Statistical Resources on the Web
Military and Defense
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Last updated on December 2,
2008
- Demographic characteristics of the military in 2001/2002
- Includes religion, sexual orientation, sex, race, occupation and
rank, and state
- Article appearing in Population Bulletin, December 2004
- Participants, deaths, and living veterans from individual wars,
American Revolution to the Persian Gulf
- Lists name, death date, and age of last veteran
- Annual report on military readiness, equipment, and personnel
- Browsable by chapter or searchable across all years by
keyword
- UMich Campus Trial through Feb. 14,
2007
- Annual analysis of armed conflicts around the world since 1997,
including non-state parties, death toll
- Statistics, bar graphs, and pie charts by year and country for
fatalies, weapons, refugees, and returnees
- Summary information on individual non-state groups (e.g.
Hezbollah)
- Analysis of survey throughout the U.S. military on race relations
- Includes perceptions of relationship problems, promotion
opportunities, incident reports
- Data broken down by race of respondent, military branch, and military
rank
- Executive summary in HTML; full report in pdf at 3.3MB
- Arms Trade Data Base provides the text of
news articles on arms trade, arranged by country
- Weekly Defense Monitor includes position papers
- U.S. military spending clock
- Brief information about a country's population, ethnicity, politics, and
economics
- Structure of military, its manpower and finances
- Web site discontinued as of October 1996
- See paper copy located in Documents Center and UGL: G 122.U56
- Federal and research institution web sites about cleaning up nuclear
weapons complex in an environmentally and economically safe manner
- Includes think tank reports with some statistics
- Good annotations
Correlates of
War
- Correlates of War
Data Sets (Peace Science Society)
- Data Resources Section of the web page provides data from the
Interstate System, 1816-1997 and Militarized Interstate Dispute, 1816-1997
- Includes updates since 1997
- Data must be ftp-ed by user
- Site provides a bibliography describing the data sets
- Correlates
of War (ICPSR)
- Codebook freely available for ftp
- Data requires authorization from your local ICPSR representative
- Correlates of War
Project (UMich)
- Descriptive background on the project, headed by Dr. David Singer
- Text of books and articles written by project
researchers
- Terrorist activities in the 1990s (embassy bombings, Internet) and
policy implications
- Brief graphs on international terrorism, 1991-96, and the percent
with religious groups responsible
- Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal
government agencies
- Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
- Search engine indexes individual statistical tables
by keyword or agency and provides direct connection
- Felony waivers given for army, navy, airforce and marine recruitment
in FY 2006 and 2007 by type of felony (e.g. burglary)
- Another copy
- Data on wars, casualties, non-state conflicts from 1946 to the
present
- Use the lefthand screen to access statistical figures and data
sources
- Articles on nuclear terrorism and securing Pakistan's weapons during
the crisis
- World map of nations by their stage of nuclear capability
- Military and non-military plutonium stocks by country
- List of international terrorist organizations and data base of
terrorist attacks since 1990
- Daily news and weekly articles
- Searchable index to both data and articles
- Picks international crisis, 1918-2005, and provides database of the
triggers that led to them
- Extensive annotations for international and U.S. data sets
- Economic, political, social, environmental, and military variables
- Sources include data sets from articles and books which would be
otherwise difficult to locate
- Killed or wounded in Iraq by branch of service and
either age, race, gender, or rank
- Deaths also indicate reserve status
- Casualty statistics beginning with the Revolutionary War vary in
detail but usually include deaths by branch of service
- Query database by country/location and date range for a list of nuclear
explosions since 1945
- Data includes time and date, latitude and longitude, type of test,
body wave length, and comments
- Map illustrates active test sites
- Maintained by the Australian Geological Survey Organization
Nuclear Weapon
Locations
- History
of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons: July 1945
through September 1977
- Classified document prepared by the Defense Department in
1978 and partially released under the Freedom of Information Act
- Includes an appendix with deployments by country and date
- Where
They Were
- Article describes storage of about 12,000 atomic and nuclear weapons
abroad, 1945-77
- Host countries did not always know they were there
- Lists country or territory, type of missile, year imported, and year
withdrawn
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nov/Dec. 1999, p.
26+
- Summary of terrorist acts by continent and country, 1996-2003, and
Country Reports on Terrorism, 2004+
- Appendix provides a chronology of terrorist acts and a description of
the terrorist groups
- See also Political
Science/International Sources
- Annual survey of armed conflicts throughout the world with numerous
charts and graphs
- Includes chart showing each country's comparative standing on
self-determination, stability, discrimination, human security, and
neighborhood
- Appendix includes outcomes of armed conflicts since 1955
- Statistics on recruits and existing military personnel by age, race,
sex, education, geographic representation
- Data on the web dates back to 2001
- Primarily a Defense Department policy report
- Includes statistics on specific weapons and summary of military
manpower
- 2006
version
- 1997
version
- Quarterly assessment of political, economic, foreign trade, legal,
and regulatory risks in 150 countries
- Ratings supported by extensive written analysis
- Number of selective service draft inductions, 1917-73
- National totals only
- See the printed Annual Report of the Selective Service
System (UB343 .A27 and UB 343.A272) for detailed state
level data on inductions and rejections)
- Paper copy has lengthy annual summary of international military affairs,
conflict, disarmament, statistics, and signatories to major treaties
- Paper copy: UA 17 .S12 with current in Doc.Cen.--Doc.Ref.
- Internet version is primarily a press release with limited
information
- Percent of people participating, casualties, and COST OF WAR
- From American Revolution to Gulf War
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Access through the Statistical Sources menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: nuclear weapons and by
foreign country
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full
text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version or search Google for an online
version
- Military and civilian personnel by service, rank, sex, and location
at various frequency intervals beginning 1950
- Casualty data by type beginning with the Revolutionary War
- World map identifies current and completed peacekeeping missions
since 1948
- Data for each mission includes a description, dates, military
strength, and the name of the primary military observer
- Separate sections of the web site include fatalities by type and
mission, numbers of peacekeeping forces contributed by country, lessons
learned from past missions, and the most current annual report
- Supplemented by maps from the UN
Cartographic Section
- Comparisons of the Manhattan Project with WWII
expenditures
- Costs of individual weapons systems
- Charts of nuclear tests
- Full text of numerous articles
- Future
Years Defense Program Historical Data Base
describes various programs, 1962-95 with their total cost
- Summary report of European bombing in World
War II
- Report issued September 30, 1945
- Number of U.S. casualties by age at death, service branch, year,
country, sex, age, race, religion
- Data not cross-classified
- Searchable database of casualties and prisoners of war,
1942-1978
- Military expenditures, armed forces, GNP, and population for 172
countries, 1984-
- Arms transfers by supplier and recipient
- Summary of world military forces and arms transfers for various
years, 1961 to present
- United States policy on arms control and export
- 1998 is last edition
- Detailed chronology of international military incidents since
2000
- Search by keyword, region, and/or date to obtain a brief description
of
terrorist incidents around the world since January 1, 2004
- Data includes fatalities, injuries, and hostages
- Click on incident for known perpetrators
- Interactive map also available
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