Accessing federal data from the USA

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If you’re looking to access data from the US and you can’t find it in it’s usual place, here are some resources for helping you find the data you might be looking for:

The End of Term Web Archive

Internet Archive blog post about the 2024 archive: End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

National Archives blog post: Announcing the 2024 End of Term Web Archive Initiative – Records Express

Library of Congress blog post: Nominations sought for the 2024-2025 U.S. Federal Government Domain End of Term Web Archive | The Signal

GitHub: GitHub - end-of-term/eot2024: End of Term Web Archive 2024

Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab has published 311,000 datasets (16 TB of data) from data.gov. Data here, blog post here, Reddit thread here

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This site has most of the CDC data backed up:

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Currently all of the US Census data is still available using the API

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IPUMS has been making statements about the data that is has backed up and is making available:

https://www.ipums.org/

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The Public Environmental Data Partners data backups are here:

https://screening-tools.com/about

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Many of the datasets that have been taken off of the agency-specific sites are still available in the larger data catalog:

https://data.gov/

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PolicyMap is also housing much of the data that has become harder to find:

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