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In the initial phase of ACAP, we created a unique data bank that saved data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 rounds of census enumerations from destruction, and we developed the Pan-African Census Explorer (PACE). ACAP continues to be the repository of African Census data. African census micro-data are an invaluable source of information for understanding demographic processes and history in Africa. Over the past decade, ACAP has assembled the largest collection of complete census data in the world. Our expanding data collection currently consists of census micro-data from 55 censuses for 26 African nations. New national censuses are added to the collection on a regular basis. Most African nations and various other regional organizations are collaborating with us in this international effort.
The Pan-African Census Explorer (PACE) will facilitate easy access to census data for demographic and statistical analysis. Eventually, country specific versions of PACE could be available to the government agencies to facilitate easy distribution of the data.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://www.acap.upenn.edu/index.php All Users
More Info/PermalinkAidData engages in a variety of data collection and value addition activities to publish its ever-expanding suite of data products. Data collection takes place along two distinct product lines: Aggregate Data (or data represented as a single, composite value) and Project-Level Data (or data consisting of distinct, project activities with accompanying project information). AidData's data is sourced from various locations, including but not limited to the OECD-DAC's Creditor Reporting System (CRS), donor systems (such as official data from individual donor governments), and recipient systems (such as Aid Information Management Systems). Value addition activities include (1) activity and purpose coding, (2) geocoding (to produce our expanding repository of sub-national, geospatial research datasets) (3) data curation (the linking, deduplication and presentation of project records gathered from different sources or data collection activities), and (4) data quality assurance (the transformation and verification of data according to standard AidData practice). AidData also collects official project-level data on the development finance activities of non-OECD bilateral and multilateral donors, as well as data on Chinese development finance, collected using AidData's unique Tracking Under-reported Financial Flows (TUFF) methodology.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://aiddata.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkProvides access to aggregate Canadian Census Data, including access to 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991, 1986, 1981, 1976 and 1971 Individual Microdata Files.
Data Access: McMaster Users
Type: Microdata, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://library.mcmaster.ca/articles/canadian-census-analyser McMaster Users
More Info/PermalinkThe CCRI represents an infrastructure that facilitates research on the transformation of Canadian society in the twentieth century. The CCRI's mandate is to provide researchers with a body of data and information that can be used to acquire a better understanding of how modern-day Canada has developed. The CCRI is composed of microdata, namely, data created from Canadian census enumerations between 1911 to 1951, a geographical framework constructed to enable the location, selection, aggregation, and analysis of census data, and contextual data, namely the textual data used to situate the census in time and to enhance appropriate analysis of the data.
1911 Census located on the left of this web page provides researchers with the 1911 database, 1911 codes, 1911 data entry manual, 1911 enumerator instructions, 1911 geography component, Contextual Data (1911 to 1951), and 1911 Nesstar Webview.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata
Country: Canada
URL: https://ccri.library.ualberta.ca/en1911census/database/index.html All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe 2016 Census of Population collects data for the total population of Canada. As the amount of data gathered increases, data visualizations have been introduced to help people, business owners, academics, and management at all levels, understand key information derived from the data. Data visualizations can be used to quickly communicate a message, to simplify the presentation of large amounts of data, to see data patterns and relationships, and to monitor changes in variables over time.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Data Visualization
Country: Canada
URL: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/census-vis-recensement-eng.cfm All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Federal Reserve of the United States gathers and publishes certain economic data and releases them as a Federal Reserve Statistical Release.
The main categories include:
- Principal Economic Indicators
- Bank Assets and Liabilities
- Bank Structure Data
- Business Finance
- Exchange Rates and International Data
- Household Finance
- Industrial Activity
- Interest Rates
- Money Stock and Reserve Balances
- Other
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: International, US
URL: https://www.federalreserve.gov/data.htm All Users
More Info/PermalinkIPUMS-International is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to:
- Collect and preserve data and documentation
- Harmonize data
- Disseminate the data absolutely free!
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata
Country: International
URL: https://international.ipums.org/international/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkAn international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://www-icpsr-umich-edu.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/web/pages/ McMaster Users
More Info/PermalinkThe ISSP is a cross-national collaboration programme conducting annual surveys on diverse topics relevant to social sciences.
Established in 1984 by its founding members Australia, Germany, Great Britain and the US, the ISSP has since included members covering various cultures around the globe. Its institutional members, each of them representing one nation, consist of academic organizations, universities, or survey agencies.
Since its foundation, over one million respondents have participated in the surveys of the ISSP. All collected data and documentation is available free of charge.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International, US
URL: http://www.issp.org/menu-top/home/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis dataset, a product of the Trade Team - Development Research Group, is part of a larger effort in the group to measure the extent of the brain drain as part of the International Migration and Development Program. It measures international skilled migration by gender.
The methodology is explained in: A gendered assessment of the brain drain, F. Docquier, L. Lowell, and A. Marfouk, Policy Research Discussion Paper (forthcoming), World Bank. 2007.
This data set updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. The authors use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by the level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000. This data set can be used to capture the recent trend in women’s skilled migration and to analyze its causes and consequences for developing countries.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/391/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkA jointly funded project between the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and OntarioBuys provides university researchers with access to datasets in a web-based data extraction system delivered through the Scholars Portal model. The project targets Statistics Canada datasets, datafiles from Gallup Canada and other polling companies, public-domain files such as the Canadian National Election Surveys and selected files from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). The files are marked-up using DDI, an international, XML-based metadata tagging system which allows data resource discovery, distributed access, extraction and analysis ... researchers working with opinion polls will be able to search across hundreds of datasets and collections to see trends and historical patterns over time"--summarized from the project page.
Data Access: McMaster Users
Type: Microdata, Statistics
Country: Canada, US
URL: http://libaccess.mcmaster.ca/login?url=http://odesi2.scholarsportal.info/ McMaster 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/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/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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