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The 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/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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkNBA Player and Team Statistics from 2002 to 2017.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: US
URL: http://www.espn.com/nba/statistics All Users
More Info/PermalinkNFL Player and Team Statistics from 2002 to 2016.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: US
URL: http://www.espn.com/nfl/statistics 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/PermalinkThis site features select infographics from past reports, presentations, and commentaries of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: US
URL: http://www.pewglobal.org/ 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.
Data Access: All Users
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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/ 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/PermalinkA group of sites providing both basic and sabermetric statistics and resources for sports fans everywhere. Our aim is to be the easiest-to-use, fastest, most complete sources for sports statistics anywhere.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: US
URL: https://www.sports-reference.com 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.
Data Access: All Users
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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada
URL: http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/hoficlincl/homain/stda/index.cfm 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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
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.
Data Access: All Users
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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: Canada
URL: http://www.cid-bdc.ca/home 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
More Info/PermalinkHere you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data
Country: US
URL: http://www.data.gov/ 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.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx All Users
More Info/PermalinkWBG Finances is a World Bank Group digital platform that provides our clients and partners access to public financial data and portfolio information from across all Group entities in one place.
WBG Finances simplifies the presentation of financial information in an ‘easy to consume’ and in the context of Country and Portfolio across WBG.
All the data presented is available to everybody to analyze, visualize, and share with others. We invite you to explore the numerous tools, build your own visualizations or download the data in multiple formats.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://finances.worldbank.org/ All Users
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