General Sources - PSCI 361 - Political Research - Research Guides at Wheaton College

Major Sources

For general data browsing, start here with these major data sources.

American FactFinder
An online tool for accessing aggregate data from the American Housing Survey.
Census.gov
The leading source of quality data about the people and economy of the United States.
Data.gov
Federal datasets and tools that leverage government datasets.

UNData
A search engine retrieving data from United Nations sources. Also includes country profiles with economic and social indicators.
World Bank
Free and open access to global development data
Eurostat
The Statistical Office of the European Communities. Harmonizes statistics from the European statistical system (ESS) for comparative purposes.
OECD.StatExtracts (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Provides statistical data on member countries on a wide variety of topics.

Much of this data research guide has been adapted from Jeremy Darrington at Princeton University (https://libguides.princeton.edu/politics)