Datasets Available to Sociology and Criminology Graduate Students and Faculty

Dataset’s Name

Faculty

Period Covered

Description

Email Contact

500 Cities Data

 

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

2015

Data file contains sociodemographic, socioeconomic, housing, and other census data merged with CDC chronic health data that includes obesity, and other chronic health indicators in the 500 largest U.S. cities.

kfitzpa@uark.edu

AddHealth 

Shaun A. Thomas

varied

http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth

shaun@uark.edu

American Community Survey (ACS)

-

varied

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs.html

 

Black Lives Matter 

Lori C. Holyfield

 

 

lholyfie@uark.edu

Community Photo Project

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

2014

Data file contains detailed information on 96 students who provided sociodemographic background data as well as detailed information about specific photographs that were taken by them to represent their understanding of “community.” The file also contains up to 5 photos taken by each student.

kfitzpa@uark.edu

General Social Survey (GSS) 

-

varied

http://gss.norc.org/

 

Homelessness in Northwest Arkansas

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

2007

Data file contains detailed sociodemographic, health, residential history, work history, family history, social resources, and religious background information on 103 homeless adults living in Washington and Benton Counties.

kfitzpa@uark.edu

Homelessness in Northwest Arkansas

 

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

2015

Data file contains detailed information on 168 homeless adults. This data set is a mirror image of the data that was collected in 2007; additional data was collected on social capital, mental health/well-being, and medical histories.

kfitzpa@uark.edu

InfoGroup

Grant Drawve

2017

http://www.infogroup.com/

drawve@uark.edu

Intra- and Inter-group Violence Across Communities

Casey Harris

2000-2014

This data uses National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) extract files for the years 2000-2014 to record all serious violence (homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault).  Measures of offending, victimization, and arrests for Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics are provided separately.  Advanced imputation techniques are used to account for missingness on race/ethnic variables and then aggregated to the census place level.  Additional information from the decennial Censuses (2000, 2010) and the American Community Surveys are merged in.

caseyh@uark.edu 

Jones Center Assessment Data

 

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

2014

Data file contains detailed organizational data on 54 non-profits; 200 clients/visitors, and a point-in-time census visitors attending the Jones Center for Families.

kfitzpa@uark.edu

National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) 

-

varied

https://nces.ed.gov/

 

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)

Portraits of American Life Study (PALS)

Brittany N. Hearne

-

The PALS is a panel study focused on religion in the U.S., with a particular focus on capturing ethnic and racial diversity.

http://www.thearda.com/pals/

bnhearne@uark.edu

Owl Creek Parent Data

 

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

2012

Data file contains detailed mirrored data similar to what was collected in the Owl Creek student dataset. Parents and students are matched samples.

kfitzpa@uark.edu

Owl Creek Student Data

 

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

2012

Data file contains detailed health/well-being, family background, nutrition and health, social resources, and social risk data for 334 5th-7th grade students attending Owl Creek Intermediate School.

kfitzpa@uark.edu

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) 

-

varied

http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/Studies.aspx

 

Project Brave

Bradley & Lauren Sabon

2017

https://news.uark.edu/articles/38646/u-of-a-project-brave-seeks-to-stop-alcohol-related-sexual-assaults

copley@uark.edu

Southern Latino/a and Migrant Voices Project

Juan Jose Bustamante

2013 to now

https://slmvp.uark.edu/

jjbustam@uark.edu

Springdale School Data

 

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

2015

Data file contains detailed health/well-being, family background, nutrition and health, social resources, and social risk data for 1493 10th-12th grade students attending Springdale High School.

kfitzpa@uark.edu

Veterans Oral History Project 

Lori C. Holyfield

2008

https://news.uark.edu/articles/13057/veterans-oral-history-project-reveals-cost-of-combat-to-soldiers

lholyfie@uark.edu