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Global Urban Indicators Database (UN Center for Human Settlements)

Detailed socioeconomic indicators for 237 cities in 110 countries,, mostly in the Third World
Data includes poverty level and percent in poverty, family income distribution, per capital gross city product (under health), size of school classrooms, per capita murder rates, home ownership, land use
Data in pdf and text formats

Globastat

Rankings of countries of the world on statistical indicators found in the CIA World Factbook
Subjects include land area and elevation, population, life expectancy, fertility, mortality, and AIDS
Economics, poverty, income ratios, electricity use, GDP
Communications, internet use, IP providers, televisions

Governance Data Sets and Indicators (World Bank)

Extensive list of global and regional data sets with their corresponding web sites
Includes emerging market access, corruption, election process, environment, women's rights
Descriptive table appears in the UNDP's Sources for Democratic Governance Indicators (2004) and at Governance Indicators's: a User's Guide

Government Statistics (Larry Schankman)

This content is no longer available at its original address. The link is to an archived version at the Internet Archive from January 2008.
Annotated listed of printed statistics with links to the Internet when available
Includes compendiums, economics, labor and employment, social welfare, international data, and Pennsylvania information

Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition (UMich Only)

Over 37,000 time series of U.S. demographic and economic data, primarily 1789-1995
Age, health, education, employment, income, GNP, prices, industry, elections
A section on colonial statistics appears in Chapter E: Governance and International Relations
Most tables are national in scope

Info Nation (UN)

Current statistics on 185 countries
Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy, fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, motor vehicles, GDP and labor force
Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption are among the environmental data
Separate section on Twenty-One Cities of the World focuses on population and environment

InfoMine (UC-Riverside)

Extensive alphabetic index to federal, international, and California government information
Analyzes individual publications and web sites of government agencies
Includes government agency statistical publications
Optional keyword approach

Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research

Catalog and index to ICPSR's archival holdings of demographic, economic, health, and political machine readable data tapes
Data available for ftp for consortium members
Free web access to federal crime and aging data
Links to U.S., international, and foreign data archives

International Relations Data Page (FSU)

Extensive annotations for international and U.S. data sets
Economic, political, social, environmental, and military variables
Sources include data sets from articles and books which would be otherwise difficult to locate

International Social Survey Programme

Data archive for European and American general social surveys
Includes codebooks for such topics as social inequality, religion, national identity and work
Codebooks provide questions and often frequencies in individual countries