Methods and Data Core Services

CSDE Sources

Current Population Surveys (CPS)

• Annual Social and Economic Study (ASEC also known as the March Supplement)
• Educaton & Enrollment (also known as the October Supplement)
• Food Security
• Historic Earner Study (also known as the Outgoing Rotation Groups or MORG)
• Internet and Computer Usage
• Veterans
• Voting and Registration (also known as the November Supplement)

UW Sources

As the primary resource for social sciences related data at the UW, CSSCR maintains an electronic data archive and offers help in acquiring data from other sources. CSSCR is a member of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). It is also a distribution site for U.S. Census Materials in electronic form.

For more information, and to download the available data, visit the CSSCR Data Archive.

External Sources

The AHDSS, South Africa database contains the data resulting from the exhaustive coverage of demographic events within a geographically defined population, namely the Agincourt sub-district of the Bushbuckridge district of South Africa.

As of 2008, the study site consists of 26 villages with a population of around 82,000 persons. The population includes all persons resident in the study site thus requiring no sampling. The population includes people linked as temporary migrants to the households in the sub-district. This enables, amongst other benefits, computation of the incidence of population events in the de jure population.

The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is a comprehensive source of health information on Californians. Conducted every two years, CHIS provides information for the entire state and most counties on a variety of health topics for California's diverse population.

CHIS focuses on access to health care, health insurance coverage, health behaviors, chronic health problems, cancer screening and many other relevant health issues. CHIS, the largest state health survey in the United States, provides estimates for counties and for a number of ethnic/race groups in California.

The University of Michigan China Data Center is pleased to offer the electronic version of China Historical County Population Census Data with GIS Maps. The CD product includes the population Census data at count level integrated with the county GIS maps for 1953, 1964, 1982, 1990 and 2000. All variables are in both Chinese and English.

The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project was launched on January 8th 2001, with funding from the Luce Foundation. The CHGIS will establish a database of historical administrative units for different periods in Chinese History, and will also provide a base GIS platform for researchers to use for spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps.

The participating institutions have joined together to form CHGIS with the idea of creating a new digital product for free distribution to scholars without restriction. The copyright for the official CHGIS data model is held by the CHGIS management committee at Harvard Yenching Institute, while each contributing institution retains the copyrights for their own original materials and may further develop their own research materials as they see fit. While each contributor retains all rights to their original data compilations, each contributor also grants a license to the CHGIS management committee for unlimited distribution of the official CHGIS publications. This arrangement has been made so that there will be at least one freely available GIS platform for use in teaching, research, and publications which scholars and interested parties can easily obtain and have permission to use in their work.

is a custom, easy-to-use tool developed to provide select demographic information as well as administrative data on programs that affect low-income people and families. Variable categories include Poverty, Young Child Demographics, Child Care Subsidies: CCDBG Participation, Head Start: All Programs, Early Head Start, Temporary Assistance Expenditure Data, and TANF Caseload Data (Families).

Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR) is a project of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in collaboration with the Carolina Population Center (CPC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) at the University of Minnesota, and the Population Studies Center ( PSC) at the University of Michigan. DSDR supports researchers -- both those who collect data and those who wish to use data -- in dealing with complex data and data requiring special security.

The Data Resource Center for the National Survey of Children’s Health ( NSCH) provides immediate access to survey data - plus resources and assistance for interpreting and reporting your findings. Use the interactive data query to search and compare survey results for your state, the nation, or subgroups of children.