Political Science

The Comparative Agendas Project collects and organizes data from archived sources to track policy outcomes across countries.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across the Web through a simple keyword search. The tool surfaces information about datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful.

Open Secrets is a nonpartisan research organization that tracks money in US politics. This is a good place to look for campaign finance information, among other things.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.

Data are at the core of much of PRB's work to provide rigorous information and distill relevant insights and evidence from it. Access featured indicators, U.S. and international data resources, and the World Population Data Sheet site here.

ProPublica provides free access to the datasets that support their investigative reporting (as well as some premium data products that require payment).

SocArXiv provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision making. As an independent statistical agency, BLS serves its diverse user communities by providing products and services that are accurate, objective, relevant, timely, and accessible. This site also provides a number of different useful tools for working with BLS data.

The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.

A collection of resources in a variety of formats, including audio, video, mobile apps, images, and publications. Especially useful for finding infographics and visualizations generated from census data.

UNdata is a web-based data service for the global user community. It brings international statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single-entry point. Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies. The numerous databases or tables collectively known as "datamarts" contain over 60 million data points and cover a wide range of statistical themes including agriculture, crime, communication, development assistance, education, energy, environment, finance, gender, health, labour market, manufacturing, national accounts, population and migration, science and technology, tourism, transport and trade.

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the official and trusted source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication. As the official statistical agency of UNESCO, the UIS produces a wide range of indicators in UNESCO’s fields of action by working with national statistical offices, line ministries and other statistical organizations.

USAFacts is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan civic initiative providing the most comprehensive and understandable source of government data available.

Free and open access to global development data.

See how candidates and committees raise and spend money in federal elections. This financial data helps voters make informed decisions. Includes donor database.