Data Sets for Public Administration

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data.
Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. Search almost 200,000 datasets from the federal, state and local level.

Open data from the state of California and A listing of other open data portals maintained by the State of California

The Pew Research Center's Internet Project is pleased to offer scholars access to raw datasets from our research.

The American National Election Studies serves the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists. We produce high quality data from our surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

The Census Bureau has begun rolling out our datasets via APIs. Check out our Discovery Tool. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest updates and newest dataset addition. We also invite you to make requests for features / data via our forum.

Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has provided politicians, policymakers, and scholars with a clear and unbiased perspective on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spendi​ng priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions.

Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across the Web through a simple keyword search. The project is still in beta.