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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.

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 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.

International Statistics & Data

Europa World Plus
Online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. Covers political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.

IMF Data
Data from the International Monetary Fund, including International financial Statistics, Balance of Payment Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, and Direction of Trade Statistics
International Statistical Agencies, by Country
Provided by the US Census

OECD Stat
Allows users to search for and extract data from across OECD's many databases included in SourceOECD Statistics.

The MacroData Guide
An International Social Science Resource developed by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services.

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
Provides access to data related to debt, environment, poverty and more for countries.
World Development Indicators
Published by the World Bank, WDI provides access to more than 600 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2005, where data are available.
Dates Covered: 1960-
Access note: Freely available to the public.
World Health Organization Statistical Information System
Contains statistical and epidemiological data and information available from the World Health Organization.
Access note: Freely available to the public.

World Values Survey
The World Values Survey (www.worldvaluessurvey.org) is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life.
The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire.
European Social Survey
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since its establishment in 2001. Every two years, face-to-face interviews are conducted with newly selected, cross-sectional samples. The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of diverse populations in more than thirty nations.
Eurobarometer
The Standard Eurobarometer was established in 1974. Each survey consists of approximately 1000 face-to-face interviews per country. The qualitative studies investigate in-depth the motivations, feelings and reactions of selected social groups towards a given subject or concept, by listening to and analysing their way of expressing themselves in discussion groups or with non-directive interviews.
Latin American Public Opinion Project
LAPOP is the premier academic institution carrying out surveys of public opinion in the Americas, with over thirty years of experience. As a center for excellence in survey research, LAPOP uses "gold standard" approaches and innovative methods to carry out targeted national surveys; conduct impact evaluation studies; and produce reports on individual attitudes, evaluations, and experiences.
Afrobarometer
Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, economic conditions, and related issues in more than 35 countries in Africa.
NationMaster.com
Extracts facts and figures from sources such as the CIA Factbook and allows users to generate graphs by category for easy comparison.

ICPSR

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.

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