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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

A Labour Force Survey is a standard household-based survey of work-related statistics. A number of countries and territories make their Labour Force Surveys available online. Access wide range of LFS statistics and meta-data through ILO's website.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://www.ilo.org/dyn/lfsurvey/lfsurvey.home 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

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

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

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

The Ontario Ministry of Finance publishes a wealth of economic data. Each quarter, the state of the Ontario economy is updated in the Economic Accounts. An up-to-date snapshot of the economy can be found in the weekly Ontario Economic Update and the monthly Ontario Factsheet.

Also in the Economy section, the Long-Term Report presents a long-range assessment of Ontario's economic and fiscal future.

If you are looking for more detailed information on government spending policies and accounting, please use the Budget section. The Ontario Budget presents the province's revenue and expenditure forecasts, the state of the Ontario economy, and announces tax and spending measures of the Government.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/economy/ecaccts/ 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

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

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

SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. Based in Stockholm, SIPRI, is regularly ranked among the most respected think tanks worldwide.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: https://www.sipri.org/databases All Users

The City of Welland Open Data project was initiated by the Information Services Division and involves the free dissemination of digital information via the City’s web site.  The Open Data Catalogue provides a list of all the digital data sets available for download and use.  You will find spatial data for use with GIS software, as well as tabular and textual data and documents.  This Data Catalogue will expand and change over time as more information becomes available for public use, so we encourage you to visit the data catalogue often. 

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.welland.ca/open/Opendata.asp 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

DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.

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Type: Data Visualization, Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx All Users

The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world.

The Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

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Type: Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/ All Users

Our catalogue is updated regularly with machine-readable, re-usable digital dataset files that can be shared and used to develop applications, visualizations and inform public research.

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.oakville.ca/data/catalogue.html All Users

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/). Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.

Useful features like Country Profiles, Advanced Search and Glossaries are also provided to aid research. The numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators. 

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Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx All Users

International 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

WorldPublicOpinion.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

The 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