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…
CSCW Datasets The Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW), part of the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), in Oslo, Norway provides public access to their research datasets. “CSCW has developed a set of datasets for use in the study of the determinants of armed conflict. In addition, CSCW has adapted several other datasets…
WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID2.0b) Cross-country and time-series observations (4665 Country/year observations) of the Gini coefficient as reported in surveys and as calculated by WIDER Good for: Showing changes in income inequality during the second half of the twentieth century. Time period: As early as 1867 but mainly from 1950’s to 2003. Documentation: User…
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…
Global Development Finance A World Bank publication from that contains analysis and comparative statistics for nations and regions. The text is downloadable as PDFs, but use the links on the left for “regional outlooks” to more reports, the tables and charts of which can be downloaded in Excel format.
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…
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
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:…
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…