Datasets
Professor Lucas' Data
Math-by-English Tables were used in Tracking
Inequality, and contain enough information for analysts to replicate
and extend the analysis of 1979 freshman,1980 sophomores, 1981 juniors,
and 1982 seniors.(Click to download ASCII file)
Mathematics Mobility Tables were used in Tracking
Inequality, and contain enough information for analysts to replicate
and extend the analysis of mobility in Mathematics. The data pertain to
movement from grade 10, through grade 11, to grade 12.(Click to download ASCII file)
English Mobility Tables were used in Tracking
Inequality, and contain enough information for analysts to replicate
and extend the analysis of mobility in English. The data pertain to movement
from grade 10, through grade 11, to grade 12.(Click to download
ASCII file)
Race/Class-Specific English and Mathematics
Mobility Tables were used in "Race, Class, and Tournament Track
Mobility" (Lucas and Good 2001) and contain enough information for
analysts to replicate and extend the analyses of mobility reported
therein. The data pertain to movement from grade 10, through grade 11, to
grade 12.(Click to download ASCII file)
General Data Depositories
The Inter-University Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of
Michigan serves as a national repository for social scientific data. The
data released by ICPSR is public release data. Some of the datasets may be
obtained from the locations listed below. The sources below may also make
available restricted use versions of the same datasets available through
ICPSR.
The Data and Program Library
Service (DPLS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison contains many
datasets also available via ICPSR. However, DPLS also contains some
datafiles not otherwise available. For example, DPLS has datasets on
Brazil and Colombia not available via ICPSR.
The National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) is a prime source of nationally representative data on education
in the United States. Data collection covers a wide range of educational
levels and contexts, surveying first graders through graduate faculty, home
schooled children and public libraries.
The United States Bureau of the
Census has datasets that may be used to study demographic, economic,
and social issues in the United States. One may obtain data on individual
persons, families, households, block-groups, cities, counties, and states,
and these data may reflect one Census year or several decades. It is also
possible to download pre-existing tables on a wide range of topics, and to
conduct data analyses on-line.
The Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), is a gateway to data depositories in over a dozen European countries.
The South African Data Archive (SADA), contains machine-readable data on South Africa, and provides links to other data sources in Africa and around the world.
The Survey Data Archive of the University of California-Berkeley, contains data from the General Social Surveys, National Election Surveys, Race and Politics Surveys, and the California 1% Census. One may read codebooks, obtain frequency distributions, and obtain cross-tabulations all on the net.
The University of California-San Diego Search Engine for Social Science Data on the Net, has a simple interface with which one may identify datasets that are available via the web.
