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
Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
- Demography
- Environment
- Natural resources
ZA: Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Sozialforschung
ZA: Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Sozialforschung
Latinobarómetro
- Demography
- Economics and finance
- Political Science
- Social issues
- Telecommunications
CentERdata. Institute for data collection and research. Measurement and Experimentation in the Social Sciences (MESS) project.
- Consumer behaviour
- Crime and justice
- Demography
- Economics and finance
- Education
- Environment
- Health
- Housing & real estate
- Income
- Labour
- Language
- Media
- Political Science
- Religion
- Social issues
- Transportation
- Travel
Berdahl, Loleen; Gibbins, Roger; Henry, Shawn; Mendelsohn, Matthew; Parkin, Andrew; Raney, Tracey; Roach, Robert
- Aboriginal peoples
- Cities
- Political Science
- Provincial statistics
- Social issues
Laub, Michael E., et al. University of Manitoba. Institute for Social and Economic Research
- Demography
- Health
- Immigration
- Income
- Labour
- Social issues
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
National Centre for Charitable Statistics
- Economics and finance
- Social issues
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
- Consumer behaviour
- Health
- Information technology
- Marketing
- Media
- Telecommunications
Pew Research Center
- Ethnicity
- Media
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Religion
- Sciences
- Social issues
- Telecommunications
Clarke, Harold D. and Allan Kornberg
- Economics and finance
- Elections
- Environment
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Social issues
Makler, Harry
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Education
- Canadian Census of Population
- Demography
Makler, Harry M.
- Labour
- Social issues
Roper Organization
,RoperASW
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
Institute for Comparative Social Research Ltd. (CESSI)
- Demography
- Ethnicity
- Health
- Immigration
- Media
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Religion
- Social issues
Statistics Canada
- Economics and finance
- Income
South Africa. Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
Human Sciences Research Council (HRSC)
,European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC)
- Demography
- Ethnicity
- Health
- Immigration
- Media
- Political Science
- Public opinion polls
- Religion
- Social issues
Federal Reserve Board (FRB)
- Demography
- Economics and finance
- Income