Key data sets developed or used by CPD members
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Health Insurance Access Database | Canada & 10 OECD countries | Indicators of public coverage, and regulation of OOP expenses and private health insurance | Amélie Quesnel-Vallée |
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Population and Ecology Research Laboratory | Nepal (Western Chitwan Valley) | Social science data on social change, social life, families and the environment in Nepal (longitudinal, ethnographic, botanical, land use and GIS). | Sarah Brauner-Otto |
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Canada | A large, national, long-term study following 50,000 men and women, aged 45 to 85 for at least 20 years. Data: biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and economic. | ||
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National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) | U.S. | A longitudinal, population-based study. Approx. 3000 respondents, national, probability sample, aged 57-85, community-dwelling Americans. Data: physical health and illness, medication use, cognitive function, emotional health, sensory function, health behaviors, social connectedness, sexuality, and relationship quality. | Aniruddha Das |
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Longitudinal Survey of Immigrant to Canada | Canada | Three wave data collection of 5755 immigrants, at six months, two years and four years after arrival in Canada (2000-2001), all immigrant classes. | Thomas Soehl |
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Open Data Portal - Government of Canada | Canada |
Other major population data archives and related depositories and libraries
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR | An international consortium of 700 academic institutions & research organizations. The ICPSR data archive contains > 500,000 files of social science research. |
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Data sharing for Demographic Research | A data archive for demography and population sciences. |
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The Dataverse Network project | The Dataverse Network project develops software, protocols, and community connections for creating research data repositories that automate professional archival practices, guarantee long term preservation, and enable researchers to share, retain control of, and receive web visibility and formal academic citations for their data contributions |
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ReShare - UK Data Service | Repository holds data from UK national statistical authorities, UK government, intergovernmental organizations, research centres and individual researchers. |
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Prospero | An international propsective register of systematic reviews |
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The Cochrane Collaboration | The Cochrane Collaboration supports the development of systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy. |
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The Campbell Collaboration | The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions in Crime & Justice, Education, International Development, and Social Welfare. |
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Luxembourg Income Study Database | Household and person-level data on market and government income, demography, employment and expenditures, data from 1968-, data from Europe, NA, LA, Africa, Asia, Australasia |
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Luxembourg Wealth Study Database | Household-level data on assets and debts, market and government income, household characteristics, labour market outcomes, expenditures and behavioural indicators, from 1994-, 12 countries including Canada |
| European Social Survey |
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted every two years across Europe since 2001. The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of diverse populations in more than thirty nations. |