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Internet links to data and context information

1. Panel and comparative data
2. Data centres and statistical organisations
3. Libraries and documentation centres
4. European projects
5. Research networks and organisations

1. Panel and comparative data

• AFROBAROMETER

• CHER - Consortium of Household Panels f. European Socio-economic Research

• Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness; 1980-1987

• Coping with Government in the FSU/ECE, 1996-1998

• The Cost of Social Security 1949-1993

• Cross-National Equivalent File, 1980-2001

• CSES - Comparative Study of Electoral Systems 

• CSES - Deutsche CSES Studie

• DIW Data Services and Data Bases

• EAST ASIA BAROMETER

• ECHP Data availability

• ELECTIONS and REFERENDUMS in EUROPE

• ESRC UK Longitudinal Studies Centre

• EUROPA - Public opinion analysis - Eurobarometer special surveys

• EUROPA - Public opinion analysis - Candidate countries Eurobarometer (CCEB)

• European Health Survey 2: Cancer Prevention Survey 1992

• European Panel Analysis Group (EPAG)

• European Social Survey (ESS)

• European Survey on Working Conditions

• EVS homepage

• European Voter Data Base

• Family and Fertility Surveys (UECE)

• Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children

• Human Development Report and Human Development Index at UNDP

• INES - The Israel National Election Studies (from 1969 until today)

• Institut für Wahl-, Sozial- und Methodenforschung

• International Crime Victim Survey

• Interaction and National Data on the European System (INDES) 1945-1980

• International Social Justice Project (I.S.J.P.)

• International Social Assistance Database, 1996

• ISER - Institute for Social and Economic Research

• LATINOBAROMETER

• LES (Luxembourg Employment Study)

• LIS (Luxembourg Income Study)

• MTUS (Multinational Time Use Study)

• MZES/Eurodata Family Policy Database

• NBER Macro- history Database

• National Election Studies (NES) and Comparative Studies of Electoral Systems (CSES) at the University of Michigan

• New Democracies Barometer (NDB)

• Overview of cross-national survey programmes and important singular comparative studies

• PACO presentation

• Penn World Data

• People at War

• PEW - Global Attitudes Project

• Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 

• Reader's Digest Eurodata 1990 (A Consumer Survey of 17 European Countries)

• Robert-Koch-Institut: Die Public Use Files zu den Gesundheitssurveys des RKI

• Rural Change in Europe : Research Programme on Farm Structures and Pluriactivity in 1987 and 1991

• Scandinavian Welfare Survey 1972

• Social Consequences of Transition (SOCO)

• Social Change in Baltic Countries 1993

• Social Stratification in Eastern Europe After 1989 (SSEE)

• Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

• Ten Towns Data Set

• Terrorism in Western Europe: Event Data (TWEED)

• Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB) of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT)

• Unemployment, Poverty and Social Policy: a Comparative Study in the UK,  France and Germany

• Women's Employment and Family Life in the United Kingdom, Norway, France, Czech Republic and Russia, 1996-1997

• Working Conditions In The Candidate Countries

• World Value Survey (WVS)

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2. Data infrastructures, centres and statistical organisations

• CESSDA: Council of European Social Science Data Archives

• Data Infrastructure (Universität Mannheim)

• ECASS - European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences

• ECB - European Central Bank

• ElWiS - Elektronische Fachinformation WirtschaftsStatistik

• Eurydice - The Information Network on Education in Europe,

• EuReporting - Comparative Official Microdata

• EuReporting - Towards a European System of Social Reporting and Welfare Measurement

• Eurostat - Statistical office of the European Commission

• Fores - Forschungsstelle für empirische Sozialökonomik

• Forschungsdatenzentrum am IQB (Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen)

• General Register Office for Scotland (GROS)

• Geospatial and Statistical Data Center (University of Virginia Library)

• German Microdata Lab, GESIS-ZUMA)

• IAB - Die Informationsplattform des IAB

  Harvard-MIT Data Center

• IFDOnet: Social Science & Data Archives on the Net

• InfoNation (Compare statistical data for several UN Member States)

• Infratest-Dimap - Sonntagsfrage

• Institute for Empirical Research in Economics (University of Zurich)

• Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie (Universität zu Köln)

• Integrated Research Infrastructure in the Socio-Economic Sciences (IRISS-C/I) at CEPS/Instead, Luxembourg

• International Bureau of Education (IBE) - International activities

• National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD)

• NESSTAR

• OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

• Palestinian Center For Public Opinion

• Public-Use Files des Bayerischen Forschungsverbunds Public Health

• r.cade: the Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe

• EDACwowo (European Data Centre for Work and Welfare)

• SDA: Survey Documentation and Analysis

• Seminar für Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik (Universität zu Köln)

• Statistical Science Web: Data Sets

• Statistics.com - Research Statistics and Statistical Analysis Directory

• Statistik (Universität Marburg - FB Wirtschaftswissenschaften)

• Statistik an der Universität zu Köln und im Internet

• Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland

• Statistisches Bundesamt - Forschungsdatenzentrum

• UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

• Universität Lüneburg: Links zur Demokratieforschung

• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Human Development Report

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• United Nations Statistics Division - Publication Listings

• United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Factbook

• WebUse: Scientific Research on the Internet

• Wikisource:Election data

• World Bank Education Statistics Database (EdStats)

• World Bank Group

• World Bank Group - Data and Statistics

• World Bank Africa Household Survey Databank

• World Database of Happiness

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3. Libraries and documentation centres

• British Academy PORTAL

• British Library of Political and Economic Science, LSE, London

• Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

• Communication Studies and Journalism (Nanyang Technological University Library)

• Comparability of Health Surveys in Europe

• Country Dossiers

• ECHP Documents

• E-library for global welfare

• Electionworld.org - Elections around the world

• European Political Resources

• European Union Internet Resources at the University of California, Berkley

• European University Library, Florence

• IFES - International Foundation for Election Systems

• jurawelt.com: Wahlsystem des Bundeswahlgesetzes

• Lijphart elections archive

• Parties and elections in Europe

• Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

• Political resources on the net

• Politics Resources Database of the Political Studies Association, UK

• politik-buch.de - digitales rezensionsforum

• POLY-CY Internet Resources for Political Science

• RePEc - Research papers in Economics
• RFE - Resources for Economists

• Richard Kimber's political science resources

• Social Science Information Gateway at the University of Bristol

• Social Sciences Virtual Library
• SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway

• Wählerinformationssystem (WIS)

• wahlrecht.de: Wahlen, Wahlrecht und Wahlsysteme

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4. EU supported projects

• BERGEN WITTGENSTEIN -archives at the University of Bergen.

• Eurospehre - Diversity and the European Public Sphere. Towards a Citizens' Europe

• Network of Excellence CONNEX ("Connecting Excellence on European Governance")

• CRONUS - Legal Science through Information and Communication Technologies

• ECHO - European Cultural heritage On line

• EPAG - European Panel Analysis Group

• EPUNet - Europanel users network

• ESeC -European Socio-economic Classification 

• ESS - European Social Survey

• EUROFOUND - European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (carries out Surveys)

• NESSIE- Network of Economic and Social Sciences Infrastructures in Europe

• EuReporting - a European-wide project with the long-term objective to create a science-based European System of Social Reporting and Welfare Measurement.

• EUROMOD - European Tax-Benefit

• EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

• MADIERA - Multilingual Access to Data Infrastructures of the European Research Area

• MetaDater - Metadata Management and Production System for Empirical Socio-Economic Research

• MICRESA - Micro-level analysis of the European Social Agenda: combating poverty and social exclusion through changes in social and fiscal policy

• MOREES - Mapping of Research in European Social Sciences and Humanities

• PERINE - Pedagogical and Educational Research Information Network for Europe

• SOCIALSCIENCESNET - Social Sciences Infrastructure Network

• TYPOLOGIE - Language Typology Resource Center

• WebSM - The Web survey methodology site

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5. Research networks and organisations

• Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST)

• Centre for Economic Policy Research(CEPR)

• DDI

• European Political Science Network

• European Science Foundation (ESF)

• European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) as part of the EUROCORES programme of the ESF

• European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)

• European Sociological Association (ESA)

• European Economic Association (EEA)

• European Consortium for Communications Research

• European Society for Population Economics

• IASSIST

• International Science System

• International Sociological Association

• Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES)

• NATO Research and Technology Organisation

• Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS)

• Research group: Extreme Right Electorates and Party Success

• SPAnet - Network for European Social Policy Analysis
• War and Children Identity Project

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