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- Data on the
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- Searchable and browsable data base of approximately 800 numeric data
sites, data archives, catalogs, and commercial vendor web sites
- All entries are annotated and provide direct links to the web
site
- Gender
Empowerment
Index
- Ranks countries on percent of women in professional, managerial, or
Parliamentary positions as well as earned income
- Part of UNDP Human Development
Report
- Inter-University Consortium
for Political & Social Research
- Catalog and index to ICPSR's archival holdings of demographic,
economic, health, and political machine readable data tapes
- Many of the data sets and codebooks are available on-line
- Links to U.S., international, and foreign data archives
- Organizational information about ICPSR and its summer institutes
- International
Relations Data Page (FSU)
- 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
- Political
Science Data (Richard Tucker)
- Links to quality data sources for U.S. and international politics as
well as economics and general social science research
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- 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: presidential elections and by
county
- 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
- Consult Statistical Universe
Guide for various web searching alternatives
and a Slide
Show for further details
- Center for Responsive
Politics
- Non-partisan research group monitoring campaign reform
- Congressional campaign finance filings
- Open Secrets
- Lobby group campaign contributions to Members of Congress arranged by
industry and separately by member
- Web version in Adobe Acrobat format corresponds to paper version in
Documents Center (JK 1991 .M261)
- Color of
Money
- Ranks and lists states, counties, and the largest cities by percent
of people of color
- Tables list the number and amount of political campaign
contributions, per capita contributions, and income
- Does not provide data on the candidates to whom money was
contributed
- Congressional Campaign
Finances (Federal Election Commission)
- List of all Senate, House candidates, and Presidential candidates
- Summary of their receipts and disbursements since 1992
- FECInfo (Tony
Raymond)
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- Presidential campaign contributions searchable by
name, state, or Political Action Committee since 1991 and Congressional
since 1993
- Hard and soft money
- Current campaign reports
- User-friendly interface
- Follow
the Money
- Candidates for state office and their
campaign contributors
- Contributors by industry or special interest for a state
- Michigan
Campaign Finance Reporting System (Secy. of State)
- Indexes receipts and expenditures for gubernatorial, ballot, State
and Congressional offices beginning 1998
- All files are indexed by candidate name, party, committee, date, and
amount
- Receipts indexed by donor and location; expenditures by type
- Open
Secrets
- Detailed campaign finances for 1988, 1990, and 1992 elections
- Doc.Cen. JK 1991 .M621
- Project Vote
Smart
- Extensive annotated links to other sources of
Presidential and Congressional campaign finance information
- Campaign finance data found under "Elected Officials"
could be a little old
- 270 to Win
- Map of electoral college votes since 1789
- Interactive map of electoral college for 2004
- Begin by viewing the map as neutral, with 2000 results, or imagined in 2004
(with red, blue and swing states)
- Toggle to change the colors and determine a strategy
- ABC News
- One of the few archived elections sites for the 1998 elections
- Detailed vote counts for candidates and percentages
- Arranged by Congressional chamber or state
- Almanac
of
American Politics (UMich Only)
- Presidential election results for each Congressional District is
found under the description of the district and its representative
- See 2002 edition for original 2000 district boundaries; see 2004
for the 2003 district boundaries
- Based on PoliData
- America
Votes (Richard Scammon)
- Votes for President and Governor by state and county beginning 1952
- Votes for Members of Congress by Congressional District beginning 1946
- Only available in paper copy: Reference Room JK 1967 .A1 A68
- Two-year time lag between the general elections and publication
date
- American National Election
Studies
- Prepared by the Center for Political Studies
- Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation
studies
- Studies beginning 1994 are available via ftp for use with SAS or
SPSS
- Documentation in Word Perfect format
- Its Guide
to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides
summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public
opinion, 1952 to present
- Voting
Behavior: The 2004 Election (UMich Only) is a textbook with
exercises on using Berkeley's Data Analysis Software to measure the 2004
results and voter characteristics
- American
National
Election Study(UC-Berkeley)
- American National Election Studies CD-ROM
also available in the Documents Center
- Census Congressional
District Data
- Demographic, social, economic, and housing data for Congressional
Districts
- Most data for the 103rd Congress, 1993-94, but some data for those areas
redistricted since 1993 as a result of court orders
- Data found under "Summary Tape File 3D"
- Corresponding printed version for 1990 Census in the Documents Center
(HA 201 .1990-Ref); for 1980 in the Graduate Library stacks (HA 201. 1980)
- Search MIRLYN for historical copies of the Congressional
District Data Book
- Clerk
of the House
- Historical data includes national electoral college results since the
1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and
House by district since 1920
- Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th
Congress
- CQ
Voting
and Elections (UMich Only)
- Browse the Presidential,
Congressional, or Gubernatorial sections by
state to obtain county or Congressional District election data
- Presidential by county: 1920+, presidential primary by state:
1916-24, 1972+;
Congressional district by district: 1832+; gubernatorial by county:
1970+
- Use the very small link on the bottom left frame of the main page to
export or download data
- David
Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
- Maps and tables with Presidential votes since 1860
- Maps outline state electoral votes
- Tables show major and independent presidential and vice presidential
candidates, popular and electoral votes, and percentages for both
- County election data for 1912, 1968, and 1980-2000
- County map of 2000 Presidential election popular vote
- This is truly wonderful!
- Election Data
Services
- Includes 1998 voting equipment study showing voting equipment used by
county, precinct, population, and registered voters in the U.S. (numbers
and percentages)
- Map of Presidential election results by county
- Election
Day Exit Polls (Roper Center)
- Sells CDs of detailed election polls from the news organization
pools for 2000 (Voter News Service) and 2004 (Edison Media Research)
plus provides some tabulations online
- Detailed microdata at the national and state level includes
Presidential and Senatorial choices, reasons for voting, and voter
characteristics (age, income, religion)
- Independent votes for Republican or Democrat
- Documents Center CD-ROM (Docs CD-ROM Do258) has data in ASCII and
SPSS formats for manipulation
- CD includes national and state summaries for both years in pdf (e.g.
religion
cross-tabulated
by preferred candidate but not religion by income by preferred
candidate
- Election World
- Schedule of Parliamentary elections by date
- Election results and statistics by name of country
- Five Thirty
Eight
- Nate Silver's analysis of "big data sets" to predict elections
- Fourth
National Survey of Religion and Politics
- Data and analysis on how members of various religions voted for
President and why
- Inter-University Consortium
for Political & Social Research
- American and foreign election studies and results appear under
Archives/XIV.Mass Behavior and Political Attitudes
- Many of the data sets and codebooks are available on-line
- Lijphart Election
Archives (UCSD)
- Extensive links to 350 national legislation elections in 26 countries
- Includes Internet, print, and magnetic tape sources
- Michigan
Election Results (MI State Dept.)
- Statewide general and primary election data by district beginning
with 1994
- Data by district and county when applicable
- Most Liberal
Cities (Bay Area Center for Voter Research)
- Ranks 237 U.S. cities from most to least liberal (Detroit to Provo)
- Released in August 2005 in Microsoft Word format
- A New Nation
Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825 (Tufts/American
Antiquarian Society)
- Search for state, county and city election results for federal,
state, and local officials, 1787-1825
- You can search by combinations of states, candidates, office titles,
dates
- This is original research by Philip Lampi from a time when election
records were scattered
- PoliData
- Presidential
Voting, 1844-1860 (By State)
- State popular vote totals for all parties and vote total by state
- Published by Furman University
- Presidents of the United States
(IPL/Summers)
- Extensive web site with pages for each President, Washington to Clinton
- Includes election results
- Road to American
Democracy, 1984-1990 (Harvard/MIT Data Center)
- Variables include 100% population items from the 1990 Census (race,
households, families) plus biennial voting and registration data,
1984-1990, for cities and townships
- Registration and voting data by voting precinct, 1984-1990
- Data may be downloaded in zipped format or searched on line and
cross-tabulated
- Reviewing the codebook (pdf or zipped format) is necessary to use the
data
- Data results in SPSS, SAS, STATA, and sometimes ASCII formats
- State Election Results
AL
Elections, 2005+ |
AK
Elections, 1996+ |
AR Elections
(current) |
AZ
Elections, 1974+ |
CA
Elections, 1992+ |
CO
Elections, 1996+ |
CN
Elections (current) |
DE
Elections (current only) |
DC Elections
1994+ |
FL
Elections, 1978+ |
GA
Elections, 1988+ |
HI
Elections, 2004+ |
IA
Elections, 1996+ |
ID Elections,
1990+ |
IL
Elections, 1998+ |
IN
Elections, 1997+ |
KS
Elections, 1988+ |
KY
Elections, 1973+ |
LA
Elections, 1986+ |
MA Elections
2002+ |
MD
Elections, 1986+ |
ME Elections,
1992+ |
MI
Elections, 1998+ |
MN
Elections, 1998+ |
MO
Elections, 2002+ |
MS
Elections, 2000+ |
MT
Elections, 1992+ |
NE Elections,
2000+ |
NC
Elections, 1996+ |
ND
Elections, 2000+ |
NH Elections
(current) |
NJ
Elections, 1998+ |
NM
Elections, 2004+ |
NV
Elections, 1998+ |
NY
Elections, 2000+ |
OH
Elections, 1940+ |
OK
Elections, 1996+ |
OR
Elections, 1995+ |
PA
Elections, 2000+ |
PR
Elections, 2000+ |
RI Elections,
1998+ |
SC Elections,
1996+ |
SD
Elections, 1988+ |
TN
Elections, 1988+ |
TX Elections,
1992+ |
UT
Elections, 1982+ |
VT
Elections, 1996+ |
VA
Elections, 1997+ |
WA
Elections, 2004+ |
WI
Elections, 2000+ |
WV
Elections, 1998+ |
WY Elections,
1996+ |
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- State
Legislatures (NCSL)
- Partisan composition and number of women in state legislatures
- Data arranged by state
- Turnout
Files (Roll Call)
- National voter registration and turnout for the 1992-96 elections by
age, gender, ethnicity, education, and labor force status
- Articles on voter turnout issues in future elections
- United States
Electoral College (NARA)
- Electoral college laws and procedures
- Number of electoral votes per state for the 2000 elections
- State-by-state electoral college votes, 1789-1996
- Vote
of Each State by County for President, 1880
- Appendix A (Section 23) of Vincent Cooke's Life and Public
Services of Our
Greatest Living Statesman, Hon. James G. Blaine
- Voter
Registration, 1952- (National Election Study)
- National level voter registration data at two-year intervals since
1952
- Data by political party, income, black/white, education, occupation,
and union membership
- Voting
and Registration Data (Census Bureau)
- Sociodemographic characteristics of voters (age, race, sex,
employment, and education status) since 1964
- Does not include who people voted for
- See also Foreign Elections
- Freedom in the
World (Freedom House)
- Rates individual countries on political and civil liberties
- Textual essays and comparative statistics
- Includes best and worst countries as well as those which have
experienced the most change in the current year
- Press
Freedom (Freedom House)
- Measures political and economic
influences over media content
- World
Survey of Economic Freedom (Freedom House)
- Essays and comparative country data on property rights, labor
rights, free trade, and right to establish a business
- Correlates of War
- Military strength around the world
- United States military forces
- Data on international military operations
- AllPolitics
(Time/CNN)
- Excellent coverage of elections and public opinion polls
- Use search engine and type "poll"
- Separate archive for 1996 Election
Polls
- American
Customer Satisfaction Index (UMich Business School)
- Quarterly report since 1994 on consumer satisfaction with individual
companies
- Arranged by product or type of service with percent change over the
previous survey and for the period
- Satisfaction with local governments by type of service and type of
area
- Federal government satisfaction survey in 1999 arranged by agency,
service, and type of consumer
- American
Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Special survey conducted by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
- Charts and graphs on public opinion on national priorities, U.S. role
in resolving world problems, major foreign affairs issues
- Adobe Acrobat only
- American
Public Opinion Index
- Most comprehensive source for public opinion polls
- Ref. Room HM 261 .A4631
- Corresponding microfiche in Serials/Microforms as MICRO-F X423
- Canalipsos
- European, international, and U.S. opinion on public affairs
- Articles since 1997 include data in text
- French language
- Election
Day Exit Polls (Roper Center)
- Sells CDs of detailed election polls from the news organization
pools
- The 2004 polltaker was Edison Media Research and Mitofsky
International; the 2000 was Voter News Service
- Detailed microdata at the national and state level includes
Presidential and Senatorial choices, reasons for voting, and voter
characteristics (age, income, religion)
- Fourth
National Survey of Religion and Politics
- Data and analysis on how members of various religions voted for
President and why
- Gallup Organization
- Summary results of most current public opinion polls
- Gallup Poll, 1935 to present, also available in the Graduate Library Reference Room
as HN 90.P9 .G18
- General
Social Survey (ICPSR, NORC, UC-Berkeley)
- Annual survey since 1972 of public opinion and lifestyle
- Covers poverty, religion, contraceptive use, opinion on foreign affairs
- ICPSR site provides background on survey as well as printed
publications resulting from the survey
- Primary data extraction available from ICPSR and UC-Berkeley
- Computer-Assisted
Survey (UC-Berkeley)
- Data may be manipulated on-line
- Quick start instructions for the initiate:
- Choose Demonstration Survey Data Archive
- Choose the survey you would like and the "browse"
option; start
- Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
- Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
- Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
- Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical
and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or
percentages
- Example of General Social Survey
- Percentage of Protestants who
strongly agree with death penalty
- In "run crosstabulations," type in "deathpen" as vertical
and "relig" as horizontal; check off percentaging as vertical;
run the table
- Example of American National
Election Studies
- Institute of
Public Policy and Social Research
(MSU)
- Search publications by keyword for an analysis of current Michigan
public opinion polls on policy issues
- Iraq
Index:
Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security in post-Saddam
Iraq (Brookings)
- Troop deaths by cause, civilian casualties, Iraqi armed forces,
insurgents, car bombs
- Telephone subscribers, length of waiting time at gas station,
internet subscribers, life expectancy, water and sewer connections
- Also includes public opinion polls on U.S. occupation issues broken
down by religion
- Reports began in November 2003 and are updated weekly
- Joint Center for Political and Economic
Studies
- Non-profit organization providing public policy information on issues
affecting black Americans
- Summaries of selected papers include public opinion polls on such
topics as race relations, children, black participation in the Republican
Party
- Full text of annual report
- Kaiser Family
Foundation Surveys
- Surveys on American values, sex, health care issues, politics, and morals
- Full text since 1996
- Most in pdf format
- Louis Harris
Associates
- Public opinion results of last two months
- Primarily government and economic questions
- Most Liberal
Cities (Bay Area Center for Voter Research)
- Ranks 237 U.S. cities from most to least liberal (Detroit to Provo)
- Released in August 2005 in Microsoft Word format
- National Council on Public
Opinion Polls
- Principles of disclosure
- 20 questions journalists should ask when reading poll results
- National Opinion
Research Center (U-Chicago)
- Home of the General Social Survey with links
to data at ICPSR
- Studies describes its economic, education,
social, and health statistics programs
- Studies and data on a variety of topics (guns, stress, abortion,
smoking) appear in the Library section of the
menu
- Pew Research
Center
- Text and statistics of U.S. public opinion polls on politics, public
policy, and the press
- Issues covered since 1995 include the Presidential elections, TV news
viewership, Medicare reforms, campaign financing, churches, and the death
of Princess Diana
- Data on the public's attention to major news stories beginning 1986
- Archive of files since 1985 available upon request
- Polling
Report
- Biweekly periodical with public opinion polls on
politics, business, and culture
- Examples include favorite actor of all time, the President's approval
rating
- Includes articles on public opinion trends by opinion analysts,
pollsters and academics
- Polling
the Nations, 1986+ (UMich Only)
- Indexes public opinion survey questions in foreign countries
- Choose data base; at the NEXT screen, type in keyword search
- Searches may be refined
- Data includes the full text of the question, brief results, and a
citation to the article
- Pollster
- Use the drop-down box on the right to choose presidential,
congressional, or gubernatorial elections; then choose state
- Provides the latest poll information on the candidates in chart form
with a tabular format below
- Also provides a multitude of links to the various polling
organizations themselves
- Presidential
Job Performance (Roper Center)
- Public opinion polls on President Clinton's job
- Separate charts from Gallup, Yankelovich, ABC, NBC, and CBS rate the
President several times per year since 1993
- Gallup ratings include begin with 1938 and rate president's since
FDR
- Princeton Survey
Research Center
- Links to Internet sources on public polls
- Information on conducting polls
- Public
Agenda
- Nonpartisan, issue-oriented think tank
- Presents eighteen issues, including abortion, crime, gambling,
immigration, internet privacy, social security, and welfare
- For each issue provides background, links to lobby groups, a digest
of news stories, basic statistics, and a variety of state laws
- Numerous public opinion polls
- Public Opinion on Federal Legislation
(UMich)
- Additional printed sources for public opinion oplls
- Lobby group opinion on current legislation
- Public
Opinion Poll Question Database (University of North
Carolina)
- Data base of questions asked in the Harris, Carolina, Southern
States, and All State polls since the 1960s
- Searchable by subject, poll, and decade
- Catalog provides additional information and often frequency
distributions
- Public
Opinion Quarterly (UMich Only)
- Full text of scholarly journal analyzing public opinion worldwide
- Searchable by keyword, author, journal, date
- Part of JSTOR project
- Public Opinion
Quarterly Index is a free index, 1937+
- Full text also in Graduate Library as HM 261 .A1 P98 with a backup on
microfilm as FILM X375
- Pulse
(Epinet)
- Bimonthy web magazine focusing on one issue
- Provides context to the public opinion polls and links to in-depth
articles
- As of May 1999, one issue devoted to Social Security
- Roper
Center/Public Opinion
- Primarily information about the
Center
- Searchable catalogs of its public opinion polls, the Latin American
Survey Data Bank and the Japanese Survey Data Bank
- Roper Center
Codebooks available from the University of Michigan
- Roper polls can also be searched in Academic
Universe
(UMich Only) in the Reference/Polls and
Surveys section
- Russia Votes
- Latest election results for President and the Duma
- Public opinion polls on the elections
- Also includes the latest polls on individual well-being, the nation,
Chechnya, and international relations
- STATS: Statistical
Assessment Service
- Articles describe the leading statistics used in current newspaper
articles
- Collection dates back to 1997
- Vanishing Voter
(Harvard)
- Weekly poll on public interest in 2000 Presidential elections
- Data and press releases begin with November 1999
- Washington
Post
- Public opinion polls on public affairs since January 1997
- Subjects include Presidential popularity, sanctions toward Iraq,
violence in schools
- Descriptions supplemented by statistical tables
- Zogby International
- Polling organization for Reuters news service
- Web site has summary of the last week's public opinion polls
- Search Academic
Universe (UMich
Only) under General News or
Wire Services using zogby as a
keyword for archival material
- Accuracy,
Integrity, and Security in Computerized Vote
Tallying by Roy Saltman, 1988, National Bureau of Standards
Special Publication 500-158 (Media Union Microfiche C 13.10 500-158)
- Accuracy of various computerized voting methods
- Recommendation 1.7 concerns the pre-scored punch cards (votematic)
involved in the 2000 election
- This 1988 report entered into evidence at the Leon County trial on
recounting election results, December 2, 2000
- Accuracy,
Integrity, and Security in National Elections: The Role
of the U.S. Congress
- Article presented by Roy Saltman in 1993 at the Third Conference on
Computers, Freedom and Privacy
- As described by author, article notes that Congress had failed to
exercise legislative oversight on computers producing federal election
results
- Recommends application of the Computer Security Act
- Voting
Equipment State Summary (Election Data Services)
- List of types of voting equipment by state for the November 2, 2004
election
- Does not include numbers just the existence of the equipment
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