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
Institute for Social Research
- Elections
- Public opinion polls
Angus Reid Group, Inc.
- Environment
- Public opinion polls
Sniderman, Paul M., Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter H. Russell, & Philip E. Tetlock
- Crime and justice
- 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
S&P Capital IQ
- Business
- Economics and finance
- Historical statistics
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Research Service
- Health
Data Axle
- Business
Data Axle
- Housing & real estate
- Demography
- Income
- Economics and finance
Sharon Neary, University of Calgary
Voter News Service (VNS)
,National Election Pool
- Elections
Michelson, William M., Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
- Culture and leisure
- Labour
- Women
Dansk Data Arkiv
,DIS-Danmark
- Demography
- International Censuses
Forum Research Inc.
- Public opinion polls
Central Statistics Office (Industrial Statistics Wing), Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India.
- Manufacturing
Statistics Canada (12-205-xcb)
- Consumer behaviour
- Culture and leisure
- Demography
- Education
- Health
- Immigration
- Income
- Labour
- Language
- Manufacturing
ZA: Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Sozialforschung
ZA: Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Sozialforschung
Mass Observation
,University of Sussex
,Adam Matthew Digital
- Culture and leisure
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Social issues
Mass Observation Project
,University of Sussex
,Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
- Culture and leisure
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Social issues
United States. Centers for Disease Control
- Health
Statistics Canada (82f0001xcb)
STC (82m0009xcb)
STC (82m0010xcb)
STC (82m0009xcb)
Canadian Families Project
Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)
,U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Health
UT/DLS written 2002
UT/DLS written 2002
UT/DLS written 2002
UT/DLS written 2002
UT/DLS written 2002
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
,Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
- Crime and justice
- Social issues
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
,Rev. by Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
- Children and youth
- Crime and justice
- Culture and leisure
- Demography
- Environment
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Health
- Historical statistics
- Income
- Labour
- Religion
- Social issues
- Telecommunications
- Women
Clarke, Harold D. and Allan Kornberg
- Economics and finance
- Elections
- Environment
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Social issues
Makler, Harry
- Canadian Census of Population
- Demography
Makler, Harry M.
- Labour
- Social issues