POLI 435: Democracy and Development in Latin America: Country Information & Data
Trade, Aid, and Governance Data
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World Bank DataData sets directly from the World Bank. Find data by country, by topic, or by specific indicator, or go directly to "Data Catalog" for their open data sets.
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WDI OnlinePublished by the World Bank and updated quarterly, WDI online covers statistics on over 1400 development indicators from over 200 countries. Data includes major economic indicators, information on population, health, gender, poverty, natural resources, financial matters, environmental variables, and other topics related to economic and social development.
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IMF E-dataData from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) about international trade, government financial statistics, IMF lending and more. Build your query by country, topic or data source.
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UNCTADData from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, especially for international trade and foreign direct investment. Covers almost every economy in the world, with some data going back to 1948.
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AidData.orgProvides open data that comes directly from major aid agencies such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, and others.
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Country Indicators for Foreign PolicyCIFP represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.
Public Opinion
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Roper Center's iPollOffers extensive database of opinion poll datasets. Roper’s iPOLL allows searching at the question level. The Center archives national opinion polls back to 1935, both U.S. and some international polls. Holdings include survey results data from academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, ABC, CBS, Wall Street Journal and many more. Many datasets are available for instant download in ASCII or SPSS format. Datasets not available for immediate download may be requested from the Center to be queued for digitization.
NOTE: First time users to NEW Roper iPoll need to self-register for access at login. Your credentials from Classic iPOLL will NOT work without new registration as of 8/14/2020. Classic iPOLL will no longer be updated after Sept 1, 2020.
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Latin American Public Opinion ProjectThe Latin American Public Opinion Project, hosted at Vanderbilt University, has been operating since the 1980s. Surveys are available for various countries for different years and may or may not have English translations.
*Latin American Public Opinion Project data requires an IRB application with the Office of Human Research Ethics. However, there are reports and studies available on the LAPOP website.
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