Geography Course Handouts: MA Geography Data
Course Guides Used in Geography Research
Data: GIS and Polls
- Policy Map Create maps, tables, and reports with PolicyMap an online mapping tool with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the United States.
- Social Explorer Provides thousands of interactive and downloadable data maps, charts, and reports with built-in data indicators related to demographic, economy, health, politics, crime, and environmental information in the USA.
- Census Data Access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau.
- U.S. Data & Statistics National and regional statistics from 70 federal agencies supplemented with links to non-governmental and international statistics sites. Maintained by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy.
Helpful: The FFIEC Geocoding/Mapping System refers to the Metropolitan Statistical Area/Metropolitan Division (MSA/MD), State, County, Census Tract combination. Find the tract to look up in Census via address.
- iPOLL U.S. sampling of registered voters on public opinions. Find aggregated question-level data and other survey data only at the national level.
- General Social Survey Provides survey data from personal interview on U.S. households on attitudes, behaviors, and attributes of the American public, from 1972 to the present.
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) Archives of downloadable datasets from various social science topics for research and instruction. Coverage: 1962 to present.
- Statista Reports that provide an aggregate of a variety of data, mainly statistics. Search for data by industry, political issue, consumerism, companies or countries. The data reports provide sourcing information.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States A summary of statistics on the United States social, political, and economy. Majority of the data is over time. The data tables provide source information for further research.
- UNdata Statistics worldwide from countries more than 30 specialized non-governmental organizations (NGOs) data sources. Covering international commodities, energy, governmental finances, population, status of women and trade.
