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STAT+

STAT+ is the premiere enterprise offering from STAT, the leading digital news authority reporting on biopharma, health tech & AI, the business of making medicines, the intersection of politics and health policy, healthcare, insurance, and the life sciences.

Provider: STAT+
Updated: Nov 20, 2023 9:03am

North American City Reports

North American City Reports preserves the full text of surveys, budgets, statistical records, case studies, planning documents, training manuals, policy guidelines, reports, and news from the five hundred largest cities in North America. It also includes select materials from hundreds of related agencies and non-governmental organizations. With more than 200,000 documents, it provides a new and typically unmined source for observing policy in action.

 

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Provider: Coherent Digital, LLC
Updated: Feb 9, 2024 10:16am

African Elections Database

The African Elections Database is an archive of past and present election results for the 49 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. 

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Provider: African Elections Database
Updated: Mar 17, 2020 10:10am

Women's Studies

The Women's Studies collections provide access to a collection of manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more material tracing the path of women's issues from past to present.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 1, 2020 12:05am

Latin American Databank

The Latin American Databank (LAD) provides a portal for Latin American datasets acquired, processed and archived by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Collections includes data from public opinion surveys conducted by the survey research community in Latin America and the Caribbean, including universities, institutes, individual scholars, private polling and public opinion research firms.

The database includes data from: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. 

Provider: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Updated: Jun 28, 2018 1:35pm

Africa Development Data Explorer (ADDaX)

Africa Development Data Explorer (ADDaX) provides access to reference data from 54 African economies. According to East View Information Service, data is collected from local and regional African sources as well as international sources.

Provider: East View Information Services
Updated: Apr 6, 2023 11:55am

The World Wars: firepower and fascism at home and abroad

The World Wars: firepower and fascism at home and abroad is a thematic series contained as a sub-set within the digitized archival content known as British Online Archives (BOA), distributed by Microform Academic Publishers (MAP).  This series includes the following collections:

Asia at war, World War 2 as described by USPG Missionaries, 1914-1946 British officers' diaries from World War 1, 1914-1919 The British Union of Fascists: newspapers and secret files, 1933-1951 Conscientious Objection during the First World War Hitler's...
Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Jan 1, 2018 12:05am

Latinobarómetro

Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that as of 2016 involved some 20,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 600 million inhabitants. 

Provider: Corporación Latinobarómetro
Updated: Jan 18, 2017 5:30pm

Catalist

Catalist is a database of US voter registration and demographic data. The database also integrates data from the US Census. 

Provider: Catalist
Updated: Jan 10, 2017 4:41pm

i360 Database

The i360 database is a resource of aggregated U.S. voter registration and election data along with other demographic and survey data points.  

Provider: i360
Updated: Jan 10, 2017 4:41pm

Sysomos

Sysomos is a social media analytics platform with aggregated data from: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, LexisNexis, and more. Based in Toronto, Sysomos offers global coverage of social media data.

Provider: Sysomos Inc.
Updated: Jan 18, 2017 12:44pm

Crimson Hexagon Data Library

Crimson Hexagon is a social media analytics service, based in Boston, MA, that indexes social media posts from a wide range of global sources,and maintains an online repository of social media data and a platform for social media analytics. The data library provides posts from content providers including: Twitter, Tumblr, Google Plus, Blogs, Forums, Facebook, Instagram Hashtags, Reviews, News, Comments, and YouTube. 

Provider: Crimson Hexagon
Updated: May 22, 2017 10:54am

Eurobarometer

Eurobarometer is a series of public opinion surveys conducted by the European Commission. The surveys address a variety of topical issues relating to the European Union throughout the member states. Survey results are published by the European Commission. 

Provider: European Commission
Updated: Oct 4, 2016 12:41pm

ARDA Data Archive

The Association of Religion Data Archives is a collection of surveys, polls, and other data on American and International religious topics submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA.

Provider: The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
Updated: Sep 22, 2016 1:05pm

Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean (SEDLAC)

The Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean (SEDLAC) is an online, open source database featuring statistics on poverty and other distributional and social variables from 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries, based on micro data from household surveys. The database is provided through a partnership between The World Bank and The Center for Distributive, Labor, and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. SEDLAC is an ongoing project and regular updates and revisions are made to the dataset.

Provider: World Bank
Updated: Oct 24, 2016 11:20am

Polling the Nations

Polling the Nations is a compilation database of public opinion data, containing full text of over 18,000 surveys from approximately 1,700 U.S. and international sources.  

Provider: ORS Publishing
Updated: Sep 13, 2016 3:23pm

Pew Research Center Datasets

The Pew Research Center makes its survey data openly accessible online after a period of time. Users can download datasets off of Pew's website from surveys covering: U.S. politics & policy; journalism & media; internet, science & tech; religion & public life; Hispanic trends; global attitudes & trends; and social & demographic trends. 

Provider: Pew Research Center
Updated: Dec 12, 2016 3:12pm

CISER Data Archive

The CISER Data Archive is a collection of social and economic datasets of numeric data files. The collection includes: federal and state censuses, files based on administrative records, public opinion surveys, economic and social data, and studies complied by individual researchers. 

Provider: Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research
Updated: Sep 20, 2016 5:37pm

American National Election Studies Data Center

The American National Election Studies Data Center provides access to data aggregated through the ANES national surveying on voting, public opinion, and political participation. 

Provider: American National Election Studies
Updated: Sep 20, 2016 5:46pm

The Odum Institute Data Archive

The Odum Institute Data Archive is a physical and digital archive provided by the University of Carolina's Odum Institute. The Data Archive includes holdings of national and international economic, electoral, demographic, financial, health, and public opinion data. The archive features the following datasets: the national network of state polls, public opinion data, social psychology data, and North Carolina data.

Provider: The Odum Institute
Updated: Sep 20, 2016 5:43pm

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