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Reports, Papers & Statistical Sources

CESSDA Portal
The CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives) Portal is a gateway to many kinds of research data and metadata, including sociological surveys, election studies, longitudinal studies, opinion polls, and census data.
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Among the materials are international and European data such as the European Social Survey, the Eurobarometers, and the International Social Survey Programme. Users are able to locate datasets, as well as questions or variables within datasets, stored at CESSDA member archives throughout Europe.
CRS (Congressional Research Service) Reports
Reports on all subjects prepared by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress for members, committees, and staff of the U.S. Congress. Full text coverage from 1916 to present. [Search for country name]

Data catalog This link opens in a new window
Provides access to frequently used databases statistics, working papers, and reports published by the World Bank.

Europa : gateway to the European Union This link opens in a new window
Provides access to information published by the European Union and its institutions.

Eurostat
Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities, established in 1953.
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The mission of Eurostat is to gather and analyse figures from the different European statistics offices in order to provide comparable and harmonised data to the European Institutions so they can define, implement and analyse Community policies.
FIRST (Facts on International Relations and Security Trends)
Covers areas in the field of international relations and security, such as armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding and nuclear weapons.
Freedom House
Freedom House, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world.
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Through a vast array of international programs and publications, Freedom House is working to advance the remarkable worldwide expansion of political and economic freedom.
International Database
(US census bureau) Data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.

International financial statistics This link opens in a new window
Provides international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. This resource reports, for most countries of the world, current data used for the analysis of problems of international payments, inflation, and deflation, topics/areas covered are exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Information is presented in the form of country tables and in tables for area and world aggregates.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
Cross-searchable online library containing e-books, MS Excel tables, statistical datasets and working papers of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). OECD, based in Paris, is a forum permitting governments of industrialized democracies to study and formulate policies in all economic and social spheres.

International Statistics
The U.S. Bureau of the Census works with foreign governments regarding data gathering and hence provide statistics from this work to census data users.