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SOSC 5110 - Social Science Research Design and Methods: Find Data & Statistics

This guide is designed to help students of SOSC 5110 complete their assignments

Data Sources

Statistical Databases - HKUST Library Subscribed

ICPSR - Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

  • Maintained at the University of Michigan, HKUST is a member institution.
  • Many files of "raw" social science data.
  • Choose "Find & Analyze Data"
  • Sign-up to use it, so you can access off campus as well as on-campus
  • Resources for students - including why & how to cite data

After you sign-in you can search and download data for later manipulation.

China & Hong Kong Statistics - Books (paper and online)

China

Provincial statistics from are classed under HA4637  (e- versions available from 1989-)

Major City Statistics of China are classed under HA4638 (e- versions available from 1989-)

Or, you can also do a title search: 统计年鉴

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department

 

General Global Statistics

國際統計年鑑 = International statistical yearbook (E-Resource HA154 .K85)

CDMNext - has millions of macro-economic time series and statistics from 190+ countries. In-depth data is available for China & Indonesia

GlobalEDGE Database on International Business (DIBS) -  Created & maintained by Michigan State University, it provides 5,000+ variables for 200+ countries from mid-1990's to the present;. Free for academic use. Registration required.

National Statistical Offices -  Links to national statistical offices and bureaus across the world, maintained by the United Nations.

Our World in Data -  Data created and maintainedby researchers at the University of Oxford, (the scientific editors of the website content) the NGO, Global Change Data Lab

Passport - Volume & value sales statistics for consumer, industrial and services markets across 82 countries worldwide. It also provides a wide range of data on business enterprise including consumer market sizes, consumer lifestyles, companies.

Political risk yearbook.... (E-Resource via Ebsco):  Annual reports listed alphabetically by country name 

Statista: the portal for statistics  - Over a million market data series on 80,000 topics; data can be exported in PowerPoint, Excel, PNG or PDF. & infographics  explored by subject.

 United Nations Statistics Division -    View and download data from the UN's Statistics division.

The World almanac and book of facts. ( Reference AY67.N5 W7)

World Bank Open Data   Over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources downloadable. Browse data by countries, indicators, topics or data sources. Also has pre-formatted tables and reports. Highlights:

The World factbook   (G122 .U56)  - Compiled & published by the USA's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Also available open access online via https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

Asia & Beyond Statistics

Asian Barometer  -  Public opinion data in Asia (uses Global Barometer survey as a model). Four waves of the AsiaBarometer have been conducted. Focus is on daily lives of ordinary people.

Asia Data Archive - from UC Irvine's Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD)  - includes many useful links

 

 

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