toddrjones / datasets

# Free Datasets for Social Science Research
This is a compilation of free datasets that I hope can be useful to students, professors, and others for research, data visualization, etc. Most of the datasets are publicly available, but some aren't and require data agreements. If you have any additions (including new datasets or filling in details on existing entries), changes, or comments, please contribute!
 \- Todd Jones
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### Contents
Skip to: Time Use, Crime, US Censuses and Economic History, Household Surveys, Mobility and Migration, Names, Injury and death, Crashes and traffic, Education, Academia, Temperature, Family, Sports, Religion, Government, Inflation and cost of living, Working, Businesses, Politics and voting, Health, public health, and epidemiology, Real estate, Patents, Social networks, Beliefs and values, Law, Environment and energy, Shopping, Maps and geography, States, conflict, and regimes, Macroeconomics
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### Time Use
- American Time Use Survey (ATUS) - 24-hour US time diaries
 - Years: 2003-present; Access: Public; There is also an IPUMS version
 - Includes minute-by-minute information on which of hundreds of activities the person is doing. For most activities, there is also information on where and with whom the activity occurred.
 - The ATUS is a sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS), to which it can be linked.
 - Sample paper: Parental and Student Time Use Around the Academic Year
- Multinational Time Use Study - Time diaries from a number of countries
 - Years: varies. Access: Requires IPUMS data agreement.
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### Crime
- National Incident-based Reporting System (NIBRS) - Individual-level crime data covering much of the US
 - Years: 1991-present. This version was standardized and compiled by Jacob Kaplan.
 - Includes information like offender age, sex, and race; victim age, sex, and race; type of offense; time of offense; location of offense; and relationship between victim and offender.
 - The geography is police agency, so the individual crimes are not geocoded.
 - Useful crosswalk to get more information about the police agencies
 - Sample paper: School and Crime
- National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) - Self-reported victimization data
 - Years: 1992-present. This version is from ICPSR.
- City-level crime data - many cities have individual-level, geocoded crime data. A small number of examples:
 - New York City
 - Chicago
 - Los Angeles
 - Seattle
 - See also this site, this site, and this older site each of which detail availability for many cities
 - And OpenPoliceData, which compiles data from many sources
- 911 calls - many cities have data on 911 calls. A small number of examples:
 - New York
 - Los Angeles
 - Seattle
- Stanford Open Policing Project - Data on millions of police traffic stops across locations
- Justice Outcomes Explorer - Collaboration between University of Michigan's Criminal Justices Administrative Records System and the U.S. Census Bureau. Years covered: 2000-2020 (varies by