Online Analysis
Several surveys provide quick and easy analysis and subsetting using only your web browser. You may:
- Browse the codebook
- Run a frequency or crosstabulation
- Run a comparison of means
- Run a comparison of correlations
- Download a customized subset of variables/cases
Available surveys are:
- American Community Surveys 2000-2003
- California Field Polls 1956 - 2004
- California Workforce Survey 2001-2002
- Census: California 5% PUMS 2000
- Census: US 1% PUMS 2000
- General Social Survey 1972 - 2006
- General Social Survey 1972 - 2006 Quick Tables
- Multi-Investigator Survey 1994
- Multi-Investigator Survey 1998-1999
- National Election Study 2004
- National Election Study 2000
- National Election Study 1996
- National Election Study 1948 - 2004
- National Race and Politics Study 1991
Additional surveys using the same extraction system at other sites:
- Civic and Political Health of the Nation Survey (ages 15 - 25)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
- National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
- National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health 1995 - 2002
- National Survey of American Families 1997-2002
- SDA Community Resources
Other sites using different extraction systems:
- Social Explorer provides easy access to Census data either through reports or maps. The public version only has access to Census 2000 but there is a 30-day free trial to the full edition which has data from 1940 to 2000. Also this group is partnering with other data sources. Of note, it partners with the Associaton of Religon Data Archives for data about organized religion in the United States.
- GEOSTAT offers the 1990 1% PUMS Census sample with options to subset, compute descriptive statistics and crosstabulations.
- U.S. Department of Commerce through its Bureau of Economic Analysis has many kinds of economic data available--regional, national, international and industry--and in varying timespans, some dating back to 1929.
- IPUMS has drawn data samples from the 1850 to 2000 Census as well as from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2006 and reformatted them to allow comparative analysis. This site offers international data as well. Latin America is especially well-represented.
- U.S. Historical Census Data Browser describes the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970. You can search for data, graph variables on a state level, and print out tables but you cannot download a file for more data manipulation.
- American Religion Data Archive has national surveys (American and Canadian) as well as surveys of religious denominations and religious professionals. It has added international data which besides statstics on religious freedom gives data about public opinion and socio-demographic measures compiled from various sources.
A Search Site for still other sources is the excellent Data on the Net page maintained by the University of California at San Diego.