Steve's Toy Data for Teaching About a Variety of Methodological, Social, and Political Topics
Statewide Crime Data (1993)
Modeling Coups in Africa, 1960 to 1975 (1982)
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development (Table 5)
LME Aluminum Premiums Data
Major Party (Democrat, Republican) Thermometer Index Data (1978-2012)
Abortion Attitudes (ANES, 2012)
Simple Data for a Simple Model of Individual Voter Turnout (ANES, 1984)
NYSE Arca Steel Index data, 2017–present
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Data, 1901-2015
Simple Mean Tariff Rate for Argentina
Aviation Safety Network Statistics, 1942-2019
Randomization Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design: An Application to Party Advantages in the U.S. Senate
Voting Intentions in the 1988 Chilean Plebiscite
Drivers of China's Peace Engagement in Conflict-affected Countries
Daily Clemson Temperature Data
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Data
Coffee Imports for Select Importing Countries
The Primary Commodity Price for Coffee (Arabica, Robustas)
Select World Bank Commodity Price Data (Monthly)
ISO 3166 Country Codes (Two-Character, Three-Character, Numeric)
Education Expenditure Data (Chatterjee and Price, 1977)
Determinants of Arab Public Opinion
The Datasaurus Dozen
Domestic Conflict Events, 2012
Are There Civics Returns to Education?
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1885-Present
Casualties/Fatalities in the U.S. for Drunk-Driving, Suicide, and Terrorism
The Economic Benefits of Justice
The Effect of Special Preparation on SAT-V Scores in Eight Randomized Experiments
State-Level Education and Voter Turnout in 2016
Odds for 2024-25 English Premier League Clubs
Export Quality Data for Passenger Cars, 1963-2014
Norwegian Attitudes toward European Integration (2021-2022)
British Attitudes Toward Immigration (2018-19)
Trust in the Police in Belgium (European Social Survey, Round 5)
A Roll Call Vote on Extending Temporary Trade Liberalization Measures Applicable to Ukrainian products under the EU/Euratom/Ukraine Association Agreement
Eurostat Country Codes
EU Member States (Current as of 2019)
Hypothetical (Fake) Data on Academic Performance
Fake Data on Happiness
Fake Data for a Logistic Regression
Fake Data for a Time-Series Cross-Section
Fake Data for a Time-Series
Gasoline Demand in the OECD, 1960-1978
The 128 Countries That Had Signed GATT by 1994
Gun Homicide Rate per 100,000 People, by Country
Comparative Public Health: The Political Economy of Human Misery and Well-Being
Abortion Opinions in the General Social Survey
Attitudes Toward National Spending in the General Social Survey (2018)
The Gender Pay Gap in the General Social Survey
School Expenditures and Test Scores for 50 States, 1994-95
Illiteracy in the Population 10 Years Old and Over, 1930
"How Solid is Mass Support for Democracy---And How Can We Measure It?"
Democracy and Economic Development (Around) 1949-50
Land-Ocean Temperature Index, 1880-2022
Long-Term Price Trends for Computers, TVs, and Related Items
"Let Them Watch TV"
History of Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938-2009
Inequality and Insurgency: A Statistical Study of South Vietnam (Mitchell, 1968)
Minimum Legal Drinking Age Fatalities Data
Data from the 2009 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
Data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE)
Motor Vehicle Production by Country, 1950-2019
The Usual Daily Drinking Habits of Americans (NESARC, 2001-2)
Medical-Care Expenditure: A Cross-National Survey (Newhouse, 1977)
Ozone Depleting Gas Index Data, 1992-2022
Data for "Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency"
Economic Determinants of Political Unrest (Parvin, 1973)
Partisan Politics in the Global Economy
Property Rights, Democracy, and Economic Growth
U.S. Presidents and Their Terms in Office
Penn World Table (10.0) Macroeconomic Data for Select Countries, 1950-2019
Anscombe's (1973) Quartets
United States Recessions, 1855-present
The Correlates of Dyadic Voting Similiarities in the UN General Assembly for South Korea
Inequality and Instability: The Relation of Land Tenure to Politics (Russett, 1964)
Systemic Banking Crises Database II
Region Codes in the Central Bureau of Statistics ("Statistiska centralbyrån") in Sweden
South Carolina County GOP/Democratic Primary Data, 2016
Global Average Absolute Sea Level Change, 1880–2015
Sulfur Dioxide Emissions, 1980-2020
State Performance in Inter-State Wars
Steve's (Professional) Clothes, as of March 20, 2022
IMF Primary Commodity Price Data for Sugar
The Counties of Sweden
Margaret Thatcher Satisfaction Ratings, 1980-1990
Thermometer Ratings for Donald Trump and Barack Obama
Turnip prices in Animal Crossing (New Horizons)
The Individual Correlates of the Trump Vote in 2016
United Kingdom Effective Exchange Rate Index Data, 1990-2022
Cross-National Rates of Trade Union Density
United States-China GDP and GDP Forecasts, 1960-2050
Percentage of U.S. Households with Computer Access, by Year
U.S. Inbound/Outbound Migration Data, 1990-2017
State Abbreviations, Names, and Regions/Divisions
U.S. Trade and GDP, 1790-2018
U.S. Foreign Aid and Human Rights in Assorted Years
Sample Turnout and Demographic Data from the 2000 Current Population Survey
World Bank Country Groups
A Simple Panel drawn from World Bank Open Data
Syncing Word Values Survey Country Codes with CoW Codes
Attitudes about Immigration in the World Values Survey
Attitudes about the Justifiability of Bribe-Taking in the World Values Survey
Attitudes on the Justifiability of Abortion in the United States (World Values Survey, 1982-2011)
Education Categories for the United States in the World Values Survey
Region Categories for the United States in the World Values Survey
Yugo Sales in the United States, 1985-1992
This is a collection of various kinds of data with broad uses for teaching. My students, and academics like me who teach the same topics I teach, should find this useful if their teaching workflow is also built around the R programming language. The applications are multiple but mostly cluster on topics of statistical methodology, international relations, and political economy.