(Current edition) Provides concise information, including geographic, demographic, and economic data, for over 250 countries. Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Some earlier editions are also archived online from the US GPO.
ICPSR is an archive of behavioral and social science data; most datasets are raw, primary data drawn from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. Several search tools are available for datasets or browse for them by categories such as topic, series, geography, investigator, or international. After finding a data set, users can click on the title to find its Study Home Page.
Special topics include: Aging, Arts and Culture, Criminal Justice, Health and Mental Health, Race and Ethnicity.
To download datasets you must set up an account using your Davidson email. Davidson is a member of ICPSR; use of the data is restricted to Davidson students, faculty and staff engaged in non-commercial research projects.
(1945 to present) Online version of the IMF's International Financial Statistics. Contains over 34,000 annual, quarterly, and monthly time series of financial and economic data for more than 200 countries. Includes exchange rates, IMF position, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts, and population.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
Contains official statistics produced by countries as well as statistics, estimates, projections, indicators, and other data from United Nations Statistics and Population Divisions and other United Nations agencies. Subjects covered include agriculture, crime, education, energy, industry, labor, national accounts, population, and tourism.
Full text family and local histories drawn from over 25,000 books, the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1940), and other collections as well as images of selected records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Also indexes over 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals published since 1800.
(c. 1935 to present) Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present. Roper iPoll contains nearly 800,000 questions and over 23,000 datasets from both U.S. and international polling firms. Surveys cover any number of topics including, social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, science, the environment, and much more. When available, results charts, demographic crosstabs and full datasets are provided for immediate download.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
Historical U.S. Census data (1790-2010) and demographic information from the annual updates of the American Community Survey and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (1980-2000). Also provides tools for creating maps and reports that allow you to visualize and analyze the data.
Includes digitized political, reference, and topographical maps, many of which were produced by the CIA. Most date from the second half of the twentieth century. From the University of Texas at Austin.
