LibGuides: Mathematics & Statistics: Data Sets

Places to find Data

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC keeps statistics on a wide variety of health topics.
CDC - Faststats
The quick version for statistics, but not necessarily quick access to data sets regarding healthcare.
Data.gov
Centralized repository for US government data.
General Social Survey
The General Social Survey (GSS) conducts basic scientific research on the structure and development of American society with a data-collection program designed to both monitor societal change within the United States and to compare the United States to other nations.
Health Services Research Information Central
This site links to a wide variety of other reputable sites with data sets in the medical field.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
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Largest archive of political and social research data with over 500,000 datafiles. Includes specialized data collections in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

NASA Data
Data sets from NASA that pertain to Earth, the Moon, other planets, and space.
Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center runs the American Life Project and makes their data sets freely available for use.
SEER -Cancer Statistics
SEER is the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program from the National Cancer Institute. Data sets are available.
US Census Data
Freely available US Census data from the US government.
World Bank Data Catalog
The World Bank collects information on a variety of topics about nations around the world.