External Data Portals

Data portals are websites which compile links of data-specific sites. These sites do not typically include raw datasets; rather they serve as a gateway to data sites.

AfricaMap
From 1612. Provides interactive map of data for Africa. Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Harvard University.
http://worldmap.harvard.edu/africamap/

Animated Atlas of African History 
From 1879-2002. Data includes: territory names, boundaries, imperial rulers, political systems, violent conflicts, economic and demographic trends Brown University
www.brown.edu/Research/AAAH/index.htm

Asian Historical Statistics Project
Provides economic data on select Asian countries. Certain Data are only available in Japanese. Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University.
http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/English/online_data/index.html

Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
List of national data centers of Belgium.
http://www.belspo.be/belspo/home/port_en.stm

British India population, migration, and trade
From 1840. University of Chicago’s Digital South Asia Library.
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/statistics/

CAIT (Climate Analysis Indicators Tool)
An environmental analytical tool (registration required). Contains a data archive of environmental datasets. Various years.
World Resources Institute.
http://cait.wri.org/links.php

Center for Geographic Analysis
A center at Harvard University focusing on spatial analysis and geographic information. http://www.gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do

China Historical GIS Project (CHGIS)
From 222 BCE to 1911. A spatial database including Chinese administrative hierarchy from the regime capital to the county level. Some data are only available in Chinese. Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Harvard University.
www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/

China in Time and Space (CITAS)
Contemporary Data from 1982 to 1990. A project to create and maintain databases of spatially- and temporally-referenced data on China. University of Washington.
http://citas.csde.washington.edu/

Contemporary and historical migration data
United States focus. Some Global data. Migration Policy Institute Data Hub. http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataHub/

Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
A data portal to 20 European data archives as well as a host of a large number of social science datasets.
http://www.cessda.org/about/members/

DANS - A large social science database on data ranging from migration to health sciences
Registration is required and contribution is encouraged. DANS (Data Archiving and Network Services) is an institute of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences AND Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/

European economic, demographic, and environmental statistics
From 1980. UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe).
http://www.unece.org/stats/stats_h.htm

Finland’s socioeconomic database
From 1975. Finland national government.
http://www.stat.fi/tup/tilastotietokannat/index_en.html

German Historical Geographical Information System (HGIS Germany)
From 1820 to 1914. A GIS database contains all boundary changes in Germany from the state to the governmental district levels on a yearly basis. Institute of European History and University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany
www.hgis-germany.de

Great Britain social science database
From 1841. Registration required and data must be ordered. University of Essex Art and Humanities Data Service .
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/

Great Britain socioeconomic and census data
From 1801 to 1961 in interactive map format. University of Portsmouth, Great Britain Historical GIS Project.
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp

Great Britain’s Victorian Census Project
Includes 1831 census data. Click on “The 1831 Census” to download excel file. Staffordshire University.
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/vichome.htm

Global Economic History Datasets 
Early economies and human capital data from 1500. A site hosted by the Centre of Global Economic History from the Social and Economic History Department at Utrecht University.
http://www.cgeh.nl/global-economic-history-datasets

History On-Line Project
University of London’s Institute of Historical Research provides links to other database sites.
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Type/dataset.html

Human capital and historical data 
Links to data dating back from the 16th century. A site maintained by Dr. Bas van Leeuwen, Warwick University.
http://www.basvanleeuwen.net/Links.htm

InfoChimps
Contemporary datasets (free and for sale) of various topics, mainly focusing on marketing. There are some historical data however (search: “history” or “historical”). InfoChimps, Inc.
http://infochimps.com/

Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS)
Harvard University’s collection of quantitative social science databases, powered by the Dataverse Network Project.
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/

Institute of European History Map Server (IEG-Maps)
From 1350. Contains over 700 digital maps on the history of Germany, central Europe, and Europe. Institute of European History and Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.
www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) - USA
From 1850. A project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data; this is the United States branch. Minnesota Population Center.
http://usa.ipums.org/usa/

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)-International
From 1960s. A project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data; this is the international branch. Minnesota Population Center.
https://international.ipums.org/international/

International Federation of Data Organizations for the Social Science Provides list of other data sites.
http://www.ifdo.org/scosci/index.html

International Opium Commission Report, Shanghai 1909
From 1909 and earlier. Detailed report containing testimony and trade statistics from member nations of the International Opium Commission. For a data table of contents, see our archives.
http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924032583225

INTUTE: Social Sciences
A consortium of seven universities in the UK, which provide links to social science data sites. Search “historical” for a list of data sites to which INTUTE links. The website has been shut down (July 2011) but select archived data are still available.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/search.html 

Keeping Track
A site maintained by University of Essex’s Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) and the UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS). The site serves as a guide to longitudinal sources of data and describes how one can obtain data from a particular site.
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/ulsc/longitudinal-resources/keeping-track

Latin America socioeconomic data
From 1900 to 2000. University of Oxford Latin American Economic History database.
http://oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk/

Mcgraw Hill Ryerson Data Archive
An portal to many social science data archives.
Mcgraw Hill Ryerson, Ltd.
http://www.socsciresearch.com/r6.html

Netherlands Economic History Archive
A large archive on economic and social science research and data sites.
http://www.neha.nl/w3vl/countries.html

Political Database of the Americas
From around 1950s-2000s. Provides data on election results and other political indicators in North and South America. Georgetown University.
http://pdba.georgetown.edu/

Population Reference Bureau Datafinder
21st century data. PRB is an organization which informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment. Included with current data regarding germane issues such as the spread of AIDS and projections regarding population growth in various parts of the
http://www.prb.org/Datafinder.aspx

Project on Religion and Economic Change (PREC)
From 1813-1968. Data sets from missionary, church, and census sources which provide cumulative overview of religious groups on economies over 190 years, in every non-Western society. University of Texas at Austin
http://www.prec.com/

Scottish statistical accounts
From 1791. Full access exclusively for subscribers. Non-subscribers may browse scanned pages. University of Edinburgh.
http://edina.ac.uk/statacc/

Social Science Data Archive
University of Amsterdam’s large data archive separated by country.
http://www.sociosite.net/databases.php

Social Science Japan Data Archive
From late 1800s. Demographic, labor, and industry data. Access cite in Japanese to obtain data.
Center for Social Research and Data Archive, Institute  of Social Science, University of Tokyo.
http://ssjda.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/

Social Science Data on the Net
A portal to various data sites online.
http://3stages.org/idata/

South Korea contemporary socioeconomic data
From 1970. Data is viewable solely through Internet Explorer. Korea’s National Statistical Office’s Korean Statistical Information System.
http://kosis.kr/eng/

Soviet Nationalities data
From 1926. Need SPSS or SAS & free registration to view. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
http://www.disc.wisc.edu/sovnat/

UCLA's Social Science Data Archive
A data portal that links directly to other website’s s datasets. Chiefly linking to contemporary datasets, with a few historical datasets. UCLA
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da/Home.WhatsNew.htm

UNDP Human Development Report
Includes human development index beginning from the 1990s United Nations Development Programme
http://hdr.undp.org/en/

UNESCO Data Centre
Customizable International datasets about education, science & technology, culture & communication, and literacy. Links to the main UNESCO site where additional links are available to documents, studies, etc. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
http://stats.uis.unesco.org/

United Nations Data
Searches 22 UN databases, with over 60 million social science records. United Nations.
http://data.un.org/

US economic data
1950s-2000s. ALFRED  (Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data).
http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/

US economic data
From 1950s. Economic Policy Institute Data Zone.
http://www.epi.org/resources/datazone_index

US mapping and census data
From 1790. The National Historical Geographic Information System project. Part of University of Minnesota’s Population Center.
http://www.nhgis.org/

World Bank Data & Research
Current and historic reports on economic, demographic, and many other types of national and international statistics. Many reports available on climate, development, HIV, agriculture, finance, and other topics. Click on "Data & Research" tab to access dat The World Bank
http://econ.worldbank.org/

World economic history data
Links to a number of historic economic datasets, along with electronic mailing lists which provide and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields. Maintained by World Economic Services.
http://eh.net/databases/

World geopolitical and human population data
From 1950. A personal site run by Johan van der Heyden.
http://www.geohive.com/

World historical data on labor
Between 1500-2000. Click on “Database with data on cross section 1900” for a large access file. International Institute of Social History: A Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations in the period 1500-2000
http://www.iisg.nl/research/labourcollab/index.php

World population, GDP, and Per capita GDP
From 1 AD – 2006. Click on links under Historical Statistics for excel files. Angus Maddison, University of Groningen.
http://www.ggdc.net/Maddison/content.shtml

World social science data
Include categories such as census, health care, and social indicators. Registration is required to view data. University of Michigan’s ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research).
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/subject.html

World social science data
General public can access certain data. SPSS or SAS & free registration needed to view. University of Wisconsin-Madison Online Data Archive.
http://www.disc.wisc.edu/archive.html

World social science indicators
From 1975. Registration is required. Australian Social Science Data Archive.
http://assda-nesstar.anu.edu.au/webview/index.jsp