Databases/Articles

The largest repository of standardized and structured statistical data.

DOTS Online provides data on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners. The database includes: total bilateral and multilateral exports and imports aggregated at national or regional group level; data for the most recent six quarters and the latest year for 169 countries, and ten quarters and five years for the world and area tables. **Access is by Username and Password only. Please see a Reference Librarian for assistance.

The standard source for the quantitative facts of American History.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a standard source of International statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance produced by the IMF. The IFS database contains time series data from 1950. **Access is by username and password only. Please see a Reference Librarian for assistance.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented.

Social Explorer is based at Queens College of the City University of New York. Our main goal is to visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through the present, for the country over all down to the level of the county. Certain cities may even be displayed as far back as 1910. To do this we have developed a collection of interactive demographic maps that can be viewed, queried and manipulated on our site.

Provides statistical data for over 300 data series from numerous specialized international data sources for over 270 countries and areas. Also included are country profiles.