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Data \| data.gov.uk	The Government is releasing public data to help people understand how government works and how policies are made. Some of this data is already available, but data.gov.uk brings it together in one searchable website. Making this data easily available...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	26
Download Data \| Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project	"We are pleased to provide our raw data to scholars for their own research, and hope it will be useful in furthering our collective understanding about how Americans use the Internet. The Project staff is available to answer questions and to...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	31
European Social Survey - ESS DATA - ESS	The core module aims to monitor change and continuity in a wide range of social variables, including media use; social and public trust; political interest and participation; socio-political orientations; governance and efficacy; moral; political...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	50
Expanded Trade and GDP Data // Kristian Skrede Gleditsch	These data provide estimates of trade flows between independent states (1948-2000) and GDP per capita of independent states (1950-2000)	Anonymous	2011-07-09	76
Geographical and Resource Datasets - CSCW	The geography concept covers a large set of inherent, pervasive factors that shape opportunities for action and interaction. Below, we offer a number of datasets on specific aspects of geography that are often considered to influence the risk and...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	40
ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean	QUIPUSTAT, whose name is derived from a combination of the words QUIPU (first accounting tool of the Americas) and STAT (from English, statistics), is a bilingual application for public use intended for users and producers of labour statistics of...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	117
Instructional Data Subsets \| SSRIC - Social Science Research and Instructional Council	This page contains links to data and codebooks that can be used on a stand alone basis as instructors see fit. The materials are housed on the DIVA site at San Francisco State University. Where indicated, they also exist as parts of other more...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	51
Instructional Resources	This page was created to help instructors introduce quantitative analyses into the classroom. The resources listed here will help students explore international phenomena in a social science setting. The topics provided here are meant to help...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	36
International Labor Organization - Statistics	A selection of labour statistics available from the ILO: Global in scope and available on-line.	Anonymous	2011-07-09	33
Intranational Political Interactions (IPI) Project	The IPI project was designed to measure political conflict and cooperation within societies through the coding of political event reports from international, regional, and local sources. These events were coded on two ten point scales which reflect...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	51
Macro Data Guide - An International Social Science Resource	Various databases and indices. By Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD).	Anonymous	2011-07-09	40
Mary E. Breeding: Original Data Sets	Various sets: Public opinion data collected from 1668 households and 40 political leaders in twelve urban wards and eight rural villages of Bangalore, India, multi-level data on migration to the United States for nearly 200 countries...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	58
National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)	The NSFH was designed to provide a broad range of information on family life to serve as a resource for research across disciplinary perspectives. A considerable amount of life-history information was collected, including: the respondent's...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	25
Our Data \| Giving an European overview of public government data, existing mash-ups and policy initiatives	This site is building an overview of European initiatives and activities around Open Government Data.	Anonymous	2011-07-09	360
Pew Global Attitudes Project - A series of worldwide public opinion surveys	The Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people’s assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	32
Pew Internet - January 2010 Online News	This data set contains questions about people's online news seeking behavior. It was used in the report "Understanding the Participatory News Consumer".	Anonymous	2011-07-09	98
Public domain data from the US Government	We compiled various data sets from US government data, including data from the US Census International Database, the World Factbook and from the USDA ERS data. All US government data sets are public domain.	Anonymous	2011-07-09	48
Research - The Geography of Academic Research: dataset	This database covers over 76,000 empirical economic papers published between 1985 and 2004 in the top 202 economics journals, and was used to study a number of relationships between GDP and research output, countries covered in these articles,...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	49
Research Papers - Romain Wacziarg	Various research papers by Romain Wacziarg at UCLA Anderson.	Anonymous	2011-07-09	76
The Macro Data Guide - Fractionalization Data	The Fractionalization dataset was compiled by Alberto Alesina and associates, and measures the degree of ethnic, linguistic and religious heterogeneity in various countries. The dataset was used in Alesina et al. (2003) to test the effects of...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	88
The Macro Data Guide - Home	The MacroDataGuide is an accommodating starting point for researchers and students looking for data on the environment in which individuals reside and behave. The guide will jump-start your data search by providing you with an overview of extant...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	44
The QoG Data	Discover the QoG Time-Series dataset (1990-2006) with the interactive mapping application World Freedom Atlas programmed and designed by PhD candidate Zachary Johnson at the University of Wisconsin	Anonymous	2011-07-09	53
The Work, Family, and Equity Index (WFEI): Measuring governmental performance around the world in meeting the needs of working families.	With the support of the Ford Foundation and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Raising the Global Floor has been developed to measure governmental performance around the world in meeting the needs of working men, women, and their families.	Anonymous	2011-07-09	30
Warwick University - CSGR GlobalisationIndex	"Our Index measures the economic, social and political dimensions of globalisation for countries on an annual basis over the period 1982 to 2004, and combines these into an overall globalisation index, or score. Our index (and the economic,...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	40
World dataBank	World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. Global Development Finance (GDF) provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that...	Anonymous	2011-07-09	33