Political Science Research Guide

A pan-African series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, and society.

The ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

Public opinion surveys sponsored by the European Commission.

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.

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.

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