LibGuides: Politics and International Studies: Research data

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Research data sources

The library provides access to multiple sources of research data, including the UK Data Service, Mass Observation, OECD iLibrary, Statistica and primary source archives such as A M Search, all available in the A-Z databases list for politics and international studies.

There are also many sources of research data that are freely available online. Below is selection of these open access sources that are relevant to politics and international studies. For a list of qualitative, or quantitative data sources, or if you need help with finding data, have a look at our guide to Finding Research Data.

Data sources

BREAD data from developing countries
Resource to help locate data from developing countries
CIRI Human Rights Dataset
Standards-based quantitative information on government respect for a wide range of internationally-recognised human rights for countries of all regime-types and from all regions of the world. The data set contains measures of government human rights practices, not human rights policies or overall human rights conditions (which may be affected by non-state actors).
data.bris
University of Bristol Research Data Repository
Data.gov.uk
The UK government's data and statistical service
DataCite Commons
Aggregates dataset records from multiple sources and allows searching of general repositories via a single interface
Data Portals.org
A comprehensive List of open data portals from around the world
Eurostat
Data from the statistical office of the European Union
figshare
An online open access repository of research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos
Mass-Observing COVID-19 database
Material collected by Mass Observation during the COVID-19 pandemic, including diaries and writing created during the pandemic by people living in the UK
Mintel Academic and Market Sizes
Market research data collated by analysts at Mintel including trends, statistics, information on brands and companies, demographic data on a range of sectors
National Statistical Offices
UN central repository of country profiles of statistical systems. The country profiles include, among others, a brief history of the country's statistical system, legal basis, the statistical programme and much more

OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.

Open Data for Africa
statistical data and indicators relating to African Countries, providing multiple customized tools to gather indicators, analyse them, and export them into multiple formats
Open Data Inception
2600+ Open Data Portals Around the World
OSF
An open platform to discover research projects, data and materials
Qualitative Election Study of Britain
A resource for scholars, researchers and students interested in qualitative electoral research
re3data
A registry of research data repositories. Browse by data type, country, subject
UN Data
Economic, social and environment indicators for all countries from the United Nations Statistics division.

Finding Research Data

If you are looking for research data, check out our guide on Finding Research Data

Help with finding data

If you need help with finding data for sociology or politics and international studies, please email me at Catherine.Downs@bristol.ac.uk.