Project |
Source Data |
Source Data Producers |
License with Data Producer |
USA |
U.S. censuses and the American Community Survey (ACS) |
U.S. Census Bureau, Ancestry.com, Family Search, IPUMS, and other organizations |
License with Ancestry.com, agreement with Family Search, all other data in the public domain |
NHGIS |
U.S. decennial censuses, the American Community Survey (ACS), U.S. agricultural censuses, U.S. County Business Patterns, and other data collections |
U.S. Census Bureau and other government agencies, academic research groups |
Primarily public use data, plus agreements with research groups |
International |
International population censuses and labor force surveys |
National statistical agencies and other data partners |
Memoranda of Understanding Example |
IHGIS |
International population and agricultural censuses |
National statistical agencies |
Public-use data |
CPS |
U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) |
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau |
Public use files, plus agreement with Unicon for some data and metadata |
NHIS |
National Health Interview Survey |
U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) |
Public-use data |
MEPS |
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC) |
U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) |
Public-use data |
DHS |
Demographic and Health Surveys |
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program |
Agreement with ICF International, producers of DHS (under contract from USAID) |
PMA |
Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) |
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Johns Hopkins University |
Agreement as part of collaboration |
ATUS |
American Time Use Survey (ATUS) |
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Public-use data |
AHTUS |
Time use studies and ATUS |
Centre for Time Use Research, University of Oxford |
Agreement as part of grant collaboration |
MTUS |
Multinational Time Use Study |
Centre for Time Use Research, University of Oxford |
Agreement as part of grant collaboration |
Higher Ed |
Scientist and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT) |
U.S. National Science Foundation |
Public-use data |
Terra |
IPUMS International, international population censuses, climate and land use/land cover data from several sources |
Academic and government organizations |
Agreements with data producers and public-use aggregate census data |