Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
PISA focuses on the assessment of student performance in reading, mathematics and science because they are foundational to a student's ongoing education.
International
Teaching and learning international survey (TALIS)
TALIS is the international survey that offers an opportunity for teachers and school leaders to have their say in 6 areas:
World Bank microdata library
The Microdata Library facilitates access to data collected through sample surveys of households, business establishments or other facilities.
UK Data Service
The UK Data Service is a comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data.
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) provides access to a variety of business data, including financial, economic, and marketing data. WRDS provides access to COMPUSTAT, CRSP, IBES, NYSE-TAQ, Global Insight, OptionMetrics and other important business research databases.
World Values Survey
The World Values Survey (WVS) is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life. The survey, which started in 1981, seeks to use the most rigorous, high-quality research designs in each country.
International merchandise trade data by commodity classification
The International Merchandise Trade Data by Commodity Classification provides a Canadian perspective of imports and exports in a globally accepted format, the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS).
Government finance statistics (GFS)
Contains detailed data on revenue, grants, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors.
Cross-National Time Series Data Archive, 1815-2013. 2014 ed.
The Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive was a product of the State University of New York (Binghamton), launched in the fall of 1968 by Arthur S. Banks under the aegis of the University's Center for Comparative Political Research (subsequently the Center for Social Analysis).
Penn world tables version 6.1
Constructed by Robert Summers and Alan Heston of the University of Pennsylvania, together with the late Irving Kravis, the Penn World Tables are the definitive source for real national accounts data.