Data  

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Welcome to the research guide on
Data

Use the resources on this guide if you are looking for raw data to download into a statistical software package (e.g. SAS, SPSS, Stata) and manipulate to suit your needs. From most of the sources on this page, you can also download user-created tables into Excel. If you are looking for pre-defined (or summary) data already formatted into a table, and perhaps downloadable into Excel, please see the Statistics research guide.

If you are looking for data in a specific subject area that is not covered here, visit our Statistics by Country or Statistics by Topic pages. Note however, that those pages do not contain sources for raw data.

For assistance identifying data sets, contact Megan Brooks (see right sidebar) and for assistance manipulating data, contact Carolin Ferwerda (see right sidebar). 

State Data Centers

The SDCs are a partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau. You may be able to get state or local data from the respective SDC in a form that is not compiled/produced by the Census Bureau.

• Massachusetts State Data Center
• Other State Data Centers

As members of the Massachusetts State Data Center, Wellesley College users have access to customized data extrapolations pertaining to locations in Massachusetts. Please contact Megan Brooks, Director of Research Services, for further help or contact the Massachusetts State Data Center directly. 

International Data Centers

• UK Data Archive