Social Science Statistics & Data Sources

"ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. Central to this mission is the active involvement of the ANES research community in all phases of the project."

"In analyzing the policy achievements and lasting impact of Presidents, it is often helpful to look at data relating to things such as the electoral context in which the President serves, level and type of presidential activity, and public approval. "

UCF Catalog Call Number: JK1967 .A8
Official, state-certified election returns by county and by district for the House, Senate and gubernatorial elections.

"an international journal covering all aspects of voting, the central act in the democratic process.... It publishes fully refereed papers, both theoretical and empirical, on such topics as relationships between votes and seats, and between election outcomes and politicians' reactions; historical, sociological, or geographical correlates of voting behaviour; rational choice analysis of political acts, and critiques of such analyses; the formal and behavioural properties of electoral systems; and work in game theory, political economy, or social choice relevant to elections.... Electoral Studies also provides comprehensive descriptive coverage of national elections and referendums in the democratic world in its 'Notes on Recent Elections' and 'National Elections: the cycle of elections' features."

FEC provides campaign finance data and is "the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House, Senate, Presidency and the Vice Presidency."

"For every national election since 1964, we collected data on the characteristics of American voters. Find out how many citizens of voting age are registered, and how many vote, by age and sex, race and ethnicity, and more."

"Since 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories."

"The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) provides a detailed portrait of the social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics of America’s communities."

Includes " types of tables and profiles from the American Community Survey"

"For five decades, the General Social Survey (GSS) has studied the growing complexity of American society. It is the only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States. ​​​Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has provided politicians, policymakers, and scholars with a clear and unbiased perspective on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spending priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions."

"The American Journal of Political Science is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science research. To find out more about our data integrity policies, please visit our website https://ajps.org/ajps-verification-policy"

"This archive contains data on election results, voting behavior, and electoral politics, with particular focus on the United States. The core data for the archive are state, county and district level election returns for all recent state and federal elections in the United States."

UCF is an ICPSR member. It hosts data for 16 specialized collections covering education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields and "maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences.

"A a clearinghouse for data sets that can fuel studies on elections and how they're conducted."

"The Odum Institute Archive Dataverse contains social science data curated and archived by the Odum Institute Data Archive at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Some key collections include the primary holdings of the Louis Harris Data Center, the National Network of State Polls, and other Southern-focused public opinion data. Please note that some datasets in this collection are restricted to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill affiliates. "

"Political Behavior publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, institutions, processes, and policies. Coverage focuses on conventional and unconventional political behavior of individuals or small groups, and of large organizations that participate in the political process such as parties, interest groups, political action committees, governmental agencies, and mass media."

"A recent initiative of ICPSR, the mission of RCMD is to provide educators, researchers, and students with data resources to analyze issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States."

"Data.gov was launched in 2009 and is managed and hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration, Technology Transformation Service."

"DHS and its components provide access to statistical reports and machine readable data sets. These datasets are available in the DHS section of Data.gov and follow the guiding principles set in the DHS Digital Government strategy."

"The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House, Senate, Presidency and the Vice Presidency".

"The Yearbook of Immigration Statistics is a compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent residents), were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis (e.g., tourists, students, or workers), applied for asylum or refugee status, or were naturalized."

"The World Migration Report is a global reference report used by officials, media, researchers and students throughout the world."

"World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) provides a ranking of 215 countries and territories based on six dimensions of governance, including political stability, government effectiveness, and control of corruption. The report is an aggregate project with rankings beginning in 1996. Data is available interactively and in PDF and Excel format. Documentation on the methodology of the indicators is also available."

"The World Values Survey is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life ... " WVS questions/topics are similar to GSS, but WVS includes samples from approx 90 countries with post-industrial democracies and developing nations. Data is publicly available and the website contains tools for online data analysis.

"V-Dem Project (Varieties of Democracy V-Dem) is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. V-Dem distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collects data to measure these principles."