Research Guides: POSC-410: Senior Honors Seminar: Find Data and Statistics

General Statistics

Sage Data This link opens in a new window
A source for datasets from 13.5 billion U.S. and 90 international sources. Find data about economics, education, health, politics and more. Sage Stats and US Political Stats are now part of Sage Data.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics and studies on over 600 industries.
Statistical Insight (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Searches U.S. federal government (1974-present), international intergovernmental (1983-present), state government and privately published documents (1981-present) that contain statistics. Many tables are available online as images or Excel files.

U.S. Government Open Data
Data.gov is the federal government’s open data site, and aims to make government more open and accountable. Opening government data increases citizen participation in government, creates opportunities for economic development, and informs decision making in both the private and public sectors.

Afrobarometer
A pan-African series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, and society.
American National Election Studies
The ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
Eurobarometer
Public opinion surveys sponsored by the European Commission.

iPOLL This link opens in a new window
Contains survey questions and answers asked in the US over the last 70+ years by more than 150 polling organizations. Create a personal registration for access to full features.
ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new window
World's largest archive of computerized social science data, with abstracts and data.
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) This link opens in a new window
LAPOPs AmericasBarometer regional survey measures values, behaviors and socio-economic conditions in 28 Latin American countries.

World Values Survey
The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire. The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents.

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.

Chinese Statistical Yearbooks
Digital repository of statistical and census data published officially by the mainland Chinese government.

China Law Info / Law Info China (1949 to present) This link opens in a new window
Extensive collection of Chinese laws, regulations and cases in Chinese (Chinalawinfo) and English/Chinese (Lawinfochina, English interface version accessible from main menu of database).