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The following list was inspired by Benjamin Edelman, “Using Internet Data for Economic Research,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 26:189–206, 2012; Robert J. Franzese, Jr., “Empirical Strategies for Various Manifestations of Multilevel Data,” Political Analysis 13:430–446, 2005; Paul Pennings et al., Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics, Sage, 2005; Berenica Vejvoda, “Selected Data Resources for Political Science Research,” UC San Diego Social Science Data Services; Emiliano Grossman and Nicolas Sauger; and more from colleagues, students and friends.
Data sources in bold are used in the course. Several country-level data sources are included in the Quality of Government (QOG) dataset. Please consult the course material on data management before planning to merge or convert datasets!
- Council of European Social Science Data Archives
- Data Libary (University of Edinburgh)
- EUROLAB and GESIS
- ICPSR, IPSAportal
- Macro Data Guide
- Centre de données socio-politiques
- Eurostat
- International Labour Organization (labour force surveys)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- OECD (OECD Health, OECD Social Expenditure)
- United Nations (Statistics Division, Millennium Development Goals)
- World Bank (World Development Indicators) (dedicated Stata command)
- World Health Organization (WHO) (Global Health Observatory, WHO Health for All Database); Gapminder (excellent graphing)
There is a long list of profit and nonprofit sources producing measures of human rights, environmental performance, good government and so on. Examples shown for press freedom and corruption perception indexes.
- Economist Intelligence Unit (good governance indicators)
- Freedom House (freedom of the press)
- Reporters Without Borders (Press Freedom Index)
- Transparency International (corruption perception indexes)
National sources include census and polling data next to surveys. Examples shown for France, US and UK national providers.
- United Kingdom:
- British Election Study (BES)
- Data.gov.uk (open data)
- ESRC Survey Question Bank (ESRC Survey Resources Network)
- Office of National Statistics (ONS)
- UK Data Archive (UKDA), browsable at ESDS; see e.g. British Social Attitudes (BSA), British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
- United States:
- American National Election Studies (ANES)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Census Bureau
- Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA)
- Data.gov (open data)
- Federal Reserve (U.S. economic time series)
- General Social Survey (GSS)
- National Health Interview Survey (NHIS, NHCS/CDC)
- Pew Research (American Life & Internet, Global Attitudes, People & the Press, Social & Demographic Trends)
- Roper Center
- France:
- Data.gouv.fr (open data)
- INSEE (very large and detailed)
- Réseau Quételet (strict access conditions)
- Center for International Development (CID)
- Comparative Manifestos (pools parties’ election manifestos by election across several democracies)
- Comparative Policy Agendas (initially an American project)
- Comparative Political Datasets (CPD; politics and expenditures in OECD and European countries)
- Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
- IPU (parliaments and electoral systems)
- IQSS (datasets used by U.S. political scientists)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (international development and trade)
- ParlGov (extensive data on EU and most OECD parties, elections and cabinets, by Döring and Manow)
- Penn World Tables (precise estimation of real gross domestic product)
- Political Data Yearbook (ECPR)
- Polity IV (regime characteristics and transitions)
- Quality of Government (QOG; institutions, development and more)
- Worldwide Elections (electoral competition and outcomes)
- Afrobarometers
- Arab Barometer
- Eurobarometers (EB)
- European Social Survey (ESS)
- European Values Surveys (EVS) -- see download guide
- International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
- World Values Surveys (WVS) -- includes WVS/EVS integrated files
- Correlates of War (COW; Militarized Interstate Disputes and more)
- Foundational IR datasets (ICPSR)
- Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO; armed conflicts, conflict geography)
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI; world armament and disarmament)
For development economics, try the excellent DEVECONDATA.
And there's much more to it than just academic research data: try CKAN, DataMarket and Quandl, my own collection, the Guardian Data Blog data index, the /r/datasets Reddit channel, the BigML Data Sources collection, …