Using ICPSR to find data
ICPSR has offers a searchable interface and offers list of studies and a bibliography of publications that have used the data that match the subject.
Other sources to find data
While you are exploring what data is out there, consider other places to look beyond the academic literature, such as:
- Annual Reports
- Data visualizations
- News feeds
Government Data Sources
Here's a list of sources for labor economics-related data from the federal government. (This is not an exhaustive list.)
- Data.govDatasets available via a keyword search for "veteran"
- FRED - St. Louis FedDomestic and international economic and financial data. (530,000 US and international time series)
- Bureau of Labor StatisticsStatistics and reports on employment and unemployment, the Consumer Price Index, living conditions, compensation, the federal budget, and many other economic topics.
- NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Data setsA mix of economic, political, demographic, and health data sets.
International Data Sources
- EurostatEurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. It provides the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.
State and Municipal Data Sources
Many states and municipalities provide publicly-accessible data repositories for the data they are required to make available to the public (and then occasionally some other data sets.) A few are listed below, and you can often locate data for a specific state or municipality by searching for the state or city name + "data."
- New York State DataBrowse and download over 1,600 New York State data resources on topics ranging from farmers' markets to solar photovoltaic projects to MTA turnstile usage.
- Open Data PhillyA resource for publicly available data from the City of Philadelphia
- DataLAThe open data portal for Los Angeles.
- NJOIT Open Data CenterOpen data portal for New Jersey
NYC Open Data is one of the most robust examples of an open municipal data source. (You can also find some of these data sets through the NYS portal and data.gov, but this is the most comprehensive site.) Below is a link to the NYC Open Data portal, along with an article from April 2020 that discusses how publicly available trash pickup data from the Department of Sanitation could be used as a predictor to figure out which neighborhoods had the most people leave the city during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- NYC Open DataOpen Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners
- Department of Sanitation Monthly Tonnage per DistrictThis is a direct link to the dataset used in the article above.