Greek Election Opinion Polls

Here is an attempt to collect and digitise all the opinion poll results, as presented in national media, for the forthcoming election on September 20th 2015.

List of Data Sources

I have been working on a project to create a searchable file containing active links for data sources. I have compiled a basic Google Spreadsheet which I share online for anyone interested. The data sources included cover a wide range of statistical themes. It has been quite effective in my work as I find it especially hard to navigate across multiple databases and memorise the location of variables of interest. Apparently, the entries are primarily influenced by my knowledge and personal research interests.

You are welcome to access/share the document online and download it for personal use. 

I urge users to leave comments if any errors, invalid links e.t.c. are detected.

Please, let me know if you wish to be granted with editing rights in order to add sources. 

Electoral and Party Databases

Data Archives Worldwide

Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) offers an explanatory map with sources of data archives worldwide.

The map can be accessed on http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/map3.asp

 

Research on Corruption

I offer some links that can be useful on corruption related research:

• Transparency International: Latest News, Research, Data and Reports


• ACRN: Anti-corruption research network. Exceptional resources and contacts


• Internet Center for Corruption Research: Latest News, Events and Research


• UN Procurement Capacity Development Center: Reports on initiatives and guidelines for regional and coutnry specific methods to limit public procurements


• WB AntiCorruption: Useful resources on the field of anticorruption (focused on the public sector)


• WB Transparency, Accountability and Anti-Corruption


• WB Governance and Anticorruption


• Harvard Ethics Center: A number of research projects coordinated by Prof. Edmond Safra


• Justice Harvard: A legal and philosophical approach to corrupt practices


• Governance Assesment Portal: Exceptional Website full of resources, data and research worth a read


• Revenue Watch: Datasets on Tranparency of the mineral, oil and gas producing countries

Data for Greece only

Thanks to a recent paper that I had to write on Greece I managed to collect a broad but very useful selection on public agencies that publish statistics related to the Greek social, economic and political environment.

Greek Data suffer usually from bias and sometimes especially for the years 2004-2007 their validity has been questioned by Eurostat. Hence a user of the statistics should be aware of potential problems that might be caused due to the non-scientific collection of the data from the various statistical bodies in Greece.

Having said that I will offer a list of the useful agencies that i have retrieved, stating the type of statistics each body publishes.

• Ministry of Finance: Financial Data on Public Debt, Budget, Public enterprises (archive from 2001)


• Greek Statistical Agency: Digitalised Data


• Greek Statistical Agency: Digital Library (Non digitalised data. Scanned Original Documents containing monthly statistical reports since 1929)


• Bank of Greece: Although the site is ugly, useful monetary data can be found


• National Library: A must for anyone interested in qualitative data (enormous newspapers archive etc)


• National Bank of Greece: An exceptional database of historical reports (budgets, statistics and newspapers from 1825 until 1940)


• Labrakis Press: Collection of financial datasets from 2000


• E-demography: Demographic data


• General Secretary of Computer Systems: Accounting and Financial datasets (since 2000)


• Diavgeia (Transparency): Reports of transactions of ministries and public institutions.


• GeoData.Gov.Gr (Open Data Protocol in Greece)


• National Printing House (Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο):  Digital documents of the government's activity. Search for laws, established companies e.t.c.


• Greek Banks' Association


• National Documentation Center: PhD Theses Archive


• Public Issue: Monthly Electoral Surveys


• VPRC


• SEDEA: Association of Greek Market and Opinion Research Companies


• OAED: Detailed data on Unemployment and Labour Force

Community Data

Local and Regional Data from England and Scotland:

 

• Neighborhood Statistics: Just select the area of interest (by name or postcode) and all the relevant data will appear (England)


• Scottish Neighborhood Statistics: Similar to its English broth but with Scottish data

Worldwide Data

The list will include data sources that contain datasets from numerous country of the world. For country specific data please check the other categories of the site.

• UK Data Service: An attempt to merge various datasets from different sources into one platform. Includes all types of data.


• ACRN: Anticorruption Research Network Databases contain corruption related data.


• TI: Transparency International - Corruption Indeces.


• UN: Databases from the United Nations.


• OECD: Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development Databases.


• OECD-Library: Contains all the stats, graphs, tables used in the OECD publications.


• ILO: International Labour Organisation.


• IMF: International Monetary Fund. All the indebted nations are certainly in here!


• World Bank: Large international datasets.


• The Economist: Useful financial and economic data from the leading magazine.


• Economist Intelligence Unit: Financial Data and Dynamic Forecasts can be retrieved freely or purchased.


• PippaNoris Data: Data from the JFK Harvard School of Government with political datasets.


• DataBankProject: The oldest living panel data since 1815. Can be retrieved by emailing the foundation.


• Guardian: The data repository of the british newspaper.


• UNESCO: Cultural, Educational and Social Data.


• World Bank Financial Data: A beta version of the latest datasets of the world bank.


• WHO: World Health Organisation Statistics.


• RoperCenter: International Public Opinion Datasets and more.


• Google Data Lab


• Google Fusion Tables


• YouGov: The revolutionary panels (unfortunately only archive reports are available).


• Index of Economic Freedom: The well known index of free market performance by the conservative Heritage Foundation.


• World Values Survey: A survey quantifying cultural aspects of societies.


• Freedom House Indeces: Data on Freedom of the world, press, net.


• Open Budget Index:  Independent, comparative, regular measure of budget transparency and accountability.


• Rule of Law Index: Assess a nation’s adherence to the rule of law.


• Global Financial Integrity: Information regarding illicit financial transactions.


• Global Integrity Report: Data on Practices in governance and assessment of the public sector.


• Global Assessment Portal: Exceptional Guide Containing indicators for good governance characteristics.


• Polity Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions since 1800.


• Birch Index of Electoral Malpractice


• World Bank Governance Indicators: Measures of Quality in Governance for 213 Economies since 1996.


• Social Policy Data: compilation of datasets on social policy systems, tax systems, public opinion, quality of govornance and political indicators.


• Public Administration Data: unique data set on the structure and behaviour of public administration, based on a web survey. of 973 country experts from 126 countriesaround the world.


• Graduate Institute of Geneva: Contains an interesting list of datasets of macroeconomic origin.


• Aid Data: Search for Foreign Aid data.


• Right to Information Index: A comparative index examining the openness to infrmation for 80+ countries.


• Joint External Debt Hub: Free Database with debt related datasets gathered from the IMF, World Bank, BIS, and OECD.


• Sustainable Governance Indicators: OECD Cross National Survey of Governance. Measurement of Equality and Freedom.


• Bribe Payer Index: The 2011 index with the private supply side of corruption, published by the Transparency International.


• Human Development Index trends


• Gap Minder: A wide list of world health related datasets


• Buzz Data: An interesting site that attempts to promote the use of data for storytelling and research. Good collection of various datasets too!


• RevenueWatch: Dataset on transparency of mineral, oil, and gas exporting countries.


• Data Gov: Graphical Representation of Data and option to extract the datasets


• Factual: Unique data sets ranging from health,education, and entertainment.


• DataMarket: An Icelandic treasure in data exploring and sharing. Searches through many different data providers.


• Infochimps: Another attempt to offer a unified searching platform for data


• The DataHub: The most extensive open data initiative


• EH.net: Rich historical time series for a variety of countries


• DoingBusiness: Business related data. Easiness to start a business, taxation, credit details etc per country


• Ponemon: Data and Internet security related information. What is the cost of data for businesses?


• Survey Question Bank: Search for major surveys conducted by various national and internation organisations


• Internation Social Survey Programme: Archives and data from a wide range of surveys


• PRS: Political Risk Services


• Better Life Index: Published by the OECD categorising coutnries by aspects of good life


• Publish What You Fund Index: Country indicators on aid transparency


• OpenSpending.org


• Quality of Government: Compiled by the Quality of Government Institute


• Quandl: Datasets for Finance and Economics


• Archigos: Rich Data Base on Political Leaders from 1875-2004 for 150+ countries