The General Social Survey (GSS) is a project of NORC at the University of Chicago, with principal funding from the National Science Foundation. Since 1972, the GSS has been monitoring societal change and studying the growing complexity of American society.
The General Social Surveys (GSS) were designed as part of a data diffusion project in 1972. The GSS replicated questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies.
IPUMS-DHS facilitates analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys, administered in low- and middle-income countries since the 1980s. IPUMS-DHS contains thousands of consistently coded variables on the health and well-being of women, children, and births, for 20 African countries and India.
Statistics Canada’s General Social Survey (GSS) program has two main objectives: to provide immediate information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest and to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well-being of Canadians o
SWAY was a research program in northern Uganda dedicated to understanding the causes and consequences of civil war violence and child soldiering. Specifically, SWAY studied:
Youth Custody and Community Services survey generates data in order to provide information to the justice community on the nature and extent of youth corrections and community services for young offenders and to inform the public.
The objective of the Youth Court Survey (YCS) is to produce a national database of statistical information on charges, cases and persons involving accused who are aged 12 to 17 years (up to the 18th birthday) at the time of the offence. As of 2009/2010, this survey becam
'Public Policies and Social Conditions: Monitoring the transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States', more commonly known as the MONEE project, was initiated by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in 1992.
These reports provide a snapshot on early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Canada. They include statistics on care services, funding, regulations, number of spaces, parental leave policies, service monitoring and enforcement, history and recent developments.
Links to reports containing statistical resources on women in Canada and family violence in Canada. PDF format.