Research Guides: ANTH-325: Protest!: Data and Statistics

U.S. Demographics

Data Census.gov
The official platform for finding data produced by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Social Explorer (1790 to present) This link opens in a new window
Access to data from the U.S. Census, American Community Survey, religious congregations, and other sources, with options to create thematic and interactive maps and reports.

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Economy at a Glance
State and metropolitan area labor force data

TIP: You can often find US state level voting data on the state's website. For example, see data in Massachusetts on the Secretary of the Commonwealth's website.

International Data & Statistics

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics and studies on over 600 industries.

National Statistics Offices Worldwide (United Nations)

China Data Online This link opens in a new window
Includes monthly and yearly reports on national, regional, and local macroeconomics, as well as statistical yearbooks and census data.

World Bank Country Data

OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
Digital collection of journals, working papers, e-books, and data sets produced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; accessible resources include the OECD Journal, Main Economic Indicators (1999-), OECD Economic Outlook (1967-), and OECD Economic Surveys (1961-).

Protest and Conflict Data

Mass Mobilization Project
"The Mass Mobilization (MM) data are an effort to understand citizen movements against governments, what citizens want when they demonstrate against governments, and how governments respond to citizens. The MM data cover 162 countries between 1990 and 2018".
Global Protest Tracker
"Use Carnegie’s Global Protest Tracker to analyze and compare the triggers, motivations, and other aspects of many of the most significant anti-government protests since 2017".
NAVCO Data Project
"The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project is a multi-level data collection effort that catalogues major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns around the globe from 1900-2013".

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