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Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Use this guide to discover Latin American and Caribbean Studies resources available to you at Mason.

Statistics

LANIC: Statistics
Gateway to statistics from and about Latin American countries. Organized by Regional and Country Resources.
Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA or CEPAL)
This link will take you to the Publications page of the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America. There you can view and download the annual Statistical Yearbook for Latin American and the Caribbean.

Quantitative Data

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
One of the world’s oldest and largest social and behavioral science data archives, ICPSR contains many studies that are of use for research and instruction. For more, see the ICPSR Infoguide or contact Data & Digital Scholarship Services.

Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University
The Center focuses on Latin American and Latino research on immigration and development. The website provides free access to a data archive of unique studies on the LAS migration field and to the Working Paper Series in the area.

Polls and Public Opinion

Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
Specializes in the development, implementation, and analysis of public opinion surveys. Since the 1970s, LAPOP has gathered databases containing political perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Floridan International University's Cuba Poll (2007)
The poll, the product of a collaboration between the Institute for Public Opinion Research and the Cuban Research Institute at FIU, is updated every few years. The link will take you to the current