Links down this column of the page refer to various data sites that have proved useful over the years. I invite nominations for new sites and information about inactive sites.
Washington Post, gateway to government Internet resources
American Religion Data Archive
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Division of Science Resources Studies (NSF)
Energy Information Administration
FEDSTATS (Index to federal agency statistics on line)
National Agricultural Statistics Service
National Center for Education Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
Office of Management and Budget
Statistics of Income Division (Internal Revenue Service)
U.S. Federal Election Commission
World Bank: Social Indicators of Development, 1995
World Bank: Trends in Developing Economies, 1995
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the world's largest archive of computer-readable social science data
National Election Study (NES), for information about public opinion studies