity and diversity, understanding and harnessing demographic data sources has never been more critical.

Open Data

Crime in the US
An annual publication in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) compiles the volume and rate of violent and property crime offenses for the nation and by state. Individual law enforcement agency data are also provided for those contributors supplying 12 months complete offense data. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data. Use the new online UCR Data Tool to research crime statistics for the nation, by state, and by individual law enforcement agency.
Eurostat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union, and it offers a wealth of demographic data for European countries.
United Nations Population Division
The UN offers comprehensive demographic data, including population estimates, projections, and demographic indicators for countries around the world.
US Census Bureau
Provides official census data for the United States at the level of states, counties, cities, and metropolitan areas.
US Data
he U.S. government's open data portal provides access to a wide range of datasets, including demographic data on various topics.
World Bank Data
The World Bank provides demographic and socioeconomic data for countries worldwide, including population, fertility rates, life expectancy, and more.
IPUMS
IPUMS offers access to a vast collection of microdata samples from censuses and surveys, allowing for in-depth demographic analysis.
Humanitarian Data Exchange
HDX provides humanitarian-focused demographic data, particularly useful for understanding populations affected by crises and disasters.
Gapminder
Gapminder offers a variety of demographic and socioeconomic datasets that are user-friendly and accessible for data visualization and analysis.
GSS / General Social Survey
The General Social Survey (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.
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center conducts surveys, polls, and studies on a wide range of social, political, and economic topics. They make many of their datasets available to the public for research and analysis purposes.

Proprietary Data

Data found here is available through our library databases.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
ICPSR offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. NOTE: Downloading data may require creating an account with ICPSR using your XULA email.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista integrates statistical data from over 80,000 topics in areas such as business, education, finance, media, politics, society, and technology. Statista gathers data from over 18,000 sources, including market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. The reports, charts, infographics, and statistics found in the database can be downloaded in Excel, PDF, PNG, or PowerPoint formats or embedded in web pages.
Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics This link opens in a new window
Open access government database that allows users to build their own customized data tables for national, state, and local crime statistics. Maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the U.S. Department of Justice.
Roper iPoll This link opens in a new window
Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, Roper iPoll is a collection of poll data from 1935 to present. Contains data from U.S. and international polling firms with broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. Questions, charts, demographic crosstabs, and dataset downloads are immediately available.