Search and Browse Data/Statistics Collection
Afrobarometer is an independent, non-partisan research project that measures the social, political, and economic atmosphere in Africa.
Afrobarometer surveys are conducted in more than 30 African countries and are repeated on a regular cycle. Because the instrument asks a standard set of questions, countries can be systematically compared. Trends in public attitudes are tracked over time. Results are shared with decision makers, policy advocates, civic educators, journalists, researchers, donors and investors, as well as average Africans who wish to become more informed and active citizens.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://www.afrobarometer.org/ 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.
Data Access: All Users
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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://aiddata.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Arab Barometer was established in 2005 by scholars in the Arab world and the United States. Leadership was initially provided by the University of Michigan and Princeton University in the U.S. and by universities and research centers in Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Algeria and Kuwait. In 2010, a partnership was formed with the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI: www.arab-reform.net) in order to expand the project’s scope and range of activities, building off ARI’s regional survey work carried out in 2006-2008.
The Arab Barometer was developed in consultation with the Global Barometer project, a network composed of regional barometers in Latin America, Sub-Saharan, East Asia and South Asia (http://www.globalbarometer.net/). Like other regional Barometers, the objectives of the Arab Barometer are to produce scientifically reliable data on the politically-relevant attitudes of ordinary citizens, to disseminate and apply survey findings in order to contribute to political reform, and to strengthen institutional capacity for public opinion research.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://arabbarometer.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkCity Mayors is a leading international source for urban statistics.
Data Access: All Users
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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://datahub.io/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkA comprehensive list of Open Data catalogs from around the world.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://datacatalogs.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Eurostat regional yearbook provides an overview of key statistics available for the regions of Europe.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Eurostat_regional_yearbook All Users
More Info/PermalinkIt is an on-line multilingual database covering statistics on agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food aid, land use and population.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://faostat3.fao.org/home/E 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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International, US
URL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ 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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.gapminder.org/data/ 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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe IMF eLibrary Complete includes four statistical databases - International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BPS), Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and Direction of Trade Statistics (DOT) - and a growing list of over 14,000 books and reports that are derived from the IMF Books and Analytical Papers, Periodicals and Reports, and the Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions (AREAER) databases. Individual documents are also available from the library catalogue.
Data Access: McMaster Users
Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://library.mcmaster.ca/articles/imf-elibrary McMaster 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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://www-icpsr-umich-edu.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/web/pages/ McMaster Users
More Info/PermalinkThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.eia.gov/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), an alliance of 64 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://library.ifpri.info/data/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis site is maintained by Paul Hensel and it includes seven pages of links to on-line data resources for the serious international relations scholar.
These pages are meant to include the most useful data sources on processes of international conflict and cooperation, as well as data covering international economic, environmental, political, and social data and data on similar topics for the United States.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.paulhensel.org/data.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe ISSP is a cross-national collaboration programme conducting annual surveys on diverse topics relevant to social sciences.
Established in 1984 by its founding members Australia, Germany, Great Britain and the US, the ISSP has since included members covering various cultures around the globe. Its institutional members, each of them representing one nation, consist of academic organizations, universities, or survey agencies.
Since its foundation, over one million respondents have participated in the surveys of the ISSP. All collected data and documentation is available free of charge.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International, US
URL: http://www.issp.org/menu-top/home/ All 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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.opendata.go.ke/ 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.
Data Access: All Users
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.
Data Access: All Users
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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://data.london.gov.uk/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supports research into our world’s frozen realms: the snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth’s cryosphere. NSIDC manages and distributes scientific data, creates tools for data access, supports data users, performs scientific research, and educates the public about the cryosphere.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://nsidc.org/data/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis 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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.nationmaster.com/ All Users
More Info/Permalinkdata.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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: https://www.data.govt.nz/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe 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
More Info/PermalinkPassport 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
More Info/PermalinkThe 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
More Info/PermalinkPew 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
More Info/Permalinkre3data.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
More Info/Permalink