Public Opinion and Data Archives
An alphabetical listing of data archives related to political science and public policy issues. Shawn Nicholson has compiled a guide to NUMERIC DATA: Data and Statistics at MSU and on the WWW which may also be of help.
American National Election Studies (ANES)
http://www.electionstudies.org
The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.
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American National Election Studies
Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
http://www.electionstudies.org/nesguide/nesguide.htm
The Guide provides political observers, policy makers, journalists, teachers, students, and social scientists with immediate access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public opinion and electoral behavior and choice in American politics since 1952.
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American Religion Data Archive
http://www.thearda.com/
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Census Bureau State and County QuickFacts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
State and County QuickFacts provides frequently requested Census Bureau information at the national, state and county level.
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Council of European Social Science Data Archives
http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/
The Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) facilitates the distribution of electronic data for social science education and research in Europe. CESSDA promotes data sharing by providing the Integrated Data Catalogue (IDC) at its Website. The multilingual IDC allows users to conduct a broadcast search of up to eleven social science data catalogs located all over the world, including catalogs in Israel, Australia, the US, and Europe. The IDC's simple catalog design--based on a Z39.50-WAIS protocol--and interface make it easy to use. The clearly displayed search results are ordered in accordance to the amount of hits per record in proportion to the total size of the record. In addition to the IDC, the CESSDA site supplies three clickable international maps that link users to the sites of 32 other data archives.
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Data on the Net
http://3stages.org/idata/
Search or browse our listing of 363 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
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EarthTrends Database
http://earthtrends.wri.org/index.php
From the World Resources Institute which publishes the World Resources series of reports and data tables, this comparative online database includes demographic, economic, infrastructure, politics, and natural resources. It draws from major sources listed on this page.
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EDS DataGate
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/dgate.html
The EDS DataGate provides easy online access to information about the thousands of data files available to Columbia affiliates through EDS.
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European Public Opinion
http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg10/infcom/epo/polls.html
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FEDSTATS
http://www.fedstats.gov/index.html
More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full array of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. Users can search by agency name, by program, by region. The site also offers compilations on contacts, press releases, and additional links.
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Finding Public Opinion Results in the MSU Libraries
http://www.lib.msu.edu/nicho147/guides/Subjects/Soc/publicopinion.htm
A research guide compiled by Shawn Nicholson, Michigan State University Libraries.
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The Gallup Poll News Releases
http://www.galluppoll.com
The world's premier source for public opinion data since 1935. The Gallup Poll covers new social and business-related issues every week. Special reports provide in-depth analysis on social and commercial issues around the world. Key reports and data are archived from March 96 to present. Frank Newport, Editor offers insights in From The Editor, and much more. Courtesy of the Gallup Organization of Princeton, New Jersey.
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ICPSR Home Page
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan , is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
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International Relations Data Page
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/data.html#intro
This page is the product of an ongoing project involving Joe Eyerman, Paul Hensel, and Bill Reed at Florida State University. We made a presentation about this project entitled "Expediting Access to Data Sources on the Internet" at the Workshop on the Internet as an Agent for Global Change at Texas A&M University. Contains many difficult to find datasets.
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International Social Survey Programme -- ISSP
http://www.issp.org/
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is an ongoing project that promotes the cross-national collaboration of social science research. Each year, the 29 member countries of the ISSP contribute data from national social science research projects to an international survey. The topic for the international survey changes every year; past topics have included social inequality, role of government, religion, and national identity. This Website provides general information about the program, a list of international surveys from 1985 to 1999, an archive of data sets used by the ISSP, profiles of participating countries, and a bibliography of publications. Source: Scout Report for the Social Sciences, October 20, 1998.
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Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/index.asp
Crossroads is a guide to Social Science data available on the Internet, developed in 1994 and maintained by librarians at the Data and Program Library Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Hyperlinks with careful annotations denoting content, quality, and other relevant clues are arranged by subject area and type of resource. A new image-map interface brings the user to their resource category and subject area with one click. The intended users for this guide are Social Science researchers looking for data upon which to conduct secondary analysis upon. Information supplied by: Robin Rice rice@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu.
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IRSS Public Opinion Poll Question Database
http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/pollsearch.html
This database, constructed by the Institute for Research in Social Science (IRSS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, allows researchers to conduct keyword searches on questions derived from a collection of public opinion polls, dating from the 1960s to the present. Query results display the full text of the poll questions, information about the studies, and, in many searches, frequency distributions. Users also have the option to view the full catalog record and download data from selected studies from the data archive. The IRSS Public Opinion Poll Question Database is an excellent resource for researchers who are developing "questions for their own studies, as well as for users interested in frequencies or in locating particular variables for statistical analysis." Source: Scout Report for the Social Sciences, October 6, 1998.
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Maplecroft Maps
http://maps.maplecroft.com/
This interactive mapping application allows you to visualize data from such sources as Transparency International, the OECD, and the World Bank on many topics divided into four broad categories: economic, political, social, and environmental. Besides the value of the maps themselves you can use them and their accompanying documentation to access the data used to create them or to find other sources of data on that topic.
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Michigan Center for Geographic Information
http://www.michigan.gov/cgi
The Michigan Center for Geographic Information (CGI) provides leadership, technical expertise and policy for the development, use, dissemination, promotion and sharing of geographic information in the state of Michigan.
The Center's mission will enable state government to more effectively and efficiently serve the citizens, businesses and other governments of the state in areas of public protection, homeland security, economic development, environmental protection and transportation.
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Michigan State Data Center/Business and Industry Data Center (SDC/BIDC) Program
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451-53348--,00.html
The Michigan State Data Center/Business and Industry Data Center Program provides extended services via a statewide network of affiliate organizations, including two program coordinating agencies, and numerous affiliate members located throughout both the upper and lower peninsula. Having such an extensive network of affiliate enables us to provide users with accurate, timely, and useful information and consulting services. For more information on the Michigan SDC/BIDC Program, including how your agency may be eligible for membership, please contact Darren Warner at (517) 373-2548.
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Michigan State University
Social Science Data Center
http://polisci.msu.edu/archive/index.html
The social science data archive is managed by the Program in Public Opinion and Political Participation in the Department of Political Science, and it is the repository and reference center at MSU for machine-readable data sources in the social sciences.
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National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/
The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), a division of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, "acquires, archives, processes, and provides access to [over 550] computer-readable criminal justice data collections for research and instruction." An NAJCD data collection generally consists of a data file, an abstract file, a codebook file, and SAS and SPSS data definition statement files. Data collections can be browsed, searched, and downloaded--in either a compressed or uncompressed version--at the Website. Users also have the option of downloading the files from an anonymous FTP site. Though an initiative has begun to convert the documentation files to .pdf format, the majority of more than 45,000 data and documentation files at the NAJCD are in ASCII format; therefore, Adobe Acrobat is required to view some content. Source: Scout Report for the Social Sciences, September 8, 1998.
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Nationmaster.com
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
"a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD."
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Political Science Data
http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/grad/comparative/data.htm
A collection of data sets related to comparative politics courtesy of the University of Michigan.
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PollingReport.com: Public Opinion Online
http://www.pollingreport.com
PollingReport.com, the digital offspring of the print publication "The Polling Report," calls
itself "an independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion." Of
interest to students, journalists and everybody interested in American politics, this site
features national poll highlights on subjects like "Politics and Policy" (President, Congress,
Issues, Elections), "Business/Economy" (Consumer confidence, Investing) and "The American Scene" (Sports, Hollywood, Work and play, Health). It is updated whenever new polls are released. Additional data, including state-by-state, presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial polls, plus analyses by leading pollsters, are available to subscribers. PollingReport.com is a handy resource that rounds up these elusive data from a variety of sources and keeps them all in one place. Source: ALA RUSA MARS Best of the Web 2001.
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Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org/
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), a nonprofit educational organization, aims "to increase the amount, accuracy, and usefulness of information about population trends and their implications." In addition to general organizational information, PRB's Website provides a selection of full-text articles, excerpts of published reports, and statistical summaries related to world population studies. The News, Numbers, & Analysis section allows users to locate relevant documents quickly; pop-up menus guide users to collections arranged by population topic or geographic region. PRB also maintains PopNet, an extensive directory of population information resources available on the Web.
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Princeton University Survey Research Center
http://www.princeton.edu/~psrc/
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The Right Site
http://www.easidemographics.com/
Easy Analytic Software, Inc. (EASI) provides free access to demographic reports and analyses based on US census data. Reports are generated interactively by users who select from twelve different geographic divisions (e.g. ZIP codes, counties, or television markets) and from twelve different report types--which analyze variables such as income, education, and quality of life. These interactive demographic reports are produced quickly in an easy-to-read tabular format. More sophisticated special reports--updates, ring studies, profile reports, and demographic analyses--are also available to users who register at the site. Source: Scout Report for the Social Sciences, September 8, 1998.
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Social Sciences Research and Instructional Council
Teaching Resources Depository
http://www.csubak.edu/ssric/welcome.htx
The Social Sciences Research and Instructional Council Teaching Resources Depository (SSRIC/TRD) facilitates computer-aided instruction of quantitative methods for the social sciences and supports the dissemination of research data. SSRIC/TRD contains seven instructional modules for social science research courses. Topics range from Exploring the Macroeconomy to California Opinions on Women's Issues, and modules include downloadable texts, exercises, codebooks, and datasets for use with SPSS or other statistical software packages. Also available at the site are a glossary of statistical terms, a full-text online version of _SPSS For Windows 7.5: A Brief Tutorial_, 13 independent data analysis exercises for students, and numerous other teaching tools and links for instructors of anthropology, economics, geography, political science, and sociology. Source: Scout Report for the Social Sciences, September 8, 1998.
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StatBase: UK National Statistics Online
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/mainmenu.asp
The Government Statistical Service of the UK has released the first public version of StatBase. StatBase-which supersedes the online edition of The Guide to Official Statistics—was developed to provide a comprehensive database of key national statistics derived from a wide array of official data sets. Users may browse the database at the theme, subject, or topic level; or they may conduct simple text searches. Currently, StatBase contains 140 data sets spanning 17 statistical themes. The standard format for data downloaded from StatBase is CSV. For users who need software packages to view and manipulate acquired
data, StatBase provides two statistical applications, which are available for downloading: Navidata 3 and Beyond 20/20. Source: Scout Report for the Social Sciences, October 20, 1998.
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STAT-USA
http://www.stat-usa.gov/
The site for U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government. The State of the Nation section is open to all. Globus and NTDB requires a password. Michigan State University students and faculty can gain access via their Federal Documents Depository Library located in the Government Documents Reference Unit in the Main Library.
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State Politics and Policy Quarterly Data Resource
http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/SPPQ/research.shtml
This web site constitutes an experiment on the payoffs of pursing a more centralized data infrastructure for researchers interested in state politics and policy. The heart of the web site is a series of data sets than include more than 40 state-level indicators on everything from crime rates to unified partisan control of state government. Many of these variables are available not only by state, but by time for a 20-year period (approximately 1974 to 1994). The web site is sponsored by The Practical Researcher section of State Politics & Policy Quarterly, the official journal of the State Politics and Policy Organized Section of the American Political Science Association.
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StateMaster.com
http://www.statemaster.com/index.php
Welcome to StateMaster, a unique statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on US states. We have compiled information from various primary sources such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. More than just a mere collection of various data, StateMaster goes beyond the numbers to provide you with visualization technology like pie charts, maps, graphs and scatterplots. We also have thousands of map and flag images, state profiles, and correlations. We have stats on everything from toothless residents to percentage of carpoolers.
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University of California, Berkeley
Social Science and Government Data Library
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/GovData/info/
Maintained by UC Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite, this new data library currently contains the following information from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing: Subject Summary Tape File 1 (SSTF 1), questions asked of every household; Summary Tape File 3, questions asked of 1 in 7 households weighted to represent the total population; and Subject Summary Tape File 3, Persons of Hispanic Origin in the US Sample data for this population. Under development are: SSTF 5: Characteristics of the Asian and Pacific Islander Population in the United States to be followed by SSTF 2: Ancestry of the Population in the United States. Source: Scout Report for the Social Sciences, March 24, 1998.
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University of California, San Diego
Social Sciences Data Collection
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/
The SSDC is a collection of large numeric datafiles as well as a set of computer programs that provide easy access to those datafiles through a menu interface. The web version includes a catalog of the entire collection as well as pointers to datasets made available through the internet. Some data will be restricted to UCSD Only. Data available through GPO Gate and some data available though the Lijphart Election Archive are available to the public. All users are welcome to browse through the catalog of holdings. Be sure to check out the searchable "Data on the Net Section", which covers over 770 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
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Published Public Opinion Data
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/pubopin.html
Guide to books, magazines, and indexes that have public opinion data information. Developed for the users of the Social Science Data Center, University of California, San Diego.
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University of Virginia
Historical Census Data
http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/census/
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University of Virginia
Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu
Collects and makes available data from a variety of sources including the US Government, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and other data gathering and distributing organizations. Interactive data resources include:
Also provides links to other data centers.
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
Data and Program Library Service
Online Data Archive
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/archive.html
The DPLS is pleased to present World Wide Web access to the following archival datasets (raw data and documentation files) for use in Social Science research. Datasets are free to download, but please register via the online form if you are using the data for secondary analysis.
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VitalStats
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/VitalStats.htm
Welcome to VitalStats, a collection of vital statistics products including tables, data files, and reports from the Center for Disease Control that allow users to access and examine vital statistics and population data interactively. Use our prebuilt tables and reports for quick access to statistics. Or, you can use the data files to create your own tables--choosing from over 100 variables. Using the data files takes a little more time but gives you access to more data. You can customize the tables, and create charts, graphs, and maps. You can even export the data for use offline or in another format. Please see the Getting Started Quick Guide for more information.
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Washington Post Data Directory
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/datadir.htm
The Data Directory is a guide to public opinion data published on the Internet by nonpartisan organizations.
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wesearch Questions
https://blogs.carleton.edu/wesearch/
wesearchQuestions is a blog about social science data resources started by Paula Lackie, Academic Computing Coordinator for Social Sciences and Humanities, and Kristin Partlo, Reference & Instruction Librarian for the Social Sciences, of the Carleton College Gould Library.
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