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  • Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky at Lexington. Regional social-economic historical data available online. See publications
  • Archival Data Online Repository at the Data and Program Library Service of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Direct access to datasets on Urban Racial Disorders 1961-1968, Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, Russian Imperial Bureaucracy 1762-1881, Rolls of Emigrants to the Colony of Liberia 1820-1843, French Intendants de Province 1661-1790, among others.
  • Association of Public Data Users General information.
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics Statistical reports on the Australian population, prices and wages, employment rates and other topics.
  • Australian Social Science Data Archive at Australian National University.
  • Banque de Données socio-politiques at the Université Pierre Mendčs-France (Grenoble III). Searchable database on political science, sociology and history.
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US Department of Labor. Time series.
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University. US and international population data, a rich collection on China among them.
  • CESSDA The Council for European Social Science Data Archives CESSDA promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe. Directory, data portal.
  • Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on the former Communist world.
  • Danish Emigration Archives The Danish Emigration Archives in Aalborg, Denmark was established in 1932 to record the history of the Danes who emigrated and to maintain cultural bonds to those who have their roots in Denmark.
  • Dansk Data Arkiv The Danish Data Archives (DDA) is a national data bank for researchers and students in Denmark and abroad.
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS): the Dutch organization responsible for storing and providing permanent access to research data from the Humanities and Social Sciences. It incorporates the Steinmetz Archive for the social sciences and the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA), which were part of NIWI (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services) from 1997 to 2005.
  • Database of Irish Historical Statistics Recurrent statistics for Ireland for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries collected from a variety of printed census sources. At The Queen's University of Belfast.
  • Database on Return Migrants to the Maghreb (DReMM) Based on the MIREM survey carried out in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia the DReMM constitutes a rich source of information regarding the processes of reintegration of around one thousand return migrants and their post-return conditions in their countries of origin. From the European University Institute, Florence.
  • ESDS Qualidata This specialist service of the ESDS led by the UK Data Archive (UKDA) at the University of Essex provides access and support for a range of social science qualitative datasets.
  • Historical Census Browser The data presented here describe the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960. From the Geostat Center at the University of Virginia Library.
  • Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States at the US Bureau of the Census. Working paper by Campbell J. Gibson and Emily Lennon (1999). Detailed tables.
  • Historical Microdata around the World Links to demographic and other databases in Scandinavia, North America, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, listed at the University of Tromsř.
  • Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) Project information on this representative sample of about 80,000 people born in the Netherlands between 1812 and 1922 intended as a tool for research in Dutch history and demography.
  • Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website An online resource of almost 200,000 pages of all the published population reports created by the Registrars-General and its predecessors for England and Wales and for Scotland for the period 1801–1920.
  • Human capital hub of the CLIO-INFRA initiative As part of the CLIO-INFRA, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Debrecen has taken the initiative to set up this website on human capital data. Our mid-term plan is to extend the activities of the hub into an online community of Scholars working in this field, providing them with a forum and hosting their data and research papers. Our long-run plan is to create a comprehensive dataset on human capital with annual and historical data and a global coverage. The site provides data, papers and links. The hub is maintained by Péter Földvári and Bas van Leeuwen.
  • Institute of Migration Institute of Migration aims to promote and carry out migration and ethnic research and to encourage the compilation, storage and documentation of material relating to international and internal migration in Finland.
  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series at the University of Minnesota. Census microdata for social and economic research.
  • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. 'Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data'.
  • International Federation of Data Organizations Directory, catalogue.
  • Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Annotated links to data-related resources on the Internet.
  • Israel Social Sciences Data Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. General information, time series.
  • Life Courses in Context A collaboratory based on Dutch population registers and censuses (19th and 20th century). The programme's objective is to develop a database with about 40.000 individual life courses of people born in the period of 1863-1922
  • Mass-Observation Archive at the University of Sussex. Materials 1937-1949 and from 1981. Several search facilities.
  • Moving Here A British database of digitized photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items from 30 local and national archives, museums and libraries which record migration experiences of the last 200 years.
  • National Bureau of Economic Research: Data and Data Links NBER collection: macro data, industry, international trade, and other data.
  • National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) The national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. NCCS is a program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban Institute (Washington DC). The Center is home to the NCCS Data Web.
  • Norwegian Historical Data Centre at the University of Tromsř. The computerizing of Norwegian censuses from 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) The PSID is a nationally representative longitudinal study of nearly 8,000 US families. Following the same families and individuals since 1968, the PSID collects data on economic, health, and social behavior.
  • Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania Purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000.
  • RGP Online The Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën (RGP) is a series of source editions, the first volume of which was published in 1905. Today, the series comprises 450 volumes that contain documents about the history of the Netherlands. The ING, The Hague is in the process of digitising the RGP series and has developed an application that makes it possible to browse the pages online. The online version aims, as far as possible, to be a faithful replica of the original edition. At the same time, efforts have also been made to exploit the new opportunities afforded by an electronic publication by making it possible to search the text and, where possible, adding clickable lists of contents and/or indices. More information about the approach that was selected can be found under explanation. Since December 2007 137 volumes have been made available on the Internet (november 2009).
  • Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Surveys examining the health and economic welfare of the Russian Federation.
  • Scottish Economic History Database 1550-1780 Crop yields, demographic data, price and wage series, weather statistics; at the International Institute of Social History.
  • Scottish Emigration Database The Database currently contains the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960. Based at the University of Aberdeen's AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies.
  • Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica. At the Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Social Science Data on the Internet A searchable collection of hundreds of sites with "statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses" and more.
  • Soviet and Russian Economic Statistical Series at Hokkaido University. Different indexes, some of them going back to 1940.
  • Sozio-ökonomisches Panel at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin). "A representative longitudinal study of private households in the entire Federal Republic of Germany" (1984-1997). Newsletter, bibliography etc.
  • Swedish Social Science Data Service at the University of Göteborg. Demographic and census data, economic and political surveys, election studies, trade union data etc.
  • UK Data Archive (UKDA) A resource centre that acquires, disseminates, preserves, and promotes the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom.
  • UK National Digital Archive of Datasets at the University of London Computer Centre, in cooperation with the University of London Library and the Public Record Office. Archived digital data from UK government departments and agencies.



Last updated 26 October 2009