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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

Afrobarometer is an independent, non-partisan research project that measures the social, political, and economic atmosphere in Africa.

Afrobarometer surveys are conducted in more than 30 African countries and are repeated on a regular cycle. Because the instrument asks a standard set of questions, countries can be systematically compared. Trends in public attitudes are tracked over time. Results are shared with decision makers, policy advocates, civic educators, journalists, researchers, donors and investors, as well as average Africans who wish to become more informed and active citizens.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics

Country: International

URL: http://www.afrobarometer.org/ All Users

Afrobarometer is an African-led, non-partisan survey research project that measures citizen attitudes on democracy and governance, the economy, civil society, and other topics.

We are the world’s leading research project on issues that affect ordinary African men and women. We collect and publish high-quality, reliable statistical data on Africa which is freely available to the public.

We currently conduct surveys in more than 30 African countries. We are proud of what we have achieved so far and our goal is to have Afrobarometer surveys in all African countries.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: International

URL: http://www.afrobarometer.org/ All Users

The database includes a broad set of information in a format intended to facilitate reference and calculation. There is currently data for 50 countries. More to come. Updates once each year.

AMAD Online is available to subscribers for free. 

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: International

URL: http://www.oecd.org/site/amad/ All Users

AidData 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

A source for population, housing, economic and geographic data from Census 2000, the 1990 Decennial Census, the 1997 Economic Census, the American Community Survey, and the Population Estimates Program

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: US

URL: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml All Users

The Arab Barometer was established in 2005 by scholars in the Arab world and the United States.   Leadership was initially provided by the University of Michigan and Princeton University in the U.S. and by universities and research centers in Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Algeria and Kuwait. In 2010, a partnership was formed with the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI: www.arab-reform.net) in order to expand the project’s scope and range of activities, building off ARI’s regional survey work carried out in 2006-2008.

The Arab Barometer was developed in consultation with the Global Barometer project, a network composed of regional barometers in Latin America, Sub-Saharan, East Asia and South Asia (http://www.globalbarometer.net/).  Like other regional Barometers, the objectives of the Arab Barometer are to produce scientifically reliable data on the politically-relevant attitudes of ordinary citizens, to disseminate and apply survey findings in order to contribute to political reform, and to strengthen institutional capacity for public opinion research.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Microdata, Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://arabbarometer.org/ All Users

The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers. Data included in the ARDA are submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world. Currently housed in the Social Science Research Institute, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Department of Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University, the ARDA is funded by the Lilly Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, Chapman University and the Pennsylvania State University.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics

Country: International

URL: http://www.thearda.com/ All Users

Data.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government. Please see ourdraft data.gov.au roadmap, the new data.gov.au launch pageand our Government Data Landscape mind map for more information about related policies and initiatives.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://data.gov.au/ All Users

BIS statistics, compiled in cooperation with central banks and other national authorities, are designed to inform analysis of financial stability, international monetary spillovers, and global liquidity.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, International, US

URL: https://www.bis.org/statistics/index.htm?m=6%7C37 All Users

A compilation of banking and financial indicators, including the Bank of Canada’s assets and liabilities, credit and monetary aggregates, chartered banks data, and selected financial market statistics. On this website, you can also search the statistical data tables. View the Historical Banking Financial Statistics and Weekly Financial Statistics publications.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/ All Users

There is a lot of data on the site. Some of it is ours and much of it comes from RetroSheet.org. 

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: Canada, US

URL: http://www.baseball-reference.com/ All Users

The official data portal of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). It provides access to global financial and economic statistics.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: International

URL: https://data.bis.org/bulkdownload All Users

BEA is one of the world's leading statistical agencies.

BEA produces some of the most closely watched economic statistics that influence the decisions made by government officials, business people, households, and individuals. BEA's economic statistics, which provide a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the U.S. economy, are key ingredients in critical decisions affecting monetary policy, tax and budget projections, and business investment plans. The cornerstone of BEA's statistics is the national income and product accounts (NIPAs), which feature the estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) and related measures.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: US

URL: http://www.bea.gov/index.htm All Users

The principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: US

URL: http://stats.bls.gov/ All Users

National Climate Data and Information Archive.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: Canada

URL: http://climate.weather.gc.ca/index_e.html All Users

An online directory containing over 1.9 million Canadian businesses (public & private). Can be searched by company name, type of business (including SIC or NAICS codes), location, employee size, sales ranges and more.

Data Access: McMaster Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://library.mcmaster.ca/articles/canadian-business-database McMaster Users

Provides 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

This data collection contains seven files of Canadian census and election data, each corresponding to a particular electoral period when the number of constituencies was fixed. The data files include returns from the federal elections of 1908 and 1911 and data from the 1911 Census (Part 1), the elections of 1917 and 1921 and the 1921 Census (Part 2), the elections of 1925, 1926, and 1930 (Part 3), the elections of 1935, 1940, and 1945 (Part 4), the election of 1949 and the 1951 Census (Part 5), the elections of 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, and 1965 and the 1961 Census (Part 6), and the election of 1968 (Part 7). The election data include information on the total valid vote cast and the percentage of the total vote received by each of the major parties, including the Conservative, Liberal, Socialist, Labor, Independent, Progressive, CCF, Social Credit, NDP, and Creditiste parties, as well as a total for all other parties. The census data provide demographic information on religion, including Anglican, Baptist, Jewish, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, United Church, and other denominational sects, and ethnic origin, including British, French, German, Italian, Scandinavian, Russian, Polish, Asiatic, Native, and others, as well as information on age, education, occupation, and income from the 1961 Census.

Data Access: McMaster Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/39 All Users

The 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

This website provides detailed statistics related to dairy cattle improvement, quota exchanges & prices, milk production at the farm, shipments to processors, dairy farming revenue & expenses, processing, sales of fluid milk and cream, supply and disposition, consumption of dairy products, imports and exports, world export prices, retail prices and index prices in Canada.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.dairyinfo.gc.ca/index_e.php?s1=dff-fcil All Users

The CIS-2008 marks the third cycle of this national child maltreatment data collection. The CIS-2008 data was gathered from 114 child welfare agencies/offices in every Canadian province and territory. The study employed a similar methodology to the CIS-1998 and CIS-2003 studies so that comparisons can be made.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://cwrp.ca/cis-2008 All Users

Transport Canada's National Collision Database (NCDB) contains data on all reportable motor vehicle collisions in Canada that the provinces and territories provide each year. Every year, the number of fatalities and serious injuries on Canada's roads continue to decrease despite the fact that the number of vehicles continue to increase.The year 2010 saw fewer motor vehicle casualty collisions in Canada than in previous years. The number of motor vehicle fatalities and serious injuries also continued their downward trend. In fact, they were the lowest since the data were first collected in the early 1970's.The federal, provincial and territorial governments in Canada work to improve road safety to reduce the number of fatalities and serious injuries and to achieve the safest roads in the world.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/motorvehiclesafety/tp-1317.htm All Users

What is the relationship between performance and cost? In this full report, you'll find 34 indicators of university performance, organized into three sub-components: access, value to students and value to society. Here you may select them all or choose your own custom subset from the indicators, in the bubble chart explore performance relative to money spent and compare performance across the country in the map view.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: Canada

URL: http://postsecondaryperformance.ca/Default?sector=U All Users

These summary tables provide an overview of statistical information on Canada's people, economy and governments.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/index-eng.htm All Users

Time series statistics ranging from social to economic aspects of Canadian life.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://library.mcmaster.ca/articles/cansim All Users

FastStats – Statistics by Topic

The FastStats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data, Statistics

Country: US

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/default.htm All Users

Aboriginal identity population data where the population is above 250 people.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/92-594/Index.cfm?Lang=E All Users

Describing characteristics of Canadian population, dwellings and agricultural operations.

Data Access: All Users

Type: Statistics

Country: Canada

URL: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm All Users

The Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University is a university-wide center that works to advance the understanding of development challenges and offer viable solutions to problems of global poverty. The CID is Harvard’s leading research hub focusing on resolving the dilemmas of public policy associated with generating stable, shared, and sustainable prosperity in developing countries. 

Data Access: All Users

Type: Open Data

Country: International

URL: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ciddata/ciddata.html All Users