Accessing Federal Data & Information: Data Sources by Department

Census 

• IPUMS: Free resource providing census and survey data from around the world.

Center for Disease Control  

• ICPSR: Maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. 
• Public Environmental Data Project: Access to the CDC's Social Vulnerability Index and Environmental Justice Index. 
• UCSB LSIT Data Mirroring: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data archive from January 2025.​
• CDC Restored: An archive of CDC webpages that existed prior to January 20th, 2025.

Department of Energy 

• Open Energy Data Initiative: Provides free access to data generated from efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

​Department of Education 

• UCSB LSIT Data Mirroring: Archives of public data from the Department of Education.

Environmental Protection Agency 

• The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI):  Research collaborative promoting evidence-based policy-making and public interest science that advances the Environmental Right-to-Know (ERTK).
• Healthy Regions Policy Lab at UIUC: Datasets and guidelines for use downloaded from The Center for Disease Control (CDC), The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Health Resources and Services Administration

• Healthy Regions Policy Lab at UIUC: Data and guidelines for use downloaded from The Center for Disease Control (CDC), The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

National Institute of Health 

• UCSB LSIT Data Mirroring: Contains links and some sample code written in R to help parse NIH project data.​

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• The Climate Mirror Project: Mirroring and archiving government websites and data related to climate and climate change. Led by University of Pennsylvania's Data Refuge Project.
• UCSB LSIT Data Mirroring NOAA Sea Level Data retrieved February 2025.