Sociology
American FactFinder
Provides U.S. Census information for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Provides data submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world. Target audience is researchers interested in religion.
Barna Group - Barna Update
Provides primary research, communications tools, printed resources, leadership development for young people, and church facilitation and enhancement.
Browse RAND Reports by Category | RAND
Is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDQA)
"Provides a full list of all Federal programs available to State and local governments."
Centers for disease control and prevention
For each of the Health & Safety Topics and the specific groups listed on the homepage, there is very specific information and statistics for every topic. An in-depth and useful resource!
Childstats.gov - Home
This website provides statistics and reports on families, children, health issues, economic issues, and many other issues that plague the American family.
Gallup Poll
Empirical evidence about the world's 7 billion citizens.
ICPSR Web Site
Maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. Dates covered are from 1962-present.
Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan
The world's largest academic social science survey and research organization.
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
Offers a full range of data collection, information systems, and analytic capabilities.
Organization - American Sociological Association
ASA is dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.
Organization - Focus Leadership Institute
FLI is completely dedicated to powerfully equipping the next generation of leaders through unique content and a personalized approach to leadership development.
Organization - Marriage, Inc.
Marriage Inc is a pro-marriage organization that attempts to rally concerned individuals, churches, organizations and community leaders to address local needs in Kankakee County.
STRYVE - Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere (data links)
Links to data regarding Youth Violence Prevention
Smithsonian
Search over 9.6 million records of museum objects, archives and library materials including more than 1.4 million online media files.
Southern Poverty Law Center
This website is an example of one area's goal of reducing poverty. Students covering nationwide poverty statistics would find help from this site.
U.S. Census Bureau
The leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
