ACRL/EBSS Psychology Committee

Publications from the Federal Inter-agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, including America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, an annual update on the well-being of children and families in the United States

Reports on national trends and research on over 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being

Public opinion and research statistics on public health and healthcare policy

Statistics on topics of public health importance, to sources of more data, and to related web pages

Collection of statistics on the prevalence, treatment, and costs of mental disorders, on mental health-related disability and on suicide

Recent publications featuring mental health statistics

Statistics and data on mental health and neurology resources in the world. Allows users to find and display global, regional and country data, as well as to compare countries and WHO regions and prepare tables, charts and maps for downloading

Query system based on ACL-related data files and surveys

Statistical reports from the Federal Inter-agency Forum on Aging Related Statistics

Quantitative and qualitative research data sets from the Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Subscription-based access to the largest social science data archive in the U.S.

Data sets on a wide variety of social science topics including social psychology data from the Computer-Administered Panel Study (CAPS)

Data from studies of behaviors and attitudes of Americans in key realms of their lives, including family, community, health, finance, work and leisure

Subscription-based access to public opinion data on myriad subjects including personal beliefs, characteristics, lifestyles, health and social issues

Programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data, including the General Social Survey and the American Community Survey

Suggested data resources from the APA

Data sets from series and individual studies focusing on child development available for download and online analysis

World health and demographic data including population census data, surveys, registries, indicators and estimates, administrative health data, and financial data related to health

Downloadable data sets on topics related to child abuse and neglect in the U.S.

Downloadable data sets sorted by topic area

Subscription-based access to health and social science datasets from studies, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Created by SAS, JMP software is designed for exploratory data analysis and visualization. Rather than the usual task of confirming a hypothesis, JMP assists users in investigating data to discover the unexpected. JMP is most often used for designed experiments and analyzing statistical data from industrial processes.

SAS is a complex and powerful software package and is considered one of the most difficult to learn. Using SAS involves writing SAS programs that manipulate your data and perform data analyses. One of the big advantages of SAS is that it can work with many data files at once and can handle enormous data files (over 30,000 variables). Like its cohort JMP, SAS has a very powerful graphic tool.

SPSS is good for beginners as it is very easy to use. SPSS works best for editing one data file at a time and there is no limit to the number of variables or cases allowed in SPSS data files. SPSS works very well for analysis of variance and multivariate analysis. Creating graphs in SPSS is very easy and they can be extensively customized.

Stata is thought of by many as the best of both worlds because it is both easy to learn and very powerful.

SUDAAN is used for the analysis of data from complex studies that involve correlated (or clustered) data. Unlike most other programs, SUDAAN assists in computing standard errors of ratio estimates, means, totals, regression coefficients, and other statistics, which can increase the accuracy and validity of results

Tableau allows users to query and present large data sets using a graphical interface that presents the analysis in a visual form.

NVivo provides a user-friendly interface and extensive data storage, search, and retrieval capacity. It provides a powerful relational database that assists in theorizing about relationships within data and mapping those relationships. NVivo's memos function allows you to record your thoughts and processes alongside instead of within the data analysis. NVivo is a complex program so it generally takes more time to learn than some others but may be better for detailed analysis.

ATLAS.ti is designed to assist with the management of textual, graphical, audio, and video data.

Ethnograph was one of the first programs to pioneer computer assisted qualitative data analysis. It can directly import text-based qualitative data from any word processing program as well as search and note segments of interest within data, mark them with code words, and run analyses. Ethnograph works with data files such as interview transcripts, field notes, open-ended survey responses, or other text based documents.

MAXqda has an intuitive interface with many quick-access buttons that help to simplify the coding and analysis process. The program only handles files in rich text format, but it can also handle graphics. Because it supports and facilitates the development of a hierarchical code system (first-level coding is also supported), MAXqda is useful for grounded theory analysis. The program also has a unique code-weighting facility useful for indicating the degree to which a code is relevant.