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Gender Empowerment Index

Introduced in 1995 Human Development Report
Ranks countries on percent of women in professional, managerial, or Parliamentary positions as well as earned income
Begins on p. 367 of the 2006 Human Development Report

General Social Survey (ICPSR, NORC, UC-Berkeley)

Annual survey since 1972 of public opinion and lifestyle
Covers poverty, religion, contraceptive use, opinion on foreign affairs
ICPSR site provides background on survey as well as printed publications resulting from the survey
Primary data extraction available from ICPSR and UC-Berkeley

Henry A. Murray Research Center/Archive(Harvard & MIT)

Data base of 200 sociological surveys spanning the human lifetime
Ranges from causes of juvenile delinquency to participation in the women's movement to mental health over generations
Approximately one third of the files have abstracts which provide methodology, data, and a bibliography of related studies

Institute of Public Policy and Social Research (MSU)

Search publications by keyword for an analysis of current Michigan public opinion polls on policy issues

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

Iraq Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security in post-Saddam Iraq (Brookings)

Troop deaths by cause, civilian casualties, Iraqi armed forces, insurgents, car bombs
Telephone subscribers, length of waiting time at gas station, internet subscribers, life expectancy, water and sewer connections
Also includes public opinion polls on U.S. occupation issues broken down by religion
Reports began in November 2003 and were updated weekly until mid-2007

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Non-profit organization providing public policy information on issues affecting black Americans
Summaries of selected papers include public opinion polls on such topics as race relations, children, black participation in the Republican Party
Full text of annual report
Latest edition of Black Elected Officials is 2001

Kaiser Family Foundation Surveys