Applied Statistics for Political Scientists

Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

 

Instructors: Sean Carey, Steve Fisher, Ken Macdonald, Lauren McLaren

 

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Readings and Assignments

 

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Datasets and Codebooks

For some files a username and password are required. 

Contact steve.fisher@sociology.ox.ac.uk to obtain these.

 

Weeks 1 and 2:

 

WVS2.zip (Currently Unavailable) World Values Survey, 1990, North America & Western Europe only, ZIPPED Stata format file

WVS2.dta (Currently Unavailable) World Values Survey, 1990, North America & Western Europe only, UNZIPPED Stata format file

WVS Questionnaire  Questionnaires, available from the World Values Survey website.

 

Week 3:

 

classbes.dta  abstract from the British Election Studies 1964-1992

india.dta abstract from the CSDS 1999 Indian Election Study

 

Week 4:

 

lijphart.dta Codebook for the Lijphart Dataset, in text format.

 

Week 5:

 

netocox.dta  data on 54 democracies from Amorim Neto and Cox (1997).

cabinet.dta data on government durations in 15 parliamentary democracies.

 

Week 6:

 

bes97.dta  data from 1997 British Election Study. 

war.dta data on international conflict between 1951-1985.

 

Week 7:

 

week7bes.dta  and week7cox.dta . 

 

Week 8:

 

timeseries.dta  Time Series Dataset