MCS 110 Race, Class, and Gender

Demographer and sociologist specializing in U.S. demographics. This site provides links to publications, demographic issues, media stories, data tools and resources for teachers developed by projects with which Dr. Frey is associated.

"The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations." (Summary from PRB).

The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. We honor privacy, protect confidentiality, share our expertise globally, and conduct our work openly.

This online Survey Documentation and Analysis uses the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) program developed and maintained by the Computer-Assisted Survey Methods Program at the University of California, Berkeley. A selection of NACJD data collections is available for online data analysis. Users can perform certain statistical procedures on the data, create custom subsets, or browse the codebook on the Web, without downloading the entire collection and importing the data into a statistical package.

General Social Survey (GSS) is a sociological survey used to collect information and keep a historic record of the concerns, experiences, attitudes, and practices of residents of the United States. GSS results are freely made available to interested parties over the internet, and are widely used in sociological research.

On this site, you can explore and analyze the GSS data you need, create data visualizations, and generate custom extracts to analyze in your statistical program. You need to register to extract data on this site.

The WVS seeks to help scientists and policy makers understand changes in the beliefs, values and motivations of people throughout the world.

"The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides a comprehensive body of data on the labor force, employment, unemployment, persons not in the labor force, hours of work, earnings, and other demographic and labor force characteristics."

"This page contains information about national labor force statistics with demographic characteristics available from the Current Population Survey (CPS). Data on the labor force characteristics of employed and unemployed persons, plus hours of work and earnings, also are available."

Current and historical statistics from the US Department of Labor on a broad range of topics and sub-populations of women in the labor force

"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires periodic reports from public and private employers, and unions and labor organizations which indicate the composition of their work forces by sex and by race/ethnic category... Private employers with 100 or more employees or federal contractors with 50 more employees."

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission collects labor force data from state and local governments with 100 or more employees

Annual fact sheet from the Institute for Women's Policy Research

World Economic Forum annual publication that "benchmarks national gender gaps of 136 countries on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria."

The State of Working America Data Library provides researchers, media, and the public with easily accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive historical data on the American labor force. It is compiled from Economic Policy Institute analysis of government data sources. Use it to research wages, inequality, and other economic indicators over time and among demographic groups