POLS-296 Quantitative Methods: Data Sources

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.

The Election Lab at the University of Florida is a collaboration of faculty and students who study voting and elections through analyses of survey and election data. They aim to provide timely and accurate statistics, software, reports, and other useful information, primarily regarding voting and elections in the United States.

Conducts national polling surveys of the American electorate.

Use this site to locate Census data. Please see the visual guide linked below for step-by-step directions on using this site.

Population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

300,000 datasets and dataset collections in the catalog, harvested from over 100 organizations.

The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest.

Data for multiple countries on a variety of economic, social, and political topics. Our World in Data is produced as a collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Oxford and the non-profit organization Global Change Data Lab.

Open data compiled by the World Bank.

Wide range of economic, social, cultural, and demographic indicators: population, environment, health, economics, technology, trade, refugees, and more.

Features maps and downloadable data sets for a hundreds of indicators.

A collaborative effort of social science research organizations in over 40 countries, the ISSP asks a battery of questions in all countries and focuses on a theme that is repeated at irregular intervals. Past topics include religion, the role of government, social inequality, and the environment.