Research Resources

Bibliographies

• World Society literature

Foreign Aid Data

• OECD: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/17/5037721.htm
• Resource Flows project: http://www.resourceflows.org/
• Center for Global Development: http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11941
• CGD Net Aid Transfers data set (1960-2008): http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/5492

Opinion Data

• Pew Global Attitudes Project: http://pewglobal.org/category/data-sets/
• Afrobarometer: http://www.afrobarometer.org/
• World Values Survey: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/

NGOs

• World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations: http://www.wango.org/resources.aspx?section=ngodir
• Directory of Development Organizations: http://www.devdir.org/
• United Nations Directory of African NGOs: http://www.un.org/africa/osaa/ngodirectory/index.htm

Democracy/Freedom/Political Systems

• Cheibub and collaborators: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/cheibub/www/datasets.html
• Freedom House Political Rights and Civil Liberties: http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=15
• Economist Intelligence Unit democracy index: http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/democracy_index_2007_v3.pdf
• Heritage Foundation index of economic freedom: http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/index.cfm
• Polity IV Dataset, which includes information on autocracy, democracy, and regime length: http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm
• Mo Ibrahim Foundation (index of African governance, safety & security, rule of law, participation & human rights, sustainable economic opportunity, human development): http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/
• Transparancy International Corruption Perception Index: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi
• World Bank Governance and Anti-Corruption Index: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/EXTWBIGOVANTCOR/0,,contentMDK:20771165~menuPK:1866365~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:1740530,00.html
• CIRI Human Rights Dataset: http://ciri.binghamton.edu/index.asp
• Inter-Parliamentary Union (women in parliaments, election systems, etc.): http://www.ipu.org/english/home.htm
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (quotas for women, voter turnout, civic education, reconciliation): http://www.idea.int/resources/databases.cfm
• Database of Political Institutions (information on parties and characteristics of the executive for most countries in the world 1975-2006): http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20649465~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html
• Index of African Governance (competitor to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation index): http://www.nber.org/data/iag.html

Environment

• SOPAC Environmental Vulnerability Index: www.vulnerabilityindex.net/
• SEDAC list of data sources: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data.html
• Global Footprint Network: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
• Earth Trends (not only environment): http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=10
• China Energy Group Databook: http://china.lbl.gov/databook

War/Conflict

• Minorities at Risk Project (ethnic conflict data): http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/
• Correlates of War (civil war data): http://www.correlatesofwar.org/datasets.htm
• Uppsala Conflict database: http://www.pcr.uu.se/gpdatabase/search.php
• Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research Conflict Barometer(s): http://www.hiik.de/en/konfliktbarometer/index.html
• Global Terrorism Database: http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/

Humanitarian Issues

• UNDP’s Human Development Report: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre: estimated number of IDPs and country background
• UN Peacekeeping Missions: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/co_mission/unikom.htm
• Emergency Events – Natural and Man-Made Disasters: EM-DAT: http://www.emdat.be/Database/terms.html
• Reuters Alert Net (statistics related to humanitarian issues): link
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (statistics related to displacement): http://www.unhcr.org
• World Refugee Survey (by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants): http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1343

Security

• International Relations and Security Trends: http://first.sipri.org
• List of US-declared terrorist groups: http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm
• UN Office on Drugs and Crime productions, seizures, prices, consumption (additional links in left sidebar): http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/WDR.html
• EU defense data: http://www.eda.europa.eu/defencefacts/
• Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism: http://www.mipt.org/

Economics

• Penn World Tables: http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt63/pwt63_form.php
• World Bank World Development Indicators: http://www.worldbank.org/data
• Mix Market (microfinance data): http://www.themix.org/
• Trade and tariff data: http://dataweb.usitc.gov/
• Trade Stats Express: http://tse.export.gov
• Economic Data from National Bureau of Economic Research: http://www.nber.org/data
• World Economic Forum (gender gap, competitiveness): http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm
• Economic Freedom Network: http://www.freetheworld.com/index.html
• UN Conference on Trade and Development Report (bilateral investment treaties signed, transnationality index of host economies, etc.): http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1485
• UNDP GINI index: http://hdrstats.undp.org/indicators/147.html
• Fred Solt’s Standardized World Income Inequality Databasehttp://www.siu.edu/~fsolt/swiid/swiid.html
• Angus Maddison: http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/
• UNCTAD’s Foreign Direct Investment databasehttp://stats.unctad.org/fdi/

Health

• WHO: http://www.who.int/research/en/
• UNAIDS: http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Default.asp

Population

• UN Population Fund: http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2007/english/notes/indicators.html
• UN World Population Prospects (allows you to estimate future population): http://esa.un.org/wpp/
• Population Reference Bureau Datafinder (population, education, economy, environment, health, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health),: www.prb.org/DataFinder.aspx

Communications/Media

• ITU statistics (telecommunications): http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/index.html
• Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29031
• IREX Media Sustainability Index (Eurasia/SE Europe, MENA, Africa): http://www.irex.org/msi/index.asp
• World Journalism Education Census: http://wjec.ou.edu/census.html
• Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press Survey: http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=16
• Reuters Alert Net World Press Tracker (which stories and NGOS get coverage): http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/FACTIVA/mediaindex.htm?rt=1&period=0&from=2006-09-21&to=2007-02-22&code=emergencycode&ngonetworkcode_unsel=&emergencycode_unsel=&begin=2006-09-21&yesterday=2007-02-22&submit=Generate%2520Graph&submit=Reset%2520options

Globalization

• Mapping Globalization: http://www.princeton.edu/~mapglobe/HTML/home.html
• KOF Index of Globalization: http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/
• Foreign Policy’s 2007 Globalization Index: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4030

Other Data Sources

• International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
• World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report: http://www.weforum.org/en/Communities/Women%20Leaders%20and%20Gender%20Parity/GenderGapNetwork/index.htm
• UN Data: http://data.un.org/
• UN Statistics Division: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm
• UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: http://www.un.org/esa/desa/
• Migration Data from the Migration Policy Institute: www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/2008DataGuide.pdf
• Food and Agriculture Organization data: http://faostat.fao.org/default.aspx
• USDA Economic Research Service (meat and livestock in us trade, how much do Americans pay for fruits and veg): http://www.ers.usda.gov/
• Labor statistics: http://laborsta.ilo.org/
• Eurostat: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?pageid=1090,30070682,1090_33076576&_dad=portal&schema=PORTAL
• African Development Bank Group (links on left for data on poverty, environment, gender, Millennium Development Goals, etc.): http://www.afdb.org/portal/page?pageid=473,8878258&_dad=portal&schema=PORTAL
• African Union Statistical Unit: http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/OtherPages/EA/st/statistical.htm
• Nation Master statistical data: http://www.nationmaster.com/statistics
• CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
• Human Development Reports: http://hdr.undp.org/en/
  and: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/
• State Dept. 2008 trafficking report: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2008/
• State Dept list of yearly UN voting patterns compared with the U.S.: http://www.state.gov/p/io/conrpt/vtgprac
• Ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization data (search for “fractionalization” on page): http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/romain.wacziarg/papersum.html
• Data on Oil Production and Reserves: BP Statistical World Review: www.bp.com/productlanding.do
• Global Policy Forum (Kyoto treaty signatories, volume of arms transfers, prisoners in the population): http://www.globalpolicy.org/resource/graphs.htm
• UNESCO (education, culture, science, communication: exports of cultural goods, linguistic diversity on the internet): http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=2867_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC