Public Policy and Administration
Use this guide to find information and research on topics in the field of public policy and administration
Data Sets-International
- Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) PortalGateway to many kinds of research data and metadata, including sociological surveys, election studies, longitudinal studies, opinion polls, and census data
- World Bank Research Data SetsResearchers compiled these datasets for the World bank, which provides them free to encourage the creation of new knowledge.
Data Sets-United States
- American National Election StudiesData on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists
- Data.govHome of the US government’s open data and includes Federal, state and local data, tools, and resources to conduct research, build apps, design data visualizations, and more.
- Data Citation Index This link opens in a new windowFind research data held in over 500 repositories around the world.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- General Social Survey (NORC)Contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings.
- IQSS (Institute for Qualitative Social Science at Harvard) Dataverse NetworkLinks to a large collection of social science research data
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social ResearchSearch for words or phrases in the title field, by investigator, by study number or in all fields of this huge collection of data sets at the University of Michigan. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a member of ICPSR.
- Roper Dataset This link opens in a new windowSearch over 20,000 datasets from public opinion surveys dating back to the 1930s. Approximately 60% of these were conducted in the United States; 8,000 datasets are from over 100 countries.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- State Data CenterCooperative program between the states and the Census Bureau that was created in 1978 to make data available locally to the public through a network of state agencies, universities, libraries, and regional and local governments
- US Census Data SetsFrom the U.S. Census Bureau, these datasets contain a variety of information from household income to ethnic and racial profiles of various groups across the country.
- Data WorldOpen data sets contributed by users and organizations.
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