Data Index

Studies at the sub-state level often run into a major obstacle – the lack of comparable, international statistical data. In order to address this issue, I have compiled an index of publicly available sub-state data from both large databases (e.g., the OECD) and individual publications in the hopes of advancing future sub-state quantitative and mixed-methods research.

This work could not be completed without the help of my research assistant, Elizabeth McIntyre.

Dataset	Source	Geo. Focus	Level of Analysis	Description
Subnational Democracy across Indian States	Harbers, Bartman, and van Wingerden (2019)	India	TL2	Measures subnational democracy of Indian states
Dev. cooperation by European regions	Reinsberg and Dellepiane (2022)	Europe	TL2	Provides institutional structures and governance modalities of 195 large regions
DOSE	Wenz et al. (2023)	Global	TL2	Provides economic output from 1960-2020 for large regions
Eurostat	Eurostat	Global	All	Includes numerous datasets on a variety of indicators
G-Econ	Yale University	Europe and USA	Latitude-longitude grid	Provides a global data set on economic activity for all terrestrial grid cells
Global Subnational Atlas of Poverty (GSAP)	The World Bank (PIP)	Global	ADM1/ TL2	Provides subnational line-up poverty rates for 1,800 subregions across 166 economies
Inclusive Politics in Emerging Subnational Democracies	Phillips (2017)	Brazil, India and Nigeria	TL2	Provides governance scores for subnational gov. leadership
Looking Beyond the National Level	McMillan (2009)	USA	TL2	Provides insight into FDI attraction by U.S. states
Pre-election Violence and Territorial Control	Wahman and Goldring (2020) in PRIO	Zambia	Districts	Provides data on political domination and subnational election violence
Regional Authority Index (RAI)	Shair-Rosenfield et al. (2021) and Hooghe et al. (2016)	Global	TL1 and TL2	Provides measures on the authority in self rule and shared rule by regional gov.
Regional, Rural and Urban Dev. Data	OECD Data Explorer	Global	All	Includes numerous datasets on a variety of indicators
Subnational Electoral Democracy	Sandoval (2023)	The Americas and India	TL2	Provides the index of subnational electoral democracy
Subnational Electoral Democracy Scale	Fidalgo (2021)	Global	TL2	Provides subnational democracy informaiton across across 12 federal democratic countries.
Subnational Myers Scores	Lee and Zhang	Global	TL2	Provides processing functions for state capacity of regions
Subnational Poverty and Inequality Database (SPID)	The World Bank (PIP)	Global	All	Provides survey-based subnational indicators at multiple admin. levels
Subnational regime variation of evaluations of democracy	Fidalgo (2022)	Argentina	TL2	Pools data from the World Values Survey, the Subnational Electoral Democracy Scale, and additional subnational economic data
Subnational Violent Conflict Forecasts for Subsaharan Africa	Witmer et al. (2012) in PRIO	Africa	Districts	Provides subnational violent conflict data using a climate model for in-depth research
The Nationalization of Electoral Politics in Brazil	Mizukoshi (2021)	Brazil	TL2	Provides elite cohesion and party nationalization scores for Brazilian sub-state gov.
The World Bank	The World Bank	Global	All	Includes numerous datasets on a variety of indicators
xSub	Zhukov, Davenport, and Kostyuk (2019)	Global	TL2, TL3	xSub is a repository of micro-level, subnational event data on armed conflict and contention around the world