Selected International Data Sources
Selected Print/Fiche Reference Data Sources
Cis Current National Statistical Compendiums
The CIS Current National Statistical Compendiums microfiche collection provides summary statistical information for a wide range of countries (excluding the United States- see the US Statistical Abstract) since 1970s. Data coverage varies by country. All fiche are located in the microforms section of Perkins Library.
http://library.duke.edu/catalog/search/title-keywords/cis+national+statistical+compendiums
International Historical Statistics Series, 1750-2000 by B.R. Mitchell
Available in the Perkins Reference Collection (Europe: HA1107 .M5 2003/Africa, Asia, and Oceania HA4675.M55 1995). Mitchell's International Historical Statistics provides a detailed set of historical statistics covering a wide range of statistics including agricultural, industrial, labor force, and vital statistics from the mid eighteenth century to the present. Please note that this is part of a series covering most major world regions.
Indexes statistics on population and demographics, business and financial activities, domestic and international trade, government programs, health, and politics. Provides indexing and abstracts of statistical information published by international intergovernmental organizations (Index to International Statistics). Full text or links to the full text are available for some of the indexed sources. Duke does not subscribe to the "Power Tables" section of this database; the only information that is available here is what LexisNexis provides free -- use Search Abstract instead. A list of full-text sources in the database is available online. See the Perkins Reference Desk for sources not available in full text.
http://library.duke.edu/cgi-bin/data/resolve.cgi?link=web.lexis-nexis.com/statuniv/
Russia & Eurasia Facts and Figures Annual by Curtis L. Richardson
Available in Perkins Reference (HA1446 .U17 v.28). Richardson's collection of data cover a diverse set of economic, political, and social indicators for the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Selected International Data/Statistics Databases
International Financial Statistics (Ifs)The IFS provides statistics on all aspects of international domestic finance. Time series data covers over 200 countries and areas from 1948 onwards. The web service includes all the series appearing on the IFS country pages, exchange rate series for all Fund member countries (plus Aruba and the Netherland Antilles), major Fund account series, and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS world tables. Files may be downloaded in Excel (.xls), HTML, and ASCII (csv and tab delimited) formats.
http://library.duke.edu/cgi-bin/data/dao.cgi?keywords=89198419
IPUMS International
IPUMS-International is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Currently the collection encompasses twenty-six countries and eighty censuses.
http://international.ipums.org/international/
Russia/Cis Statistical Publications (Udb Stat)
This database contains electronic versions of publications from the major Russian statistics agency Goskomstat Rossii and its regional statistics agencies, Statkomitet SNG, and statistical agencies of the former Soviet Union (statistical yearbooks, monthly analytical reports, regional statistical information, and annual statistical abstracts). Currently some materials are available beginning 1990. 2002 Russian Census information is also available. Among other planned additions to this database are retrospective periodical content from 1990, regional and urban-level data, the 1989 USSR Census, election results, and mortality statistics.
http://library.duke.edu/cgi-bin/data/resolve.cgi?link=udbstat.eastview.com/
Sourceoecd (Oecd)
Provides the full text (in PDF format) of all journals and books published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1998. The statistical section of the OECD portal includes the OECD Statistical Compendium, Main Economic Indicators, and a wide variety of other statistics. Selected indicators include: agriculture, banking, education, development, direct investment, employment, globalization, health, industry, insurance, migration,national accounts, revenue, science, services, social expenditure, technology, telecommunications, and trade.
http://library.duke.edu/metasearch/db/id/DUK00548
Un Comtrade (Commodity Trade Statistics Database)
Comtrade provides the latest trade data for over 130 countries. The database includes indicators that measure the value of trade (and quantity when available) for a wide variety of international commodities. All values are expressed in US dollars. http://library.duke.edu/metasearch/db/id/DUK01336 World Development Indicators (Wdi)
The World Development Indicators (WDI) provides convenient access to a wide range of economic, environment, health, political, and social indicators in 226 countries. Time series data is available for many indicators from 1960 onwards. In addition to the wide range of global statistics, the WDI provides convenient data extraction tools that allow data access in Microsoft Excel and other statistical packages.
http://library.duke.edu/metasearch/db/id/DUK00775
Selected International Survey Data/Public Opinion
Asian Barometer (Abs) "The Asian Barometer (ABS) is an applied research program on public opinion on political values, democracy, and governance around the region. The regional network encompasses research teams from 12 East Asian political systems (Japan, Mongolia, South Koreas, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, and Indonesia), and 5 South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal). Together, this regional survey network covers virtually all major political systems in the region, systems that have experienced different trajectories of regime evolution and are currently at different stages of political transition. The mission and task of each national research team are to administer survey instruments to compile the required micro-level data under a common research framework and research methodology to ensure that the data is reliable and comparable on the issues of citizens’ attitudes and values toward politics, power, reform, and democracy in Asia." - from the website description
http://www.asianbarometer.org/newenglish/Introduction/
Eurobarometer Online Codebook
Hosted by the Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, the Eurobarometer online codebook allows detailed searches of the Eurobarometer series of surveys. Access to the Eurobarometer microdata is available through the ICPSR collection .
http://193.175.239.210/en/data_service/eurobarometer/search/index.htm
2002 Gallup Poll Of The Islamic World
Project involved interviews of 10,000 people in nine predominantly Islamic countries conducted in December 2001and January 2002. Researchers conducted hour-long, in-person interviews in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan and Morocco. The project mission was to report the opinions of residents of predominantly Islamic countries to provides benchmark findings that enable Western leaders to gauge how diplomatic policies and cultural influences are affecting Islamic respondents’ views about the West. This collection is restricted to the Duke Community.
http://catalog.library.duke.edu/F?func=find-b&find_code=WTI&request=gallup+poll+of+the+islamic
International Social Survey Program (Issp)
ISSP access is available through Duke's membership in the ICPSR data archive. - "The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) is an ongoing program of crossnational collaboration. Formed in 1983, the ISSP group 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. The merging of the data into a crossnational dataset is performed by the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung, University of Cologne. The Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung has also put together a CD version of the International Social Survey studies for 1985-2000 (ICPSR 3881)." -- Description from the ICPSR Study Description
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-SERIES/00124.xml
Latinobarometro/Latinobarometer Data Files
The Latinobarómetro is an annual study of public public opinion in eighteen Latin American countries. With the goal of providing a representative survey of Latin American public opinion over time, the Latinobarómetro provides annual measures of attitudes toward democracy, civic culture, economic issues, gender issues, the environment, inequality, social capital, and trade policy. A complete history of the Latinobarómetro is available on from the Latinobarometro Corporation website.
http://library.duke.edu/data/duke-only/lbarometer/index.html
Latin American Public Opinion Project (Lapop) Data Collection
The Latin American Public Opinion Project has produced over sixty surveys analyzing public perceptions of the role of government, political tolerance, citizen participation, and corruption among other issues. The Duke collection includes surveys covering a variety of South American nations. Further information is available on the Data Services LAPOP page.
http://library.duke.edu/data/collections/lapop.html
Polling The Nations
A compilation of the full text of more than 500,000 questions with responses from 15,000 national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 90 other countries from 1986 through the present. Records are indexed in one of more than 5,000 topics and six search fields--topic, question text, universe, date, polling organization and response categories. Other information provided includes: source name and contact information, sample size, and notes on the sample population.
http://poll.orspub.com
World Values Survey
"The World Values Surveys was designed to enable a crossnational, crosscultural comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe." Data are available from the early eighties to present. - From the ICPSR collection description
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org
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