Biology: Data and Statistics

Human Activity and the Environment is an annual publication that focuses on a current Canadian environmental issue.

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"In Canada, providing statistics is a federal responsibility. As Canada’s central statistical office, Statistics Canada is legislated to serve this function for the whole of Canada and each of the provinces and territories."

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) was established in 1994, we are an independent, not-for-profit corporation that provides essential information on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians.

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is the main Government of Canada agency responsible for public health in Canada.

"Established in 2007, (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard."
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"The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the (U.S.) Federal Government."

"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities."

The NCHS tracks statistics concerning mortality, marriage, divorce, and much more!

US Government

This index provides a compilation of almost 30 United Nations and agency databases in search function. Resources come from over 60 million data points from a wide variety of subjects.

This website provides a data repository for global health.

"The Data Catalog provides download access to over 7,000 indicators from World Bank data sets."

Statistics on agriculture, banking, trade, commerce, energy, migration and more.

Contains information for United Nations member countries and areas of the world. Presents data on natality, mortality, marriage and divorce as well as information about economically active populations by age, gender, industry, occupation and status of employment. Covers the period 1948 - present, with some exceptions (1978-present -- all years; 1948-1977 -- some years missing). Missing years available in print version, call # UN1 ST3.1 D46

Global Insight offers economic and financial analysis and forecasting for over 200 countries. The sight offers input from over 300 economists and financial analysts.

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's annual compilation of data about development. WDI includes over 900 indicators covering a wide range of topics, with time series for 226 countries and country groups from 1960 to the present, where data are available.