Using Data and Statistics
BU Libraries have an online research guide dedicated to finding, accessing, and using data, data sets, statistics, and other available data. Visit the guide online at: https://library.bu.edu/dataandstatistics.
Data Sets
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ICPSR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new windowICPSR is the world's largest archive of computer readable social science data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
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The Womanstats Project The WomanStats Project is a team of approximately twelve undergraduate research assistants, seven graduate research assistants, thirteen principal investigators, and over 120 former student assistants. We are dedicated to the continual expansion of the WomanStats Database, as well as the pursuit of our research agenda assessing the relationship between the situation and security of women, and the dynamics between security, stability, and the behavior of the state.
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Gender Statistics (United Nations Statistics Division) The United Nations Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system.
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The World's Women Reports (United Nations) The World's Women reports are prepared by the Statistics Division of the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) at five-year intervals, starting in 1990. Five reports have been published as part of the The World's Women series. The first three and the last issue, World's Women 2010, analyze women's situation compared to men's worldwide on a broad range of fields. The 2005 edition reviews and analyzes national capacity to collect and report sex-disaggregated data on socioeconomic topics relevant for addressing gender concerns.
