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Access 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/PermalinkThe USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (ESMIS) is a collaborative project between Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University and several agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The system contains nearly 2500 reports and datasets. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Available titles include both current and historical data.
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Type: Statistics
Country: US
URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/homepage.do All Users
More Info/PermalinkVital Signs is an annual community check-up conducted by community foundations across Canada. It provides a comprehensive, reader-friendly look at how our communities are faring in key quality-of-life areas.
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Type: Open Data
Country: Canada
URL: http://communityfoundations.ca/vitalsigns/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkInternational IDEA is frequently requested to provide information on political participation around the world, and the Voter Turnout Project focuses on one specific dimension of political participation - voter turnout in elections. While elections do not equal democracy, they are without doubt an important and indispensable element.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/voter-turnout All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe World Malaria Report is the WHO Global Malaria Programme’s flagship publication, published every year in December. The report provides the global health community with a comprehensive overview of progress in the fight against malaria.
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Type: Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://www.who.int/malaria/data/en/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe WomanStats Project is the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world. The Project facilitates understanding the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states. We comb the extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174 countries. Our Database expands daily, and access to it is free of charge. The Project began in 2001, and today includes six principal investigators at five universities, as well as a team of up to twenty graduate and undergraduate data extractors. Please learn more by clicking First Time Users and watching our Video Tutorials. Or visit our Blog, where we discuss what we are finding, view our Maps, or read our Research reports. USERS MUST CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.womanstats.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkWBG Finances is a World Bank Group digital platform that provides our clients and partners access to public financial data and portfolio information from across all Group entities in one place.
WBG Finances simplifies the presentation of financial information in an ‘easy to consume’ and in the context of Country and Portfolio across WBG.
All the data presented is available to everybody to analyze, visualize, and share with others. We invite you to explore the numerous tools, build your own visualizations or download the data in multiple formats.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://finances.worldbank.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkInternational selection of economic, social and environmental indicators from the World Bank. Website includes over 35 databases providing data on a wide variety of subjects. Popular databases include:
- World Development Indicators (WDI) and Global Development Finance (GDF): WDI is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. GDF provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).
- Gender Statistics: Provides data on key gender topics. Themes included are demographics, education, health, labor force, and political participatio
- Health Nutrition and Population (HNP) Statistics: Provides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources.
- Education Statistics: Provides data on education from national statistical reports, statistical annexes of new publications, and other data sources.
- 1960s to current, but varies by database and by indicator
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis site presents all the available distributional findings on happiness in nations. Each separate findings is presented on a 'page' that contains information about 1) the survey study, 2) the question on happiness used in that study, 3) the distribution of responses to that question, and 4) the publication in which these results were reported. Means and standard-deviations are also reported in a separate 'overview' per nation, in which the findings are sorted by type of survey question on happiness and within these measurement types by year. This allows an easy view on changes in happiness over time.
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Type: Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/ 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 WTO provides quantitative information in relation to economic and trade policy issues. Its data-bases and publications provide access to data on trade flows, tariffs, non-tariff measures (NTMs) and trade in value added.
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Type: Statistics
Country: International
URL: https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe World Values Survey (www.worldvaluessurvey.org) is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars, with the WVS association and secretariat headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
The survey, which started in 1981, seeks to use the most rigorous, high-quality research designs in each country. The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire. The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents. Moreover the WVS is the only academic study covering the full range of global variations, from very poor to very rich countries, in all of the world’s major cultural zones.
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Type: Microdata, Statistics
Country: International, US
URL: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp 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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