SOCI 208: Research Methods: Statistics By Topic

Crime & Justice

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstract: Contains summaries of criminal justice publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research from 1970 to the present.
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• FBI Uniform Crime Reports

Health & Human Development

• United Nations Human Development Reports
• National Center for Health Statistics
• World Health Organization Global Health Repository

Race / Gender / Ethnicity / Religion

• Woman Watch: Directory of UN Resources on Gender and Women's Issues
• 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.
• U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
• ARDA (Association of Religious Data Archives)
• American Religious Identification Survey

Education

• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Assessment of Educational Progress
• EdStats (World Bank)

Poverty

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