Sociology

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Reading Lists

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Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations

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Reliable sources of statistics and public opinion

• Eurostat 

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Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.


The World Bank's one-stop shop for gender information, providing data from a variety of sources.


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Data about UK households collected by the UK Government.


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This gives a wide range of statistics on population, education, (un)employment, agriculture, industry, motor vehicles, railways, TV and radio etc.

Data can be viewed as PDF (downloadable) or Excel format which can then be exported. Make sure to use the "Search within book" option, not Spinger's general search box at the top of the screen.


Find statistics for local areas in the UK on a wide range of subjects, including population, crime, health and housing.


Missing Numbers is about the data that the UK government doesn't collect. It is a project of the Centre for Public Data.


Our World in Data is a collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Oxford and the non-profit organization Global Change Data Lab (GCDL)


Authoritative data going back to 1878 from the United States Census Bureau. For earlier years data is available via PDF or Zip files but more recent years have Excel spreadsheets available to download.


Whilst the UK data sets cover such areas as employment, and family expenditure, the international data sets from major bodies such as the IMF, OECD and World Bank are well worth exploring - often giving information down to country level (previously ESDS).


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Official statistics from the UK Government.


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Use this site to help gather a large range of statistics, including detailed data on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

 

Referencing

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