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Sociology

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Data Resources

MU Libraries Data Services offers reference assistance to MU faculty, staff and students in the acquisition of raw datasets for use in teaching and original research.  Through our campus memberships in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, MU affiliates may access and download any of thousands of datasets on a wide variety of topics.  We also help users access the growing collection of public use datasets on the internet.

For more information on datasets, archives and contacting the Data Services Librarian, click on Data Services.

For assistance with statistical programs contact the Social Science Statistics Center .

A short list of freely available databases with socioeconomic data of interest to sociologists follows.