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These summary tables provide an overview of statistical information on Canada's people, economy and governments.
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/index-eng.htm All Users
More Info/PermalinkAnyone can use open data from the City of Greater Sudbury's Open Data Portal at no cost. Download raw data and share your insights with our community or build new applications that serve specific users.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://opendata.greatersudbury.ca/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Government is releasing public data to help people understand how government works and how policies are made. Some of this data is already available, but data.open.guelph.ca brings it together in one searchable website. Making this data easily available means it will be easier for people to make decisions and suggestions about government policies based on detailed information.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://data.open.guelph.ca/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe City of Hamilton’s Open Data Program is moving the City toward being a more open, transparent and accessible government.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: https://www.hamilton.ca/city-initiatives/strategies-actions/open-data-program All Users
More Info/PermalinkKitchener's Open Data Initiative The City of Kitchener is committed to improving citizen engagement and enhancing transparency and accountability to its residents by providing public access to its data. Open data is data that is made freely available to the public in machine-readable format within the agreements of the open data license.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: https://www.kitchener.ca/en/city-services/open-data.aspx All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe City of Ottawa (City) now grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, modify, and distribute the datasets in all current and future media and formats for any lawful purpose.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://data.ottawa.ca/ All Users
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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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-repentigny All Users
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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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/organisation/ville-de-rimouski/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis public platform also allows you to explore and download open data, discover and build applications, and commit to solving important local problems.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://catalogue-saintjohn.opendata.arcgis.com/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkIn September 2013, the City adopted the Canadian Open Government Licence (OGL). It gives users consistent terms for accessing and using government data, making it easier to combine, integrate, and share data from multiple providers across Canada. This is a major step towards encouraging wider use of open data and delivering more value to the public. Vancouver joins the Government of Canada, Provinces of BC, Alberta, and Ontario, and the cities of Nanaimo, Edmonton, and Toronto in adopting the OGL.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/index.htm All Users
More Info/PermalinkCitizens are encouraged to use or repurpose the City of Windsor's open data for research purposes or to improve their interaction with municipal services and facilities. Members of the community can use the raw data provided here to create and share resources from maps to applications and more.
Please be aware that by downloading or accessing this data, you agree to be bound by the City of Windsor's Open Data Terms of Use.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: https://opendata.citywindsor.ca/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkElections Canada conducts and commissions research on an ongoing basis, particularly following each general election and by-election. This section is the central location for accessing our research, with the exception of studies on youth electoral participation.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=rec&document=index&lang=e All Users
More Info/PermalinkFull text access to a variety of publications listed by subject and date
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada
More Info/PermalinkFull text access to a variety of studies, research and technical papers listed by subject, author and date.
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada
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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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.gapminder.org/data/ All Users
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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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada
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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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada
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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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://www.lop.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/HFER.asp 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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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.paulhensel.org/data.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkSelected 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
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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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.
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Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.re3data.org/ 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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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://www.sipri.org/databases 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
Country: Canada, International, US
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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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
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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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
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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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
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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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://worldpublicopinion.org/index.php?nid=&id=&lb=hmpg All Users
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