Questions tagged [data-sources]
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What are the most popular anarchist movements?
What are the largest anarchist organisations internationally by membership? I am curious about the relative popularity of different anarchist ideologies, to understand if say, anarcho-capitalism is ...
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Which stations will be redeveloped by the Indian Railways in Amrit Bharat Scheme?
The Indian Railway ministry has announced the Amrit Bharat Scheme for redevelopment of railway stations across India.
Which stations will be redeveloped exactly? Is there a list that I can check?
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Why has US Maternal Mortality data become less accurate in recent years?
There is a recent report from the WHO about Maternal Mortality rate trends in the last 20 years. In this time the global Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR, maternal deaths per 100,000 live births for ...
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Is there any state-by-state data on approval for LBJ or the Vietnam War?
I cannot find any data on approval ratings for LBJ on a state by state level.
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Data Source for 2012 US Congress and US Senate Elections
I need to find a good data source for the 2012 United States Congress and Senate elections.
I have found this: http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/federalelections2012.shtml The problem is that it is ...
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The Data on the United Nations General Debate text
I'm searching for the text of United Nations General Debate, which is the set of annual speeches by each country. I found some text on the recent General Debate (back to 2011) here, but I would like ...
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What was the House Popular Vote excluding uncontested races?
In the aftermath of most Congressional elections, it is often noted that Democrats did better in the House popular vote than they did in terms of actual seats won, indicating a role for the incumbency ...
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Where can New Mexico early voting statistics be obtained?
I am following the special election in New Mexico's 1st district.
I found this from an article here:
According to the Secretary of State’s Office, more than 1,000
Democrats have voted, about 400 ...
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Is there a database containing the raw data of qualitative research using interviews/focus groups?
Or is there a specific place that collects papers that publishes its raw data?
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How to find full or at least (much) longer quotes from political figures?
I often find that news agencies will quote political figures in "short form", sometimes quoting a sentence and paraphrasing the rest, and often quoting even less than a sentence. My recent ...
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Resource providing statistical data on the amount of law enacted?
Is there any statistical data about the amount of law enacted in the United States?
For example, it would be very interesting to see how the number of laws over time has changed, how many laws there ...
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Where can I find more information on refugees living in Poland?
I want to know the refugee data of Poland since its accession to the EU. For example:
When did the refugees come to Poland?
What were their countries of origin?
How many of them came?
What are their ...
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California primary early voting turnout?
In the past, there was data on early voting in multiple states before Election Day came. In California there is a primary which I believe there is early voting data available publicly in but I have ...
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Why don't governments publish raw IRV/STV election data, rather than summary statistics?
We're in the middle of a Federal election here in Australia, and many of us have been following the ABC news reports enthusiastically.
This has me wondering, why is it that we must turn to the ABC ...
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Was the number of votes for write in candidates for the 2020 presidential election ever released?
In the 2020 presidential election in the United States there were more than a thousand write in candidates . But I never saw any reports on the votes they got.
Did the government ever release any ...
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Where can I find detailed information on the votes that were tallied in the 2020 election?
I need a comprehensive dataset showing when individual votes were cast and for whom across the USA in the 2020 general election. I can find totals on the county websites and presidential candidate ...
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How much revenue do governments generate from fines, penalties, etc.?
Recently, I got a fine from the Dutch government for forgetting to pay my taxes on time. I wonder how much revenue governments generate through fines of various sorts, like speeding tickets or ...
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Prior to 2021, when was the last New Jersey gubernatorial election where a Democrat did better in Somerset County than the state as a whole?
In the 2021 New Jersey governor election, Phil Murphy, a Democrat and the incumbent, won 51.5% of the vote statewide. However he won 51.7% of the vote in Somerset County a suburban county which has ...
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Is there a comprehensive list of uncontested elections for head of state?
Regarding the upcoming election of the next Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive (CE) on 2022-05-08: As of 2022-05-03, various news outlets report that John Lee Ka-chiu (李家超) is running uncontested. In ...
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Does the US have a central database listing every US citizen?
The discussion on a related question made me wonder. Let's say the US decides that starting tomorrow they want to verify the citizenship status of every single voter. Is there a central database they ...
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How does Skopos Labs (cited by govtrack.us) predict the probability of legislation passing? What is their track record & is it the first of its kind?
This answer to Progress moving US oil and gas pipeline cybersecurity regulation and oversight from the TSA to the DOE? (HR 370) begins:
H.R.370 died in the last Congress. The new bill for the 117th ...
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How do international news agencies make their maps of Russia's military progress in Ukraine and where do they get their data?
Over the last few weeks most major international news agencies have used maps to show the progress of the Russian military in Ukraine, showing large regions in red presumably denoting Russian ...
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Shut-out precincts for Republican governor in 2021 New Jersey primary?
In 2008 and 2012, and to a lesser extent 2016, there were some precincts where Republicans got no votes. Example of a shut-out precinct in Louisiana's 2nd district special election, 2021:
I found ...
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Where can I find US election results by county from before 1920?
While researching US election data, I found out there is no data for US presidential elections down to county level for elections before 1920.
Is this data hard to find or it does not exist?
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Where can I get census data containing details about each person of a particular village in India?
I am doing research on a project. And for that, I need details like- age, jobs, income, etc. of all persons of a particular village in India. I have already searched for census data , but I got only ...
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What are the most reliable source for information about North Korea politcal and social system?
I think that both internal and external sources wouldn't be fair about the data in two opposite ways, either improving or destroying the image of the country.
What could be a trustable source of ...
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Where can you find how much each country pays to the UN?
Where is a trustworthy site that shows how much each country (not just the major countries) has payed to the UN every year for the past 5-10 years. I have looked on the internet and the UN website but ...
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Anti-Asian hate crime data
I am looking for data sources of anti-asian hate crimes that shows percentage of offenders by race e.g. 47% of people who committed hate crimes against Asian Americans were white, 32% were black, etc. ...
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Where can I find shapefiles of US counties and districts?
I am interested in creating some nice plots of election results from this and previous election cycles. I am wondering if there is a publicly available database or website that contains shapefiles of ...
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New Jersey early voting statistics 2021
I typed "2021 early vote New Jersey statistics" into my search engine. I could not find any relevant results.
Are there publicly available statistics on early voting in the 2021 New Jersey ...
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USA Map with State Legislature Districts
Is there a map with all state legislative voting districts? In other words, is there a single map which contains all of the districts which elect representatives to the lower state house, and a single ...
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New Jersey 2014 senate votes by municipality?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/2014_NJ_US_Senate_results_by_muni.svg
I was not able to find the vote total for this town. I live in New Jersey and I want to see the vote increase ...
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Early voting data for Ohio House elections 2021?
In Ohio there are two general elections for the House, in the 11th and 15th district. Both are to different degrees considered safe seats.
Early voting started last Tuesday. I want to see the number ...
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Panel data on US presidents electoral legitimacy
This Gallup poll from November 2016 asked the question:
" Now that Donald Trump has been declared the winner and will be inaugurated in January, will you accept him as the legitimate president, ...
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Computer readable info with bills being tagged
Are there websites out there that have Bills, Resolutions etc., tagged with computer readable subject specific tagging information like:
If we are talking about this -> H.R. 3547: "Space ...
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Where can I do my own analysis of exit poll data?
All the media sites do their own rollups of the exit poll data, but the dimensions they pick are static. Is there any site where I can pivot on my own sets of dimensions? E.g. I see married men went ...
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Where can I find data on when each country first implemented social restrictions for COVID-19?
Regarding COVID-19 response, we have the stringency index. But I wonder, is there any source that documented the first law implementation date or month regarding societal restrictions (social ...
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Historical data on how the reliability of polling data depends on time remaining until a US presidential election
Just for entertainment, I wrote a program that simulates the US presidential election of 2020. (I was interested in seeing whether, for example, predictit's relatively low probability of Biden's ...
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What is the success / failure ratio of online petitions?
Ok I see a similar question has been answered and there have been successes: Have any of the "We the People" petitions ever resulted in policy changes?
However, what is the success / ...
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Do people without children spend longer time in retirement homes?
This came up when discussing the 'Pflegereform' in Germany. Everyone has to pay a proportion of their income and this tax is used to help pay for the cost of retirement homes for old people. The ...
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What is the number of elected politicians at all levels in the world?
There are 519,000 elected politicians in the USA at all levels of government.
At all levels of government, approximately how many elected politicians are there worldwide?
A lower/upper bound would be ...
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Where can I download the voting results for UK elections?
Where can I download the voting results for UK elections? My question covers elections for the House of Commons, the London Assembly, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Parliament, the Northern ...
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How can I obtain information about the candidates running for Judge in California?
Voters get to vote on retaining Judges in the State Court of Appeals and the State Supreme Court. But there is a dearth of information to make an "informed" decision. I can easily ascertain the ...
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Is there data on how England's European Parliament constituencies voted in the 2017 UK General Election?
For some research/data analysis I would like to find electoral data from the 2017 UK general election aggregated by European Parliament constituency. For Scotland, Wales, and NI, these data are ...
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Where can I find good voting data on US Congressional Districts?
For US Elections, I'm trying to find the Total Population, Voting Age Population, Registered Voters on Election Day, and the number of Ballots cast, for the years of 2020, 2018, 2016, and 2012, sorted ...
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Are there any studies/ data sources into whether Republicans or Democrats suffer the most under the presence of 3rd parties?
I am looking to explore the impact of 3rd parties on mainstream political parties in the United States. Not necessarily at the federal level but at state level too, and across any branch of the ...
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Total hours of Brexit negotiations? [closed]
Brexit negotiations are important, as there is much to lose on both sides. But I am wondering:
How many hours were spent since the referendum on negotiation talks?
Is it possible to estimate? I could ...
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Are all EP plenary vote results publically accessible? Where?
Recently I struggled to find the EP vote results in case of this regulation. Although it's marked as adopted on the EUR-LEX website, none of the related votes I could find on VoteWatch ended up ...
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Where to view election litigation status
Is there a way to view aggregated data for the litigations related to the recent federal elections in the US? I’m looking for a who/what/why status of each piece of litigation so I don’t have to check ...
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Where can I find data on US party affiliations, broken down geographically?
Where can I find data on US party affiliations, broken down geographically?
I'd like to do some statistical analysis on party affiliations within states, broken down geographically.
Here's the kicker: ...
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