Political Science 138:
Quantitative Reasoning in Political Science

Data Sources

International Data

• Statistical Abstract Section 30,Comparative International Statistics
• NationMaster.com
• OECD
  • OECD in Figures 2003 (note: a pdf file, use column text select to copy)
  • OECD Society at a Glance: OECD Social Indicators - Underlying Data (View long abstract) 22-Dec-2002 provides key-information on 45 indicators covering a wide range of topics, amongst others: Lone-parent families, Divorce rates, foreigners and foreign born populations, (excel format).
  • OECD  Education at a Glance 2003
• IDEA (voter turnout data)
• World Bank data and statistics
• United Nations:  free access is provided to the Millennium Indicators Database, which presents 48 social and economic indicators and related series by country and year since 1985, and the Social Indicators data set.
• Transparency International Bribe Payers Index; Global Corruption
• Arab Human Development Report, 2003 (ISU login required)
• Arab Human Development Report, 2002 (ISU login required)
• United Nations Social Indicators.   Data on Child-bearing  Education   Health  Illiteracy   Income and economic activity   Youth and elderly populations  Unemployment    Housing  Human settlements Population  Water supply and sanitation
• United Nations Millennium Indicators Database
• Other:
  • Eurostat (European Union)
  • International Statistics Institute (ISI)
  • Inter-American Development Bank
  • Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
  • World Tourism Organization (WTO)

Education:

• National Center for Educational Statistics  
  •  State education data
  • new: Digest of Educational Statistics (see list of tables)
  • The Condition of Education (see indicators list)
• OECD  Education at a Glance 2003

Children and Poverty

Crime:

• Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Bureau of Justice Statistics: The World Factbook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Sourcebook of Criminal JusticeStatistics
• Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Capital Punishment 1999 (report)  Link to site  | Prisons and Jails | Juvenile justice data | International data

• www.prisonstudies.org

• http://www.sentencingproject.org/

Elections

Presenting Data site: Voter turnout

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

Federal Election Commission

Center for Voting and Democracy

American National Election Study, time series tabulations

National Latino Political Survey

Women’s Representation

Global Database of Quotas for Women

The Status of Women in the States

The Center for American Women and Politics

The White House Project

The Gender Gap

Health

National Center for Health Statistics

General:

FEDSTATS (U.S. Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy)

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 range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. FedStats' major features include an "A to Z" index that provides direct access to detailed data listings in 275 categories;  An "Agencies" heading that allows users to link to the Web sites of Federal statistical agencies, or select from a menu of predetermined key words for those agencies;

Survey Data:

American National Election Study, time series tabulations

General Social Survey: UC Berkeley Survey Documentation and Analysis extractor

National Latino Political Survey

SDA data Archive data analyzer

Census Data:

Statistical Abstract of the United States --The National Data Book (this contains the same .pdf files as does our CD-Rom verson, and also older editions of the Abstract)

USA Counties --Over 5,000 data items for all counties on one CD-ROM

County and City Data Book -- Data for all counties and cities with a population of 25,000 or more