Data Resources

American Association of Public Opinion Resources
Provides guides, standards, definitions, recommended and condemned practices for public policy survey data collection.
http://www.aapor.org/

Correlates of War (COW) Project
Ongoing effort at the University of Michigan to study and explore the conditions associated with the outbreak of war, as well as with the conditions surrounding militarized disputes. Site features a variety of data sets as well as history, bibliography, and links to other sources.
http://www.umich.edu/~cowproj/

EUGene Program
EUGene serves as a data management tool for creating data sets for use in the quantitative analysis of international relations; with the country-year, directed-dyad-year, and directed-dispute-dyad-year as the unit of analysis.
http://eugenesoftware.org/

European Decision Makers Survey
The Eurobarometer has been engaged in the field of public opinion measurement for over twenty years, surveying both the general public and special target groups as needed by the different services of the Commission.
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/

GESIS
GESIS is an infrastructural association which supplies fundamental social science services on a national and international level, both in terms of theory and practice. GESIS consists of the institutes IZ, ZA, ZUMA, and keeps a branch office in Berlin. It is an institution of "Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz" (WGL). GESIS maintains multiple national as well as international co-operations.
http://www.social-science-gesis.de/

International Relations Data Page
Site lists international and domestic resources for data sets. Data subjects range from confliict and cooperation to environmental topics.
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/data.html#intro

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Provides access to a collection of downloadable data. While some data is only available to individuals from member institutions, a collection of criminal justice data, election data, and data from the General Social Surveys is available to the public from this site.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/

Jane's IntelWeb
Jane's IntelWeb helps you monitor developments in terrorist and intelligence activity worldwide.
http://intelweb.janes.com/

Lijphart Election Archive
A research collection of district level election results and statistics for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. Catalog and some online datasets, plus project history, reviews, publications, and links. Housed at the University of California, San Diego.
http://dodgson.ucsd.edu/lij/

Militarized Interstate Disputes
This data set is version 1.1 of Katherine Barbieri's national and dyadic trade data, which covers the period 1870-1992.
http://pss.la.psu.edu/TRD_DATA.htm

Online Intelligence Project
Extensive collection of information and internet links regarding intelligence affairs around the world.
http://www.icg.org/

Penn World Tables 5.6
Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), University of Toronto. Economic Resources.
http://datacentre2.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/

Political Handbook of the World Home Page
Political Handbook of the World is an annual reference book containing separate sections on every country in the world and more than 100 intergovernmental organizations, such as NATO, OPEC, and UN affiliates. Each edition completely updates political developments over the past year while retaining the background information necessary for researchers to place current events in a comprehensive historical perspective.
http://phw.binghamton.edu/

Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre
The Data Archive was set up in 1967 in order to retain the most significant machine-readable data from the research which it funds. Thus crucial data can be re-analysed by other researchers, and the money spent on research becomes not only an immediate outlay, but an investment for the future.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/qualidata/

UC-San Diego
Social science data online: conflict, aggression, violence and wars; study descriptions and numeric data.
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/conf.html

UNHCR: Statistics
Description the status of refugee populations, government policies on refugees, and current UNHCR activities in different countries and continents. Includes yearbook with PDF extracts, reports and charts on asylum trends, and special reports.
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/statistics