A pan-African series of national public attitude surveys and data on democracy, governance, and society.
A leading global non-profit organisation that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data. Their goal is to help the research community locate, identify, and cite research data with confidence.
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of datatypes.
This is the Statistical Office of the European Communities, providing freely accessible EU statistics. Access to microdata available with the submission of a research proposal. Microdata are the units of data that aggregate statistics are compiled from. Full details for applying for access available here
The Google Public Data Explorer aims to make large, public-interest datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. Datasets covered are limited but include World Development Indicators (World Bank), Human Development Indicators (UN) and OECD Factbook.
266K public datasets. From avocado prices to video game sales.
The OECD collects statistics needed for the analysis of economic and social developments by its in-house analysts, committees, working parties, and member country governments from statistical agencies and other institutions of its member countries.
Access free datasets across a wide selection of disciplines.
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems
Access to commodity trade data for all available countries and areas since 1962. To get access to the full dataset without any restrictions on the number of rows please click on the Legacy link at the top of the page. If your data query is more than 150,000 rows you will need to submit your query via "batch processing".
Collates the data from several major UN databases and allows the user to browse or search multiple resources.
Access to major international trade, tariffs and non-tariff data compilations.
Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
Wellcome's website for Open Research. To find research data, select Filters, then go to Article Type and pick "Data Note" from the menu.
The UK Data Service offers a single point of access to a wide range of economic and social data from the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), Census Programme, Secure Data Service and others, including some international data sets. The UK Data Service has produced a guide on ways to get data which will help you access the data they hold.
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A range of UK survey data, addressing social attitudes, crime, health and lifestyle. Includes: Labour Force Survey, British Social Attitudes, National Food Survey and English Housing Survey. |
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The UKDS holds a range of different types of census data from 1971 to 2011. See the Census Support site for more information. |
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The UKDS provides access to several key longitudinal studies, including major panel and internationally-renowned cohort studies. Includes: British Household Panel Survey, Millennium Cohort Study and National Child Development Study. |
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The UKDS holds a collection of business microdata, provided by the Office for National Statistics. Includes: UK Innovation Survey and Business Structure Database. |
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Non-numeric information, such as in-depth interview transcripts, diaries, anthropological field notes, answers to open-ended survey questions, audio-visual recordings and images. Includes: Family Life of Old People, Gender Difference, Anxiety and the Fear of Crime and Retail Competition And Consumer Choice. |
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Cross-national surveys typically refer to studies where the same survey instrument is used across many nations. Includes: Eurobarometer Surveys, European Election Study and International Social Survey Programme. |
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Major statistical publications produced by intergovernmental organisations such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund or Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. |
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Data collected by government departments and agencies during their day-to-day activities. |
Focused on the major UK cities, it holds a range of urban-related data, covering topics such as commercial data, governmental data, transportation data, social media and other unstructured data. It allows users from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, with varying degrees of computing knowledge, to interface with the data we hold.
You can get environmental science data, including some physical specimens and sample materials, through five data centres under the umbrella of NERC’s (Natural Environment Research Council) Environmental Data Service.
The CEDA Archive forms part of NERC's Environmental Data Service (EDS) and is responsible for looking after data from atmospheric and earth observation research. Including data from climate models, satellites, aircraft, met observations, and other sources
Fame covers over 11 million companies in the UK and Ireland: Over 2 million companies in a detailed format (Financial data, contact details, number of employees, names of directors, ownership and subsidiaries, and more); 280,000 companies in a summary format; details of 1.3 million active companies not required to file/yet to file accounts; 6 million inactive companies.
A certified training programme is available – in the database click on the “?” help icon in the top right and then the training program tab.
Provides access to premium version of the global business based FT.com. In addition we have access to FT.com app.
MarketLine contains global market research and company analysis reports covering sectors including consumer goods, finance, food and drink and technology. Contains PESTLE Country Analysis reports for the top 50 countries in the world (GDP) and PEST country analysis of the top 100 countries (GDP). Access SWOT analysis for many major companies, just type the company name in the search box. You can also search by industry.
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Market research reports in UK, European and US consumer markets. Mintel includes trends, statistics, news, information on brands and companies, and demographic data on a range of sectors. Please note Mintel has a 200 concurrent user license.
