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"Public data is everywhere, collected by government agencies, advocacy groups, news organizations and an ever-expanding set of specialty sites. But that data is online in too many different locations to easily search. The Accountability Project is an effort to cut across these data silos and give journalists, policy professionals, activists and the public at large a simple way to search huge volumes of public data about people and organizations." (by The Investigative Reporting Workshop) Focused on the USA.
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Coverage: 2004 to present. Updated: Every two years.
Multi-country, regularly conducted survey of democratic values and behaviors in the Americas. From the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt University.

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The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is a collection of geographic information from around the world. The content is frequently updated and intended for use with ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro software.
 

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Official government, social, economic, and industry statistics of the People's Republic of China. Data is available on a national, provincial, county, and city level. Is the online equivalent of the "China Statistical Yearbook" and is comprised of the China Statistical Data Online and the China Census Data Online databases.
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Political Risk Services' (PRS) 100 Country Reports monitor the risks to international business over the next five years, using the tried and true Coplin-O'Leary methodology. Additional International Country Risk Guides monitor 140 developed, emerging, & frontier markets, rating a wide range of risks facing international businesses & financial institutions.
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The Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive, launched in 1968, contains domestic conflict, political, legislative and economic data (around 200 variables) on over 200 countries from 1815 onward.
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eMarketer provides analysis, market data, and statistics on the internet, e-commerce, online marketing, social media, and emerging digital technologies around the world.
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Instructions for obtaining microdata from the Gallup World Poll and the Gallup Daily US Tracking Survey.

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Datasets (in SPSS format) and their codebooks (in Excel format) from the Gallup Poll Social Series (GPSS). For each month, the dataset contains a common set of basic indicator variables, and different sets of topical variables, for years going back to 2001, as indicated in its codebook.
For more information on the GPSS, please see How Does the Gallup Poll Social Series Work?
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Indiastat offers a comprehensive compilation of socio-economic statistical information about India and its states on various socio-economic parameters.
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Log in to the database by selecting the 'Through IP Login' option.
You will be logged out automatically after 20 minutes of inactivity.
Please click on 'LOGOUT' when exiting to release the session for another user. **
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The ITERATE project is an attempt to quantify data on the characteristics of transnational terrorist groups, their activities which have international impact, and the environment in which they operate. The datasets include characteristics of incidents, terrorists, and victims; and life and property losses.
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Defense and security news, intelligence, and analysis. Our subscription includes modules in the following areas:
Country Intelligence
Defence Budgets
Defence Equipment & Technology
Military Capabilities
Terrorism & Insurgency
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This Massachusetts Institute of Technology “lab is a clearinghouse for data sets that can fuel studies on elections and how they're conducted. Find election data and research tools produced by us and others.”
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Neighborhood boundaries can change from one census year to the next, making it hard for researchers to compare the same area over time. The Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB) reconciles those changing boundaries in census data from 1970 to 2010. Data extracts are GIS-compatible.
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ProQuest TDM Studio is a web-based tool that allows users analyze large amounts of content while collaborating with colleagues in real-time on one cloud-based platform. Using content retrieved from ProQuest databases that AU Library subscribes to, including current and historical newspapers, scholarly and trade journals, magazines and theses and dissertations, you can conduct data analysis, text mining, and data visualization to uncover relationships, patterns, and connections.

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An easy-to-use web-based mapping, analytics, and data visualization application with 50,000+ data variables, including demographic data from the US Census and the American Community Survey (ACS), consumer spending data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), and over 20 million business points from Dun and Bradstreet with detailed profiles on each business, in addition to the CDC PLACES health data delivered by SimplyAnalytics providing 27 diverse health measures, including Health Outcomes, Prevention, Health Risk Behaviors, and Health Status including estimates. Users also have access to the Claritas PRIZM Premier marketing segmentation system enabling users to understand lifestyle characteristics of places or identify target market segments. Data is available down to the Census Block Group level.
Users may create accounts to save their searches or proceed as guests.**Access is limited to 5 concurrent users.**

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SWF Transactions Database provides high-quality news, data and intelligence on sovereign funds, pensions and public funds. This database covers all sectors and mandates.
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Includes the Complete Economic and Demographic Data Source (CEDDS) and the Complete U.S. Database, both containing demographic and economic data from 1970 to 2050 or later (annual projections).
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