Leadership, Research, & Foundations Research: Finding Data Sets

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. It provides access to statistics and data sets related to education.

Includes real research data, how-to guides, and instructional materials that can be used to support the teaching and independent learning of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods. Datasets are taken from real research projects but edited and cleaned for learning purposes. Each dataset is accompanied by a narrative description of the data and instructions on how to apply the research method, providing a step-by-step guide to analyzing the data, and then allowing students to practice the analysis themselves. UCCS has access to all datasets in Part 1.

ICPSR 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.

The Data-Planet repository of statistical content currently holds more than 5,000 datasets presented in 2+ billion views of data (maps, trends, tables, rankings). The datasets are sourced from reputable public and private organizations and cover topics across 16 broad subject areas, including education, population and income, industry, commerce, trade, housing and construction, and much more. All of the data have been standardized and structured, and are described with 37 fields of metadata.