SOCI 208: Research Methods: Statistics By Topic

Crime & Justice

• Office of Justice Programs
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• FBI Crime Data Explorer
• NYPD Stop, Question, & Frisk Data

Health & Human Development

• United Nations Human Development Reports
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts
• World Health Organization Global Health Repository
• Costs of War Data

Environment

• Public Environmental Data Project
• EPA ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History Online)
• Environmental Enforcement Watch

Race / Gender / Ethnicity / Religion

• Gender Data Portal: A compilation of international data on key gender topics from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys
• Woman Stats Project: compiles qualitative and quantitative data "on over 294 indicators of women's status in 174 countries". Users must register in order to use the database.
• ARDA (Association of Religious Data Archives)
• American Religious Identification Survey

Education

• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Assessment of Educational Progress (Nation's Report Card)
• EdStats (World Bank)
• Kids Count Data Center (U.S.) 

Poverty

• Poverty Guidelines, Research, & Measurement (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
• U.S. Census Bureau Poverty Information
• World Bank Poverty Reduction & Equity