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• 10 Million International Dyadic Events
  News report events related to political retaliation, world news, economic change, and catastrophes.

  Citation:
  10 Million International Dyadic Events (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Gary King and Will Lowe.
  

• aDvANCE Project [2003]
  Sample surveys of current and former dancers in United States, Australia, and Switzerland.

• Arms Transfers to Developing Countries, 1945-1968
  Data on the transfer of arms to 52 developing nations. The Arms Transfers data (Part 1) provide information on donor and recipient, date and site of transfer, quantity, system classification (e.g., aircraft, helicopters, missiles, artilleries, small arms, or naval systems), and date production began and ended. The Weapons Systems data (Part 2) contain detailed coded information about each weapons system.

• Arms Transfers to Developing Countries, 1945-1968
  Data on the transfer of arms to 52 developing nations. The Arms Transfers data (Part 1) provide information on donor and recipient, date and site of transfer, quantity, system classification (e.g., aircraft, helicopters, missiles, artilleries, small arms, or naval systems), and date production began and ended. The Weapons Systems data (Part 2) contain detailed coded information about each weapons system.

• Australian National Political Attitudes, 1969
  This post-election study is the second wave of a larger study of Australian political attitudes. Focused on the 1969 national election. Questions elicited respondents' opinions on the political parties, leaders of the main parties, and various political issues. Party identification and party vote information, along with data on election campaign activity, were also obtained. The study includes standard demographic information for each respondent, such as age, sex, marital status, level of education, annual income, religion, birthplace.

• Bank's Crossnational Time Series
  Covers economic, social, and political indicators of nations and empires of the world including, countries and empires that no longer exist. Select data goes back to 1815, and the most recent data is for 2002. Not all indicators are available for all countries or in all years (even years in which the country existed).

• Census of Population and Housing, 1981: Households Sample File [Australia]: Data
  

• Census of Population and Housing, 1986: Households Sample File (Section of State) [Australia]
  

• Comparative Survey of Freedom, 1972-1976
  Contains information gathered in 5 annual surveys that assessed the degree of freedom in 218 nations and dependencies. Was carried out under the auspices of Freedom House, New York City. The number of cases with data varies from year to year, due to annexation, amalgamation, or the addition of further territories to the roster. Data includes assessments of the political and civil rights of the general population (using a seven-point scale, i.e., 1, most freedom, to 7, least freedom), an overall freedom rating for the country (using a three-point scale, i.e, free, partly free, and not free), and the direction in which this rating appeared to be moving. Surveys after 1972 have added variables that indicate whether a change in the evaluation since the previous survey was due to internal events in the country or to new information about existing conditions. Before 1973, only the presence or absence of change is noted. Thereafter, an increase in the number of coding categories enables the direction of the change to be recorded. The 1976 data include 4 additional variables applicable to 142 cases and provide information about the system of government and the economy of most of the nations studied.

• Correlates of War (1816+)
  Quantitative data useful for studying international relations. Also includes war within political entities.

• Cross-National Statistics on the Causes of Death (1966-1974)
  Demographic statistics for the populations of 125 countries or areas throughout the world. Units of analysis are both country and data year. Includes statistics on approximately 50 types of causes of death for males, females, and total populations.

• Data Bank of Assassinations (1948-1967)
  Data on 409 assassination events that occurred in 84 countries. Covers plotted, attempted, or actual assassinations of prominent public figures, such as top government officeholders and military figures, leaders of large trade unions or religious movements, and leaders of minority groups. For each event, information is provided on the country, date, and location of occurrence, the issue involved, the identity of the assassin and of the target, such as the type of group to which the assassin belonged and the political and social position of the target, and the outcome of the event.

• Education Statistics (World Bank)
  Worldwide data on education from national statistical reports, statistical annexes of new publications, and other data sources. Includes public expenditure data.

• EM-DAT : the International Disaster Database
  Essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 12,800 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present.

• Fertility and Family Surveys (FFS)
  Conducted in the 1990s in selected Member States of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). Also includes Canada and New Zealand. Includes tabular data for member nations. For microdata, must apply directly to the program.

• Foreign Conflict Behavior, 1950-1968
  Contains data on over 13,000 foreign conflict acts of 113 nations in the period 1950-1968. Data are provided for actor and object, either of which may refer to nations, colonies, international organizations, or groups in rebellion against national authority and involved in international relations. Data are also provided for official and unofficial acts, which are categorized into violent and nonviolent acts. Violent acts are further categorized into planned and unplanned acts, as well as unclassified acts. These include warning or defensive acts related to a developing conflict situation, threat, war, clash, or negative behavior such as blockade, embargo, or diplomatic rebuff of one nation by another. Nonviolent acts include boycott and anti-foreign demonstrations.

• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Adult Population Survey Data Set, 1998-2003
  Designed to capture various aspects of firm creation and entrepreneurship across countries.

• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): Expert Questionnaire Data, 1999-2003
  Designed to capture various aspects of firm creation and entrepreneurship across countries. Seeks to measure the national attributes considered critical for new firm births and small firm growth.

  Sample Size: 4,685 experts from over 38 countries and 3 subnational regions: Hong Kong, Shenzhen (China), and Taiwan.

• Global Terrorism Database II, 1998-2004
  Undertaken to address the fact that there is little robust empirical analysis of terrorism. The two primary reasons for this problem included insufficient temporal and spatial coverage of available data, and a lack of public availability of terrorism data. Due to this lack of available empirical data regarding terrorism, the researchers sought to code and verify a previously unavailable dataset composed of terrorist events recorded for the entire world from 1998 through 2004. The goal was to create a comprehensive and sound data set on global terrorism that can be used to derive methodologically robust insights into the phenomenon of terrorism and how to counter it. Not intended to be merged with the Global Terrorism Database, 1970-1997. The data being distributed in this data collection were collected using different methods and often different data definitions. Accordingly, the databases should not be used for direct comparison. Does not examine state terrorism.

• Human Mortality Database
  Detailed mortality and population data. Earliest data for some countries is 1751. Free registration is required.

• International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS) Series
  Most far-reaching program of standardized sample surveys to look at a householders' experience with crime, policing, crime prevention, and feelings of insecurity in a large number of nations. It also allows for analysis of how risks of crime vary among different groups of populations across social and demographic lines.
  • Wave 1 - 1989 - 17 cities or countries
  • Wave 2 - 1992 - 28 cities or countries
  • Wave 3 - 1996/1997 - 45 cities or countries
  • Wave 4 - 2000/2001 - 39 cities or countries
  • Wave 5 - 2004/2005 - over 35 cities or countries

  Sample Size: Generally, 1,000 - 2,000 households from each participating country.

• International Migration Flows to and from Selected Countries: The 2005 Revision
  Time series data on the flows of international migrants as recorded by Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each file has a complete set of the data available for a given country in Excel format. The period for which data are presented varies from country to country. In a majority of cases, an effort has been made to cover the period 1960-2004. However, some countries lack data for the early 1960s and the most recent data available for some countries is 2003. For countries that were not major receiving countries in the 1960s (Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway and Spain), their time series start in 1980. Countries gathering and publishing statistics on the flows of international migrants do not use the same criteria to identify migrants nor do they classify them in similar ways in terms of origin. Each file in the contains several worksheets. The first worksheet contains data on immigration, the second worksheet contains data on emigration when available, and the third worksheet shows data on net migration, the difference between immigration and emigration when both series are available. Users should be aware of the problems of comparability underlying existing statistics.

• International Military Intervention (1946-2005)
  Updates International Military Intervention (IMI), 1946-1988. This newer study documents 447 intervention events from 1989 to 2005. To ensure consistency across the full 1946-2005 time span, the original coding procedures were followed. The data collection thus "documents all cases of military intervention across international boundaries by regular armed forces of independent states" in the international system). "Military interventions are defined operationally in this collection as the movement of regular troops or forces of one country inside another, in the context of some political issue or dispute". As with the original IMI (OIMI) collection, the 1989-2005 dataset includes information on actor and target states, as well as starting and ending dates. It also includes a categorical variable describing the direction of the intervention, i.e., whether it was launched in support of the target government, in opposition to the target government, or against some third party actor within the target state's borders. The intensity of the military intervention is captured in ordinal variables that document the scale of the actor's involvement, "ranging from minor engagement such as evacuation, to patrols, act of intimidation, and actual firing, shelling or bombing". Casualties that are a direct result of the military intervention are coded as well. A novel aspect of IMI is the inclusion of a series of variables designed to ascertain the motivations or issues that prompted the actor to intervene, including to take sides in a domestic dispute in the target state, to affect target state policy, to protect a socio-ethnic or minority group, to attack rebels in sanctuaries in the target state, to protect economic or resource interests, to intervene for strategic purposes, to lend humanitarian aid, to acquire territory or to dispute its ownership, and to protect its own military/diplomatic interests. The variable, civilian casualties, which complements IMI's information on the casualties suffered by actor and target military personnel has been added. OIMI variables on colonial history, previous intervention, alliance partners, alignment of the target, power size of the intervener, and power size of the target have been deleted.

• International Social Science Surveys /Australia
  The International Survey Center, an Australian research group, conducts research on social, economic and political issues. Has a few large-scale Australian surveys as well as some secondary datasets from the International Social Survey Program.

• International Social Survey Program (ISSP) (1985+)
  1998-2005 is also available in an easy to use comparative program. For the latest see the site's web page. A listing of modules performed through 2008 is available. Ongoing program of crossnational collaboration. Develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social science as supplements to regular national surveys. Every survey includes questions about general attitudes toward various social issues such as the legal system, sex, and the economy. Special topics have included the environment, the role of government, social inequality, social support, family and gender issues, work orientation, the impact of religious background, behavior, and beliefs on social and political preferences, and national identity. Participating countries vary for each topical module.

• Lijphart Elections Archive
  Static research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries that was maintained through 2003.

• Luxembourg Income Studies (LIS)
  Household income surveys involving 37 countries in Europe, America, Asia and Oceania. Also available are the Luxembourg Employment Study, a database containing data on labor force characteristics for 16 countries (ceased in 2000 and incorporated into LIS), and the Luxembourg Wealth Study, a database containing data on household wealth in 10 countries. Users must register to gain access, but registration is free for academic use.

• Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project (1945+)
  Tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world -- identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them. Focuses specifically on ethnopolitical groups, non-state communal groups that have "political significance" in the contemporary world because of their status and political actions. Political significance is determined by: (1) The group collectively suffers, or benefits from, systematic discriminatory treatment vis-a-vis other groups in a society and (2) The group is the basis for political mobilization and collective action in defense or promotion of its self-defined interests.

• Occupational Wages around the World (OWW) Database
  Contains occupational wage data for 161 occupations in over 150 countries from 1983 to 2003.

• OECD Health Data
  Examines national health systems from 1960 forward for OECD member countries in a general, demographic, economic, and social context.

• Pew Global Attitudes Project
  Worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses 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 important issues of the day. Topics have included views of Asian nations of each other, Muslims in Europe, images of the United States, the Iraq War, and foreign policy. Surveys include different nations and topics:
  • August 2001 (France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, United States)
  • April 2002 (France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, United States)
  • Summer 2002 (Angola, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Slovak Republic, South Africa, South Korea, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam)
  • November 2002 (France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Turkey, United States)
  • January 2003 (United States)
  • March 2003 (France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Poland, Russia, United States)
  • May 2003 (Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United States)
  • March 2004 (France, Germany, Great Britain, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, United States)
  • Spring 2005 (Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey, USA)
  • Spring 2006 (China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, USA)
  • 2007 (Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela)
  • 2008 (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States)

• Political Events Project, 1948-1965
  Contains data on 6,754 political instability events in 84 selected nations in the period 1948-1965. These data, which permit measurement of political instability and the correlates of internal conflict behavior, are concerned with conflict directed by groups and individuals in the prevailing political system against other groups or persons, and with uncovering the determinants of stability within all national political systems. The variables in the dataset are divided into four basic types: variables that identify events, classify events, describe events, and evaluate events. The study provides a conflict intensity rating for each event. Political instability events are classified from low to high and include institutionally prescribed elections, the fall of cabinets, martial laws, assassinations of significant group leaders, mass arrests, coup d'etats, and civil wars.

• Polling the Nations
  Compilation of public opinion surveys conducted in the United States and more than 80 other countries. Each record includes the question asked and the responses given, the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and the groups or areas included in the interview.

• Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) (1995+)
  Provides reliable and timely data on the mathematics and science achievement of U.S. 4th- and 8th-grade students compared to that of students in other countries. Collected in 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007. Next round of collection will be in 2011.

• Union Centralization among Advanced Industrial Societies: An Empirical Study
  Data Repository for the Golden-Wallerstein-Lange Project on Unions, Employers, Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations for 16 OECD Countries, 1950-2000.

• Women in Development Series (1979-1980, 1983)
  Series of studies on women in development in 1970 with data drawn primarily from national censuses, surveys, statistical abstracts, and international statistical compendia. References are also made in some cases to evaluative studies conducted by individual researchers, research teams, and the staff of the International Demographic Data Center of the Bureau. These data constitute the most recently available information at the time of collection. The aim of this data series was to provide a reliable, up-to-date, accessible database on women in development which can illuminate the discrepancies in the roles and status of women against those of men throughout the world in order to serve as a basis for the promotion of both intranational and international parity between the sexes. The studies that comprise the Women in Development series consist of national-level data concerning female/male differentials over a range of demographic and socio-economic variables. Wherever possible, the data are broken down by age and urban/rural residence to facilitate further analysis. The series is cumulative and the data are presented in basic tabular format. Initially, the data tables were compiled for 69 developing nations from Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Near East that were recipients of the United States Agency for International Development aid. The first collection, Women in Development, 1979-1980 (ICPSR 8053), included all the aid-recipient nations regardless of population size. Subsequently, data were compiled for all remaining nations of the world with a population of five million or more, and statistics for the original nations were updated to reflect more recent information. The second collection in the series, Women in Development IV, 1983 (ICPSR 8155), covered approximately 120 nations from Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Near East, North America, Europe, and the Soviet Union.

• Women in Parliament, 1945-2003: Cross-National Dataset
  Information on women's inclusion in parliamentary bodies in over 150 countries from 1945 to 2003. Allows for extensive, large-scale, cross-national investigation of the factors that explain women's attainment of political power over time and provides educators with comprehensive international and historical information on women in a variety of political positions. Information is provided on female suffrage, the first female member of parliament, yearly percentages of women in parliaments, when women reached important representational milestones, such as 10 %, 20 %, and 30 % of a legislature, and when women achieved highly-visible political positions, such as prime minister, president, or head of parliament.

• Workplace Ethnography (WE) Project, 1944-2002
  Provided deep descriptions on a wide range of topics, such as worker behavior, management behavior, coworker relations, labor process, conflict and resistance, citizenship behavior, emotional labor, and sexual harassment. Coding of these characteristics yielded variables based on descriptions of worklife in specific organizational settings. The study data was collected in mainly two periods: the early 1990s and the early 2000s. The study generated 204 ethnographic cases. These cases were derived from 156 separate books since the observations reported in some books allowed the coding of multiple cases. The general scope of questions included organizational factors such as occupation, workplace organization, pay scheme, employment size, the situation of the company, the nature of company ownership, staff turnover, layoff frequency, how well the organization operated in terms of communications, recruitment and retention of personnel, and maintenance of equipment, as well as substantive facts concerning labor market opportunity, and labor force composition. On the topic of management, questions addressed leadership, organization of production, sexual harassment, and control strategies. Community factors were assessed through questions regarding unemployment and if the area was rural or urban. A series of questions addressed job satisfaction, pay, benefit package, job security, effort bargain, conflict with management/supervisors, training, worker strategies, conditions of consent/compliance, and nature of consent/compliance. The nature of work was queried through questions regarding autonomy, creativity, meaningful work, freedom of movement, comfort of work, injuries, employment status, and frequency of conflict with customers. Additional questions included size and nature of the focal group, group dynamics, conflict between the focal group and management, basis of alternative social groups at work, and if work friendships carried over to the outside. Questions about methodology covered ethnographer's theoretical orientation, focus of ethnography, ethnographer's gender, data collection method, supplemental data used, main type of supplemental data used, and position of key informant. Additional items gathered basic information about book title, author's last name, modal occupation, industry, country/region, and observer's role.

• World Database of Happiness: States of Nations
  Includes summary information from social surveys indicating levels of happiness in about 95 countries around the world, along with data on possibal causal factors.

• World Development Indicators
  Development indicators from the World Bank. Covers population, education, health, aid, poverty and environmental indicators for 208 countries.

• World Fertility Data (2006)
  Data on fertility and marriage for 192 countries. The indicators are selected in such a way as to present a concise picture of reproductive behavior from both period and cohort perspectives. The data are compiled from civil registration, population censuses and nationally representative sample surveys. The basic criterion for inclusion of data is its reliability. No attempts were made to estimate missing data. For each country, available data are presented for 2 dates. An earlier date was centered on 1970 and the most recent on 2000 or later. In cases where data for 1970 are not available, the closest date is selected from within the 1960-1985 period. For the later date, the most recent available estimate since 1986 is selected. Reference dates were chosen on the basis of two criteria: the database should contain most recent available data and the benchmark data that should correspond to the beginning of sustained fertility decline in most parts of the world.

• World Income Inequality Database
  The UNU/WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.

• World Marriage Data (2006)
  Contains data on marriage for 192 countries. Iindicators are selected in such a way as to present a concise picture of marital behavior from both period & cohort perspectives. Data are compiled from civil registration, population censuses and nationally representative sample surveys. The basic criterion for inclusion of data is its reliability. No attempts were made to estimate missing data. For each country, marital statuses and period indicators are presented for 2 dates. An earlier date was centered on 1970 and the most recent on 2000 or later. In cases where data for 1970 are not available, the closest date is selected from within the 1960-1985 period. For the later date, the most recent available estimate since 1986 is selected. Reference dates were chosen on the basis of two criteria: the database should contain most recent available data and the benchmark data that should correspond to the beginning of sustained fertility decline in most parts of the world.

• World Population Prospects (2004, 2006 revisions)
  Comprehensive set of demographic indicators for 1950-2050. Includes measures of fertility, life expectancy, migration, and measures of the impact of HIV/AIDS.

• World Public Opinion.org
  Program on International Policy Attitudes site providing public opinion from around the world.

• World Values Survey and European Values Survey. 1981-1984, 1990-1993, 1995-1997, 1999-2005.
  Designed to enable a crossnational comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe. A variety of questions on religion and morality were included. Data is currently available for 1981-1984, 1990-1993, 1995-1997, and 1999-2005.