Search Tools (Databases) By Subject

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database comprised of over 40 million time series and thousands of tables. CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.

CANSIM can be used to:

• Track trends
• Analyze market potential
• Study economic activity
• Make investment decisions
• Evaluate social conditions
• Conduct feasibility studies
• Forecast economic conditions
• Plan programs or services
• Profile demographics

CANSIM @ CHASS features:

• Search by text, table number or time series number
• Browse by subject, survey number, table titles and labels or by Statistics Canada's keywords classification for tables
• Various download formats
• Historical versions of CANSIM (available only at CHASS)
• Bilingual

Across the web, there are millions of datasets about nearly any subject. Dataset Search has indexed almost 25 million of these datasets, giving you a single place to search for datasets and find links to where the data is. 

More links to free datasets

Integrates data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
Our data sources include market research reports, such as the Ipsos Affluent Survey published annually by Ipsos Media, Simmons National Consumer Studies and Consumer Insights from Scarborough Research, as well as trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. For each statistic, we provide available meta data including but not limited to source, release date, number of respondents, and any other relevant details to facilitate verification of all statistical information available on Statista.com. Product description provided by the company.

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada; provides access to Canadian Census Profile Tables by Census Geography and by Census Year; Microdata Files; and Postal Code Conversion Files.

DiscoverGov provides simple, one-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases including GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and GovInfo.

It will retrieve reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources and publications available online.

By default it searches the CGP which leads mostly to citations to print reports, but you can at the top switch to searching "federal databases" and you can also filter to online resources using the filter list at the left. You may also want to filter by year range as this database goes very far back in American history.

As of December 2024, the tool is a bit buggy. If you have problems, check the Help pages.

Coming in 2025, users will see additional features, help content, and access points to and about DiscoverGov, as well as improved responsiveness of remote search resources. 

Established in 2007, Odesi (Open Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard. The datasets in Odesi are available to individuals affiliated with member and subscribing institutions.  However, anyone can use the <odesi> search functionality and freely available metadata to identify datasets of interest to them.  They can then contact the data producer directly for information on obtaining access to the data. 

Penn World Table 6.3

(189 countries, 1950-2007, 2005 as base year)

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2007. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.

Please note that CHASS only provides access to the data; we are not involved in the collection or maintenance of the data.

Please cite the data as follows:

Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 6.3, Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania, August 2009.

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada.

Rich Data Services (RDS) is Statistics Canada’s analytical platform for Public Use Microdata files (PUMFs) and their metadata. The RDS Explorer and Tabulation Engine's user-friendly interfaces allow users to browse, interact, and download data and metadata for online or offline analysis. The platform includes the RDS Explorer to browse the data records, create custom extracts by filtering records and selecting variables, and produce personalized open data packages for download, and the Tabulation Engine to o aggregate data across various dimensions to rapidly create analytical tables.