African Census Analysis Project (ACAP)
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.
Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
URL: http://www.acap.upenn.edu/index.php All Users
Afrobarometer
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.
URL: http://www.afrobarometer.org/ All Users
Afrobarometer: An African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa
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.
AidData: Open Data for International Development
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.
URL: http://aiddata.org/ All Users
Arab Barometer
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.
Type: Microdata, Open Data
URL: http://arabbarometer.org/ All Users
Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
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.
URL: http://www.thearda.com/ All Users
Australian Government Open Data
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.
Type: Open Data
URL: http://data.gov.au/ All Users
Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Baseball Statistics and History
There is a lot of data on the site. Some of it is ours and much of it comes from RetroSheet.org.
Country: Canada, US
URL: http://www.baseball-reference.com/ All Users
Canadian Post-secondary Performance Indicators
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.
URL: http://postsecondaryperformance.ca/Default?sector=U All Users
Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID)
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.
URL: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ciddata/ciddata.html All Users
CIHI: Quick Stats
Quick Stats are a series of free, publicly available, reports that provide aggregate-level data about health care in Canada. Unless otherwise indicated, the original data is provided to CIHI by Canada's provinces and territories.
You can view this data in two different ways:
An interactive format lets you manipulate how you see the health system information. Choose from specific time frames, diagnosis groups, hospital types and so on.
A static format has information in tables that are easy to print.
URL: https://www.cihi.ca/en/quick-stats All Users
CIRI Human Rights Data Project
The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2010. It is designed for use by scholars and students who seek to test theories about the causes and consequences of human rights violations, as well as policy makers and analysts who seek to estimate the human rights effects of a wide variety of institutional changes and public policies including democratization, economic aid, military aid, structural adjustment, and humanitarian intervention.
URL: http://www.humanrightsdata.com/ All Users
City of Blainville Open Data
URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/organisation/ville-de-blainville/ All Users
City of Brampton Open Data
This is Brampton's public hub for exploring and Downloading Open Data, Learning about Brampton's Stories and Analyzing and Combining Open Datasets to tell your own story.
URL: http://geohub.brampton.ca/pages/data All Users
City of Edmonton Open Data Catalogue
The City of Edmonton has been dedicated to using technology to make municipal information more open, transparent and accessible since early 2009. Through public and business engagement, collaboration and innovation Edmonton has become a leader in Open Government.
URL: https://data.edmonton.ca/ All Users
City of Fredericton Open Data Portal
The City of Fredericton's public platform is for exploring and downloading open data, discovering and building apps, and engaging in solutions important to local issues. The site is built on the Esri™ Open Data portal platform. The site includes various data sets and over 20 apps. In addition, they have featured some of their own datasets to provide additional insights into the data.
NOTE: The City of Fredericton's working language is English. While the functionality of Open Data site is provided in English and French, as well as titles, descriptions, and stories about the data, the actual datasets themselves are in English only.
URL: http://data-fredericton.opendata.arcgis.com/ All Users
City of Laval Open Data
URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-laval All Users
City of London Open Data
​The intent of the Open Data London initiative is to provide information and data that is easily reusable and can be used by the user as they wish. The limitations around the re-use of this data are dictated by the Terms of Use, which essentially state that:
- users are free to re-use the data
- recognition should be given to the City of London.
URL: http://www.london.ca/city-hall/open-data/Pages/default.aspx All Users
City of Longueuil Open Data
URL: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-longueuil All Users
City of Niagara Falls Open Data
The City of Niagara Falls, Canada, is committed to improving citizen services, providing transparency and showing government accountability, in the most innovative and cost-effective ways possible, therefore supporting the open government philosophy.
The City's newest initiative, pioneered by GIS Services, is to provide Open Data online. The website design now supports the publication and distribution of public information in both viewable and downloadable formats.
In addition, a new Open Data Catalogue has been created which focuses on providing spatial data that can be freely used by our customers. This catalogue will initially provide basic information however it is our intent to expand this catalogue as we move forward with our Open Data initiative.
URL: https://niagarafalls.ca/services/open All Users
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