Social Science Data
and Databases
International
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)
- World Press Review
- Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
- nationmaster.com [statistical comparisons among countries by category]
- World Information.com [summaries of world politics and economics by continent, country, and political subunits)
- Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources (Library of Congress)
- Portals to the World: Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World (Library of Congress)
- International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World
- Rulers [heads of state and heads of government]
- Aileena: World-wide Media Index
- What the World Thinks in 2002:
How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The
World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
- War in the 21st Century: The Human Security Report 2005 (The Human Security Centre)
- UNESCO Archives Portal
- WebClarity Resource Registry [for Z39.50 databases and gateways]
- Portals to the World: links to electronic resources selected by Library of Congress subject experts)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- Atlantic Community: The Open Think Tank on Global Issues
- European Search Engines, Directories and Lists
- Locating Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)
- Research Resources for the Social Sciences (C. McKie, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
- SocioSite: social science information system (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Humanities Resource Zone (Learning Technologies Group, Oxford University Computing Services, United Kingdom)
- The Internet for Historians (Virtual Training Suite, JISC, United Kingdom)
- The Internet for History and
Philosophy of Science (Virtual Training Suite, JISC, United Kingdom)
- Internet Country Codes
- Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
(Nelson/Thomson Learning)
- WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
- International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library)
- Mershon Network of International History (Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University>
- WWW-VL History Central Catalogue (University of Kansas)
- World History Gateway (Academic Info)
- Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown
University/Organization of American States)
- Political Resources on the Net
- Oxford Latin American Economic History (OxLad)
- Journal of Contemporary History
- Social, Economic and Political Change (G. Shackman)
- World Resources Institute
- Essex Human Rights Review
- Refugee Studies Center (University of Oxford, U.K.)
- Gendercide Watch
- Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights Websites (Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project)
- World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-27 June 2005
- Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
- World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Information Report (UNESCO)
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris, France)
- International Monetary Fund
- G8 Information Centre (University of Toronto)
- The Cicero Foundation: 'an independent think tank focusing on European integration'
- Summit of the Americas Information System
- North American Free Trade Agreement Secretariat
- International Labour Organization
- The Nuclear Files: Project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- Atlantic Community: The Open Think Tank on Global Issues
- Social Science Information Gateway [SOSIG] (United Kingdom)
- JANET (United Kingdom)
- UKERNA (United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association)
- National Statistics Online: Home of Official UK Statistics
- United Kingdom Data Archive
- Links (Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, London, England, U.K.)
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (official government site)
- Social Science Data Archive (Australian National University)
- Other Data Archives (Social Science Data Archive, Australian National University)
- China Statistical Network
- Social Science Research Network (Social Science Electronic Publishing)
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland (Edinburgh University Data Library)
- Irish Social Science Data Archive (Institute for Study of Social Change, University College, Dublin)
- Institute for the Study of Social Change (University College, Dublin)
- Canadian Council on Social Development
- Mapleleaf Web
- Policy Research Institutions (Policy Research Initiative)
- Centre for Cross-Cultural Research (Australian National University)
- South African Data Archives
(Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa)
- League of Nations Bibliography
(League of Nations' Photo Archive, Indiana University Center for Study of Global Change)
- League of Nations' Photo Archive (Indiana
University Center for the Study of Global Change)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Childhood Under Threat: State of the World's Children 2005 (UNICEF)
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- Progress of Nations 1997 (UNICEF)
- State of the World's Children 1997 (UNICEF)
- Connect for Kids: Guidance for Grown-Ups
- University of Michigan Documents Center
(government documents from around the world)
- Government Statistical Agencies Outside the U.S.
(University of Maryland)
- Historical Microdata Around the World (Norwegian Historical Data Centre)
- InfoNation (United Nations)
- International Data Base (U.S. Census Bureau)
- World Directory of Think Tanks 1996
(National Institute for Research Advancement)
- Netherlands Historical Data Archive (Leiden University)
- Data on the Net (University of California, San Diego)
- Archival Data Online Repository, Data and Program Library Service
(University of Wisconsin)
United States National Perspective
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- Population Reference Bureau (Washington, D.C.)
- Frank Hobbs, Nicole Stoops, U.S. Census Bureau,
Census 2000 Special Reports, Series CENSR-4, Demographic Trends in the 20th Century (2002) [Adobe *.pdf format]
- Population Index on the Web (1986-1996)
- Population Organizations: Finder's Guide (Center for Demography and Ecology,
University of Wisconsin)
- Office of Population Research (Princeton University)
- Center for Demography and Ecology (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Center for Population Economics (University of Chicago)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown
University/Organization of American States)
- FirstGov: Your First Click to the U.S. Government
- Government Guide: Government Services Made Easy
- Fedstats (U.S. Federal Interagency Coucnil on
Statistical Policy)
- GovEngine.com: the Premiere Federal, State, & Local Government Site on the Internet
- U.S. Government Info/Resources (The Mining Company)
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
[includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
- National Digital Newspaper Program
- Idea Central: The Virtual Magazine of the Electronic Policy Network
- Economic Policy Institute Data Card
- Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- Books for Understanding Taxes (American Association of University Presses)
- National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
- 9/11 Public Discourse Project [ten-member 9/11 Commission followup group after release of final report]
- Terrorism Knowledge Bank (National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism)
- START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism)
(U.S. Department of Homeland Security and University of Maryland)
- Combating Terrorism Center at [U.S. Military Academy,] West Point
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
- Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- United States Census Bureau (Washington, D.C.)
- Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Statistical Abstract of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
- Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- Economic Statistics and Research (Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration)
- Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
- Small Business State Profiles [1996-Present] (Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration)
- Tennessee
Statistical Abstract
- Occupational Employment Statistics (U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- Association of American Colleges and Universities
- Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
- Beyond the 49th Parallell II: The Affordability of Higher Education (Educational Policy Institute)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- "Funding for Public Colleges and Universities Continues to Lose Battle with Enrollment Growth and Inflation," Fact Book Bulletin, February 2006 (Southern Regional Education Board)
- The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Archival and Philanthropic Resources by Title (Special Collections, Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis Library)
- Jospeh and Matthew Payton Philanthropic Studies Library (IUPUI Library)
- Manuscript Collections: Philanthropy (IUPUI Library)
- United Way State of Caring Index: A Summary Measure of Americans' Capacity to Care for One Another
- Money Income in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Poverty in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
- Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool [FERRET] (U.S. Census Bureau)
- CentStats: An Electronic Subscription Service (U. S. Census Bureau)
- History Page (U.S. Social Security Administration)
- History (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) official government site
- Progress of Nations 1997 (UNICEF)
- State of the World's Children 1997 (UNICEF)
- Social Security Death Index (Infobases, Inc.)
- Social Welfare Related Information
- Social Work and Social Services Web Sites (Washington
University, St. Louis)
- American Studies WWW Server (Yale University)
- Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
(University of Michigan)
- Social Sciences Data Collection (U. California, San Diego)
- Data Archive, Institute for Research in Social Science
(University of North Carolina)
- Integrated Public Use Microdata Series [samples from 1850-1990 censuses]
(Historical Census Project, University of Minnesota)
- United States Historical Census Data Browser [1790-1970]
- SDA: Survey Documentation and Analysis
(University of California, Berkeley)
- 1990 U.S. Census Data
- Statistical Abstract of the United States (United States Census Bureau)
- USA Statistics in Brief (United States Census Bureau)
- Census 2000
Supplementary Survey (American Factfinder, U.S. Bureau of the Census)
- GovEngine.com: the Premier Federal, State, & Local Government Site on the Internet
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- The Condition of Education
(National Center for Education Statistics)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- Census State Data Centers (United States Census Bureau)
- Census Data Products (Geolytics, Inc.)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Frank Hobbs, Nicole Stoops, U.S. Census Bureau,
Census 2000 Special Reports, Series CENSR-4, Demographic Trends in the 20th Century (2002) [Adobe *.pdf format]
- The Big Payoff: Educational
Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- Beyond the 49th Parallel II: The Affordability of Higher Education (Educational Policy Institute)
- "Funding for Public Colleges and Universities Continues to Lose Battle with Enrollment Growth and Inflation," Fact Book Bulletin, February 2006 (Southern Regional Education Board)
- Association of American Colleges and Universities
- Higher Education Resource Hub
- Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
(Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
- The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press
- What the World Thinks in 2002:
How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The
World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
- International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library)
- National Council on Public Polls
- Gallup Opinion Polls on line
- Gallup Research Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- Ipsos Reid: Global Marketing Research and Public Opinion
- National Opinion Research Center
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
(University of Connecticut)
- PollingReport.com
- Zogby International
American Studies Sites
U.S. State and Local Government
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- State Libraries (LibrarySpot)
- U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
- Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
- The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
- National Digital Newspaper Program
- 2002 State New Economy Index (Progressive Policy Institute)
- GovEngine.com: the Premiere Federal, State, & Local Government Site on the Internet
- State and Local Government on the Net
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- Civic Education--State Legislative Database (National Conference of State Legislatures)
- StateStandards.com: State Educational Standards Coupled to Lesson Plans and Resources
- International City/County Management Association
- National Association of Counties
- Tennessee Statistical Abstract 2000
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
(*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
- Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
- [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
(*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
- 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
- Information on Tennessee Communities (Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development)
- Bureau of Business and Economic Research (University of Memphis)
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Books for Understanding Taxes (American Association of University Presses)
- Social History Research Lab (University of Minnesota)
- Searchsystems.net: your public record information network
- Great American History Machine information
- Voting and Registration (U.S. Census Bureau)
[includes Historical Times Series, 1964 to the Present)
- Biographical Directory of United States Congress, 1774-Present (official site)
- Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. Department of Justice)
- Assessing the New Federalism (The Urban Institute)
- The Pew Center on the States
- State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps
Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Alan Berube and Bruce Katz, Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America (October 2005 Brooking Institution study) [Adobe Acrobat format]
- The States Inventory Project (States.org)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
- Grading the States 2001: A Management Report Card
(Government Performance Project)
- [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
(*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
- 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
- Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
- Tennessee (The States Inventory Project: States.org)
- Chartbook of Major Indicators: Conditions Placing Children in the South At Risk Adobe [.pdf format]
(Southern Institute on Children and Families)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
- Southern Regional Education Board
- Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
- Tennessee State Budget: Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions
- Beyond the 49th Parallell II: The Affordability of Higher Education (Educational Policy Institute)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- Fact Book on Higher Education 2001
(Southern Regional Education Board)
- "Funding for Public Colleges and Universities Continues to Lose Battle with Enrollment Growth and Inflation," Fact Book Bulletin, February 2006 (Southern Regional Education Board)
- Tennessee Featured Facts
(SREB Fact Book on Higher Education)
[.pdf format requires Adobe Acorbat Reader]
- Beyond the 49th Parallell II: The Affordability of Higher Education (Educational Policy Institute)
- "Funding for Public Colleges and Universities Continues to Lose Battle with Enrollment Growth and Inflation," Fact Book Bulletin, February 2006 (Southern Regional Education Board)
- Faculty Salaries in Colleges and Universities:
Where Do SREB States Stand?
(Southern Regional Education Board)
- National Criminal
Justice Service Statistics
- County and City Data Books, 1988 & 1994 (Library of Virginia)
- County Population Estimates (U.S. Census Bureau)
- The Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
- The Urban Past: An International Urban History Bibliography
(University of Guelph)
- City Journal
- Political Science Resources
- American Political Science Association Gopher
- American Politics Gopher (Northwestern University)
- Elections and Electoral Systems (University of Keele, U.K.)
- National Election Studies (University of Michigan)
- U.S. Election Campaign Information
- Election Data Services, Inc.
- Civic Education--State Legislative Database (National Conference of State Legislatures)
- Project Vote Smart WWW site
- Voter Information Services, Inc.
- The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press
- Gallup Opinion Polls on line
- Gallup Research Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- National Opinion Research Center
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
(University of Connecticut)
- American Public Opinion & U.S. Foreign Policy 1999
(Chicago Council on Foreign Relations)
- What the World Thinks in 2002:
How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The
World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
- Information Sources On Afghanistan
- Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.
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