Research Guides: Locating Data Sets & Raw Data: About Data Sets

Discovering Data Sets

This guide is designed to help you discover data sets, manipulatable raw data, and statistics. Many high-quality sources of data sets are freely available online. This guide includes both free repositories and those that charge a fee for data. Data-intensive databases, useful for discovering statistics, are limited to ERAU students, faculty, and staff.

You may navigate through these guide using the tabs on the left.

For more information on quantitative research methods, we recommend the SAGE Research Methods Database:

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Books, charts, datasets, videos and reference content including the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series (Little Green Books), the Qualitative Research Methods series (Little Blue Books), and case studies. Helps you create research projects, understand the methods behind them, and create and share lists.
Good to Know
- Users must create a free Profile to save and share research and create reading lists.
- To create a Profile, click on Profile and then Create Profile.
- After you create a Profile and login, a My Profile hyperlink will appear, allowing you to organize and share your lists and searches.
Search Tips
- Use Browse to find topics, disciplines, and content type such as Books, Journal Articles, Little Green Books, etc.
- Use the Methods Map option in the Research Tools section as a visual method of browsing the resources available.
- Use the Search box to search for specific terms or phrases.
- Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases: “qualitative analysis.”
- Use the asterisk (*) to look for all forms of a word root: analy* will find analysis, analyze, analyzed, etc.
- Use connectors AND, OR, NOT to separate terms and phrases: "qualitative analysis" AND interactive.
- To expand or refine your search, use the Quick filters options located to the left of the search results page.
- Use Advanced Search to search for multiple elements in one search such as keywords, publication date, content type, etc.

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