Education Data Resources

Harvard Dataverse Network
The Harvard Dataverse includes the world's largest collection of social science research data. Collections include data sets from government entities, universities, and individual researchers. Data can be downloaded in multiple formats, if permissions allow, and in some cases subset for analysis.

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections promotes high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making. Its vision is that children are well cared for and have rich learning experiences, and their families are supported and able to work. Through its Web site, it offers research and data resources for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and others.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
One of the world’s oldest and largest social science data archives; based at the University of Michigan. Categories of datasets include census enumerations; community and urban studies; economic behavior and attitudes; government structures, policies and capabilities; social indicators; and much more.