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Data
The following teaching datasets are included in this repository:
| Filename | Data | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|
ess0810 |
European Social Survey | Rounds 4-5 (2008-2010) |
gss0014 |
General Social Survey | 2000-2014 |
nhis9711 |
National Health Interview Survey | 1997-2011 |
qog2016 |
Quality of Government | 2016 ± 3 years |
wvs2000 |
World Values Survey | Wave 4 (2000) |
Note -- the zipped versions of the datasets available in this repository are those used in class. They are teaching versions that contain only a selection of variables, based on a missing value threshold. Please refer to the original sources for the full versions and for additional waves collected in more recent years.
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. A few examples are shown below.
- Economist Intelligence Unit (good governance indicators)
- Freedom House (freedom of the press)
- Global Database on Elections and Democracy (IDEA)
- Reporters Without Borders (Press Freedom Index)
- Rulers, Elections, and Irregular Governance (REIGN)
- 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)
- Activism Data Sets
- Center for International Development (CID)
- Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA)
- Comparative Manifestos (pools parties’ election manifestos by election across several democracies)
- Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP)
- 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)
- Global Media Freedom Dataset (1948-2012)
- 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)
- Transnational Social Movement Organization Dataset, 1953-2003
- 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, …