major	classes	faculty			data	ΠΣΑ
Departmental Datasets Are available on the Public Vault (these are for student use only and can only be accessed on-campus) Publicly Available Data
American Conservative Union Assigns a 0-100 score of conservatism to members of Congress based on three categories. Data are available as excel files. http://www.acuratings.org/ (Note: the National Journal also provides liberal/conservative ratings, however their data must be collected by hand and entered into excel or SPSS at http://nationaljournal.com/).			Correlates of War Collection of datasets looking at measures of diplomacy, conflict, as well as state formation and fluctuation. Some of the datasets reach back to the early Nineteenth century. http://correlatesofwar.org/
Freedom House Creates a ten year measure of political liberties and civil rights for each country. However, the data are not found in one file, and must be collected from each country page. http://www.freedomhouse.org				U.S. Census Bureau Datasets and maps of population demographics by Congressional District or State. Most data are stored as a delimited text file (so you will need to use Excel or SPSS to turn the commas and tabs into separate columns). http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html
World Health Organization (U.N.) 50 health indicators since 1997 for 192 countries. Data can be downloaded as a delimited text file (you must use Excel or SPSS to convert it into a usable format). http://www.who.int/whosis/en/				World Values Survey Survey data on political, religious, and cultural values. Early “waves” focused on Europe, later waves have broadened to include 62 countries around the globe. You need to register to download the data. http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
Hanover College Department of Political Science P.O. Box 108 Hanover, IN 47243 Questions or comments can be sent to : smithr at hanover.edu