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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
More Info/PermalinkChronic Disease Infobase Data Cubes contain many different types of Chronic Disease health indicator information. The hope is to make available Data Cubes containing data such as mortality, morbidity and risk factor information for chronic diseases, as well as their associated demographic variables (such as age group, gender, and geography).
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://infobase.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cubes/index-eng.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkData & Analytics statistics, reports, and tools are an integral part of helping public health professionals make informed evidence-based decisions and take informed action.
This site provides access to Data Reports (Surveillance and Population Health Assessment Reports), Ontario Health Profile data and Quantitative tools to help researchers in analyzing public health data or generating statistical reports.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/DataAndAnalytics/Pages/default.aspx#.VQHI3vnF81I All Users
More Info/PermalinkOpen 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
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-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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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkHow many Ontario high school students applied to the province’s colleges and universities during the last decade? How many enrolled? How many graduated? Find the answers to these and other good questions in Quick Stats, a compendium of data on Ontario’s postsecondary system.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: Canada
URL: http://www.heqco.ca/en-ca/Research/quickstats/Pages/default.aspx All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe International IDEA, Inter-Parliamentary Union and Stockholm University Global Database of Quotas for Women contains information on the use of electoral quotas for women. In this project, electoral quotas are defined as mandatory or targeted percentages of women candidates for public elections.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.quotaproject.org/ 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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.re3data.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkDo 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
More Info/PermalinkOpen Data offered by Gov. Agencies in Saudi Arabia.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
More Info/PermalinkThe 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
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/PermalinkCMHC 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
More Info/PermalinkThe Section on Statistics in Sports (SIS) was founded during the 1992 Joint Statistical Meetings, filling a need to foster the development of statistics and its applications in sports. The mission of SIS has been to stimulate statistical research with an application to sports, promoting publications devoted to statistical theory and methodology and their application to statistics in sports, and to increase the availability of information concerning the science of statistics and its contribution to sports. Over the years, SIS has been active in cooperating with other organizations, both within and outside the American Statistical Association, fostering statistical education in sports, and, in general, making statistics accessible to individuals interested in sports.
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://community.amstat.org/sis/sportsdataresources All Users
More Info/PermalinkStatistics 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
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/PermalinkA beta version of the Terra Populus data finder is now publicly available. The system includes an initial data collection including census data for six countries, land use, land cover, and climate data. Users of the system will be able to browse data from all of these sources and create customized data extracts integrating data from multiple sources.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.terrapop.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Asian Barometer Survey is a cross-national survey project. The success of the project required collaboration among the thirteen participating country/territory teams and the funding support from many national and transnational sources. Under the data-sharing agreement among our East Asian collaborators, we have made our merged dataset and all the variables contained in our core questionnaire freely accessible to scholars and experts worldwide upon application.
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Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.asianbarometer.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) is an economic research centre within the Department of Economics at Oxford University.
CSAE carries out economic research with a particular focus on Africa. Its aim is to improve economic and social conditions in the poorest societies. CSAE researchers often use unique data which give them unrivalled insight into the underlying issues. The resulting policy recommendations address questions in the economic and political spheres as well as in civil society in developing countries.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/datasets/main.html 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
Country: Canada
URL: https://www.welland.ca/open/Opendata.asp All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Community Information Database (CID) is a free internet-based resource developed to provide communities, researchers, and governments with access to consistent and reliable socio-economic and demographic data and information for all communities across Canada.
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Type: Open Data
Country: Canada
URL: http://www.cid-bdc.ca/home All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program has collected, analyzed, and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 300 surveys in over 90 countries.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://dhsprogram.com/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Internet Center for Corruption Research provides you with empirical and experimental data on corruption and studies on reform. It links you up to lectures and workshops in the field.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.icgg.org/corruption.cpi_2008.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkNiagara's Data Catalogue - PILOT PROJECT: making datasets available, free of charge, for public use. Get the data now...
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: Canada
URL: http://www.niagararegion.ca/government/opendata/default.aspx?banner=1 All Users
More Info/PermalinkTheARDA's National Profiles includes data on religious adherents, religious freedoms, demographics, and other social measures for most nations of the world and by region.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.thearda.com/ras/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkUNHCR contributes to coordination and informed decision-making in refugee operations by providing accurate, relevant and timely data and statistics. This key resource is used by all partners to respond to the needs of refugee populations.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe 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
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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Data Visualization, Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx All Users
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