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The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) online library of books, reports, working papers, periodicals and statistical data covering a wide range of subjects including agriculture & food, development, economics, education, employment, energy, environment, finance & investment, governance, industry & services,  social issues, migration & health, taxation and transport.  Search by keyword(s) or browse by theme or by country name.

Data Access: McMaster Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://libaccess.mcmaster.ca/login?url=http://www.oecdilibrary.org McMaster Users

Provides access to Historical and Current Air Quality readings for various regions in Ontario. Also available Smog Advisory Statistics, Current and Historical Air Quality Pollutant Data for Ontario.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.airqualityontario.com/science/data_sets.php All Users

12,106 RESOURCES IN 3,352 CATALOGS , 320 VISUALIZATIONS BY 81 DEPARTMENTS

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://data.gov.in/ All Users

Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, surveys and breaking news on industries, countries and consumers worldwide. 

The Library subscribes to the following modules in Passport:

• Countries & Consumers - Provides in-depth analysis on trends impacting consumers and countries around the world. It delivers research and analysis on the evolving economy, business environment, population, and income and expenditure patterns in 210 countries worldwide.
• Industries - Includes global statistics and analysis for 27 major consumer industries worldwide. Contains historic and forecast market sizes, distribution channel analysis, company and brand share data, company profiles, global industry reports, expert and breaking news & articles and more.
• Cities - Provides socioeconomic data and analysis on 850 of the world’s largest cities.  
• Survey - Consists of online consumer survey data  from 16 countries covering consumer habits, attitudes, opinions, values, behaviours and motivations on a variety of topics.
• Industrials (Canada) - Breaks down the Canadian economy into 177 different industry sectors from a B2B perspective. Data and analysis is provided for Agriculture, Forestry, Mining, Alcoholic Beverages and many other industries. 

Data Access: McMaster Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://libaccess.mcmaster.ca/login?url=http://www.portal.euromonitor.com/portal/server.pt McMaster Users

The Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people’s assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 240,000 interviews in 57 countries have been conducted as part of the project’s work.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics

Country: International

URL: http://www.pewglobal.org/ All Users

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://www.pewresearch.org/ All Users

This site features select infographics from past reports, presentations, and commentaries of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: US

URL: http://www.pewglobal.org/ All Users

Data.gov.ph aims to make national government data searchable, accessible, and useful, with the help of the different agencies of government, and with the participation of the public.

This website consolidates the datasets of different government agencies, allowing users to find specific information from a rich and continuously growing collection of public datasets.

Data.gov.ph provides information on how to access these datasets and tools, such as infographics and other applications, to make the information easy to understand. Users may not only view the datasets, but also share and download them as spreadsheets and other formats, for their own use.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://data.gov.ph/ All Users

In 2016, the Québec government and the municipalities of Gatineau, Laval, Montreal, Quebec City, and Sherbrooke joined forces to create the new Data Québec open data portal. Several other municipalities then followed suit, and thanks to this collaboration, several hundred datasets are now available. The site contains digital data distributed in a structured way according to a particular method, with an open license guaranteeing their free access and reuse.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-quebec All Users

Gatineau endorses the key principles behind the open data portal movement established by the Sunlight Foundation. Open data should be complete, primary source data, timely, accessible, readable, non-discriminatory, freely available, free of licensing restrictions, available in perpetuity, and lowest possible cost.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/ All Users

RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science. All posts are signed by the author(s), except ‘group’ posts which are collective efforts from the whole team. This is a moderated forum. - See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/about/#sthash.B3cij7g5.dpuf

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/ All Users

This is the public platform for exploring and downloading open data, discovering and building apps, and engaging to solve important local issues in York Region. You can analyze and combine Open datasets using maps, as well as develop new web and mobile applications.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://insights-york.opendata.arcgis.com/ All Users

re3data.org is a searchable catalog / registry / directory / bibliography of research data repositories. 

Data Access: All Users

Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://www.re3data.org/ All Users

Open Data offered by Gov. Agencies in Saudi Arabia.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://www.saudi.gov.sa/wps/portal/yesserRoot/aboutKingdom/openGovernmentData/!ut/p/b1/hZHJbqNAAES_JR8Q0c1izLFZzL52NwYuiAQHAwlE0DbL1w8jzXWSY0lVUlU9ruAyrhiqZ9tUrB2H6vOvLk4lMjUV2yIPQplAYEuyJiAJQtOC3JXLgFjiDkyhu_XjVmtRqmdL_ZH7LS0DumeLB7qACnrkgZltMwt2zJJ3o59x All Users

The Statistical Year Book provides data sets, not only on the various facets of the Economy of India, but also on the vital social aspects like housing, health, environment, infrastructure, tourism and crime. A new chapter on Millennium Development Goals has also been added to this year's publication.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: International

URL: http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/SYB2013/index1.html All Users

Statistics New Zealand Tatauranga Aotearoa is a government department and New Zealand’s national statistical office. We are New Zealand's major source of official statistics, administer the Statistics Act 1975, and lead the Official Statistics System.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: International

URL: http://stats.govt.nz/ All Users

SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. Based in Stockholm, SIPRI, is regularly ranked among the most respected think tanks worldwide.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: https://www.sipri.org/databases All Users

A beta version of the Terra Populus data finder is now publicly available. The system includes an initial data collection including census data for six countries, land use, land cover, and climate data. Users of the system will be able to browse data from all of these sources and create customized data extracts integrating data from multiple sources.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://www.terrapop.org/ All Users

The City of Welland Open Data project was initiated by the Information Services Division and involves the free dissemination of digital information via the City’s web site.  The Open Data Catalogue provides a list of all the digital data sets available for download and use.  You will find spatial data for use with GIS software, as well as tabular and textual data and documents.  This Data Catalogue will expand and change over time as more information becomes available for public use, so we encourage you to visit the data catalogue often. 

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.welland.ca/open/Opendata.asp All Users

Niagara's Data Catalogue - PILOT PROJECT: making datasets available, free of charge, for public use. Get the data now... 

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.niagararegion.ca/government/opendata/default.aspx?banner=1 All Users

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.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: International

URL: http://data.worldbank.org/ All Users

DataBank 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.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Data Visualization, Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx All Users

The 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.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/ All Users

Our 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.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.oakville.ca/data/catalogue.html All Users

Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: US

URL: http://www.data.gov/ All Users

The 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. 

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx All Users

WorldPublicOpinion.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.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://worldpublicopinion.org/index.php?nid=&id=&lb=hmpg All Users

The 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.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/ All Users