Microdata
What is microdata?
Microdata, or individual-level data, contains a dataset record for each unit in the study. Depending on the study, the unit of analysis may be the person, household, family, business, etc. Microdata files can be used to answer research questions involving statistical analysis.
Finding microdata
- Check out our Microdata guide (sidebar menu) for Canadian and international microdata sources
- Key Canadian microdata collections are found in the odesi data portal. We recommend starting here first for Canadian data!
- Use the search options below to identify additional microdata files held in the Map & Data Library's collection or publicly available online
American Hospital Association (AHA)
- Health
American Hospital Association (AHA)
- Health
American Hospital Association (AHA)
- Health
York University. Institute for Social Research
- Health
- Social issues
University of Alberta. Department of Sociology. Population Research Laboratory
- Demography
- Health
- Social issues
U.S Census Bureau
- Housing & real estate
Institute for Social Research
- Elections
- Public opinion polls
Angus Reid Group, Inc.
- Environment
- Public opinion polls
Arab Barometer
- Demography
- Economics and finance
- Political Science
- Religion
- Crime and justice
- Demography
- Economics and finance
- Political Science
- Social issues
Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
- Religion
Sniderman, Paul M., Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter H. Russell, & Philip E. Tetlock
- Crime and justice
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Social issues
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Health
- Social issues
Statistics Canada
- Health
Raymond Breton, Paul Reed, Norbert Hartmann, and Jos Lennards
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Social issues
Manchester: University of Manchester, CCSR
India. Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner
- International Censuses
University of Chicago. Booth School of Business. Center for Research in Security Prices
- Business
- Economics and finance
- Historical statistics
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Survey Research Center
- Demography
- Education
- Ethnicity
- Income
- Labour
- Elections
- Political Science
S&P Capital IQ
- Business
- Economics and finance
- Historical statistics
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Research Service
- Health
- Consumer behaviour
- Crime and justice
- Demography
- Economics and finance
- Education
- Health
- Income
- International Censuses
- Labour
- Social issues
- Vital statistics
Data Axle
- Business
Data Axle
- Housing & real estate
- Demography
- Income
- Economics and finance
The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit
- Health
Sharon Neary, University of Calgary
- Business
- Consumer behaviour
- Economics and finance
- Income
- Labour
Voter News Service (VNS)
,National Election Pool
- Elections
Michelson, William M., Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
- Culture and leisure
- Labour
- Women
European Commission
- Consumer behaviour
- Crime and justice
- Culture and leisure
- Economics and finance
- Education
- Environment
- Gender
- Labour
- Natural resources
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Sciences
- Social issues
- Transportation
European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC)
- Demography
- Ethnicity
- Health
- Immigration
- Media
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Religion
- Social issues
European Values project
- Ethnicity
- Labour
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Religion
- Social issues
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
- Demography
- Health
- Women
Dansk Data Arkiv
,DIS-Danmark
- Demography
- International Censuses
Forum Research Inc.
- Public opinion polls
Statistics Canada. General Social Surveys Division
- Aging
- Children and youth
- Culture and leisure
- Demography
- Education
- Environment
- Income
- Labour
- Religion
- Social issues
- Sports
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
- Children and youth
- Crime and justice
- Culture and leisure
- Demography
- Environment
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Health
- Historical statistics
- Income
- Labour
- Religion
- Social issues
- Telecommunications
- Women
Wunch Lab (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)
- Environment
- Sciences
George H. Gallup International Institute
- Environment
- International Censuses
- Public opinion polls
Central Statistics Office (Industrial Statistics Wing), Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India.
- Manufacturing
India. Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation
- Agriculture
- Business
- Consumer behaviour
- Demography
- Economics and finance
- Historical statistics
- Labour
- Manufacturing
- International Censuses
- Social issues
International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
- Demography
- Political Science
- Social issues
- Demography
- International Censuses
Statistics Canada (12-205-xcb)
- Consumer behaviour
- Culture and leisure
- Demography
- Education
- Health
- Immigration
- Income
- Labour
- Language
- Manufacturing