NIH Databases

U Michigan Library research guide provides links to state data resources.

The United States Mortality Database (USMDB) brings you the first clearly documented historical set of complete state-level life tables, updated to the latest year of available data, designed to foster research on geographic variations in mortality across the United States and to monitor trends in health inequalities. This data set currently includes complete and abridged life tables by sex for each of the US 9 Census Divisions, 4 Census Regions, 50 States and the District of Columbia, for each year since 1959 with mortality values up to age 110. The data are available for free to all interested upon registration.

Datasets about laws and policies that infuence the public’s health. Policy surveliance and legal mapping for the purpose of improving the Nation’s health.

This study includes data on state policy innovativeness scores from the SPID data, version 1.0. Here we provide dynamic (biennial and smoothed) rate scores for 1912-2017. # files, metadata, terms and versions.

Search by topics and state, create charts. Nationwide, longitudinal financial and programmatic trends in intellectual and developmental disabilities services by state and cross disability data. .

The site is searchable by State government offices and topics, also by local government websites

The annual 50-state report provides a guided tour of economic development laws, leaders, policies, indicators and projects from the past year. ata points according to your own organization’s site selection priorities, and let the facts guide you toward the best location choice. Data points can be mixed and matched.

Full Report, “The Geography of Social Capital in America,” covers, Data base: state and county indexes

Grassroots Change empowers grassroots leaders to successfully build and sustain movements that improve health and safety at the community, state, and national levels. Resources include: case studies, tools, presentations, research and a Premption Map searchable by 8 issues and state (https://grassrootschange.net/preemption-watch/#/featured-resources)

These datasets allow you to analyze social mobility and a variety of other outcomes from life expectancy to patent rates by neighborhood, college, parental income level, and racial background. You can search for datasets by geographic level (e.g., Census tracts), by topic (e.g., education), or by the title of the paper. Datasets about social

Open States aggregates legislative information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. This information is then standardized, cleaned, and published to the public via OpenStates.org, a powerful API, and bulk downloads. Register for an API key.

Link to description of data types.

Data about state family policies over the last several decades, historical data on the adoption of state legislation granting maternity, parental, family, and sick leave rights and provisions to private and public sector workers, the enactment, effective, and amendment dates of state legislation. This data will support research on the causes and consequences of subnational social policies and cross-state comparative research on poverty and inequality.

NELP publishes research that illuminates workers’ issues and promotes policies that improve workers’ lives. Types of Publications: Fact Sheets, Reports, Testimony, Data Briefs, Toolkits, Policy Briefs. Annual Reports summarize policy initiatives and campaigns.

Search by state and indicators

NCSL conducts policy research in a variety of areas ranging from agriculture and budget and tax issues and education to health care and immigration and transportation.

Explore by category and state and an advanced search option.

Explore by category and state, and an advanced search option.

Note this came from a Policy Link Final report-resources

Links to a page with direct links to each data set housed at Harvard Dataverse.

Health data for all 50 states, DC, and the US. and in some cases for counties, territories, and other geographies. State Health Facts is comprised of 9 categories, multiply sub-categories, and more than 800 health indicators and provides users with the ability to map, rank, trend, and download data. Users can customize health-related data for a single state or multiple states into a single report, through the interactive tool Custom State Reports.

Users can customize health-related data for a single state or multiple states into a single report, through the interactive tool Custom State Reports.

IPUMS CPS harmonizes microdata from the monthly U.S. labor force survey, the Current Population Survey (CPS), covering the period 1962 to the present. Data include demographic information, rich employment data, program participation and supplemental data on topics such as fertility, tobacco use, volunteer activities, voter registration, computer and internet use, food security, and more.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences.

Data sources include US state agency publications, books, journal articles, periodicals and occasional papers. Information is provided for the year in which each state initiated each of 85 innovative programs and for the date when the state became a territory. Variables (171) provide information on the programs enacted and on the innovative score, which was calculated for each state on each issue. Based on the number of years that elapsed between the first and the last legislative enactment of a program, each state received a score corresponding to the percentage of time that elapsed between the first adoption of the program and the state’s own acceptance of the program.

IPPSR programs include:

DOES this have only us level data or state too. No access..

FRAC charts participation in the federal nutrition programs through monthly updates, annual publications, and additional research.

The Institute researches and archives a 50-state federal/state database of contributions documenting $100+ billion, plus more than 2 million state lobbyist-client relationships that are registered annually. Recent expansions include selected local-level data, collecting independent spending reports for federal campaigns and in 31 states, and lobbying spending in 20 states.

Contains several databases with measures of state government ideology and an extensive dataset on campaign contributions and lobbying.

Data on state legislation on education policy issues ranging from early learning to post secondary. 15 issue areas, 50 state comparison on issue areas, 337 policy reports, archive of state policy tracking, interactive map of state education policy tracking on issue areas.

Customize datasets and graphs. Search by topics, measures, geographical level, start and end years, and select output type. Data provides metrics quantifying the temporal and regional patterns of health care spending and utilization, particularly with regard to the diffusion and exnovation of medical interventions.

Data sets, maps, and other resources related to social capital

Link to state specific data. down load data files, state summary reports, and maps, all of the data used to compute summary scores and ranks, as well as data for unranked counties in several formats, including spreadsheets and SAS files. The national and state files include every measure used, composite summary scores, and detailed descriptions of data sources and collection years.

The Council of State Governments serves as a resource for state leaders and a catalyst for innovation and excellence in state governance.

The dataset contains country-level data, but it could be used a guide for deciding what kinds of information on U.S. states we should collect.

This link takes researchers to Center and Society and Health all (currently 6) projects. Products include:Peer-reviewed journal articles, Issue briefs and white papers, Maps and graphics, Videos, Book chapters and reports, Presentations and posters, Articles and op-eds, Health Impact Assessments (HIAs). Many products have links to full reports.

This Web page features data collected by Carl Klarner of Klarnerpolitics for public use. The 11 Datasets focus on politics and elections.

Dataset contains state legislative general election returns from 1967 through 2016 for all 50 states. There are 378,345 observations, each of which represents an individual candidate.

Restructures the State Legislative Election Returns (1967-2016) dataset so that the contest is the unit of analysis. The code that restructures the dataset is provided and a one hour video giving an overview of what the code does can be found at klarnerpolitics.org.

Dataset with state quarterly personal income, area population (with 2001 to 2009 state population imputed utilizing 2010 population information, which isn’t available from the Census yet), gross state product, state finance data (expenditures, revenues, budget surplus, spending on the state legislature), and housing prices.

Aggregate (state) and Individual (legislators) Data. Description and FAQ pages. This site provides links to the 8 data sets at the Harvard Dataverse repository. Datasets are downloadable and descriptions of datasets are included.