Archer Library: Data Services: International Data

US Data

The United States government has changed how it is publishing information in a departure from past practice. The sources and resources you may have bookmarked, frequently access, or rely on may be missing, incomplete, or altered. We know that some vocabulary has been scrubbed including the terms diversity, equity, inclusion, gender identity, and transgender. Publications or data referencing these terms has been removed. Several government websites have been deleted, gone dark, or altered. The most common changes to data, government publications, and webpages was the removal DEI-related terminology, but other altered content includes removal of references to Long COVID, HIV/AIDS, vaccines, foreign aid, environmental justice, emergency management, and the January 6 Capitol attack.

Librarians, archivists, researchers, and others in the United States and internationally have been working to capture data, websites, and publications before they are removed. If you are interested in learning more about these efforts, please see the Data Rescue Project (link below).

Please note that US Data Portals that have been affected by the new administration have been flagged. If you need assistance finding US data, contact the Data Services Librarian.

Data Rescue Project
From the website: The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organization, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network. Our goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that currently at risk.
DataLumos
From the website: DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data.
IPUMS USA
Collects, preserves, and harmonizes US Census data specific to social, economic, and health research.
DataONE
Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data. Also features data tutorials and other resources.
Find Lost* Data
From Boston's University's School of Public Health, Find Lost Data facilitates searching across a variety of websites that host US data
The Journalist's Resource
A curated list of non-governmental websites with health databases meant to supplement and replace deleted government data.
Publicdata Archives of Public Data
Collection of archived datasets from multiple US government sources including CDC, NOAA, NASA, and others.
Harvard Environment and Law Data (HELD) Collection
From the website: The purpose of this collection, put together by numbers of the Salata Strengthening Communities research cluster, is to store critical climate and law datasets accessible at various locations in one place.
Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
From the website: This tool is called the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. The tool has an interactive map and uses datasets that are indicators of burdens in eight categories: climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution, transportation, water and wastewater, and workforce development. The tool uses this information to identify communities that are experiencing these burdens.
United States Census Bureau
The US Census Bureau collects data on the population, state and local government, housing, and economics in the US.
Census Reporter
From the website: Census Reporter is an independent project to make it easier for journalists to write stories using information from the U.S. Census bureau. Place profiles and comparison pages provide a friendly interface for navigating data, including visualizations for a more useful first look.
USAID Demographic and Health Surveys
This department's funding has been frozen by DOGE and is currently using legal measures to be restored. The site has been paused and may have been altered. Some information and data may be missing.

The DHS collects data and provides assistance to more than 400 surveys in over 90 countries in order to provide better understanding of global health and population trends in developing countries.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
The Statistical Abstract serves as the official federal summary of statistics and provides over 1,400 tables of benchmark measures on the demographic, housing, social, political, and economic condition of the United States.
American National Election Studies
ANES produces data from surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. Data is intended to serve the research needs of social scienctists, teachers, students, policy makers, and journalists.
Data.Gov
This site has been altered by the current administration. Some data may be missing.

Open data from the US government, along with tools and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, and design data visualizations.
CDC - National Center for Health Statistics
This site has been altered by the current Federal Administration. Some data may be missing.

Provides access to US health data sets and the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health.
CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible. Provenance is unclear but suspected contribution by r/DataHoarder

ICPSR

The ICSPR (Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research) maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 research datafiles in the social sciences, including 16 specialized collections in the fields of education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and many others. In addition to publicly-available downloads, University of Regina students, faculty, and staff may create a free ICPSR MyData Account to download membership-only data.

Off-campus access works best when a MyData Account is used.

ICPSR Home Page
Use this link to search for and access ICPSR public data.
ICPSR My Data
Use this link to create an account to search for, access, and download member only data.
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Free accounts are only available to U of R students, faculty, and staff.

International Government and NGO Open Data

Afrobarometer
A non-partisan, pan-African research institution conducting public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy and society in 30+ countries repeated on a regular cycle.
Eurostat
The statistical office of the European Union, their mandate is to process and publish comparable statistical information at the European level. They do not collect data, but consolidate the data from individual EU member countries and create comparable data reports.
European Social Survey
The ESS is a cross-national survey conducted across Europe since 2001. The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviour patterns of thirty European nations.
Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe
Covering 27 European countries and Israel, SHARE is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of about 140,000 individuals aged 50 or older.
Open Data India
Open Data India portal is used by the Government of India Ministries and Departments to publish datasets, documents, services, toold and applications for public use.
Japan Statistical Yearbook
A comprehensive and systematic summary of statistical information from Japan including land, population, economic, social, and cultural data.
UK Office of National Statistics
The UK's independent producer of official statistics that collects, analyzes, and disseminates statistics about the UK's economy, society, and population.
National Bureau Statistics of China
Open Data from People's Republic of China. Primarily aggregated datasets.

Inter-Governmental Open Data

WTO Data
World Trade Organization Data Portal provides time series data on merchandise trade and trade in services statistics, market access indicators, and non-tariff information. GIS representations of selected data is also available.
The World Bank Data Catalog
Links to World Bank data on statistical capacity, open data, impact evaluation surveys, and enterprise surveys. Also features a search bar or the option to search for data by type or country/region.
UNdata
The main data portal for the United Nations and it's major partners. Features a search bar, links to other UNSD databases, and popular statistical tables and regional profiles.
Penn World Tables
Penn World Tables provide data on income, output, input, and productivity for 182 countries between 1950-2017.
Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and The Caribbean
Provides basic statistics from the previous year on the economic, sociodemographic, and environmental situation in the region.
IMF Data
Features macroeconomic and financial data from the IMF. Data can be searched for by topic or country/economy.
OECH Health Statistics
Offers a comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems in OECD countries.
CIRI Human Rights Data Project
Contains data from 1981-2011 from 202 countries on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights.
IPUMS International
Collects and distributes census data from 98 counties for social science and health research.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Allows for viewing and downloading of popular UIS data and indicators in tables. Allows users to build their own data tables and export data into Excel.
WHO Data
Contains health data for the 194 Member States over a 1000 indicators.
ILOSTAT
The International Labour Organization's Department of Statistics collects UN labour statistics. They provide relevant, timely, and comparable labour statistics.
FAOSTAT
The UN's database of food and agriculture data.

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