Secondary Data Analysis

The following table provides a wide range of data sets available for research use. These data resources are arranged by discipline. We will continue to update this page to ensure these links remain live and useful for faculty and students.

Health Sciences and Public Health

Health Sciences and Public Health
A very large array of health-related datasets
A range of national health-related surveys
Ongoing health surveillance data systems
Ongoing cancer statistics registry
Foodborne Disease monitoring system
Gerontological research data
Mortality and transnational population data
Data on aging in the US since 1990
Database of microbiome studies and samples

Education

Education
Missouri DESE education data
Multiple ongoing education research datasets
Longitudinal data sets on child development
Adult Education, Health, and Labor Data
Student data in Math, Science, and Reading
Ongoing dataset of education statistics
US-based education statistics
Data on disparities in public education

Anthropology

Anthropology
Digital resource for archaeological records
Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive Data on Australian Indigenous studies
Ongoing collection of field research reports

Social Sciences

Social Sciences
Large, ongoing set of social science surveys
Repository of qualitative research data
Range of behavioral surveys related to aging
Transnational research data on values
FBI crime statistics and data
25,000 social and behavioral research datasets

General

General
35,000 public opinion survey datasets
Datasets on voting and public opinion
Census and housing data
Searchable repository of datasets
Publicly available Pew Research data