Eurostat: Cross-country and -region for EU member states

EBRD: Macroeconomic and transition indicators for transition countries

WHO Global Health Observatory: over 50 datasets on priority health topics

QoG, the Quality of Government Institute: extensive data on social and political topics

World Bank DataBank: extensive selection of indicators from the World Bank covering 214 countries from 1960 to 2011.

OECD: extensive selection of indicators for OECD countries

PISA: an international study that aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by assessing 15-year-olds’ competencies in reading, mathematics and science; aggregate [‘Interactive data selection’] and individual level data [note: large datasets, need to be converted to be used in Stata]
Regional data: statistical offices of individual countries

UNSD Statistical Databases: various databases

UN Human Development Report data: global human development indicators
Correlates of War data

Centre for Systemic PeacePolity IV, Stat Fragility and other data
Prof Pippa Norris’s shared datasets
Comparative data on European governments and parliaments (se)

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center(SEDAC, NASA/Columbia University)
Comparative Political Data Set

Data on the Net– a vast catalogue of data sources (some emphasis on USA).
Humanitarian Data Exchange

Survey and other data

GESIS Data Catalogue 2.0(GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences). Especially ZACAT – GESIS Online Study Catalogue (full data from Eurobarometer, European Values Survey, German Election Studies etc).
Economic & Social Data Service: links to internationaland UK micro data, and public data sources. Note: some of the survey data (e.g. (Euro)barometer) can be ordered, so do not expect to use the data immediately.

European Social Survey(6 rounds, 2002-12; register to download the data; for rounds 1-5 only available in SPSS or SAS format)
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
European Election Studies

Manifesto Project Database(coded party manifestos; register to download the data)

Chapel Hill Expert Survey Data(positions of European parties)

Data and Research on Chinese Migration and the Russian Far East (Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University)
Arab Barometer

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