Online Data Resources—Catalogs and Repositories
The following websites do not have online visualization software, but offer data sets that can be downloaded and analyzed with your desktop software. A data catalog is a collection of references to data on other websites, while a data repository stores data directly. Here we briefly summarize what each site has to offer.
Following the table are one-paragraph summaries of each site and links to full-page fact-sheets. You may also search by data topic or geography.
Summaries in Brief
| Brookings EITC Interactive—Brookings Institution (http://www.brookings.edu/projects/EITC.aspx) |
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| Brookings EITC provides tax return data from 1997 to 2007 with a focus on the Earned Income Tax Credit. [READ MORE] |
| Data Ferret—U.S. Census Bureau (http://dataferrett.census.gov/index.html) |
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| Data Ferrett is a data mining and extraction tool from the U.S. Census Bureau that allows the user to develop custom tables and download data from multiple government agencies. [READ MORE] |
| Data.gov—U.S. Government (http://www.data.gov/) |
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| Data.gov is a catalog that provides raw and geographic data sets from the U.S. Federal Executive Branch. [READ MORE] |
| Decennial Census, 1990—U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen1990.html) |
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| Decennial Census, 1990 provides data and briefs, including maps, tables, and charts related to 1990 Census data. [READ MORE] |
| Decennial Census, 2000—U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html) |
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| Decennial Census, 2000 provides data and briefs, including maps, tables, and charts related to 2000 Census data. [READ MORE] |
| Federal Education Budget Project—New America Foundation (http://febp.newamerica.net/) |
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| The Federal Education Budget Project provides a range of information on federal education programs and spending at the state and school district level. The most recent data is from 2008 and 2008/09. [READ MORE] |
| Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)—Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (http://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/hmdaproducts.htm) |
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| The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requires most lending institutions to report mortgage loan application information, including information about the outcome, loan, applicant and property. In 2004, FFIEC expanded the data to include structure type, lien status, and if the loan had high interest rates. The loan-level data are summarized for various geographic levels into indicators on the distribution of borrowers, denial rates and loans from subprime lenders, all categorized by income and race. [READ MORE] |
| IPUMS-CPS—Minnesota Population Center (http://cps.ipums.org/cps/) |
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| IPUMS-CPS is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing the March Current Population Survey data. The data are from 1962 to 2010 and are composed of microdata. [READ MORE] |
| IPUMS-USA—Minnesota Population Center (http://usa.ipums.org/usa/) |
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| IPUMS-USA is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing U.S. Census data. It includes data from 1850-2000 and ACS samples from 2000 to 2009 composed from microdata. [READ MORE] |
| MetroTrends—Urban Institute (http://www.metrotrends.org/) |
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| MetroTrends provides social and economic data related to urban America from a variety of national data sources. The site includes a blog and commentary page and provides access to data related to those commentaries. [READ MORE] |
| National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data—U.S. Department of Education (http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/pubschuniv.asp) |
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| The National Center for Education Statistics conducts an annual survey of state education agencies to obtain data for every public elementary and secondary school in the country. The information is compiled and published as the Common Core of Data Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey. Mostly derived from administrative records, data cover school characteristics such as the school level, grades taught, student-teacher ratio, and federal Title I funding eligibility, and also provide information on enrolled student characteristics, including race/ethnicity, free/reduced price lunch eligibility, migrant status, and gender. [READ MORE] |
| National Historic Geographic Information System—Minnesota Population Center (http://www.nhgis.org/) |
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| The National Historic Geographic Information System provides aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States from 1790 and 2000. [READ MORE] |
| Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB)—GeoLytics and Urban Institute (http://www.geolytics.com/USCensus,Neighborhood-Change-Database-1970-2000,Products.asp) |
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| The Neighborhood Change Database provides aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2000. [READ MORE] |
| The School Attendance Boundary Information System—Minnesota Population Center and The College of William & Mary (http://www.sabinsdata.org/) |
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| The School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS) provides aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for school attendance areas, or school catchment areas, for selected areas in the United States for the 2009-2010 school year. [READ MORE] |
| UI National Data Repository—Urban Institute (http://www.metrotrends.org/natdata/index.cfm) |
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| The Urban Institute created special versions of many national data files with meaningful indicators of community well-being for its internal research projects and is now sharing them with the public in its UI National Data Repository. As of April 2011 the datasets include: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, County/Zip Business Patterns, and the National Center for Education Statistics. [READ MORE] |
