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The MacroDataGuide is a tool that has been especially developed by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services to save researchers and students time and energy in their search for high quality social science macro data. While the main distinction is most often drawn between micro and macro data, the term 'meso data' is also sometimes used. Meso data generally refers to data on collective and cooperative actors such as commercial companies, organizations or political parties.
Data sources by topic
CULTURE
Cultural activities and participation
Cultural and national identity
Leisure, tourism and sport
DEMOGRAPHY
Demographic composition
Fertility
Migration
Morbidity and mortality
ECONOMICS
Financial statistics
Government statistics
Household economy
National accounts
EDUCATION
Basic skills education
Compulsory and pre-school education
Education finance
Life-long/continuing education
Post-compulsory education
Teaching profession
Vocational education
HEALTH
Health care and medical treatment
Nutrition
Accidents and injuries
Childbearing, family planning and abortion
Drug abuse, alcohol and smoking
General health
Health finance
Physical fitness and exercise
Specific diseases and medical conditions
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
Information society (including internet use)
Language
Mass media
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
(In-job) Training
Employment and unemployment
Labour costs
Labour relations and labour conflict
Retirement
Working conditions
LAW, CRIME AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
Corruption
Crime
Law enforcement
Legal systems
Legislation
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Environmental degradation/pollution and environmental protection
Natural resources and energy
Plant and animal distribution
Surface area and natural landscapes
POLITICS
Elections and political parties
International politics and organisations
Mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion
Political ideology
Political system (incl. government, political regimes and organisations)
Conflict, security and peace
Human rights
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Science and technology
SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND SYSTEMS
Social welfare systems
Specific social services: use and provision
SOCIETY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Children
Elderly
Equality and inequality
Family life and marriage
Gender and gender roles
Housing
Minorities
Religion and values
Social and occupational mobility
Social behaviour and attitudes
Social conditions and indicators
Social exclusion
Youth
TRADE, INDUSTRY AND MARKETS
Agricultural, forestry and rural industry
Business and industry
Trade
TRANSPORT, TRAVEL AND MOBILITY
Transport, travel and mobility
Use these sources for overviews of current issues in individual countries.
The Political Risk Yearbook is an annual publication that “contains all 100 Political Risk Services’ Country Reports updated to the previous December, demarcated along regional lines, using the globally-recognized Coplin-O’Leary political risk rating methodology.” Included in Business Source Complete.
Portal to UCSD-subscribed EIU content. Includes searchable online archive (1996- ) and feed of Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) global country publications. Strong on current political, economic, and business affairs worldwide.
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of countries and global regions. Contact info for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people. Access limited to 1 user at a time. Try again later if refused.
Use these sources to find country-level (and sometimes smaller) data on a plethora of topics.
Provides easy access to statistical data. Data is downloadable in Excel and CSV, and shapefiles when multiple geographies are covered. Sources include: Bombay Stock Exchange, British Bankers' Association, Chicago Board Options, Exchange, China Data Center, D&B (Dun & Bradstreet), Dave Leip's Atlas of US Presidential Elections, Defense Manpower Data Center, Deutsche Börse Group, Dow Jones, Easy Analytic Software Inc. (EASI), Eurostat, FTSE Group, HSI Services Limited (Hong Kong), International Monetary Fund, London Bullion Market Association , London Platinum & Palladium Market, NASDAQ OMX Group, National Bureau of Economic Research, Nikkei, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Standard & Poor's, World Bank, World Resource Institute, Xignite, and many US Federal agencies. See the Data-Planet Libguide for more detail.
1973-present. Huge database of citations to statistical publications from U.S. federal and state governments, international agencies, nonprofit and educational institutions, and private publishers including trade and industry groups. Full text of the publication or report is often included, and many tables are downloadable in Excel. Particularly good for demographic and country-level information. Previous name Statistical Universe.
A collection of the statistical abstracts of various countries, both individually searchable and cross searchable. These statistical abstracts are generally issued by the national statistical offices of foreign governments and contain country-level data not easily found elsewhere. Global and regional statistical compendia issued by international organizations and research firms are also included.
Top place to look for European statistics on economy and finance, population and social conditions, industry, trade, and services, agriculture and fisheries, transport, environment and energy, science and technology, and general and regional statistics.
Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level. By harmonising statistics from the European statistical system (ESS) to a single methodology, the statistics are made comparable.
On-line statistical databases covering international statistics in agriculture, food production, trade, forest products, fisheries and more. From the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Full text of UNDP Human Development Reports, from 1990 to the next to most current year, plus national Human Development Reports and an excellent statistics section on industrialized and developing countries.
International Labour Organization (ILO) Database on International Labor Statistics, offering annual data from 1979 to the present for a wide range of variables, including employment and unemployment, earnings, wages, strikes and more.
Provides comprehensive access to International financial statistics (IFS), Balance of payments statistics (BOPS), Direction of trade statistics (DOTS), and Government finance statistics (GFS) databases. View and download predefined data reports or create.
Statistics for Latin American countries, offering annual data (from 1990) on a wide range of variables, including national accounts, balance of payments, prices, labor statistics, and more.
The ICRG Researcher's Dataset - Table 3B provides annual averages of the 12 components of ICRG's Political Risk Ratings (Table 3B), as published in the International Country Risk Guide since 1984. Average ratings are provided for all countries covered by ICRG from 1984 through the last full calendar year.
The ITERATE project is an attempt to quantify data on the characteristics of transnational terrorist groups, their activities which have international impact, and the environment in which they operate.
OECD iLibrary is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development's Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to its analysis and data. Coverage includes development, economics, education, energy, environment, scitech, social issues, and more.
Alan Heston, Robert Summers, and Bettina Aten
The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000. You can download all the data and documentation from the download page or create a custom table in SAS or CSV format using a form.
Provides direct access to official documents reflecting the views of United Nations Member States by bringing together in one place documents available elsewhere.
United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) statistical institute website. Includes statistical data sets of world education and literacy indicators, and selected data from the UNESCO Statistical Yearbook.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States. The site provides an overview of each county where the agency does work.
Each online book contains historical and cultural background information on the country it covers. Formerly known as the Area Handbooks from the Department of the Army.
GDF online offers external debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The timeseries for 216 indicators run from 1970 to present.
The Family Life Surveys (FLS) are a set of detailed household and community surveys of developing countries conducted by the RAND Corporation, in collaboration with research institutions in the given countries. The currently available country surveys cover Malaysia (1976-77, 1988-89), Indonesia (1993, 1997, 2000), Guatemala (1995), and Bangladesh (1996).
IPUMS-International is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to: Collect and preserve data and documentation Harmonize data Disseminate the data absolutely free.
The MacroDataGuide was developed by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services to save researchers and students time and energy in their search for high quality social science macro data. While the main distinction is most often drawn between micro and macro data, the term 'meso data' is also sometimes used. Meso data generally refers to data on collective and cooperative actors such as commercial companies, organizations or political parties.
Indexed datasets include:
African Elections Database
Armed Conflict Dataset (UCDP/PRIO)
Centripetal Democratic Governance
CIRI Human Rights Project - The CIRI Human Rights Dataset
CNTS - Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive
Comparative Parties Dataset
Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset
Comparative Welfare States Dataset
Constituency-Level Elections Dataset
Correlates of War
CPDS - Comparative Political Data Set I
CPDS - Comparative Political Data Set II
CPDS - Comparative Political Data Set III
CSES - Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
Democracy Time-series Data
DESAW - Democratic Electoral Systems Around the World
DPI - Database of Political Institutions
EED - European Election Database
Election Resources on the Internet
EPM - Environmental Performance Index
EPM - Environmental Sustainability Index
European Protest and Coercion Data
Eurostat - Dissemination Database
Fractionalization Data
Freedom House - Freedom in the World
Freedom House - Freedom of the Press
Freedom House - Nations in Transit
GGDC - Total Economy Database
HDR - Human Development Reports
IDEA - Unified Database
ILO - Laborsta
IMF - International Financial Statistics
IMF - World Economic Outlook
IPU - Women in National Parliaments
Judicial Checks and Balances
Lijphart Elections Archive
Manifesto Project Database
Migration DRC - Global Migrant Origin Database
Minorities at Risk - MAR Data
OECD - iLibrary
OECD - Index of Statistical Variables
OECD - OECD.Stat
OECD - Statistics Portal
ParlGov - Parliament and government composition database
Party Policy in Modern Democracies
POLCON - The Political Constraint Index Dataset
Political Transformation in Post-Communist Europe
Polity Project - Polity IV
Polyarchy and Contestation Scales
Polyarchy Dataset (Vanhanen)
Psephos (Adam Carr’s Election Archive)
PTS - Political Terror Scale
PWT - Penn World Table
Quality of Government (La Porta et al.)
Quality of Government Datasets (QoG Institute)
Reporters sans frontières - Worldwide Press Freedom Index
The Global Competitiveness Index
TI - Corruption Perceptions Index
TI - Global Corruption Barometer
TWEED - Terrorism in Western Europe: Events Data
UNdata
UNECE - UNECE Statistical Database
UNESCO - UNESCO Data Centre
UNICEF - State of the World’s Children (SOWC)
UNICEF - TransMONEE Database
Union Centralisation Among Advanced Industrial Societies
WHO - European Health for All Database
WHO - Global Health Observatory
WIID - WII Database
World Bank - World Development Indicators/Global Development Finance
World Christian Database
Worldwide Governance Indicators
The flagship datasest is the QoG Standard Dataset, which is available in both cross-section and time-series. The QoG Basic Dataset is easier to use, offering the most used and the most qualitative variables in terms of data from the QoG Standard Dataset. The QoG OECD covers countries who are members of the OECD. The EU Regional Data consists of approximately 450 variables from Eurostat and other sources. The QoG Expert Survey is a dataset based on our survey of experts on public administration around the world.
See codebook for comprehensive list of links to political science datasets on almost any political topic you can think of.
Data Sources:
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions Dataset
AidData v. 2.1
Archigos. A Data Base on Leaders 1875 - 2004.
Autocratic Regime Data
Bertelsmann Transformation Index
Boix-Miller-Rosato Dichotomous Coding of Democracy, Version 2.0
Centripetal Democratic Governance
Characteristics of National Constitutions
Civil Society Organizations
Classification of Political Regimes
Comparative Political Data Set
Comparative Political Parties Dataset
Conntestation and Inclusiveness, 1950-2000
Corruption Perceptions Database
Country Ruggedness and Geographical Data
Country Statistical Profiles
CSES dataset
Data from Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel
Data used in the article "The Quality of Government"
Database of Political Institutions
Dataset for Information and Accountability Transparency
Democratic Electoral Systems Around the World 1946-2011
Economic Freedom of the World Dataset
Educational Attainment Dataset
Electoral Integrity Project (Version 3.5)
Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote
Environmental Performance Data
Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators
ESS1-6, European Social Survey - Cumulative File Rounds 1-6
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country
Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization Indices, 1961 and 1985
Eurostat Datasets
Event History Coding of Democratic Breakdowns
Expanded Trade and GDP Data
FAO Statistics
Fractionalisation
Fragile States Index
Freedom of the World
Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Data
Global Competitiveness Report
Global Corruption Barometer
Global Educational Attainment 1970-2015
Global Footprint Data
Global Integrity Report - Data
Global Terrorism Index
Governance Report Indicators. Public
Opinion Data
Hertie Governance Indicators 2014. The Indexes dataset
HRV Transparency Project
Human Development Report
ICRG Indicator of Quality of Government
IDA Resource Allocation Index (IRAI)
Index of African Governance
Index of Economic Freedom
Institutional Quality Dataset
Institutions and Elections Project Data
International IDEA Unified Database
Inter-Parliamentary Union Data
KOF Index of Globalization
Luxembourg Income Study Database and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database
Maddison Project Database
Major Episodes of Political Violence
Dataset
Measures of Democracy 1810-2012
Measuring Income Inequality Database
Memberships in Conventional Intergovernmental Organizations Dataset
National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
National Average Happiness
National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy
Natural Resource Management Index Data
New Data on Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions
Oil and Gas Data, 1932-2014
Penn World Table
Pippa Norris. 2009. Democracy Time-series Dataset
Political Terror Scale
Polity IV Annual Time-Series, 1800-2014
Press Freedom
Red List of Threatened Species (version 2015.4)
Religion and State Project Constitutions Dataset and World Religion Dataset National Religion Dataset
Rule of Law Index
Sea Around Us Project Data
Settler Mortality
Shadow Economies: Model Based estimates
Social Citizenship Indicator Programme Database
Social Justice Index
State Antiquity Index
State Fragility Index and Matrix
Sustainable Governance Indicators
The Authoritarian Regime Dataset
The Cingranelli-Richards Human Rights Dataset
The Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset
The Economic Effects of Constitutions
The Economist Intelligence Unit's index of democracy
The ICTD Government Revenue Dataset
The ICTWSS database
The Logic of Political Survival Data Source
The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades Dataset
The Ocean Health Index Data
The Parliamentary Powers Index
The Political Constraints Data
The QoG Expert-Survey
The World Top Incomes Database
The Worldwide Governance Indicators
UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Unified Democracy Scores
Varieties of Democracy Dataset
World Development Indicators
World Economic Outlook Database
World Values Survey Dataset and European Values Studies dataset
Datasets include: Adjusted state antiquity dataset; Extraction ratio; Government revenues relative to GDP; Latent democracy indicator, 1850-2000; Conflict Catalog (Violent Conflicts 1400 A.D. to the Present in Different Regions of the World); Homicide dataset, 1800-2000.
Also external links to
Database of Political Institutions 2010
World Governance Indicators
Comparative Political Datasets I
Comparative Political Datasets II
Comparative Political Datasets III
Polity IV
Democracy and Dictatorship
Vanhanen’s democracy (polyarchy) dataset
State Antiquity (Statehist)
IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) voters turnout database
Judicial Checks and Balances
UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset
UCDP Non-State Conflict Dataset
Correlates of War, Inter-state wars dataset
Correlates of War, Intra-state wars dataset
Economic Freedom of the World
Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts
Geodist
Colonial/Dependency Contiguity, 1816-2002
Transatlantic slave trade
Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Fractionalization
Religion adherence data
Ethnographic Atlas The Standard Cross-cultural Sample
Datasets include:
Armed Conflict and Intervention (ACI) Datasets: Forcibly Displaced Populations; Major Episodes of Political Violence; PITF State Failure Problem Set; High Casualty Terrorist Bombings; Memberships in Conventional Intergovernmental Organizations (CIO)
Polity IV: Regime Authority Characteristics and Transitions Datasets: Polity IV Annual Time-Series; Polity IVd Polity-Case Format; Coups d'Etat
State Fragility Index and Matrix: State Fragility Index and Matrix; State Fragility Index and Matrix, Time-Series Data
Conflict in India Datasets: Crime in India: Riots, Murders and Dacoity; India Sub-National Problem Set
The Correlates of War project collects and disseminates quantitative data in international relations. Datasets include: COW Country Codes; State System Membership; COW War Data; Militarized Interstate Disputes; Militarized Interstate Dispute Locations; National Material Capabilities; World Religion Data; Formal Alliances; Territorial Change; Direct Contiguity; Colonial/Dependency Contiguity; Intergovernmental Organizations; Diplomatic Exchange; Trade.
The Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive was launched by Arthur S. Banks in the fall of 1968 at the State University of New York at Binghamton. The archive was, in part, the outcome of an effort initiated some years earlier to assemble, in machine readable, longitudinal format, certain of the aggregate data resources of The Statesman's Yearbook, published since 1864. The archive has almost 200 variables and contains data for over 200 country units, with provision for entries from 1815 (excluding the two modern wartime periods, 1914-1918 and 1940-1945)
The ICRG Researcher's Dataset - Table 3B provides annual averages of the 12 components of ICRG's Political Risk Ratings (Table 3B), as published in the International Country Risk Guide since 1984. Average ratings are provided for all countries covered by ICRG from 1984 through the last full calendar year.
The ITERATE project is an attempt to quantify data on the characteristics of transnational terrorist groups, their activities which have international impact, and the environment in which they operate.
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of countries and global regions. Contact info for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people. Access limited to 1 user at a time. Try again later if refused.