The CCRI represents an infrastructure that facilitates research on the transformation of Canadian society in the twentieth century. The CCRI's mandate is to provide researchers with a body of data and information that can be used to acquire a better understanding of how modern-day Canada has developed. The CCRI is composed of microdata, namely, data created from Canadian census enumerations between 1911 to 1951, a geographical framework constructed to enable the location, selection, aggregation, and analysis of census data, and contextual data, namely the textual data used to situate the census in time and to enhance appropriate analysis of the data. 

1911 Census located on the left of this web page provides researchers with the 1911 database, 1911 codes, 1911 data entry manual, 1911 enumerator instructions, 1911 geography component, Contextual Data (1911 to 1951), and 1911 Nesstar Webview.
 

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Type: Microdata

Country: Canada

URL: https://ccri.library.ualberta.ca/en1911census/database/index.html All Users

Access the City's data, organized into 15 categories.

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Type: Open Data

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/open-data/ All Users

The 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

A 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

A 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

IPUMS-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

IPUMS-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

An 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: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/landing.jsp McMaster Users

This 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

This website was created by Rapid Intelligence, a web technology company based in Sydney, Australia. We produce original sites that provide people with unique views of content. All statistics on this site are cited. If you are concerned about authenticity and authorship, please view the "Source:" field, found below each graph. Or when viewing country statistics, click the "View with citations" link below the bottom of the page.

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Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://www.nationmaster.com/ All Users

data.NSW brings together a list of NSW Government datasets available in one searchable website.

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Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://data.nsw.gov.au/data/ All Users

data.govt.nz is a directory of publicly-available, non-personal New Zealand government held datasets. This site does not host data, instead it links to datasets held on other government websites. 

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Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: https://www.data.govt.nz/ All Users

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

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Type: Open Data

Country: International

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: International

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

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: International

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

Here 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

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.

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Type: Open Data

Country: International

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