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- Resource only available to UT-Austin Law School students, faculty, and staff.
- Resource available to all members of the UT-Austin community, including Law School students, faculty, and staff.
- Resource available to the general public.
Some databases otherwise restricted to the Law School or the UT-Austin community may be available to patrons who use on-site computers within the Library.
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Almanac of the 50 States
Provides state profiles and 13 categories of statistics including demographics, vital statistics, education, housing and the economy.
Tarlton Law Library Reference HA 203 A5 2006American National Election Studies
Produces data on "voting, public opinion, and political participation."
http://www.electionstudies.org/Budget of the United States Government
Contains current and historical budget data.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
"Center specializes in research and analysis oriented toward policy decisions affecting low and moderate income families and individuals." Search for "fact sheet" under "Areas of Research" "All Reports by Date."
http://www.cbpp.org/Congressional Bills Project
"Allows public to download information about public and private bills introduced in the U.S. Congress along with information about those bills' sponsors. Permits quantitative investigations of trends in policymaking activity. Dataset does not include House and Senate resolutions or the text of the bills."
http://www.congressionalbills.org/download.htmlCongressional Budget Office
Publishes analytical studies, which explore economic and budgetary issues involving the federal government.
http://www.cbo.gov/CQ Weekly
CQ Weekly Online includes an archive dating back to 1983. Search by topic, page number, committee, "exact phrases or words," bill number, byline or reporter and by Boolean full-text and date searches. Detailed floor votes dating back to August 1983 are easily retrieved.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=430Economic Report of the President
Contains extensive data appendices.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance Reports and Data
Search by candidate, PAC, Party. Answers the questions, "Who is giving and who is receiving?"
http://www.fec.gov/disclosure.shtmlFind Public Opinion Polls
Comprehensive guide to finding polls and surveys for the UT community.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/students/find/findpolls.htmlGary King
Government related data sets from renowned Harvard professor.
http://gking.harvard.edu/data.shtmlGartner.com
The more than 200 research topics include customer relationship management (CRM), business-to-business e-commerce, supply chain management, wireless, emerging technologies, security, IT services, e-business, and IT spending and strategies. Choose "government" in the Industry section.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=154Green Book
"Provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation."
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wmprints/green/index.htmlInter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. Subject range includes many legal topics such as criminal justice and the courts.
Use the Thesaurus to find the best terms to search for data sets. All data sets are freely available within the UT domain.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/LexisNexis Congressional Universe
Provides access to information, including Congressional Indexes from 1789 to the present, from and about the U.S. Congress. Includes legislation and public policy, statistical information including projections and analyses, legislative history, federal regulations, voting and financial records for individual members as well as members of various congressional committees.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=225LexisNexis Statistical
Provides indexing and abstracts for federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Approximately 20% of the federal statistical publications are available in full text.
Includes all content from the American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS).
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=226National Conference of State Legislatures
Provides data about elections, campaigns and redistricting.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legman/elect/elect.htmNational Priorities Project Database
Provides data on the impact of federal spending policies for states, cities and counties.
http://database.nationalpriorities.org/Policy Agendas Project
"Collects and organizes data from various archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public policy outcomes since the Second World War."
http://www.policyagendas.org/PolicyFile
An electronic database indexing research and publication abstracts in the field of public policy research and analysis. Includes public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=285Polity IV Project Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions 1800-2003
"Contains coded annual information on regime and authority characteristics for all independent states (with greater than 500,000 total population) in the global state system and covers the years 1800-2003."
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/polity/Polling the Nations
A comprehensive compilation of public opinion surveys, containing the full text of more than 350,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries.
http://poll.orspub.com/Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIA) Databases
"American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institute Joint Center has created the first centralized online database of RIAs and related Federal Register notices. The databases are designed to cover the economic impact of regulations on society."
http://www.aei-brookings.org/publications/index.php?tab=topics&topicid=56Roper's Center Data Archive
The UT Government department is a member institutuion of the Roper Center at the University of Connecticut, which as a large storehouse of diverse data sets made by news vendors, commercial polling companies, governmental agencies, and academic institutions.http://www.la.utexas.edu/~icpsr/
SDA Survey Documentation and Analysis
Provides a "set of programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data."
http://sda.berkeley.edu/SRC Survey Research Center University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
"For more than 50 years, the Survey Research Center has been a national and international leader in interdisciplinary social science research involving the collection or analysis of data from scientific sample surveys. First, this involves conducting basic and applied empirical survey-based research that is theoretically informed."
http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/Transactional Records Clearinghouse (TRAC)
Information on federal enforcement and regulatory agencies' priorities and practices and the impact of new laws on agency activities; much statistical information; currently covers IRS, FBI, DEA, ATF, Customs, & INS
TRACfed
Requires a subscription for full access, but browsable for free.
http://tracfed.syr.edu/U.S. Census Bureau
The major collector and provider of data about the economy and people of the United States.
http://www.census.gov
(See the above agency's Most Requested Government Statistics- Cornell University's Guide.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/mostRequestedStatistics.html)
Voting and Registration information
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html
Redistricting Data Office
http://www.census.gov/rdo/program_phases/009916.htmlU.S. Conference of Mayors Mayoral Elections Center
1995-2005 data about mayoral elections.
http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/elections/99elections.aspU.S. Election Assistance Commission Voter Registration and Turnout Statistics
Provides national and state voter registration and turnout statistics for national elections from 1960 to present.
http://www.eac.gov/clearinghouse/voter-turnout-and-statistics/?searchterm=statisticsU.S. Electoral College Historical Election Results-Data back to 1789
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/historical.htmlU.S. House of Representatives Office of the Clerk
Contains elections statistics back to 1920.
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html
Voteview Web Site- University of California
"The primary purpose of this website is to make available the data that Howard Rosenthal and I [Keith T. Poole] have generated out of our many research projects. Howard and I adhere to the policy that all of our datasets and software are made freely available to anyone who asks for them."
http://www.voteview.com/Washingtonpost.com Congress votes Database
Browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute for International Studies
Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes"The Inventory covers all actual and potential international organizations, treaties, and agreements relevant to WMD disarmament and nonproliferation, existing institutional ties, inter-relationships, and overlapping areas of responsibility. It provides descriptions of each organization, treaty, and agreement and summaries of recent activities and contact information. It provides policymakers, diplomats, government officials, analysts, journalists, and students with a useful general reference source and a current synopsis of developments."
http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/inven/index.htm
Center on Democratic Performance (CDP)
"The mission of the CDP is to evaluate the performance of democracies on a number of critical dimensions, such as civil conflict and its management, human rights, voting rights, and political representation."
http://cdp.binghamton.eduCorrelates of War
Systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge about war.
http://www.correlatesofwar.org/Europa World Online
Covers political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=401Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom
Offers an "empirical framework for understanding why some countries have higher standards of living and/or grow faster."http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/index.cfm
Human Security Gateway
"A rapidly expanding searchable online database of human security-related resources including reports, journal articles, news items and fact sheets." Under Resources, choose Facts and Figures along with topic of interest.
http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University)
Provides a comprehensive source of documentary and statistical political information on Latin American politics.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=286
World Factbook
Country information and data.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.htmlWorldaudit
"Country statistics and reports from a variety of organisations covering civil liberties, press freedom, human rights."
http://www.worldaudit.org/home.htm
University of Texas Libraries - Statistics and Demographics - Resources.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/statistics.html
Tarlton Law Library Government Documents - Statistics
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/vlibrary/govdocs/stats.html
Last updated on March 20, 2008.