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The World Bank has one of the largest repositories of microdata for development which is fully searchable and includes a citation index. The data include census and survey data on a range of development topics. It uses international norms for documenting microdata (DDI, Dublin Core). Currently, it covers 125 countries. Data for all studies listed are available to researchers either through direct download or a more detailed application process.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://data.worldbank.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkDataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.
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Type: Data Visualization, Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world.
The Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkOur catalogue is updated regularly with machine-readable, re-usable digital dataset files that can be shared and used to develop applications, visualizations and inform public research.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: https://www.oakville.ca/data/catalogue.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkProvides demographic information and analysis through on-line access to data, publications, products, and programs
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Type: Statistics
Country: US
URL: http://www.census.gov/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkHere you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
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Type: Open Data
Country: US
URL: http://www.data.gov/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/). Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
Useful features like Country Profiles, Advanced Search and Glossaries are also provided to aid research. The numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx All Users
More Info/PermalinkAccess to extensive collections of numeric and geospatial data files and computing facilities and software for data manipulation, research, and instruction; and a suite of Internet-accessible data extraction tools
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Type: Statistics
Country: US
URL: https://www.nhgis.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkWorldPublicOpinion.org is an international collaborative project whose aim is to give voice to public opinion around the world on international issues. WorldPublicOpinion.org seeks to reveal the values and views of publics in specific nations around the world as well as global patterns of world public opinion.
The WorldPublicOpinion.org website provides information and analysis about public opinion on international policy issues from around the world. While the studies of the WorldPublicOpinion.org network figure prominently, the website draws together data from a wide variety of sources from around the world. We have found that data from all reliable sources are important contributions and that as more studies are integrated into analyses, world public opinion comes into increasing focus.
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://worldpublicopinion.org/index.php?nid=&id=&lb=hmpg All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Yahoo Webscope Program is a reference library of interesting and scientifically useful datasets for non-commercial use by academics and other scientists.
All datasets have been reviewed to conform to Yahoo's data protection standards, including strict controls on privacy.
Yahoo is pleased to make these datasets available to researchers who are advancing the state of knowledge and understanding in web sciences. The datasets are only available for academic use by faculty and university researchers who agree to the Data Sharing Agreement.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/ All Users
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