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Finding Government Data in 2025: Can't find data / How to contribute

This guide helps researchers locate federal datasets that may have been removed from government websites during administrative transitions.

Can't find data?

  • Can't find the government data you need?
  • Know of a dataset that needs to be backed up?
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Want to help with data rescue? 

Get involved in these data rescue initiatives

Data Rescue Project

The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network. Their goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk. Efforts include: data gathering, data curation and cleaning, data cataloging, and providing sustained access and distribution of data assets.

Website: https://www.datarescueproject.org/

DataLumos

DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos.

Website: https://www.datalumos.org/datalumos/contact

Last Updated: February 19, 2025