WWW - Data Sources 

General Data Sources

• IFDOnet - Services of the member archives
• Integrated Data Catalog (CESSDA)
• East European Data Archive Network
• GESIS-ZA Data Holdings Catalogue
• NESSTAR

Data Sources on  Election Research

• Estonia and Lithuania - "Surveys on Electoral Behavior and Political Attitudes"
  The collection of study descriptions give an overview of data sets from 1989 to 1997 and is edited by Rein Murakas (ESSDA, University Of Tartu) and Algis Krupavicius (Department of Public Administration,  Kaunas University of  Technology).  Download Acrobat Reader.
  • Surveys on Electoral Behavior and Political Attitudes in Estonia 1994-1997
  • Surveys on Electoral Behavior and Political Attitudes in Lithuania 1989-1998

Comparative Studies 

• International Social Justice Project
• World Values Study Group
• New Democracy Barometer 
• Social Stratification in Eastern Europe after 1989
• Comparative Charting of Social Change
• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
• EURODATA Research Archive
• The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study Household Surveys
• Luxembourg Income Study 

Official Statistic

• Albania: Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
• State Register and Analysis of the Republic of Armenia
• Belarus: Ministry of Statistics and Analysis
• Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• National Statistical Institute Bulgaria 
• Statistical Office Croatia
• Czech Statistical Office (CzSO) 
• Georgia: State Department of Statistics
• Estonia: Valga statistika
• Hungarian Central Statistical Office
• Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
• Statistics Lithuania 
• Statistical Office of Macedonia
• Statistical Office Poland
• National Commission for Statistics Romania 
• Slovakia Official Statistics
• Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
• Ministry of Statistics of Ukraine
• Federal Statistical Office of Yugoslavia 

 International

• State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics 
• Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States
• EUROSTAT
• The International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• OECD
• IMF

Cooperation

• The Bank of Social Data (BDSI) has been described in cooperation with the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The data holdings are presented by short study descriptions (in English).  The printed version of the data catalogue can be consulted at the GESIS Service Agency. Requests for data will be passed on to the Institute for Sociology in Moscow.
• In the framework of the East European Data Archive Network close contacts exist with data archives from Russia, Estonia, Latvia. Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia.