Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California The IRI, founded in 1998, tracks political trends in initiataive, referendum, and recall. The web site of this organization provides a wealth of information and research aimed at journalists and policymakers. Archive of I&R Studies/Reports and Briefing Papers General Election Reports State by state reports…
The Almanac of American Education Carleton Reference Collection: LA 217.2 .A45 2005 “Helps you understand and compare the quality of U.S. education at the national, state, and county levels.” Even though there is a wealth of education statistics online, it can be of great help to use a paper publication like this one alongside those…
Letting the Odum Institute speak for itself: Data Archive Catalog “The Odum Institute maintains one of the oldest and largest catalog of machine-readable data in the U.S. It has an extensive collection of U.S. Census data, including one of the most complete holdings for 1970 Census files. Other major sources of data include the North…
CPANDA Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive Data on participation in and policy on the arts: art forms, artists, performers, art education, audiences, cultural policy issues, media coverage of the arts, arts organizations, public attitudes, venues, etc. Much of it is survey data. Geographic coverage: national and state data for the United States.
GEsource – World Guide – GIS Application – 2005 European Data An interactive map of Europe using 2005 CIA World Factbook data. Good for: Visualizing publicly accessible socioeconomic data about Europe. It’s a little tricky to learn, but some of the visualization tools are excellent for demonstrating the relationships between statistics and mapping. Geographic coverage:…
The Academic Commons blog brought my attention to a special issue HumanIT devoted to dynamic maps in research. It is a Swedish publication, but this issue is in English. Of special note is an article about dynamic maps and the humantities.
Penn World Tables Annual data for more than 160 countries on 25 macro and related aggregates. Also known as the Summers-Heston data. Good for: Meaningful international comparisons are possible between countries. Data not available for every country for every year. Time period: 1950-2000 Citation: Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version…
International Financial Statistics (IFS) (Link works on the Carleton campus only) The principle data set of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Carleton now subscribes to the electronic version, but it is best used in concert with the print version, which is available in the library (in the monthly and yearbook issues). Good for: Macroeconomic, international…
Public Debt Around the World: A New Dataset of Central Government Debt. Released March 2006 by the Inter-American Development Bank. The web site provides a downloadable zip file that contains The working paper (see below) the data (both in STATA and EXCEL format) for public debt described therein Citation: Dany Jaimovich and Ugo Panizza (2006)…
The Think Tanks page on the Statistical Resources for Political Science site (U of Michigan Documents Center) lists several comprehensive directories of think tanks. It also features an alphabetical list of major think tanks and links to their web sites. Another comprehensive directory is the World Think Tank Directory from the Policy Library. Also, the…