ICPSR is the world's largest repository of social science research data sets. Most data sets are available in Stata, SPSS, R and SAS formats. ICPSR also lists recent publications that utilized the data set in its research.

Since 1972, the General Social Survey has gathered data on American society in order to monitor trends in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes.

The primary purpose of the National Neighborhood Crime Study (NNCS) was to assemble tract-level crime and sociodemographic data for cities across the United States in order to permit analyses of the sources of crime for "communities" of different racial-ethnic and class composition.