Where can I find publicly available data sets?

Where can I find publicly available data sets?

These datasets can help answer your research questions….Finding and using publicly available data

1. Data.gov.
2. Census.gov.
3. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
4. General Social Survey (GSS)
5. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
6. Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS)

Where can I find health datasets?

Data and Statistics

• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
• Global Health Data Exchange.
• HealthData.gov.
• CDC’s Data and Statistics.
• National Center for Health Statistics.
• National Center for Health Statistics Data Collections Systems.
• National Public Health Data Resources.
• CDC Wonder.

What healthcare data sets are available from the US government?

10 Great Healthcare Data Sets

• Big Cities Health Inventory Data.
• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
• data.gov.
• Kent Ridge Bio-medical Dataset.
• HealthData.gov.
• MHEALTH Dataset Data Set.
• Surveillance, Epidemiology & End Results (SEER)-Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (MHOS)
• The Human Mortality Database (HMD)

Where can I get raw dataset?

Datasets are available via links provided in each series/survey. Data and software for researchers….National Datasets

1. Berkeley Mortality Database.
2. Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS)
3. Data.gov.
4. Data Discovery (National Library of Medicine)

What is public health data?

Public health surveillance is the ongoing collection, analysis and dissemination of health related data to provide information that can be used to monitor and improve the health of populations. Such surveillance systems can be established in many settings to study a variety of populations and conditions.

What are the public data?

Public data is information that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone with no existing local, national or international legal restrictions on access or usage.