Research Guides: Health and Human Sciences: Data, demographics, federal information

Health data & demographics

America's Health Rankings
The longest running state-by-state analysis of our nation’s health, providing actionable, data-driven insights to inform public policy, research, and news reporting
CDC data archive
CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025
City Health Dashboard
NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Department of Population Health
Congressional District Health Dashboard
Includes 37 metrics for all 435 U.S. Congressional Districts
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
A program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, CHR&R draws attention to why there are differences in health within and across communities
Harvard Dataverse Climate Change and Health Research Coordinating Center Collection
A free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data
NC Health Professional Supply Data
UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research
NC OSBM Population & Demographics
NC Office of State Budget and Management
NC Quick Facts
US Census Bureau

CDC Social Vulnerability & Environmental Justice Indices
Public Environmental Data Partners
Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
The Public Environmental Data Partners are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data
Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
Working to make Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) data more accessible, user-friendly, and collectively actionable through open-source data tools
EPA Environmental Justice Scorecard
From the Wayback Machine

Data Rescue Project
DRP is a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data
Data.gov archive
Harvard Law School Library, Library Innovation Lab Team
Census Reporter
Census Reporter is an independent project to make data from the American Community Survey (ACS) easier to use, unaffiliated with the U.S. Census Bureau.
IPUMS
Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space.

Statista
A statistics portal that integrates data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets on over 60,000 topics from 18,000 sources
ICPSR (Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research)
ICPSR is an international consortium of more than 810 academic institutions and research organizations (including WCU), providing leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
**This link requires WCU credentials for access to more data.

ICPSR (Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research)
ICPSR is an international consortium of more than 810 academic institutions and research organizations (including WCU), providing leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
**This link is public facing (does not require WCU credentials).
DataLumos
DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources
NBER Public Use Data Archive
The National Bureau of Economic Research Public Use Data Archive is an eclectic mix of public-use economic, demographic, and enterprise data
National Equity Atlas Dashboards
Distilled complex issues into visualizations that provide easy-to-understand data insights and equity solutions

Social Explorer
An online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical census data and demographic information. The easy-to-use web interface lets users create maps and reports to better illustrate, analyze and understand demography and social change. In addition to being a comprehensive data resource, Social Explorer also offers features and tools to meet the needs of both demography experts and novices. From research libraries to classrooms to the front page of the New York Times, Social Explorer is helping people engage with society and science.
SimplyAnalytics (formerly SimplyMap)
Web-based mapping application enabling creation of professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. Users are encouraged to create a personal account within Simply Map. Without an account, click the "Login as Guest" option.
Number of Simultaneous Users: 3
World Bank: Open Data
Free access to global development data. Search by topic or browse by country or indicator.
Data use requires attribution (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License).

FRED
FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources.

Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more
Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine provides access to websites that have been archived by the Internet Archive
End of Term Web Archive
The EOT Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations, thus far having preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020
Biden White House Archive
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Presidential Library
Data.gov archive
Source Cooperative, Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School Library

Archive Team
Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage
r/DataHoarder
A subreddit of data preservation activists that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people