While the sites listed above provide access to statistics -- data that has already been analyzed -- sometimes you want to work with the data yourself. Try searching some of these sites for .csv, .xls, or other file formats you can download for analysis in Excel, R, SPSS, or another statistical software package..
Increasingly, funders are requiring researchers to share their original data publicly when publishing articles based on that data. In response, researchers often deposit their data in repositories, enabling future scholars to explore and analyze it in new ways. Try searching one of more of these repositories for freely available data sets.
