Social, demographic, and economic information, searchable and categorized by subject. See also the Census Data portal.
From the US Census Bureau, this site offers current data on people, housing, business and government in tabular form (importable to GIS or statistical software) or as ready-made thematic maps. Sources include the American Community Survey, the Decennial Census of Population and Housing, and the Economic Census.
News, data, and research reports on women in politics from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers.
A center within Columbia University's Earth Institute, CIESIN provides an extensive gateway to data and other information focusing on human interactions in the environment. Provides a topic search as well as subject access to spatial and tabular data sets held by CIESIN or hosted on its web site.
Evaluative information on U.S.-based charities. Includes data on each charity's income and expenses.
Collection of major Chinese governmental data on the national, provincial, city, and county levels. Includes areas such as population, employment, industry, education, agriculture, trade, public health, and much more.
Climate Data Online (CDO) provides access to NOAA's archive of global historical weather and climate data in addition to station history information. These data include quality controlled daily, monthly, seasonal, and yearly measurements of temperature, precipitation, wind, and degree days as well as radar data and 30-year Climate Normals.
Annual reports of state and county-level economic data (business establishments, employees, and payroll) by industry, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Legislative information and analysis of "key votes" in the U.S. Congress. Biographical, political, and electoral data about members of Congress, plus information and data on the structure of the legislative branch.
Publications from each decennial U.S. Census of Population and Housing dating back to 1790. Also includes information about how each census was taken and changes that were made from the previous census.