Southeast Asia: Data

King, Gary; Lowe, Will, 2008. The data available here include almost 10 million individual events, each coded to the exact day they occur or become known. Each event is summarized in the data as "Actor A does something to Actor B", with Actors A and B recording about 450 countries and other (within-country) actors and "does something to" coded in an ontology of about 200 types of actions. The data are coded by computer from millions of Reuters news reports.

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2014.
IFPRI's Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative is one of the few sources of statistics and other information on agricultural research in low and middle-income countries. ASTI provides comprehensive quantitative and qualitative information on and analyses of investment, capacity, and institutional trends in agricultural research. ASTI data and analyses help research managers a nd policymakers improve policy formulation and decision making at the national regional, and international levels.

Global water information system, developed by the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Use "assets by country" interface to search by country and product

ICPSR 5404. Principal Investigator: Leiss, Amelia. This study contains data on the transfer of arms to 52 developing nations in the period 1945-1968. The Arms Transfers data (Part 1) provide information on donor and recipient, date and site of transfer, quantity, system classification (e.g., aircraft, helicopters, missiles, artilleries, small arms, or naval systems), and date production began and ended. The Weapons Systems data (Part 2) contain detailed coded information about each weapons system. Requires free ICPSR account to access data.

The AsiaBarometer represents a cross-national effort to study the lives of the peoples of East, Southeast, South, and Central Asia on physical, psychological, and sociological dimensions. ICPSR has data only for 2003 (ICPSR 4300) and 2004 (ICPSR 20420) Requires a free ICPSR MyData account. Other years for 2003-2007 can be downloaded from the AsiaBarometer website.

Regional survey covers Bangladesh, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mainland China, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, Cambodia. Links to reports and CSES tables.

Ministry of Planning, Cambodia

Contains the official UN statistics used in monitoring the world’s progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The database is published by the United Nations Statistics Division. Data is included as of 2011, or early 2012 for a few select indicators and countries only. Use quick data search, browse by topic, or browse by "Country" for Cambodia specific results.

National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, Cambodia

CSES is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. Participating countries include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district and macro variables. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis.

Includes Militarized Interstate Disputes data sets and National Material Capabilities data sets

This study contains data on 409 assassination events that occurred in 84 countries in the period 1948-1967. The data cover plotted, attempted, or actual assassinations of prominent public figures, such as top government officeholders and military figures, leaders of large trade unions or religious movements, and leaders of minority groups. For each event, information is provided on the country, date, and location of occurrence, the issue involved, the identity of the assassin and of the target, such as the type of group to which the assassin belonged and the political and social position of the target, and the outcome of the event.

ICPSR 31461. Dataset 1, Data on International Election Monitoring (DIEM), codes the assessement and activities of international election monitoring organizations to national-level legislative and presidential elections in 108 countries from 1980-2004. Dataset 2, Quality of Elections Data (QED), codes the quality of national-level legislative and presidential elections in 172 countries from 1978 to 2004. Dataset 3, Supplementary Election Data, includes supplementary information on all direct presidential and legislative elections in 182 countries from 1975-2004. Requires free ICPSR account to access data.

The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program has collected, analyzed, and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 300 surveys in over 90 countries. Requires free registration to download data. See list of data by country and year. DHS data is also available at the Integrated Demographic and Health Series (IDHS). Requires registration as a DHS data user (specifying country of interest) to download datasets.

ICPSR 21302. Principal Investigators: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Howard J. Wall. The authors estimate the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries' economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. They look exclusively at the post-Cold War era and use fixed effects to control for the political, strategic, and other considerations of donors. They find that aid and per capita income have been negatively related, while aid has been positively related to infant mortality, rights, and government effectiveness. Requires free ICPSR account to access data.

USAID-funded machine readable data. Subcategories include Democracy, Human Rights and Governance; Economic Growth; Education and Social Services; Health; Humanitarian Assistance; Peace and Security; Program Development and Oversight

Comparative survey of attitudes and values toward politics, power, reform, democracy and citizens' political actions in East Asia. Cross-national comparative surveys have been implemented in nine East Asian political systems -namely Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Mainland China, Mongolia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

Comprehensive data and analysis source for key topics in education such as access, completion, learning, expenditures and equity.

DevInfo database for monitoring human development. Indicators for education and Millennium development goals

EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 18,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies. Includes disaster by country search interface.

Provides a regional perspective on development issues in Asia and the Pacific. The database, covering the 58 regional ESCAP Member States and Associate Members, contains 900 data series on a wide range of topics on population, education, health, poverty and inequalities, gender, economy, environment and connectivity. The online database is updated twice a year.

ICPSR 5214. Principal Investigator: Rummel, Rudolph J. This study contains data on over 13,000 foreign conflict acts of 113 nations in the period 1950-1968. Data are provided for actor and object, either of which may refer to nations, colonies, international organizations, or groups in rebellion against national authority and involved in international relations. Data are also provided for official and unofficial acts, which are categorized into violent and nonviolent acts. Violent acts are further categorized into planned and unplanned acts, as well as unclassified acts. These include warning or defensive acts related to a developing conflict situation, threat, war, clash, or negative behavior such as blockade, embargo, or diplomatic rebuff of one nation by another. Nonviolent acts include boycott and anti-foreign demonstrations. The source of the data as well as measures of its reliability is also coded. Requires free ICPSR MyData Account.

a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to measure how people around the world - including the poor, women, and rural residents - manage their day-to-day finances and plan for the future. The Global Findex indicators are drawn from survey data collected by Gallup, Inc. over the 2011 calendar year, covering more than 150,000 individuals in more than 140 economies and representing more than 97 percent of the world's adult population. The second round of Global Findex indicators was collected in 2014 and is forthcoming in 2015. The set of indicators will be collected again in 2017.

An annual effort to measure the state of open government data around the world. 122 countries in the sample as of 2015.

ICPSR 22600. Principal Investigators: Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan. The researchers sought to code and verify a previously unavailable dataset composed of terrorist events recorded for the entire world from 1998 through 2004. The goal of the GTD2 was to create a comprehensive and sound data set on global terrorism that can be used to derive methodologically robust insights into the phenomenon of terrorism and how to counter it. Information in the GTD2 was drawn entirely from publicly available, open-source materials.

International Labour Organization. The primary source for cross-country statistics on the labour market. The database contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies.

Principal investigators: van Kesteren, John N; van Dijk, Jan J.M., Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-07-25. Also available at NACJD archive.

The project was set up to fill the gap in adequate recording of offenses by the police for purposes of comparing crime rates in different nations and to provide a crime index independent of police statistics as an alternative standardized measure. The ICVS is the most far-reaching program of standardized sample surveys to look at a householders' experience with crime, policing, crime prevention, and feelings of insecurity in a large number of nations. It also allows for analysis of how risks of crime vary among different groups of populations across social and demographic lines. The first wave, developed by a working group set up in 1987, led to fieldwork in early 1989. The second ICVS wave took place in 1992. The third wave occurred in 1996-1997 and involved 12 industrialized nations, all but one of which were in central and east Europe, and 15 developing nations. Also see The International Crime Victims Survey, 1989-2005 and ICVS: International Crime Victim Survey. Requires (free) ICPSR MyData account.

Pearson, Frederic S., and Robert A. Baumann, ICPSR06035-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1993. Documents all cases of military intervention across international boundaries by regular armed forces of independent states in the regions of Europe, the Americas (and Caribbean), Asia and the Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East/North Africa. Military interventions are defined operationally in this collection as the movement of regular troops or forces (airborne, seaborne, shelling, etc.) of one country into the territory or territorial waters of another country, or forceful military action by troops already stationed by one country inside another, in the context of some political issue or dispute. The study seeks to identify politically important actions which interpose a state directly into the conflict patterns occurring in another state, and which conceivably involve a breach of the sovereignty of the target state. Requires free ICPSR account to access data.

Kisangani, Emizet F., and Jeffrey Pickering, Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2008-01-29. Documents 447 intervention events from 1989 to 2005. To ensure consistency across the full 1946-2005 time span, Pearson and Baumann's coding procedures were followed. Requires free ICPSR account to access data.

This file contains aggregate measures from the ARDA’s coding of the 2001, 2003, and 2005 U.S. State Department’s International Religious Freedom Reports. This coding produced data on 196 different countries and territories (see below for list of countries coded), but excluded the United States. It also includes three indexes calculated from these data: Government Regulation of Religion index (GRI), Social Regulation of Religion index (SRI), Government Favoritism of Religion index (GFI) (see Grim and Finke, 2006). Data in this file represent mean coding responses for each variable from all three years of coding.

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series,
International, census microdata for social and economic research. An effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

Includes U.S. Company Data and International Company Data.
U.S. Annual Reports is available exclusively through Mergent Online. International Annual Reports module offer access to the most recent annual reports on thousands of non-U.S. public companies, as well as an extensive archive of past years' annuals in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

MAR tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world from 1945 to the present -- identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them. MAR focuses specifically on ethnopolitical groups, non-state communal groups that have "political significance" in the contemporary world because of their status and political actions.

Richard B. Freeman, Remco H. Oostendorp. This database contains occupational wage data for 161 occupations in 171 countries from 1983 to 2008. The occupational wage data are derived from the ILO October Inquiry database. You will need a major database, statistical program, or programming language to use these files. Also available on the Open Knowledge Repository.

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

ICPSR 5206. Principal Investigators: Feierabend, Ivo; Feierabend, Rosalind; Nesvold, Betty. This study contains data on 6,754 political instability events in 84 selected nations in the period 1948-1965. These data, which permit measurement of political instability and the correlates of internal conflict behavior, are concerned with conflict directed by groups and individuals in the prevailing political system against other groups or persons, and with uncovering the determinants of stability within all national political systems. The variables in the dataset are divided into four basic types: variables that identify events, classify events, describe events, and evaluate events. The study provides a conflict intensity rating for each event. Political instability events are classified from low to high and include institutionally prescribed elections, the fall of cabinets, martial laws, assassinations of significant group leaders, mass arrests, coup d'etats, and civil wars.

United Nations Office at Vienna. Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch, Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-07-22.
Surveys were distributed to officials in every member country of the United Nations. Designated officials completed the surveys to the best of their abilities given the country's available data.
Also available via UNOCDC site.

A central source for U.S. foreign assistance data, international socioeconomic data, and data-driven analysis. Links to data portals: Foreign Aid Explorer, International Data & Economic Analysis, Trade Capacity Building, Microenterprise Enterprise Reporting

A compilation of mortality data by age, sex and cause of death, as reported annually by Member States from their civil registration systems.

The United States Bureau of the Census initiated a series of studies on women in development in 1970 with data drawn primarily from national censuses, surveys, statistical abstracts, and international statistical compendia. The aim of this data series was to provide a reliable, up-to-date, accessible database on women in development which can illuminate the discrepancies in the roles and status of women against those of men throughout the world in order to serve as a basis for the promotion of both intranational and international parity between the sexes. The studies that comprise the Women in Development series consist of national-level data concerning female/male differentials over a range of demographic and socio-economic variables. Wherever possible, the data are broken down by age and urban/rural residence to facilitate further analysis. The series is cumulative and the data are presented in basic tabular format. Initially, the data tables were compiled for 69 developing nations from Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Near East that were recipients of the United States Agency for International Development aid. The first collection, Women in Development, 1979-1980 (ICPSR 8053), included all the aid-recipient nations regardless of population size. Subsequently, data were compiled for all remaining nations of the world with a population of five million or more, and statistics for the original nations were updated to reflect more recent information. The second collection in the series, Women in Development IV, 1983 (ICPSR 8155), covered approximately 120 nations from Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Near East, North America, Europe, and the Soviet Union.

Select by date to access archived data. For the most recent data, see tables compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and comparative data by country.

ICPSR 24340. Paxton, Pamela, Jennifer Green, and Melanie Hughes. This data collection provides information on women's inclusion in parliamentary bodies in over 150 countries from 1945 to 2003. The dataset allows for extensive, large-scale, cross-national investigation of the factors that explain women's attainment of political power over time and provides educators with comprehensive international and historical information on women in a variety of political positions. Information is provided on female suffrage, the first female member of parliament, yearly percentages of women in parliaments, when women reached important representational milestones, such as 10 percent, 20 percent, and 30 percent of a legislature, and when women achieved highly-visible political positions, such as prime minister, president, or head of parliament.

The Microdata Library is a service established to facilitate access to microdata that provide information about people living in developing countries, their institutions, their environment, their communities and the operation of their economies. It includes datasets that have been produced by the World Bank, such as impact evaluation of the Bank’s operations or research on development issues. It also includes datasets from other international organizations, statistical agencies and other agencies in low and middle-income countries.

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011). Provides a comparable and up-to-date set of national data on contraceptive prevalence for almost all countries and areas of the world. It also provides estimates of unmet need for family planning.

The World Bank: indicators for 214 countries. Also available on CD-ROM (Lehman Data Service: CD-ROM HC59.69 .W683) for 1997, 1999-2001, 2003, 2005, 2007. Also available on ProQuest for 01/2009 to present.

McClelland, Charles. ICPSR05211-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. The WEIS Project dataset is a record of the flow of action and response between countries (as well as non-governmental actors, e.g., NATO) reflected in public events reported daily in the New York Times from January 1966 through December 1978. The unit of analysis in the dataset is the event/interaction, referring to words and deeds communicated between nations, such as threats of military force. Each event/interaction is a daily report of an international event. There are 98,043 events included in this dataset. Coded for each event are the actor, target, date, action category, and arena. Also provided are brief textual descriptions for each event. Requires free ICPSR account to access data.

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009)

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013)

United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) , Version 2.0c, May 2008. Collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries. The database and its documentation are available on this website.

Prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. Free download in MS Excel format.

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Fertility and Family Planning Section

The series supplies data on member countries of the United Nations as well as members of regional alliances or organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the former Warsaw Pact, the World Bank, and members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The data for the series were originally collected by the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The original Agency publications were transposed to yield the time series data collections. Information in earlier publications was updated in subsequent collections. In earlier files, the unit of analysis was the country-year, but later files also added country as a unit of analysis. See also the WMEAT reports on the U.S. Department of State site.

United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division. Downloadable pdf format.

United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division. Downloadable pdf format. Assesses changes in mortality risks at the global, regional and country levels, focusing in particular on the implementation period of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, from 1990-1995 to 2010-2015. The mortality estimates presented in this report are available in digital form. Electronic version web tool offers interactive access to the charts from the print version.

"The 2012 Revision of the World Population Prospects is the twenty-Third round of global demographic estimates and projections undertaken by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat."--from 14 April 2014 update. Also availalable in CD ROM format: Offsite CD-ROM HA155 .W682

An international collaborative project whose aim is to give voice to public opinion around the world on international issues. WorldPublicOpinion.org seeks to reveal the values and views of publics in specific nations around the world as well as global patterns of world public opinion. While the studies of the WorldPublicOpinion.org network figure prominently, the website draws together data from a wide variety of sources from around the world.

Business CD-ROM HE7601 .W675 . 11th ed. (2007) Shelved in Business Course Reserves
13th ed 2009 Shelved in Business Course Reserves. Contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975 to 2013 for more than 150 telecommunication/ICT statistics covering fixed-telephone networks, mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions, quality of service, Internet (including fixed- and mobile-broadband subscription data), traffic, staff, prices, revenue, investment and statistics on ICT access and use by households and individuals. Selected demographic, macroeconomic and broadcasting statistics are also included.