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Update of the CNTS Data Archive

The new edition (July 2012) of the CNTS Data Archive from Databanks International contains 196 years of global data, from 1815 through 2011. A new option this year is the Domestic Conflict Event Variable LINKS, which provides links to news reports of each event, starting with the 2011 data. Additionally, the World Bank country codes and country names have been matched to the data.

Global Health Observatory (GHO)

The Global Health Observatory database is the World Health Organization's main health statistics repository. It provides data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) has been upgraded and incorporated into the latest version (February 2011) of the GHO, to provide more data, more tools, more analysis and more reports.

World Bank Frees up Data

In April 2010 the World Bank Group opened up the World Development Indicators database (and several other databases) and offered free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers. The decision was part of a larger effort to increase access to information at the World Bank. And, for the first time, data was made available in languages other than English, with an initial 330 indicators translated into French, Spanish and Arabic.

European Social Survey: Contextual data

This 2008 report formed the origins of this website. It examines the availability and comparability of extant sources of contextual statistics of particular interest to users of ESS data. This website seeks to broaden the scope and be a valuable resource for social science data users worldwide (PDF).

 

 

Data sources by topic

• CULTURE

• Cultural activities and participation
• Cultural and national identity
• Leisure, tourism and sport

• DEMOGRAPHY

• Demographic composition
• Fertility
• Migration
• Morbidity and mortality

• ECONOMICS

• Financial statistics
• Government statistics
• Household economy
• National accounts

• EDUCATION

• Basic skills education
• Compulsory and pre-school education
• Education finance
• Life-long/continuing education
• Post-compulsory education
• Teaching profession
• Vocational education

• HEALTH

• Health care and medical treatment
• Nutrition
• Accidents and injuries
• Childbearing, family planning and abortion
• Drug abuse, alcohol and smoking
• General health
• Health finance
• Physical fitness and exercise
• Specific diseases and medical conditions

• INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

• Information society (including internet use)
• Language
• Mass media

• LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

• (In-job) Training
• Employment and unemployment
• Labour costs
• Labour relations and labour conflict
• Retirement
• Working conditions

• LAW, CRIME AND LEGAL SYSTEMS

• Corruption
• Crime
• Law enforcement
• Legal systems
• Legislation

• NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

• Environmental degradation/pollution and environmental protection
• Natural resources and energy
• Plant and animal distribution
• Surface area and natural landscapes

• POLITICS

• Elections and political parties
• International politics and organisations
• Mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion
• Political ideology
• Political system (incl. government, political regimes and organisations)
• Conflict, security and peace
• Human rights

• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Science and technology

• SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND SYSTEMS

• Social welfare systems
• Specific social services: use and provision

• SOCIETY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

• Children
• Elderly
• Equality and inequality
• Family life and marriage
• Gender and gender roles
• Housing
• Minorities
• Religion and values
• Social and occupational mobility
• Social behaviour and attitudes
• Social conditions and indicators
• Social exclusion
• Youth

• TRADE, INDUSTRY AND MARKETS

• Agricultural, forestry and rural industry
• Business and industry
• Trade

• TRANSPORT, TRAVEL AND MOBILITY

• Transport, travel and mobility




This list is based on the CESSDA two-level classification for social science datasets.

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