Social Explorer is a detailed reference tool for current and historical Census data from 1790 to the present. Data may be generated by browsing maps or building reports.
Distributed by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. It's a collection of individuals from North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more.
Social data for Chicago neighborhoods mostly compiled and computed from decennial census data. Find in the Library: - 1930 - 1940 - 1950 - 1960 - 1970 & 1980 - 1990
Summarizes demographics, housing, employment, transportation habits, retail sales, property values, and land use in metropolitan Chicago's 284 municipalities and 77 Community Areas. Raw data can be downloaded from the CMAP Data Hub.
The files have been saved as .zip files; to use them you must unzip them. You should end up with .shp, .shx, and .dbf files.
The unzipped files should run under ArcView or ArcGIS as well as under the several other mapping programs that can read ArcView shapefiles. If you are using a mapping program that requires its GIS data to be in a different format, you are going to have to translate these files into that format.
DataFerrett is a data analysis and extraction tool-with recoding capabilities-to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements. Date coverage varies depending upon what dataset you choose.
DataFerrett allows you to select a databasket full of variables and then recode those variables as you need.
You can then develop and customize tables. Selecting your results in your table you can create a chart or graph for a visual presentation into an html page.
A reference guide for anyone interested in tailoring specific Census data to their needs. It includes computer coding (SAS v9.x) software for extracting targeted data from thousands of Census files, as well as primers on using online tools and mapping software for analyzing data. The book offers coverage of all aspects of census data including its historical significance, suggestions for parsing housing, occupation, transportation, economic, health, and other data from the census, and much more.
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and includes many large time-series datasets. International in scope.
The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS-USA) consists of samples of the American population drawn from federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2012. These samples, which draw on every surviving census from 1850-2000, and the 2000-2012 ACS samples, collectively constitute our richest source of quantitative information on long-term changes in the American population.
IPUMS is not a collection of compiled statistics; it is composed of microdata. Each record is a person, with all characteristics numerically coded. In most samples persons are organized into households, making it possible to study the characteristics of people in the context of their families or other co-residents. Because the data are individuals and not tables, researchers must use a statistical package to analyze the millions of records in the database. A data extraction system enables users to select only the samples and variables they require.
Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of the Government Printing Office and the US Census Bureau is the official mirror site for the United States 2000 Census ASCII text data files. This site serves as the official back-up site to the Census FTP files at www.census.gov According to the agreement between Case, the Government Printing Office and the Census Bureau, these files will be available in perpetuity, allowing permanent accessibility.
The NHGIS specifically provides spatially aggregated census data: data summarizing individuals within particular areas, such as states or counties, where the "individuals" might be persons, housing units, farms, libraries, newspapers or any other features that were at some point counted in a U.S. census. No individual-level records, with or without personally identifiable information, are included anywhere in the NHGIS.
The U.S. Geological Survey's TIGER/line files constitute a digital base map of the entire United States. These files include spatial data for such geographic features as roads, railroads, waterways, and political and census boundaries (e.g., boundaries of tracts and block groups). find in the Library
Statistical tables selected from federal, state, business, and international statistical publications. Coverage from 1999.
Covers data from U.S. federal and state governments, universities, private associations and organizations, independent research groups, as well as international and intergovernmental organizations. Formerly from LexisNexis
Market research on consumer markets. Provides demographic information on consumer groups such as:
- Affluent Consumers
- Baby Boomers
- Kids
- Men
- Millennials
- Mothers
- Multicultural
- Singles
- Teens
- Women
and more
Market research on consumer markets. Mintel focuses on the U.S. and U.K. but does produce reports on other European and Asian markets from time to time.
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Market research from Euromonitor. Reports on consumer markets around the world. Use the browse reports option to browse by industry or country. We especially recommend the Consumer Lifestyles reports, which give detailed information on consumer demographics in over 70 countries. Passport also contains summary statistics on consumer products in the menu search
Statista collects data from a broad range of government and commercial sources. Data can be downloaded in Excel or pre-formatted for PowerPoint. Statista also includes reports from market research companies.