Data Sources
   

General Data Sources and Data Archives

• The Data and Program Library Service (UW-Madison)
• Online Data Archive
• The Digital Data Center - Harvard
• The EDS DataGate (Columbia, USA)
• Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
• International Studies Association Data Archive
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (University of Michigan, USA)
• Social Sciences Data Collection (University of California San Diego)
• Data on the Net
• Statistical Resources on the Web - Political Science (University of Michigan Documents Center)

Specific Data Sources - Data Online

• Demographic - US
• CIESIN ( Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network)
• CIESIN Information Network
• MABLE/GEOCORR Geographic Correspondence Engine
• The Green Book (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• Table of Contents
• State Data Archive (from State Politics and Policy Quarterly)
• State of the Cities Data Systems (from HUD)
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
• Stat-USA
• US Bureau of the Census
• US Census on a CD (GeoLytics, Inc.)
• The White House Briefing Room
• Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)
• Social Statistics Briefing Room (SSBR)
• Demographic - International
• CIA World Factbook (1996)
• Estonian Social Science Data Archive
• Eurostat (European Commission)
• The National Statistical Institutes
• FAOStat
• Infonation (UN Data Source)
• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Population Reference Bureau - 1999 World Population Data Sheet
• Selected International Statistical Sources (also German Version)
• US Bureau of the Census - International Data Base
  
  For data on specific countries, look for a statistics agency in Poly-Cy's International Government Page
  
• Economic Data
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics (Dept. of Labor)
• Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
• Consumer Price Index (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Economy at a Glance
• Producer Price Indexes
• US Department of Agriculture
  • US Trade Internet System 
• Electoral Politics
• ABC News Vote 98
• Atlas of United States Presidential Elections 1932-1996 - Klipsan Press
• American University Campaign Finance Website
• Political Data Base of the Americas
  • Electoral Systems
  • Statistical Data
  • Primary Reference Materials
• Federal Election Commission
  • Campaign Finance Reports and Data
  • FEC - About Elections and Voting
    • Federal Elections 98
    • Federal Elections 96
• FECInfo (Campaign Contributions Data)
• The General Social Survey (NORC)
• The National Election Studies - University of Michigan
• The NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
• Studies, Data, and Other Resources
• Record Of American Democracy (ROAD) (Harvard University
• Statistics of the Congressional Elections ( Clerk of the House of Representatives - 1920-present) 
• 2000 Election

  • The Clerk of the US House of Representatives

    • Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7th, 2000 (html)

    • Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7th, 2000 (pdf)

  • Federal Elections Project (American University)
• Federal Government Programs
• 1996 Green Book (Background Material and Data on Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means)
• Human Development
  • Henry A. Murray Research Center (Radcliffe)
• International Relations Data Sets
• International Boundaries Research Unit
  • IBRU Database 
• Political Leaders 1948-1998 (Roberto Ortiz de Zarate)
• Military Spending
  • SIPRI Databases
• International Political Data
  • Comparative Study of Electroal Systems - Data (Requires Registration)
  • The Political Handbook of the World
• Political Institutions
• US Budget Authority (Center for American Politics and Public Policy - U of Washington)
• Congressional Observer Publications
• Congressional Hearings Data (Center for American Politics and Public Policy - U of Washington)
• Epidemiological Data Resource at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Voter Information Services Congressional Database
• Public Policy Issue Area Databases
  • Data Sources for International Environmental Politics
  • National Center for Education Statistics
• State Politics
  • State Politics and Policy Quarterly-Data Resource
• Survey & Marketing Data
  • Survey and Marketing Research E-Store
  
   

Individual Researcher or Journal Article Data Sets

• General Archives
• FSU State Politics and Policy Data Archive maintained by Charles Barrilleaux
• American Politics
• Congressional Voting Data
  • Nominate Data - Keith Poole. from Poole, Keith T. and Howard Rosenthal (1997). Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting. New York: Oxford University Press.  Other datasets also available.
• Electoral Behavior
• Public Mood Data: James A. Stimson. 1991. Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings. Boulder: Westview Press."
• Ethics
  • Political Corruption Data Set.   Kenneth J. Meier and Thomas M. Holbrook "I Seen My Opportunities and I Took 'Em: Political Corruption in the American States" Journal of Politics 54 (February 1992) pp. 120-134. 
• International Relations/Foreign Policy
• Human Rights
• Poe and Tate Human Rights Data - APSR 1994
• International Relations
  • Dyadic Militarized Interstate Disputes (DYMID1.0) - Zeev Maoz, Tel Aviv University
  • The Long Range Analysis of War data sets
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