Business and economic micro data files are available at the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research (CDER) and not in the RDCs. For more information, please visit the CDER website .

Located in Ottawa, the FRDC gives federal employees access to selected detailed micro data collected by Statistics Canada.

Located at the First Nations Information Governance Centre’s (FNIGC) office in Ottawa, the FNDC provides access to data from the First Nations Regional Health Survey (FNRHS, or RHS) and the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey (FNREEES, or REEES).

The following web sites provide useful instructional material and tutorials to help you use major data analysis software. Selection and comments are by Richard A. Wanner, Academic director of the Prairie RDC.

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• http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
  Perhaps the best statistics site on the Web, it includes instructional materials on all major statistics packages, including some specialized software. The instructional materials are extensive and include online courses, most with movies, numerous data analysis examples, annotated output, worked examples from major textbooks, and Web books on OLS and logistic regression.
• http://dss.princeton.edu/training/
  The training modules on this site focus mainly on Stata and R, though there is some coverage of SAS and SPSS.
• http://www.stata.com
  Stata is rapidly becoming the statistical software of choice in the social and health sciences. The Web site includes much instructional and reference material, including YouTube tutorial videos, FAQs, Web-based and face-to-face courses, the Statalist list serve to interact with other Stata users, the Stata Journal, and Stata Press books on a wide range of statistical topics.
• http://www.statmodel.com
  This is the Mplus Web site. Mplus is a latent variable modelling program that supports a wide variety of advanced analytical methods including exploratory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, growth curve modelling, multilevel analysis, and Baysian analysis. It fully supports the analysis of complex survey data. The Web site includes much training material, including the Mplus 7 manual, videos and handouts from short courses, and examples of applications.
• http://repec.org/bocode/e/estout/
  Estout is a user-written package for Stata that makes it easy to generate publication-ready tables as output. These tables may contain any form of regression results, including (optionally) standard errors, t-statistics, stars indicating significance, and model fit statistics or tables of means, percentages or correlations.
• http://www.stata.com/links/statistical-software-providers/
  This page on the Stata Web site provides a comprehensive list of links to the sites of other statistical software providers.

The following web sites provide access to hundreds of international, European and American datasets. Selection and comments are by Richard A. Wanner, Academic director of the Prairie Regional RDC.

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• http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/statistics
  This site provides country-level data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). A wide range of indicators on economy, education, energy, environment, health, labour, migration, as well as social indicators are available for member countries of the OECD.
• http://data.worldbank.org
  This site contains a treasure trove of international data, both microdata and summary indicators, for over 200 countries. The World Bank development indicators are available as a Stata module updated annually. This can be imported directly to Stata for immediate analysis of over 7,000 time series.
• http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org
  This site provides downloadable microdata based on five waves of surveys in over 30 European countries.
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  https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/
  This site provides downloadable data and documentation on the British Household Panel survey. This survey ran annually from 1991 to 2009, making it one of the longest panels available.
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  http://www.esds.ac.uk
  The U.K. Economic and Social Data Service offers access to over 5000 cross-sectional and longitudinal data sets, most gathered in the U.K.
• http://dataferrett.census.gov
  This is the U.S. Census Bureau site for data downloads. A wide range of U.S. data are available, including the decennial census, the American Community Survey, and the Monthly Labour Force Survey.
• http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/landing.jsp
  The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research is perhaps the largest data archive in the world, holding over 500,000 data sets. To access the data, a researcher must be affiliated with a member institution. Most Canadian universities are members.
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  http://www.ipums.org
  The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is a massive data archive hosted by the University of Minnesota. It includes microdata from the U.S. and 68 other countries, including U.S. census data from 1850 on and international census data from 1960 on. All data sets have been harmonized to facilitate comparative research and are available online free of charge.
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  http://www.issp.org
  The International Social Survey Programme is a collaboration among survey research centres in 49 countries. Each year since 1985, comparable surveys have been conducted in each country that address a particular theme. The themes have included social inequality, the role of government, religion, work orientations, national identity, and family and gender roles. The microdata can be downloaded at no cost from the Web site.
   
• http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/
  The Office of Population Research at Princeton University maintains a large data archive of demographic data from many countries. The site also includes links to many other data resources.

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