POL 301W - Foundations of Public Administration / Leviss, Perri

To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. Central to this mission is the active involvement of the ANES research community in all phases of the project.

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

Articles, news, and analysis.

Our World in Data relies on the work of a global community of scholars to present the best available research and data in an understandable and accessible way. All data produced by Our World in Data is open access.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. Pew does not take policy positions.

The World Values Survey (www.worldvaluessurvey.org) is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars, with the WVS association and secretariat headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

YouGov is an international online research data and analytics technology group. Some public data is available. For unpaywalled YouGov data, use Statista.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a variety of information to help you evaluate public policies on healthcare, retirement benefits, the minimum wage, workforce education and training, economic development, workplace safety, monetary policy, consumer spending, and other topics that affect the well-being of American workers, retirees, and their families.

USAspending.gov is the publicly accessible, searchable website mandated by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to give the American public access to information on how their tax dollars are spent.

Previously, American FactFinder, Data.Census.Gov is the U.S. Census Bureau's end user search engine designed to search the Bureau's many statistical resources. It delivers a wide variety of population, economic, geographic and housing data.

The federal agency for national demographic and economic data.

Data.gov provides access to machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Content includes, both raw and geospatial datasets, statistical reports, etc. The public is encouraged to contribute ideas and apps for data management