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More Info/PermalinkFull text access to a variety of studies, research and technical papers listed by subject, author and date.
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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.
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More Info/Permalink<p>This volume contains about 1,088 statistical tables on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada from the start of the Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s. The tables are arranged in sections with an introduction explaining the content of each section, the principal sources of data for each table, and general explanatory notes regarding the statistics. In most case, there is sufficient description of the individual series to enable the reader to use them without consulting the numerous basic sources referenced in the publication.</p>
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URL: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-516-x/11-516-x1983001-eng.htm All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis volume contains about 1,088 statistical tables on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada from the start of the Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s. The tables are arranged in sections with an introduction explaining the content of each section, the principal sources of data for each table, and general explanatory notes regarding the statistics. In most case, there is sufficient description of the individual series to enable the reader to use them without consulting the numerous basic sources referenced in the publication.
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URL: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-516-x/11-516-x1983001-eng.htm All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe 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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URL: http://www.lop.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/HFER.asp All 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.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
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URL: http://www.eia.gov/ 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.
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URL: http://www.paulhensel.org/data.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkBy 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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Country: Canada
URL: http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkSelected indicators for Canada on a variety of topics.
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URL: http://data.oecd.org/canada.htm 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.
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More Info/PermalinkIn 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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URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-quebec All Users
More Info/PermalinkGatineau 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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URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis 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
More Info/Permalinkre3data.org is a searchable catalog / registry / directory / bibliography of research data repositories.
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Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
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URL: http://www.re3data.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkA 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
More Info/PermalinkSIPRI 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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URL: https://www.sipri.org/databases All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe 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
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URL: https://www.welland.ca/open/Opendata.asp All Users
More Info/PermalinkDataBank 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
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URL: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe 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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URL: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkOur 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
More Info/PermalinkThe 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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URL: http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx 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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URL: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx 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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URL: http://worldpublicopinion.org/index.php?nid=&id=&lb=hmpg All Users
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