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In the initial phase of ACAP, we created a unique data bank that saved data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 rounds of census enumerations from destruction, and we developed the Pan-African Census Explorer (PACE). ACAP continues to be the repository of African Census data. African census micro-data are an invaluable source of information for understanding demographic processes and history in Africa. Over the past decade, ACAP has assembled the largest collection of complete census data in the world. Our expanding data collection currently consists of census micro-data from 55 censuses for 26 African nations. New national censuses are added to the collection on a regular basis. Most African nations and various other regional organizations are collaborating with us in this international effort.
The Pan-African Census Explorer (PACE) will facilitate easy access to census data for demographic and statistical analysis. Eventually, country specific versions of PACE could be available to the government agencies to facilitate easy distribution of the data.
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Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://www.acap.upenn.edu/index.php All Users
More Info/PermalinkAfrobarometer is an African-led, non-partisan survey research project that measures citizen attitudes on democracy and governance, the economy, civil society, and other topics.
We are the world’s leading research project on issues that affect ordinary African men and women. We collect and publish high-quality, reliable statistical data on Africa which is freely available to the public.
We currently conduct surveys in more than 30 African countries. We are proud of what we have achieved so far and our goal is to have Afrobarometer surveys in all African countries.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://www.afrobarometer.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkAidData engages in a variety of data collection and value addition activities to publish its ever-expanding suite of data products. Data collection takes place along two distinct product lines: Aggregate Data (or data represented as a single, composite value) and Project-Level Data (or data consisting of distinct, project activities with accompanying project information). AidData's data is sourced from various locations, including but not limited to the OECD-DAC's Creditor Reporting System (CRS), donor systems (such as official data from individual donor governments), and recipient systems (such as Aid Information Management Systems). Value addition activities include (1) activity and purpose coding, (2) geocoding (to produce our expanding repository of sub-national, geospatial research datasets) (3) data curation (the linking, deduplication and presentation of project records gathered from different sources or data collection activities), and (4) data quality assurance (the transformation and verification of data according to standard AidData practice). AidData also collects official project-level data on the development finance activities of non-OECD bilateral and multilateral donors, as well as data on Chinese development finance, collected using AidData's unique Tracking Under-reported Financial Flows (TUFF) methodology.
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Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://aiddata.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkA source for population, housing, economic and geographic data from Census 2000, the 1990 Decennial Census, the 1997 Economic Census, the American Community Survey, and the Population Estimates Program
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Type: Statistics
Country: US
URL: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml All Users
More Info/PermalinkData.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government. Please see ourdraft data.gov.au roadmap, the new data.gov.au launch pageand our Government Data Landscape mind map for more information about related policies and initiatives.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://data.gov.au/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University is a university-wide center that works to advance the understanding of development challenges and offer viable solutions to problems of global poverty. The CID is Harvard’s leading research hub focusing on resolving the dilemmas of public policy associated with generating stable, shared, and sustainable prosperity in developing countries.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ciddata/ciddata.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkCity Mayors is a leading international source for urban statistics.
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Type: Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://www.citymayors.com/sections/rankings_content.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Datahub provides free access to many of CKAN's core features, letting you search for data, register published datasets, create and manage groups of datasets, and get updates from datasets and groups you're interested in. You can use the web interface or, if you are a programmer needing to connect the Datahub with another app, the CKAN API.
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Type: Open Data
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://datahub.io/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis site is a first-release of the Commerce Data Hub, a platform to connect data customers with the data they need. Search over 40,000 datasets.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: US
URL: https://data.commerce.gov/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkA trusted source for a variety of data and statistics on the US. This website lists statistical information on a wide range of topics from many government agencies in US. You may need to do further research to find out which agency has the information you are looking for.
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Type: Data Visualization, Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: US
URL: https://www.usa.gov/statistics All Users
More Info/PermalinkA comprehensive list of Open Data catalogs from around the world.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://datacatalogs.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkData USA puts public US Government data in your hands. Instead of searching through multiple data sources that are often incomplete and difficult to access, you can simply point to Data USA to answer your questions. Data USA provides an open, easy-to-use platform that turns data into knowledge. It allows millions of people to conduct their own analyses and create their own stories about America – its people, places, industries, skill sets and educational institutions. Ultimately, accelerating society’s ability to learn and better understand itself.
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Type: Data Visualization
Country: US
URL: https://datausa.io/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Eurostat regional yearbook provides an overview of key statistics available for the regions of Europe.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Eurostat_regional_yearbook All Users
More Info/PermalinkA database of 24,619 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® you can download data in Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International, US
URL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
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Type: Statistics
Country: US
URL: https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/govstat/fedstats/fedstats3.htm All Users
More Info/PermalinkGapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.gapminder.org/data/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe portal is intended to be used by Government of Ghana Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. The objective of the initiative includes promoting transparency in Government transactions and creating business opportunity for reuse of open government data. The initiative Involves rethinking governance and how administrations should adapt their procedures to meet the demands and necessities of their citizens.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://data.gov.gh/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Google Public Data Explorer makes large, public-interest datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
Students, journalists, policy makers and everyone else can play with the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in their own webpages. Embedded charts and links can update automatically so you’re always sharing the latest available data.
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Type: Open Data
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Groningen Growth and Development Centre was founded in 1992 within the Economics Department of the University of Groningen by a group of researchers working on comparative analysis of levels of economic performance and differences in growth rates. The activities of the Centre are primarily in the field of research. This research is largely based on a range of comprehensive databases on indicators of growth and development that the Centre compiles and maintains on a regular basis. The participants of the Centre publish papers, articles and books often linked to these databases.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://www.rug.nl/research/ggdc/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkIfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration.
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International
URL: http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/listing/CA?detected=true All Users
More Info/PermalinkIPUMS-International is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to:
- Collect and preserve data and documentation
- Harmonize data
- Disseminate the data absolutely free!
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Type: Microdata
Country: International
URL: https://international.ipums.org/international/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkIPUMS-USA is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing United States census data. Its goals are to:
- Collect and preserve data and documentation
- Harmonize data
- Disseminate the data absolutely free!
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Type: Microdata
Country: US
URL: https://usa.ipums.org/usa/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkAn international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
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Type: Microdata
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://www-icpsr-umich-edu.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/web/pages/ McMaster Users
More Info/PermalinkThis site makes public government data accessible to the people of Kenya. High quality national census data, government expenditure, parliamentary proceedings and public service locations are just a taste of what's to come. Our information is a national asset, and it's time it was shared: this data is key to improving transparency; unlocking social and economic value; and building Government 2.0 in Kenya.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.opendata.go.ke/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkA project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, KIDS COUNT is the premier source for data on child and family well-being in the United States. Access hundreds of indicators, download data and create reports and graphics on the KIDS COUNT Data Center that support smart decisions about children and families.
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Type: Statistics
Country: US
URL: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkLatinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 20,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 600 million inhabitants.
Latinobarómetro Corporation is a non-profit NGO based in Santiago, Chile, and is solely responsible for the production and publication of the data.
Latinobarómetro Corporation researches the development of democracy and economies as well as societies, using indicators of opinion, attitudes, behaviour and values. Its results are used by social and political actors, international organizations, governments and the media.
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Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.latinobarometro.org/lat.jsp All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is a household survey program housed within the Surveys & Methods Unit of the World Bank's Development Research Group that provides technical assistance to national statistical offices (NSOs) in the design and implementation of multi-topic household surveys. Since its inception in the early 1980s, the LSMS program has worked with dozens of statistics offices around the world: generating high-quality data, incorporating innovative technologies and improved survey methodologies, and building technical capacity. The LSMS team also provides technical support across the World Bank in the design and implementation of household surveys and in the measurement and monitoring of poverty.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://surveys.worldbank.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe London Datastore has been created by the Greater London Authority (GLA) as an innovation towards freeing London’s data. We want citizens to be able access the data that the GLA and other public sector organisations hold, and to use that data however they see fit – free of charge.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://data.london.gov.uk/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis dataset, a product of the Trade Team - Development Research Group, is part of a larger effort in the group to measure the extent of the brain drain as part of the International Migration and Development Program. It measures international skilled migration by gender.
The methodology is explained in: A gendered assessment of the brain drain, F. Docquier, L. Lowell, and A. Marfouk, Policy Research Discussion Paper (forthcoming), World Bank. 2007.
This data set updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. The authors use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by the level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000. This data set can be used to capture the recent trend in women’s skilled migration and to analyze its causes and consequences for developing countries.
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Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/391/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis website contains UNICEF’s statistical information, including data used in UNICEF’s flagship publications, The State of the World’s Children and Progress for Children. Also here are technical resources for conducting UNICEF-supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), which are a major source of global development data.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://mics.unicef.org/ All Users
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