Foreign Policy has published its third annual Terrorism Index, a survey of over one hundred foreign policy experts from both major parties: “[The Index is] the only comprehensive, nonpartisan effort to mine the highest echelons of the nation’s foreign-policy establishment for its assessment of how the United States is fighting the war on terror. First…
Political Terror Scale, 1980-2004 A scale of 1-5 measuring government terror or the level of citizens’ fear of government persecution. Good for: Measuring levels of political violence. Geographic coverage: 208 countries plus regions and groupings based on income and indebtedness. Time period: 1980-2004 Documentation: Discussion of the scale, Scale notes. Citation: Gibney, Mark. 2004. Political…
World Development Indicators The World Bank’s statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2006 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. The link above is to the library’s subscription version of the database. Much of it is also available…
NeighborhoodInfo DC contains statistical profiles and other publications on neighborhoods in Washington DC. Aimed at supporting policy decision-makers, the site is a collaborative effort of the Urban Institute and Washington DC Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). On this web site, you’ll find data on D.C. neighborhoods — population, race and ethnicity, income, poverty, employment, education,…
Statistical Abstract of the United States This compendium of statistics contains basic tables summarizing the vast amount of data collected by the U.S. Government agencies and other selected sources. Comparative international data are included as well. The library has print editions back the very first in 1878. The newest edition is in the Ready Reference…
If you have ever used the World Resources Series published by the World Resources Institute (in cooperation with the UNDP, UNEP, and World Bank) for its data tables, you will love the EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal. Well-documented, comparative data drawn from major sources on economic, demographic, political, resources and energy topics.
The Human Development Reports (HDR) from the UNDP are now freed from their pdfs. At the newly redesigned HDR site, you can find statistical data and their documentation, either in published table format or in animated graphics. You can also create your own tables for download. What I like best is the ability to browse…
Jim Jacobs blogs in the SSDC News about an article that compares the National Crime Victimization Survey and the Uniform Crime Reports.
Quoting the site, the SPPQ Data Resource is “a series of data sets than include more than 50 state-level indicators on everything from crime rates to unified partisan control of state government. Many of these variables are available by state for a 20-year period (approximately 1974 to 1999). See the codebook for more detail. Geographic…