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The History of the Federal Electoral Ridings since 1867 is a unique electronic resource that provides information on the electoral history of Canada since Confederation. Included you will find the names of all the candidates to all the federal elections as well as a description of all the ridings. Users can search by riding name, name of a candidate, political party, general election, and by-election, or even do a full text search on the description of a riding. The use of "see" references at the beginning and at the end of the description of the riding allows users to follow the history of a riding throughout the changes made to its boundaries.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.lop.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/HFER.asp All Users

IfItWereMyHome.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

ILO’s central statistics database, ILOSTAT, is the primary source for cross-country statistics on the labour market. The database contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies.

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Type: Statistics

Country: International

URL: http://www.ilo.org/global/statistics-and-databases/lang--en/index.htm All Users

The 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.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

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

This 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.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://www.paulhensel.org/data.html All Users

The 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

The 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

Statistics on alcohol, drinking & driving, fatalities from Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://madd.ca/english/research/stats.html All Users

Historical and current University Enrolment, Student Units Taught and Faculty information can be found below. The information includes full-time and part-time enrolment, faculty as well as Student Units Taught.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://ira.mcmaster.ca/resources/ All Users

The minimum wage is a basic labour standard that sets the lowest wage rate that an employer can pay to employees. One of the main purposes of a minimum wage is to protect non-unionized workers in unskilled jobs, although it can also influence, directly or indirectly, the level of compensation of other employees. This is because a minimum wage constitutes a base that employees or their unions may use as a starting point for negotiations with management for higher remuneration. Adjustments to the minimum wage are required from time to time to account for changing economic and social conditions.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://srv116.services.gc.ca/dimt-wid/sm-mw/menu.aspx?GoCTemplateCulture=en-CA All Users

By opening its data to everyone, the City of Montreal allows it to be reused for different purposes, including commercial purposes. The results of this reuse can then be shared in the community, which creates a multiplier effect. The data released and reused thus generate benefits in the economic, cultural, social, and technological spheres.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/ All Users

This 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

Between May and August 2011, Statistics Canada conducted the National Household Survey (NHS) for the first time. This voluntary, self-administered survey was introduced as a replacement for the long census questionnaire, more widely known as Census Form 2B.

The NHS is designed to collect social and economic data about the Canadian population. The objective of the NHS is to provide data for small geographic areas and small population groups.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/index-eng.cfm All Users

Selected indicators for Canada on a variety of topics.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://data.oecd.org/canada.htm All Users

Quick stats from the Ontario Ministry of Education.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/educationFacts.html All 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.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

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

PayScale has a variety of free tools available for use. Whether you’re looking for career and compensation data for your blog, college website, local job board or some other use, PayScale probably have something that will suit your need. If you don’t see it on their website, please contact them.

If you’re interested in re-publishing PayScale data, they have a variety of data licensing and partnership opportunities available from APIs to custom projects. Please contact us at partners@payscale.com for more details.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Country=Canada/Salary All 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.

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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.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

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

The U.S. data in PRB's DataFinder are from the U.S. Census Bureau's decennial census, American Community Survey, and population estimates.

The international data in PRB's DataFinder are from several Population Reference Bureau data sheets. Additional international indicators were compiled by PRB staff, primarily using national surveys.

Sources for each indicator appear as footnotes for that indicator. More detailed sources are available from PRB.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: International, US

URL: http://www.prb.org/DataFinder.aspx All Users

Open data portal available from Toronto Police Service provides access to Reported Crime data, Traffic data, Boundary Files, Maps etc.

Listed on this webpage is a link to "The Community Asset Portal (CAP)". The Community Asset Portal (CAP) is a web application that shows an up-to-date map of social services such as shelters, community resource navigators, and mental health and youth support services.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://data.torontopolice.on.ca/ 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.

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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.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

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

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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. 

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Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

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

Do career research and find in-depth salary data for specific jobs, employers, schools, and more. Know what you're looking for? Start a search, browse to discover or Get a free, personal salary report.

Dive into the most extensive database of job salaries available. In addition, see detailed job descriptions and get information on job satisfaction, job demographics, common job skills and how pay varies over time and between locations.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Country=Canada/Salary 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

A variety of measures from Transport Canada including: Child restraint use, alcohol use, cell phone use, mature drivers and the social cost of motor vehicle collisions.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/motorvehiclesafety/resources-researchstats-menu-847.htm All Users

CMHC annual reports and monthly updates contain current and historical data on housing in Canada — new construction, new home prices and sales, rental statistics and the demographics of housing demand.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/hoficlincl/homain/stda/index.cfm 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.

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Type: Statistics

Country: International

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