LibGuides: Open Education: Open Data

Important Resource: Open Data Commons provides a set of legal tools to help you navigate, use, and make available open data.

Government Data

BC Stats
British Columbia statistics on business, economics, the environment, demographics, education, health and more.
DataBC
DataBC encourages and enables the strategic management and sharing of data across the government enterprise and with the public. It is responsible for the B.C. Data Catalogue, the Open Data initiative and the B.C. Spatial Data Infrastructure and associated products and services.

Canada Open Government
Data from various branches of the Canadian government. Includes financial, agricultural, ecological data, and more.
Metro Vancouver Open Data Catalogue
Statistics Canada
Canada's national statistical agency. Provides census and survey data on population, resources, economy, society and culture.

Statistics Canada has just released a new resource for students: the 2021 Census Postsecondary Research Kit. This user-friendly guide explains what kinds of data students will find through StatsCan, examples of census data being used in research, links to Census resources and how to cite StatsCan products using APA! There's also an even more in-depth PDF guide!

Many municipalities make open data available. To find these data sets, search open data and the name of the municipality. A few examples are City of Vancouver Open Data Portal and Burnaby's Open Data Portal.

International Data

World Bank Open Data (1960- )
Financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics from over 200 countries.

WHO (World Health Organization) Open data repository
UN Data
UNICEF Data
Open Data Monitor
European data.
Dataverse Network
Data.gov
Data provided by the US federal government and agencies.

Research Data

Abacus Data Network
A data repository collaboration involving BC Universities.
RDC: Research Data Canada
Canadian Institute for Health Information