Lewis & Clark Libraries: Political Science: Data

Statistics

data.census.gov (replaces American Factfinder)
Census data on population, housing, businesses, education, income and more.
Data.Oregon.Gov: Open Data Portal
Data collected by Oregon's state and local governments.
Dataverse
Harvard's Dataverse contains over 30,000 datasets in the social sciences

Historical Statistics of the United States
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history.

From a review: "a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in the distant 1975, [...] expanded to include over 37,000 data series -- three times more than in the previous edition -- and dozens of new topics."
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
An international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

Northwest Open Data Exchange
Partnered with Portland State University, the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies makes data related to the Pacific Northwest region available from PSU researchers and students.
Population Research Center
Located at Portland State University, the Population Research Center's primary responsibility is to "provide ready access to census and other information on the population of Oregon and to provide timely analyses of the patterns of past, current, and projected future populations in Oregon and of the implications of such patterns for key issues facing Oregon."
Quality of Governance
Data on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions.
re3data.org
A registry of research data repositories – includes over 1300 international collections of data.
UNdata
Browse or search for data series of more than 55 million records from the databases of the UN on employment, education, energy, environment, health, population, refugees, and much more.
Linn and Lee's Data Sources
A comprehensive list of datasets on American politics and other topics, tailored to undergraduate research.

Polling

American National Election Studies
ANES conducts national surveys of the American electorate in presidential and midterm election years. The ANES time-series now encompasses biennial election studies since 1948

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ANES conducts national surveys of the American electorate in presidential and midterm election years. The ANES time-series now encompasses 23 biennial election studies spanning five decades. The guide provides political observers, policy makers, journalists, teachers, students, and social scientists with immediate access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public opinion and electoral behavior and choice in American politics since 1948.
Gallup.com
Includes a list of poll topics.
General Social Survey
A biennial personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) and "is widely regarded as the single best source of data on societal trends".

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The survey was conducted every year from 1972 to 1994 (except in 1979, 1981, and 1992). Since 1994, it has been conducted every other year. The website gives access to the data itself, as well as survey documentation, reports on methodological issues & uses of the data, quick downloads (by year), a bibliography and information on the variables.
Odum Institute
The Odum Institute has a large archive of public opinion data, including more than 1,000 Harris Polls from as early as 1958, the National Network of State Polls collection (775 studies from more than 25 states), the Carolina Poll (1977–2005), Monmouth University Polling Institute polls (2011+), the Southern Focus Poll (1992–2001), and some USA Today polls (1984–1993).
Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center studies public attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. The Center's main purpose is to serve as a forum for ideas on the media and public policy through its research.
PollingReport.com
Easy access to timely, high quality poll data from the publishers of The Polling Report

Polling the Nations
A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the U. S. and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time.

Included in each record is the polling organization that conducted the work, the date the interviews were conducted, the release date of the information, the sample size and the universe. The pollsters included in the database are: US polling organizations e.g., Harris International, The Pew Center Universities e.g., Rice University, University of Maryland Newspapers e.g., New York Times, Los Angeles Times Television news organizations e.g., CBS, NBS, Fox, CNN International polling organizations e.g., Eurobarometer Special interest groups e.g., Boy Scouts, AFL-CIO Each of the 500,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given.
Roper iPoll
A unique, rich data source for US public opinion topics. It includes 650,000 questions and answers from 1935 through last week, gathered from all the major polling organizations in the country (Gallup, Harris, Pew, etc.)

World Values Survey
A global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Political Science Librarian

E.J. Carter

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