Selected Resources for POLS 490S - Women's Representation in Europe
Rob O'Reilly and Chris Palazzolo
Spring 2004

Emory's Electronic Data Center

General Social Science Data Resources

Comparative/International Data Sources

National Data Sources

CD-ROM/Non-Web Databases

Emory's Electronic Data Center (217 Woodruff Library)

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GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA RESOURCES

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
The ICPSR is the largest collection of Social Science Data in the world. Topics included in the archive include: economics, government, health care, crime, education, etc. This resource is also available via Databases at Emory. The Data Center also maintains an archive of ready-to-use ICPSR datasets which are accessible via the search engine on the Data Center home page.

Lexis-Nexis Statistical
Lexis-Nexis Statistical, which is available via Databases at Emory, allows patrons to search for statistics from the U.S. government and other sources and download them directly into Microsoft Excel.

COMPARATIVE/INTERNATIONAL DATA SOURCES

Budge, Keenan, and Woldendorp
ftp://einstein.library.emory.edu/pub/Electoral_Politics/budge/
This resource provides data on governing coalitions in post-WWII Western Europe, including (1) the duration of the goverment, (2) the parties in the governing coalition, (3) the ideological orientation of the government, and (4) the gender of the prime minister.

Comparative Political Data Sets (CPDS)
http://www.ipw.unibe.ch/content/team/klaus_armingeon/comparative_political_data_sets/index_ger.html
The CPDS were produced by scholars at the University of Berne. They focus on OECD countries and on post-communist countries and contain much data on the structure of political institutions, as well as data on demographics, electoral results, and ideological compositions of governments. There are also variables for female participation in parliament. Please note the preferred citation format.

Database of Political Institutions
http://go.worldbank.org/2EAGGLRZ40
This database was put together in part by Phillip Keefer at the World Bank and provides data on the political institutions and structures of different countries in the world from 1975 to 2006. Additional documentation are also available here. Please note the authors' preferred format for citing their data.

Eurobarometer Homepage
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg10/epo/eb.html
Homepage for the Eurobarometer series of European public opinion polls. Many Eurobarometers are also available from the ICPSR. The Data Center has an extensive collection of Eurobarometers, including studies conducted in Central and Eastern European countries. The Central Archive for Empirical Social Research also has a search engine for locating Eurobarometers that might be applicable for your research; this engine is located at http://www.gesis.org/en/data_service/eurobarometer/search/index.htm.

European Database - Women in Decision-Making
http://www.db-decision.de/english/
The European Database provides data on female participation in the political process for EU members and candidate countries at the national, regional, and European levels.

GenderStats - the Database of Gender Statistics
http://devdata.worldbank.org/genderstats/
GenderStats is a database with international/comparative data on the status of women and includes topics such as poverty, demographics, health, and political participation. The Data Query Systems may be particularly helpful and has an interface similar to that of the World Development Indicators (see below).

International Labour Organization
http://www.ilo.org
The ILO is the main international labor-rights advocacy group in the world and has brought together a variety of information about labor rights and working conditions internationally. Its resources include extensive data on female participation in the workforce.

International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
http://www.issp.org/
The ISSP is an ongoing effort devoted to cross-national research on social attitudes. In addition to asking general questions about attitudes towards various social issues, the ISSP series also includes special topic modules focusing on matters such as national idenitity, the role of government, and gender roles. The Data Center has many ISSP data files available here.

Interparliamentary Union: Women in Parliaments
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm
The Interparliamentary Union has resources devoted specifically to female representation in parliaments, at both the national and regional levels. The data coverage is from the late 1990's onwards.

SourceOECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
http://new.sourceoecd.org/
SourceOECD is an online service that provides full-text access to OECD studies, periodicals, and statistics. Included are annuals, outlooks, policy reviews, conference proceedings, analytical reports, guidelines, working papers, all periodicals, and 27 statistical databases. This resource is also available via Databases at Emory.

WomenWatch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
WomenWatch is a United Nations site that compiles UN resources concerning issues of gender equality. Their stats page has some links to resources for data on female participation in politics.

World Development Indicators (World Bank)
http://devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline/
The World Development Indicators Website provides convenient access to nearly 600 indicators on over 200 countries. Data is generally available from 1960 forward. This resource is also available via Databases at Emory. There is also a CD version of the WDI available in the Data Center.

World Values Survey Series
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
The World Values Survey is "a worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change. It is conducted by a network of social scientist at leading universities all around world. The survey is performed on nationally representative samples in almost 80 societies on all six inhabited continents." It is an excellent source for cross-national survey data and is a widely-referenced resource. The Data Center has all four "waves" of the World Values Survey available here.

NATIONAL DATA SOURCES

The following is a collection of links to national data sources on members of parliaments. Most of the links are to national parliaments themselves, but some of the links are to sites run by academics and other organizations. Be warned: (1) not all of the sites are in English; (2) the level of detail varies greatly here - some of the sites provide only lists of names of members of parliament, which leaves it up the user to determine the genders of members by name and/or picture.

Austria - the Nationalrat
http://www.parlament.gv.at/portal/page?_pageid=907,82205&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL -- click on "alphabetisch" to get a alphabetical list of female members and on "gegliedert nach Fraktionen" to get a list of female members by party (note that this site is in German)

Belgium - the Chamber of Representatives
http://www.lachambre.be/kvvcr/showpage.cfm?section=|depute&language=fr&rightmenu=right_depute&cfm=/site/wwwcfm/depute/cvlist.cfm

Britain - the House of Commons
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/factsheets/m04.cfm

The Czech Republic - the Chamber of Deputies
http://www.psp.cz/cgi-bin/eng/sqw/fsnem.sqw

Denmark - the Folketing
http://www.ft.dk/?/samling/20031/MENU/00000005.htm

Estonia - the Riigikogu
http://www.riigikogu.ee/?id=11879

Finland - the Eduskunta
http://www.eduskunta.fi -- (click on "in English"; then "Members"; then "Women")

France - the National Assembly
http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/12/tribun/comm3.asp -- (note that the site is in French)

Germany - the Bundestag
http://www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/members/index.html

Greece - the Hellenic Parliament
http://www.parliament.gr/english/synthesh/default.asp

Hungary - the National Assembly
http://www.mkogy.hu/internet/plsql/ogy_angolkpv.kepv_frak_a -- note that the list of members here is broken down by party

Iceland - the Althingi
http://www.althingi.is/vefur/addr-s.html?teg_starfs=A

Ireland - the Dáil
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/Irish%20htmls/TD1.htm

Italy - the Chamber of Deputies
http://newenglish.camera.it/ -- click on "Deputies" to get more detail about individual members of the Chamber (note that the detailed information on this site is in Italian)

Latvia - the Saeima
http://www.saeima.lv/deputati_eng/1deputati.html

Lithuania - the Seimas
http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter/w3_lrs.seimo_nariu_sarasas?p_kalb_id=2

Luxembourg - the Chamber of Deputies
http://www.chd.lu/fr/organisation/membres/membres01.jsp -- note that this site is in French

Malta - the House of Representatives
http://www.maltadata.com/all-parl.htm -- note that the homepage for the House of Representatives is at http://parliament.gov.mt/

The Netherlands - the House of Representatives of the States General
http://www.tweede-kamer.nl/leden_commissies_fracties/wiezitwaar/wie_zit_waar/index.jsp

Norway - the Storting
http://www.stortinget.no/english/alphabetic.html

Poland - the Sejm
http://www.sejm.gov.pl/poslowie/lista4.htm -- note that the homepage for the Sejm is at http://www.sejm.gov.pl/english.html

Portugal - the Assembly of the Republic
http://www.parlamento.pt/deputados/index.html -- click on "Lista Alfabética" (note that this is not an English-languate site)

The Slovak Republic - the National Council
http://www.nrsr.sk/default.aspx?lang=en -- note that there is very little data at this site

Sweden - the Riksdag
http://www.riksdagen.se/english/members/member.asp and http://www.riksdagen.se/english/members/f08_kvin_en.asp

Switzerland - the National Council
http://www.parlament.ch/e/homepage/ra-raete/ra-nr-nationalrat/ra-nr-mitglieder.htm

SocioSite
http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/databases.html -- This site (housed at the University of Amsterdam) offers links to a large number of national social and economic data sites around the world. The Data Center has also compiled a collection of national data sources from different countries here.

CD-ROM/NON-WEB DATA SOURCES

Eurostat Statistics DVD
The Eurostat Statistics DVD is a very comprehensive source for economic and social data for EU members at both the national and sub-national/regional level. Some of its databases also include data for countries in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to the DVD in the Data Center, there is also an on-line interface. More recent data from this database are also now available directly from the Eurostat website. The Eurostat interface does not cover as many years as does the DVD, but it will allow users to download data into spreadsheet formats. Please note that none of the interfaces is entirely user-friendly.

WISTAT - United Nations Women's Indicators and Statistics Database
Wistat is a UN database with information on topics such as women's health, education, economic participation, and political participation. It is one of the non-web databases available on InfoCommons workstations.

World Development Indicators
In addition to the on-line interface, the WDI is also available on the public machines in the Data Center in a more user-friendly interface.

A complete list of the Data Center's non-web databases is available here. The databases are accessible via the Data Center's public workstations.

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