Sociological Data

AARP Research is pleased to make selected datasets available to the public for secondary analysis. Datasets are available one year after the research report is published on AARP.org.

The information in this section of the AoA website brings together a wide variety of statistical information about this growing population.

Statistics on Casinos and betting in one central place.

The ARDA Data Archive is a collection of surveys, polls, and other data submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA.

Collection of data related to all aspects of African American life.

Since the passage of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the Office of Immigration Statistics collects and disseminates public data and information useful in evaluating the social, economic, environmental, and demographic impact of immigration laws.

NCES's web-based data analysis software provides public access to mostly individual-level education survey data collected by the US Department of Education. Users can build their own analysis tables, covariance matrices (with standard errors) for regression analysis, and, with DAS 2.0, perform weighted least-squares and logistic regression analysis on the web.

NCES’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is a centralized data retrieval tool. It can be used to obtain the IPEDS Institution Unit ID for a given school, or visit NCES's College Navigator data tool to search for an institution by state.

The Index of Social Health, the centerpiece of the Institute’s work, monitors the social well-being of American society. It has been released annually by the Institute (formerly the Fordham Institute for Innovation in Social Policy) since 1987.

Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences offers links to US government sites, US nongovernmental sites, International governmental sites and International nongovernmental sites. Useful for sociology and demography.

The site is designed to be a repository for instruments that are used to collect data from across the social sciences. Please use the site to discover instruments you can use in your own research.

The National Coalition for the Homeless publishes fact sheets on various aspects of homelessness. Each sheet summarizes facts and issues and contains a list of recommended reading for further research.

NIDA uses multiple sources to monitor the prevalence and trends regarding drug use in the United States. The resources on this webpage cover a variety of drug-related issues, including information on drug use, emergency room data, prevention and treatment programs, and other research findings. Read the DrugFacts.

Build your own tables using National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data. Data are available on degrees awarded, enrollments, R&D funding, and institutional characteristics in many science and engineering fields including sociology. User tutorials and help menus are available.

StateMaster is a unique statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on US states. They have compiled information from various primary sources such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics.

The State of Working America, an ongoing analysis published since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, jobs, unemployment, wealth, and poverty that allow for a clear, unbiased understanding of the economy’s effect on the living standards of working Americans.

The statistics from the Social Security Administration.

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 published and unpublished sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States.