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DATA SETS

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Survey Data (micro-level)
- U.S.
  - U.S. National Election Survey, 2000, ICPSR 3356
  - U.S. National Election Survey, 2004 (from Pollock)
    - SPSS Data File
    - Codebook
    - See Variable and Value Labels in Data File and http://sda.berkeley.edu/archive.htm. Though the variables do differ from our data set.
  - U.S. National Election Survey, 2008, ICPSR 25383
  - U.S. National Election Survey, 2008 (from Kirkpatrick/Kidd)
    - http://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/isbn/9781111353797
      - Than "Access Now" and "Data Set"
        
        http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111353797&token=
    - SPSS Data File
  - General Social Survey, http://www.norc.org/GSS+Website/, download, SPSS format. Codebook under Documentation. Questionnaires under Publications. The data is also included with new Nachmias texts.
    - General Social Survey 1996
- Mexico
  - New York Times Mexico Survey 1987, ICPSR 8666
  - Mexican Election Panel Study, 2000, ICPSR 3380 (in Spanish)
  - National Exit Poll for the 2006 Mexican Presidential Election, ICPSR 24609 (in Spanish, some English translation in codebook)
  - Global Views 2004: Mexican Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, ICPSR 4136 (in Spanish, codebook has English survey instrument)
- Hispanic
  - Pew Hispanic Center Data Sets (may directly download from http://pewhispanic.org/datasets/)
    - 2007 National Survey of Latinos
    - 2006 National Survey of Latinos: The Immigration Debate
    - Survey of Mexican Migrants, 2005
    - Others
- Other
  - Voice of the People, 2007, ICPSR 21441 (and earlier surveys)
  - World Values Survey, http://www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSData.jsp
Cross-National Data (macro-level)
- Mexico
  - Mexico Presidential Election, 1988 and 1994
    - Codebook
    - Excel Data File
    - Search ICPSR, Mexico, Filter by Geography, more, view all, Mexico (M), some 70+ data sets.
- Latin America
  - Latin American Political Economy, Late-1980s, Codebook
    - Codebook
    - Excel Data File
- Global
  - Civic Culture, ICPSR 7201
  - World Handbook, ICPSR 7761
    - Codebook, 18 variables
    - Excel Data File, 18 variables
  - Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, 2001-06, ICPSR 3808
  - Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, 1996-01, ICPSR 2683
  - World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators, http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp, Access Governance Indicators, than To download the full dataset for all countries and indicators in Excel format, click here [select click here on that web page].
  - United Nations, Human Development Indicators, http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/. Select:
    - You will need to delete the "non-data" rows and columns, while preserving the variable names.
  - Democracy Cross-National Data (from Pollock--from http://www.pippanorris.com/)
    - SPSS Data File
    - Codebook
    - Search (ctrl + f) the variable view in the SPSS Data for variables
- State Data, United States (from Pollock--variables compiled by the author)
  - SPSS Data File
  - Codebook
  - Search (ctrl + f) the variable view in the SPSS Data for variables
Sources for Micro- and Macro-Level Data
- Data on Religion, Association of Religion Data Archives, http://www.thearda.com/Archive/browse.asp.

Surveys and polls are excellent sources for nominal and ordinal data (discrete variables, e.g., a survey question with a limited number of fixed responses). The cross-national studies are excellent sources for interval level data (continuous variables, e.g., scales, rankings of many countries, percentages, currencies, number of people, etc.).

ICPSR is the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp, at the University of Michigan. You can search for data sets by the ICPSR number or by subject.

YOU WILL NEED AN SPSS DATA FILE (.sav extension). If you download a .sav file for your data directly to your personal drive, you can open it directly in SPSS.

TO OPEN A SPSS DATA FILE FROM THIS PAGE:

Right click on the hyper-link above for the SPSS data file that you want.
Select "Save target as..." And select your jump drive (or wherever you store you personal files) as the designation for saving the file.
Find that file wherever you have saved it. Change the file extension from .htm to .sav. You now have it saved as an SPSS file that you can open directly in SPSS.

TO OPEN AN EXCEL FILE IN SPSS:

Left click on the file name from this page
Save that file on your personal disk/drive
Open Spss
Select Open
Change the File Type to Excel
Browse to find the Excel file
Select that file and Open
Turn on (default) "Read variable names from the first row of data" if appropriate--turn off, if not appropriate
Select OK

TO OPEN A TEXT FILE (.txt) USING A SYNTAX FILE (.sps)

Open the Syntax file in SPSS (simply double-click on the Syntax file)
In this example, you want to edit after name = to point to your .txt file
If your .txt file was located on your J drive and named 02683-0001-Data.txt, you would edit thusly:
Next, select Run and All: