Finding Canadian & Quebec datasets
- Canadian Census Analyser: This tool, developed at the University of Toronto, is useful for pulling particular variables from the published Census of Canada data, going back to 1961.
- e-Data (Conference Board of Canada): Provides economic forecasts and data, such as the provinical GDP.
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Données Québec | Data Québec: Datasets about Quebec that are available to everyone. The site contains numeric and geospatial datasets disseminated in a structured way, with an open license (i.e. Creative Commons 4.0 (CC)) which guarantees free access and reuse.
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Institut de la statistique du Québec: Quebec's provincial statistical agency provides excellent Quebec-specific statistical information, mainly in French, on economics, health, education, population and more.
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Montreal Open Data Portal: The city's open data portal, including data on food and agriculture, businesses and economics, education, environment, infrastructure, municipal law, society and culture, transportation, and more.
- Odesi: A digital repository for social science data, including Statistics Canada surveys, polling data, ICPSR data, and data from various institutional repositories.
- Statistics Canada Data: Datasets available to everyone.
- Statistics Canada Microdata (DLI): A listing of Statistics Canada datasets, mostly survey results, available through the Data Liberation Initiative. These datasets can be accessed through Odesi or by contacting data.library@mcgill.ca
Finding United States datasets
- Data.gov: U.S. government's open data portal, with data, tools, and resources for conducting research.
- ICPSR: The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
- IPUMS CPS: An integrated set of data from 1962-onwards of the March Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly U.S. household survey conducted jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- IPUMS USA: The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS-USA) consists of more than fifty high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2007. It assigns uniform codes across all the samples and brings relevant documentation into a coherent form to facilitate analysis of social and economic change.
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: The mission of the Roper Center is to collect, preserve, and disseminate public opinion data; to serve as a resource to help improve the practice of survey research; and to broaden the understanding of public opinion through the use of survey data in the United States and around the world.
Finding International datasets
- International Country Risk Guide: Offers current and historical risk data, and "political, economic, financial, and social data for over 140 countries, in most cases back to 1984."
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) eLibrary: Macroeconomic and financial data, including: Balance of Payments, Direction of Trade Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, International Finance Statistics, and more.
- IPUMS International: Census microdata from around the world.
- OECD.Stat: Data for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Statista: Statistics portal that provides data on over 80,000 topics from more than 10,000 different sources, including: agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and much more. Content focuses on current business and marketing statistics (not historical).
- Uppsala Conflict Database: Continuously collects data on armed conflicts. The definitions have gradually been refined primarily to fit scholarly requirements of global comparability. The definitions are designed so as to pick up the same phenomenon across time as well as across space. This makes the data useful for systematic studies of the origins of conflict, conflict dynamics and conflict resolution.
- World Bank Open Data: Provides, "free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe." Among the datasets included are the World Development Indicators (WDI), Africa Development Indicators (ADI), Gender Statistics, Worldwide Governance Indicators, Global Economic Monitor (GEM), Education Statistics, etc. Most of the data is available in Arabic, French, Spanish and Chinese in addition to English.
- World Values Survey: National surveys about values and beliefs.
