Find European Politics Data on Web Sites with Topical Collections

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This page features links to some useful data collections for European Politics. Because the contents of these collections change frequently, these links should direct users to the top-level of data collections, rather than specific data sets.

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Austrian National Election Study: .Comprehensive social science analysis of Austrian national elections.

British Election Study: .Long term studies of Britain's electoral behavior.

Chapel Hill Expert Survey: .Estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries.

Danish General Election Results: .Results of Danish general elections 1953-2015 including number of votes and number of seats in parliament
Danish National Election Study: .Data from all 16 elections in the 1971-2011 period.
Dutch Parliamentary Voting Dataset: .Voting behaviour in the Dutch parliament.

Economic Fata from European Bank for Reconstruction & Development: .Macro-economic and structural data series, includes the Life in Transition Survey.
Electoral Volatility in the European Parliament Elections: .Data on electoral volatility and its internal components in European Parliament elections in all EU countries since 1979, for both the class bloc and the demarcation bloc.
EU Open Data Portal: .Provides access to an expanding range of data from the European Union (EU) institutions and other EU bodies.
European Central Bank Statistical Data Warehouse: .Economic indicators for Euro area.
European Election Studies: .About electoral participation and voting behavior in European Parliament elections.
European Quality of Life Survey: .Carried out every four years, this unique, pan-European survey examines both the objective circumstances of European citizens' lives and how they feel about those circumstances and their lives in general.
European Representative Democracy Data Archive: .Datasets on political institutions, political parties, cabinets and governments in Europe.
Eurostat: .The statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe.

Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation: .Applied and policy-oriented research on labor markets, immigration and welfare systems in Europe

German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies: .A research and network initiative focusing solely on the theory and practice of de-radicalization and counter-radicalization.
German Socio-Economic Panel: .A longitudinal survey of households in Germany from 1984 to 2016. Variables include household composition, employment, occupations, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators.

Members of the European Parliament Survey Data: .The data allow for comparison of MEPs' views with those of the EU public, European Parliament candidates, and members of national and regional parliaments in Europe.

NatCen Social Research: .Britain's largest independent social research agency.
Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey: .The attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland to a wide range of social policy issues.
Norwegian Centre for Research Data: .One of the largest archives for research data of its kind, includes the European Election Database.

Party Systems and Governments Observatory: .Data on government formation and party system institutionalization in all 48 European democracies, from the Second French Republic, through wars and crises, all the way up to the present moment.

Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe: .Panel data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of more than 120,000 individuals aged 50 or older.
Swedish National Data Service: .Facilitates access to new and existing Swedish research data.
Swedish National Election Studies: .Aims to explain why people vote as they do and why an election ends in a particular way. See data page.

UK Data Service: .Includes major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate, business data, and qualitative data.

VoteWatch Europe: .Provides a data-based overview of EU politics.

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