Guides: Political Science Research Guide: Data

Data & Statistics

African American Electorate: A Statistical History
A statistical and historical portrait of the African American electorate from the colonial era through the election of Barack Obama.
American National Election Studies
High quality data from surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
Association of Religion Data Archives
Quantitative data sets for the study of American religion.

Data.gov
Provides descriptions of U.S., State and some municipal datasets (metadata) and information about how to access and download statistical and data sets from open governmental sources.
Data Center from the Council of State Governments
Links to polling numbers, an unemployment tracker, and a database where one can compare how states perform in certain categories.
Choose Data Center at the top.
Data Illinois
Eurostat
Searchable database of European Statistics

Fedstats
One-stop access to statistics produced by more than 70 US agencies.
Access note: Freely available to the public.

Five Thirty-Eight
Govistics
Provides data on spending, revenue, payroll, employment, and more for all US states and counties.

Historical Statistics of the United States
Millennial edition, fully updated and revised from previous 1976 edition. Extensive and easy to use. Excellent source for immigration and population data.
Dates Covered: 1790-2000.

National Opinion Research Center
NORC’s mission is to conduct high-quality social science research in the public interest. Our work is grounded in a commitment to research excellence, innovation, dissemination of data and findings, and collegiality. At the University of Chicago

OpenSecrets.org
Tracks money in politics and its effect on elections and public policy. The website of the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C.
Access note: Freely available to the public.
Passport
Historical and forecasted global marketing information including demographic and economic statistics, consumer lifestyles and industry reports for the United States and 80 other countries. Formerly known as Passport Reference & Markets.
Access note: Not available to walk-in users.

States Perform
Sponsored by the Council of State Governments, this website aims to provide users "access to interactive, customizable and up to date comparative performance measurements for the 50 states." The data cover fiscal and economic matters, public safety and justice, energy and environment, transportation, health and human services, and education.

Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (ProQuest)
A comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Printed volumes available in Reference at Lincoln Park and Loop at R.317.3 U58S.
UNdata
Provides access to a variety of statistical databases from the United Nations. Covering a wide range of topics including Agriculture, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
Access note: Freely available to the public.
Extent: Multidisciplinary
World Bank
Extensive information on the five institutions that comprise the World Bank Group--their organization, mission, programs, quick facts and summaries of individual country activity.
Access note: Freely available to the public.

World Database of Happiness
Register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life, including a bibliography of more than 7,000 publications, 759 measures of happiness in more than 1,500 studies, and data covering 165 nations.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
The world's largest archive of computerized social science data. In order to download restricted data sets, DePaul users must create an ICPSR MyData account and link it to our institution. Create an account here: http://bit.ly/201zdoq
Access note: Only available to authenticated DePaul users.