Selected Data Sets
Consider the time period -- current or historical, and the format -- table to print or data to download to a spreadsheet.
IPUMS - Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is the world's largest individual-
ATUS – American Time Use Survey
Data page: ATUS Data Files - https://www.bls.gov/tus/#data
select single or multi year files or use the module data files
How to use ATUS microdata files
NLSY - National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Home page ; http://www.bls.gov/nls/
Navigator page; register to use: https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/pages/login.jsp
The Investigator User's Guide describes how to use this website.
An available tutorial also teaches how to search for variables in the Investigator
National Center for Charitable Statistics
Data page: https://nccs-data.urban.org/index.php
- Primarily pulls data from the IRS Form 990 – there is a lot of information on that form! Anything related to financial impacts of the sector (or subsectors within the nonprofit sector), the NCCS is a great place to find that data/information.
- The financial impacts are broken in to dozens of categories, by type of activity and type of nonprofit, ex. Medicaid expansion, ACA’s impact on nonprofit hospitals, or the rise and fall of conservation and environmental organizations over the last 20 years looking across different administrations and their policies, or the impacts of “h-elective” legislation on nonprofit organizations’ lobbying activities….
Inside Airbnb
Data page:https://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html
Offers different csv data sets for listing in cities around the world
Walmart
Data page: https://www.kaggle.com/c/walmart-recruiting-store-sales-forecasting/data
Historic sales data (csv files) for 45 stores located in different regions across the United States.
Yelp
Data page: https://www.yelp.com/dataset/challenge
Yelp maintains a dataset for use in personal, educational, and academic purposes. It includes 6 million reviews spanning 189,000 businesses in 10 metropolitan areas. Students are welcome to participate.
Need to sign a form to get data first so I am not sure about file format
CDC Data:
Data set page :https://data.cdc.gov/browse
By topic, sets can differ mostly zip files to download
Dow Jones Weekly Returns
Data set page: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Dow+Jones+Index
Predicting stock prices is a major application of data analysis and machine learning; zip file to download
World Development Indicators (WDI)
Data page: WDI https://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
Microdata Library https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/home
From the World Bank which is a source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries globally.
The organization is not an ordinary bank but rather a partnership to reduce poverty and support development.
Types
Time Series - same phenomina over specificed length of time
Cross Section - 1 point of time in multiple places
Pooled - combination of time series and cross section data
Citing
Don't forget to cite your data sources.
APA Style - Online Data Sets
Point readers to raw data by providing a Web address
- use "Retrieved from"
or a general place that houses data sets on the site
- use "Available from"
example:
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2008). Indiana income limits [Data file]. Retrieved from https://www.huduser.org/Datasets/
IL/IL08/in_fy2008.pdf