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Census Data
Population, housing, economic and geographic data from 1990 and 2020 Decennial Censuses, American Community Survey, the latest Economic Census, and reference maps. Data sets from the United States Census Bureau website.

GenForward Survey Project
A nationally representative survey of over 4,000 people that amplifies the voices of young adults by over sampling African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinx Americans under 40; housed at the University of Chicago.

ICPSR
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

Minorities at Risk Project
The MAR mission is "Monitoring the persecution and mobilization of ethnic groups worldwide." Includes data and project information.
Pew Research Center, 1997+
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
Reflective Democracy's Demographics of Power Datasets
Reports and data pertaining to race and gender of elected officials at the federal, state and local levels; 2012 - present. A project of the Womens Donors Network.
Resource Center for Minority Data
Data pertaining to racial and ethnic minority populations across issues such as housing, health, education, and income.

Social Explorer
Data visualization tool that allows users to create, save, and export data maps and reports. The raw data is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDC, the FBI, the National Historical Geographic Information System as well as other government and commercial bodies. Those datasets can be downloaded for use on other platforms, and external datasets can be uploaded. The bulk of the material relates to the United States. There is census information as early as 1790 but most datasets are from 2000-2021.