WBI Governance & Anti-Corruption – Interactive Inventory of Datasets/Empirical Tools So far, this is the closest site I’ve found to a comprehensive listing of datasets on governance. This site is hosted and maintained by the World Bank. The invaluable tools here are: External Governance Datasets. An interactive, alphabetical list of datasets and brief descriptions Internal…
Directory of Development Organizations One of the most comprehensive guides online to NGOs. It lists 47,500 development organizations, not limited to NGOs, but also including governmental agencies, research institutions, private sector and the like.
Internet Center for Corruption Research Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff, who began the Corruption Perception Index (published by Transparency International) maintains this web site which also provides access to the CPI. All years of the CPI are here, 1995-present, as well as the two retrospective indexes representing 1980-1985 and 1988-1992. The site also contains a research…
Migration Information Source Migration Information Source is a web site created by the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank focusing on the movement of people worldwide. It is a compendium of sorts because it pulls data from multiple sources into one place that you can query by country, U.S. state, or by ethnic group. It…
Journal of Peace Research Replication Datasets The Journal of Peace Research, published by PRIO (The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo), publishes the datasets for its articles on its website. Datasets are available from the current issue back to January 1998, vol. 35, no. 1. Carleton community members, consult the Journals List for access to this…
Gini index, gini coefficient, coefficient of concentration, gini’s ratio If you are trying to find the Gini index rather than calculate it yourself*, know that it can be a bit tricky to find. Some places you can look for Gini index are: WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) Human Development Reports, United Nations Development Programme…
Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) A database of over 100 political, economic, social, and cultural indicators for 196 countries drawn from open sources. “The data set provides at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives and country performance measures. Currently, the data set includes measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic…
CQ’s State Fact Finder 2006 (book) Carleton Reference HA 214 .C68 2006 “More than 265 Tables for Quick Research” “One-Stop Ranking Profiles for Every State” Surprisingly, the blurbs on the front of this book capture some of the most important reasons one would use this reference book. Congressional Quarterly gathers information from respected state, national,…
Pippa Norris (Harvard) Exceptionally valuable global indicators datasets and their documentation being shared by this scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Global Indicators Shared Dataset Variables: Over 700. Use the codebook. Geographic Coverage: 191 nations
The World Bank web site offers a helpful Statistical Manual, which provides definitions and methodological discussions of statistics collected by the World Bank and other institutions concerned with comparative international data. Their abstract: “The Statistical Manual brings together definitions of and explanations of the relationships between concepts used in economic statistics such as the balance…