Guides: Justice & Peace Studies: Data & Statistics

Data & Statistics

Data.census.gov This link opens in a new window
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau, including the Census of Population and Housing, the Economic Census, and the American Community Survey.
Population topics include aging, disability, education, gender, employment, origins and languages, poverty, race and ethnicity, relationships, transportation and veterans. Housing information includes physical and financial characteristics. The Economic Census includes statistics on business and industry, foreign trade and government.

Data.gov This link opens in a new window
Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue to grow as datasets are added. Federal, Executive Branch data are included in the first version of Data.gov.

Humanitarian Data Exchange
Designed as an open platform for organizations to share datasets related to humanitarian issues such as migrant deaths, conflict data, and health.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
A free ICPSR account is required to download data. The account must be created and accessed every 6 months from on-campus or through the proxied link above. Visit this guide for more information.
Provides access to computerized social science data collected by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.

International Migration
Databases, reports, and publications from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division.
Nonviolent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project
"The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project is a multi-level data collection effort that catalogues major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns around the globe from 1900-2013....Researchers can use these data to better answer questions about how tactical choices lead to the success or failure of such political movements, how inter-group relationships among competing insurgent organizations affects their strategic choices, and how the sequencing of tactical choices influence the overall outcomes of resistance campaigns."

OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
The online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Contains books, journals, newsletters, statistical periodicals, reference works, and interactive statistical data tables in over 25 database products published since 1998. Text can be searched by theme or country. Statistics can be searched by title and theme. Statistical databases allow users to build their own tables from the latest data, draw graphs and tables, and download to Excel or as .csv files.
Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) This link opens in a new window
The Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) includes protests, riots, strikes, inter-communal conflict, government violence against civilians, and other forms of social conflict not systematically tracked in other conflict datasets. SCAD currently includes information social conflicts from 1990-2016, covering all of Africa and now also Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
UNdata This link opens in a new window
Over 300 sets of economic, social, and financial statistics from a wide assortment of United Nations agencies and other international organizations. Most data are available in time series from 1970 or 1980 to the present. (Statistics for some items lag by several years.)

UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database
Data about populations of concern (1951-2019), maintained by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Use the Refugee Data Finder analysis tool on the site to analyze the statistics. Also available as an app.
Uppsala Conflict Data Program
Datasets on organized violence and peacemaking.

World Development Reports This link opens in a new window
This key World Bank publication offers recent statistics and narrative on topics relating to developing countries.
1978-present available online; Latest print version is at the Reference Desk HC 59 .W6; earlier years (back to 1978) in stacks at HC 59. W6.

DC Data
Washington, DC, Office of Planning provides Census data.
Data & Statistics from the Washington, DC, Research Guide
Indices: a Statistical Index to District of Columbia Government Services...
Appears every two years; includes information on D.C. demographics and services. Also available in print.

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