Eurobarometer related web resources

• Eurobarometer in the Internet
• Other international survey series
• Country statistics and information sources
• Political parties and elections in Europe
• European unification information resources and link collections
• The European Union
• Comparative social and political research with focus on Europe
• Learning and teaching

Eurobarometer in the Internet (Investigator, Fieldwork, Reports, Data)

• European Commission DG Press and Communication, Opinion Polls Sector - principal investigator site with access to the official Eurobarometer reports, including qualitative studies
• TNS Opinion - Standard and special topic Eurobarometer fieldwork co-ordination and report preparation (siehe auch: TNS Infratest Politikforschung)
• Gallup - Flash and special target group Eurobarometer fieldwork co-ordination and report preparation (The Gallup Organisation, Europe)
• ZACAT / Eurobarometer online - Standard and Special Eurobarometer, Central & Eastern Eurobarometer and Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 
• Swiss Eurobarometer - parallel (independent) surveys on selected topics run between 1999 and 2003 available through the FORS data service and FORS online data catalogue with access to the integrated data (EU + Switzerland)

Eurobarometer related and other international survey series
 

• European and world wide comparative survey projects - comprehensive historical overview of cross-national survey programmes and important singular comparative studies with focus on individual level population samples since 1948, including the Global Barometer projects, the World and European Values Studies, ISSP, the European Social Survey etc.  
• SocSci on the Net - Surveys & data - references to WWW data resources at IFDO  
• European Data Center for Work and Welfare (EDACwowe) - information on and direct links to comparative and national, quantitative and qualitative data on work and welfare and closely related fields
  
  

• QoG dataset on social policy and quality of government - comparative cross-national and time-series data set on social policy output and its correlates, with a special focus on the connection between social policy and quality of government (QoG). This compilation of freely available data sources, including aggregated public opinion data (CSES, Eurobarometer, ISSP, WVS) is produced and made available by The QoGInstitute, University of Gothenburg.    
  

Country statistics and information sources

• MacroDataGuide international - maintained by NSD
  
  
• Chroniken zur deutschen (und wichtigen Ereignissen der internationalen) Geschichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart - Lebendiges virtuelles Museum online (LeMO) des Deutschen Historischen Museums (German only)
• Data Report  - demographic, social and economic data on the Federal Republic of Germany are compared to those of other EU-member and candidate countries (edited by the Federal Statistical Office (DESTATIS) in cooperation with the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and GESIS)
• Statistics Portal - of the statistical offices of the Länder and the Federal Statistical Office, Germany
• Statistical offices in Germany, Europe and worldwide - link collection maintained by Ferderal Statistical Office, Germany
  
  
• EDS European Data Service - provided by the Federal Statistical Office, Germany
• EURODATA Research Archive - infrastructural unit of the MZES, University of Mannheim, with focus on aggregate socio-economic and political data (The EURODATA Newsletter)
• EURODATA Family Policy Database at MZES - family policies from the 1960s to the mid- 1990s in EU member countries plus Norway and Poland 
• European Observatory on Health systems and policies
• EUROSTAT - statistical office of the European Union
• EUROSTAT - Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) 
• EURYDICE - the information network on education in Europe (European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture)
   
• CIA World Factbook - annual editions
• International Labour Organisation - ILO databases and other resources
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD statistics on demography, economics, education, employment, health, migration, ...
• Population statistics - population per country in a historical perspective, including their administrative divisions and principal towns
• UNESCO statistics - Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication
• World Bank Open Data - the Data Catalog provides download access to over 2000 indicators from World Bank data sources 
• World Health Organisation - country reports

Political parties and elections in Europe (and the World)

• European Elections Database -  compare election results in Europe across countries, NUTS regions and over time (NSD)
• List of political parties by United Nations geoscheme (Wikipedia)
  
  
• Elections Resources on the Internet - links worldwide
• Elections and Electoral Systems around the world - links worldwide
• Elections and Parties around the world - contents of "Electionworld" moved to Wikipedia
• Elections and Referenda worldwide -  International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
• Elections in Europe - data handbook (forthcoming 2006), part of the "Elections Worldwide" DFG research project
• Elections in the EU of 27 - CDSP (Centre for Socio-political Data) including country reports
• European Elections Monitor - Foundation Robert Schuman
• European Governments on-line - links maintained by the European Union
• Leftist Parties in Western Europe (and the World) - detailed list including links to party websites
• ParlGov - data on parties, elections and governments for all EU and most OECD members from 1945 until today
• Parties and Elections in Europe - including election results and links to related websites
• Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe - election legislation and election results database for 12 Central and Eastern European Countries (project at the University of Essex) 

European unification information resources and link collections

• European Documentation Centre (EDC) - at the University of Mannheim; providing references to other European Documentation Centres; link collection Europe on Internet
• Europäisches Dokumentationszentrum der Universitäts und Stadtbibliothek Köln - mit Linkliste zu Europa im Internet (currently only in German)
• Historival Archive of the European Union (HAEU) - public documents preserved and made available by the European University Institute of Florence (EUI).
  
  
• Europe and European Union Links and Mailing Lists - maintained by the Max-Planck-Institute for the Studies of Societies, Cologne 
• European Information - Pointers to resources of interest to research on the European Union, University of Exeter 
• European Union Internet Resources - UC Berkeley Library Web Information Service 
• European Union related links - large collection with comments in German language, University of Cologne
  
  
• Wissen Europa - information resource on European integration, including access to the digitized "Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration" (Yearbook of European Integration) since 1980 (German only)

The European Union

• The abc of the European Union - the EU at a glance ...
• Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe (CVCE) 
• Eurpean NAvigator (ENA) - European knowledge base 
• The European Union Gateway
• The European Commission
• The European Parliament
• European Union Constitution Website
• The European Union Enlargement Gateway
• Europe's Information Society Portal - European Commission 

Comparative social and political research with focus on Europe

• Center for Applied Policy Research at the University of Munich does research on European integration issues and compiles Eurobarometer results on selected EU topics (German only)
  (Eurobarometer - Europa "von unten" 2006 and 2007)       
• Center for European Integration Studies - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universität Bonn
• Citizens and the European Union - Research project at the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki 
• Department of European Studies at Loughborough University (U.K.) - cross-national research 
• EURONAT Representations of Europe and the Nation in Current and Prospective Member-States: Media, Élites and Civil Society - home page of the EC funded research project at the European University Institute, Florence
• European Consortium for Political Research - independent, scholarly association of European political scientists, supporting and encouraging the training, research and cross-national co-operation of political scientists throughout Europe and beyond
• European Elections Studies - project home page maintained by Mark N. Franklin 
• European Integration Online Papers Archive - peer reviewed E-journal in the field of European integration 
• European Union Politics -  international journal for advanced research on politics and policy in the EU (Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz) 
• European Union Studies Association - scholarly and professional association focusing on the European Union and the ongoing integration process
• Fondation Robert Schuman - The French think tank on Europe
• Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) - Institute for European Politics (IEP) dedicated to the study of European integration since 1959
• Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS) - at the University of Bremen
• Jean Monnet Chair for European Affairs - Forschungsinstitut für Politische Wissenschaft und Europäische Fragen an der Universität zu Köln
• Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung - specialised in research on European integration 
• Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
• World Database of Happiness - directed by Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  
  
• Pippa Norris homepage  - Comparative Politics, Political Communications, Digital Divide; publications, further links and her Weblog "The World of Politica, Politics of the World"
• Claes H. de Vreese homepage - political communication research with focus on European Integration

Learning and teaching

• Forschen mit GrafStat - Multimediale Lehr- und Lernumgebung für politische Bildung mit Beispieldatensätzen aus ALLBUS und Eurobarometer, Universität Münster / Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (German only) 
• Politisches Systeme im Vergleich EU / Governance - drei PolitikON Lerneinheiten  im Bereich "Politische Systeme im Vergleich" (German only)
• Data for Undergraduate Political Science Courses - special ESDS data set release EUROBAROMETER 64.2 together with British Election Study and the British Social Attitudes Survey  

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