Maplecroft’s Global Maps series announced two new maps today. Maplecroft’s Global map of aid explores the contributions made by developed country governments and their role in development, specifically the Millennium Development Goals. It is intimately linked with the map of debt through the issue of debt relief, the advantages and disadvantages of which are discussed…
Sponsored by the American Economic Association, the RFE site lists and annotates 2,100 resources including datasets, data catalogs, metasites, and much more. This is a great place to get a sense of available data or to start a search for data.
Of all the ways you can browse ICPSR, you can also browse the top twenty-five most frequently downloaded datasets during the previous month.
The Madiera portal …harvests statistical datasets and variables published on the Semantic Web from all the largest European social sciences data archives, organizes them using a set of multilingual thesauri and taxonomies and makes them available through a responsive and highly customizable Web interface… The Madiera project has provided a common integrated interface to the…
The Federal Elections Project at the American University’s School of Public Affairs offers year 2000 election data by state and county. Results for the 2000 presidential election are available for all counties. Then, for each state, downloads are available for the presidential general election plus various statewide elections, such as governor and board of education,…
One good place to find sub-national statistics is the OECD’s Territorial Database (TDB). Below is the metadata from the database’s home page. The page opens in frames that can be rather confusing. I’ve found it most convenient to follow the link in the lower frame, then click the image that says “query.” See the TDB…
The Department of Veteran Affairs Office of Policy manages this Veteran Data and Information Website. It provides easy access to Census statistics on veterans, statistics from other sources and the National Survey of Veterans. “This site includes socio-economic data, the demographic characteristics of veterans, the geographical distribution of the veteran population, and other statistical data…
Transparency International is an important source of information on corruption in countries around the world. It is a non-partisan, civil society organization composed of a network of 90 local chapters that fight corruption through advocacy campaigns, lobbying, and promotion of transparency in elections, public adminstration, procurement and business. Perhaps the most important publication is the…
The World Bank’s Governance Site provides full access to the Governance Indicators: 1996-2004 dataset used in the 2005 paper “Governance Matters IV: Governance Indicators for 1996-2004” by D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay, and M. Mastruzzi. The site offers several means of interactively accessing the data along with download in Excel format. Especially useful to students in…
The General Social Survey has been collected by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago for the U.S. Government since 1972. Because of a core of repeated questions, it is possible to track shifts in public attitudes over time. There are a number of ways to access these data. The SDA…