Political Science Subject Guide

A database from the U.S. Census Bureau with population, housing, and business statistics at the country, state, county, city, and zip code levels.

Links to official statistical information produced by the U.S. federal government. Browse by agency to connect to agencies' websites.

Statistics from colonial times to modern day covering population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, economic sectors, and governance and international relations.

Quantitative and qualitative data on the Lehigh Valley on: demographics, public opinion, economic indicators, non-profit sector, governmental sector, and more.

Official source of demographic and economic data for Pennsylvania.

"My Congressional District gives you quick and easy access to selected statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau through the American Community Survey (ACS) and County Business Patterns (CBP). The ACS provides detailed demographic, social, economic, and housing statistics every year for the nation's communities. CBP provides annual statistics for businesses with paid employees at a detailed geography and industry level. My Congressional District is powered by ACS and CBP data through the Census Application Programming Interface (API)."

"Track bills, review upcoming legislation, and see how your local and federal representatives are voting.

Open States is the leading source for truly open data on policy-making process and legislation."

The authoritative and comprehensive compilation of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Editions 1878-2012 are available online, as well as in print in the Trexler Library Government Documents section starting at C 3.134:886. Publication by the Census bureau ceased in 2012, but the series continues published by ProQuest, with newer editions (2013 to present) available in print in the Main Collection (Reference) 317.3 U58s.

Location: Main Collection (Ref.) 310 M681i v.1-3 (Level B)
Key economic and social indicators for 1750-2000.

Information, including statistics, on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for hundreds of world entities.

Links to international statistical agencies. From the U.S. Census Bureau.

Links to free official, international statistics resources by country, region, and subject.

Search across the United Nation's statistical databases.

"Annual compilation of a wide range of international economic, social and environmental statistics on over 200 countries and areas, compiled from sources including UN agencies and other international, national and specialized organizations."

Statistics for countries around the world on a wide variety of topics, including education-related topics. From the World Bank.

Party Facts links datasets on political parties and provides an online platform about parties and their history as recorded in social science datasets.

"Produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation."

Presents daily briefings on a single current topic, as well as recent Gallup Poll findings.

Biweekly overview of recent poll trends.

Regular feature of preeminent scholarly journal on public opinion and polling, discusses recent surveys. Browse through each issue to access "The Polls" or search across the journal by topic to check for features on your topic.