LibGuides: Political Science Research Guide: Statistical Resources

Statista

Statistics drawn from governmental and private sources around the world. You can export them in graphical and spreadsheet formats for use in papers and other projects.

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Statista offers over 1 million statistics ranging across a myriad of social, economic, and market-related topics. Data may be exported in PPT, XLS, PDF, and PNG formats.

ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States

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Beginning with 2013, ProQuest has published this annual compilation of statistics compiled by both government and private sources. Tables may be downloaded in both PDF and Excel formats.

Statistical Abstract of the United States (1878-2011)
Older editions of Statistical Abstract are available on the U.S. Census Bureau website.

State of Nebraska

The Nebraska Department of Economic Development and the Nebraska Library Commission both provide online access to statistics pertinent to government in Nebraska.

NEDED Data and Research--Government Statistics
State government revenue and expenditures; state and local government tax collections; state and local government employment; elections and voter registration.
Board of Canvassers certified election results
The online archive of the Nebraska Library Commission includes Board of Canvassers reports for every primary and general election extending back to 1916.

Nebraska At-A-Glance 2015

Nebraska Legislature General Reports
Reports detailing information about districts, counties, and other items of interest for Nebraskans.

ICPSR

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"ICPSR is an international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations devoted to providing leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields" (from the ICPSR About page).

Of particular concern to Political Science, the data include legislative voting records, electoral statistics, and public opinion polls. The data files are configured for analysis through SAS, SPSS, or STATA software, so users must be at least modestly conversant with those applications. Criss Library's student computers include both SPSS 20 and SAS 9.3 packages.