Finding data

OECD statistics contains the entire set of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) statistics online.

Databases include:

• International Trade by Commodity Statistics
• Main Economic Indicators
• Monthly Statistics of International Trade
• OECD Agriculture Statistics
• OECD Banking Statistics
• OECD Economic Outlook: Statistics and Projections
• OECD Education Statistics
• OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics
• OECD Environment Statistics
• OECD Factbook Statistics
• OECD Health Statistics
• OECD Institutional Investors Statistics
• OECD Insurance Statistics
• OECD International Development Statistics
• OECD International Direct Investment Statistics
• OECD International Migration Statistics
• OECD National Accounts Statistics
• OECD Patent Statistics
• OECD Pensions Statistics
• OECD Product Market Regulation Statistics
• OECD Productivity Statistics
• OECD Regional Statistics
• OECD Science, Technology and R&D Statistics
• OECD Social and Welfare Statistics
• OECD Social Expenditure Statistics
• OECD Statistics on International Trade in Services
• OECD Statistics on Measuring Globalisation
• OECD Tax Statistics
• OECD Telecommunications and Internet Statistics
• OECD.Stat
• STAN: OECD Structural Analysis Statistics
• Structural and Demographic Business Statistics

In addition the iLibrary gives access to a substantial amount of freely available content, including the OECD Fact book, OECD Working Papers, Key Tables (by country), Multilingual Summaries and most 'At a Glance' publications.  The subscription does not include books, papers, or International Energy Agency datasets.

AidData provides a searchable database of nearly one million past and present aid activities around the world, aid information management services and tools, and data visualization technologies.

Scotland's Data is a personal website, created and maintained by Peter Winstanley with an aim of signposting both Scottish public sector datasets and datasets that have Scottish connections. It has two further aims of gathering signposts to other relevant datasets and canvassing suggestions on how access to and reuse of them might be improved.

The range of data sources currently included in Scotland's Data include:

• Scottish Government
• Scottish Parliament
• Scottish Qualifications Agency
• Scotland's People
• Historic Scotland
• Registers of Scotland
• Scottish Centre for Social Research
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
• Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland

The Civil Judicial Statistics for Scotland, published by Scotland's Chief Statistician, relate to the business of:

• the Court of Session, based in Edinburgh: the highest Court in Scotland
• 49 sheriff courts, grouped into 6 sheriffdoms: local courts that deal with criminal and civil business
• justice of the peace courts: local courts that deal with lower-level cases

The statistics relate to company law petitions, debt, repossession, family and personal injury.  They also include the amount of civil legal aid spending in the sheriff courts. Comparisons can be made across the 6 Scottish sheriffdoms and trends observed.

Hosted by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Stat@tlas Europe is a multilingual, online atlas of current European statistical themes. It  integrates regional statistical data for European countries – from the regional level NUTS 2 up to country level NUTS 0 (NUTS = Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) of the European statistical system. This allows to analyse across country borders a wide variety of geographical processes and interrelationships in both figures and maps. Furthermore, differences within individual countries,  can be displayed in a clear, graphical form.

The Administrative Data Liaison Service (ADLS) is funded by the ESRC to support administrative data based research in the UK.

Administrative data in the UK is extensive but remains a relatively undiscovered and underused tool for research. It has potential to inform social scientific research, either directly through analysis of such data or through linkage to other datasets.

The service is managed by the University of St Andrews, in conjunction with the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. The ADLS does not hold administrative data but functions as an intermediary between academic researchers and data holding organisations to aid with communication, promote the research uses of administrative data, and provide expertise in legal and ethical research, data security, disclosure risks and data linkage. Data can be located by research theme, data provider, or publication hub.

Database of financial transactions of social protection schemes in 23 western and central European countries.

This portal provides access to a whole range of datasets from a variety of sources pertaining to international relations on topics such as:Interstate Conflict Data; Event data; Interstate Rivalry; Intrastate, Civil, and Ethnic Conflict Data; Human Rights and Repression; Terrorism; Conflict Management Data; Economic Data; Trade and Investment; Conflict Location Data; political Data; Power and Capability Data; Treaty, Institution, and International Law Data; Prominent Replication Data Sets.

The KOF Index of Globalization measures the three main dimensions of globalization: economic; social; political. Resources include Query Index which enables querying of the KOF Index of Globalization in detail,  a utility that enables querying of aggregated graphs of the KOF Index of Globalization, in addition to Globalization maps which displays the Index of Globalization (over-all-index) in a map format. Raw index data for 2010 can be downloaded as can data for previous years (2002 - 2009).

This site aims to 'make available to the public the highest quality and most reliable historical data on important economic aggregates, with particular emphasis on nominal measures.' Data is available for the US and the UK in addition to Japan and China with new series from other countries to be added. Calculators offer the ability to calculate relative values and purchasing power based on the 4 currencies for the countries mentioned above in addition to inflation rates, stock growth rates etc. Datasets (some available from 1790 to the present day) include GDP, CPI, price of gold, interest rates. There's also a graphing facility to track chosen variable values between two points in time and a user guide.