UK Data Only

Thanks to the wide range of data sources from the United Kingdom, i decided to offer a unique section on these:

• Higher Education Statistics (UK)


• UK Data Archive (UK)


• Data.Gov (UK)


• Office for National Statistics (UK)


• UK National Statistics (UK)


• Department for Work and Pensions (UK)


• The Home Office (UK) - Data for Crime, Migration etc


• Census (UK) - Access data from the 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 censuses


• Mimas (UK) - Using Data to build applications


• National Archive (UK) - Online access to archived digital datasets and documents


• Education.Gov (UK) - Educational Datasets from the Ministry of Education


• Deparment for Business Innovation and Skills (UK) - They currently offer an interesting set of data with estimates on business population estimates, and trade union statistics.


• Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (UK) -Datasets on Food consumption pattern etc


• OpenSpending and OpenSpending2(UK) - An open data initiative offering statistics on public spending in the UK (national and local statistics)


• British Election Study


• UK Data Service


• UK Polling Report Holding rich opinion polls archives


• Police: Crime and other incidents


• Local Elections Results and Turnout


• UK Electoral Commission

Data for Greece only

Thanks to a recent paper that I had to write on Greece I managed to collect a broad but very useful selection on public agencies that publish statistics related to the Greek social, economic and political environment.

Greek Data suffer usually from bias and sometimes especially for the years 2004-2007 their validity has been questioned by Eurostat. Hence a user of the statistics should be aware of potential problems that might be caused due to the non-scientific collection of the data from the various statistical bodies in Greece.

Having said that I will offer a list of the useful agencies that i have retrieved, stating the type of statistics each body publishes.

• Ministry of Finance: Financial Data on Public Debt, Budget, Public enterprises (archive from 2001)


• Greek Statistical Agency: Digitalised Data


• Greek Statistical Agency: Digital Library (Non digitalised data. Scanned Original Documents containing monthly statistical reports since 1929)


• Bank of Greece: Although the site is ugly, useful monetary data can be found


• National Library: A must for anyone interested in qualitative data (enormous newspapers archive etc)


• National Bank of Greece: An exceptional database of historical reports (budgets, statistics and newspapers from 1825 until 1940)


• Labrakis Press: Collection of financial datasets from 2000


• E-demography: Demographic data


• General Secretary of Computer Systems: Accounting and Financial datasets (since 2000)


• Diavgeia (Transparency): Reports of transactions of ministries and public institutions.


• GeoData.Gov.Gr (Open Data Protocol in Greece)


• National Printing House (Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο):  Digital documents of the government's activity. Search for laws, established companies e.t.c.


• Greek Banks' Association


• National Documentation Center: PhD Theses Archive


• Public Issue: Monthly Electoral Surveys


• VPRC


• SEDEA: Association of Greek Market and Opinion Research Companies


• OAED: Detailed data on Unemployment and Labour Force

European Data Only

Below I list official data sources that contain datasets for European countries only. These might be both member countries of the European Union or not:

The links will be updated regularly.

Please let us know any other sources by sending an email to data@aboutsocialdata.org or in the form of a comment below.

• Council of European Social Data (European Continent)

• EUROSTAT: The motherland of data  (EU member states)


• European Commission Economic and Financial Affairs: ACCESS SEVERAL THEMATIC DATABASES FROM THE LEFT SIDE MENU


• European commission: General Government Data (EU member states)


• European commission: Social Data (EU member states)


• European Central Bank: The ECB Statistical Warehouse containing monetary data


• PublicData: A EU open data initiative


• European Values Survey: Data on cultural perceptions of the Europeans (also check the world values survey)


• European Social Survey: Data on social capital characteristics among the Europeans


• AsktheEU.org: Freedom of Information requests addressed to EU agencies


• OpenTED: Data of the EU procurement database

Country Specific Data Sources follow:

• Norwegian Social Science Data Service (Norway)

• Enel Open Data (Italy) - The leading electricity company in Italy publishes extensive data on the electricity industry


• Italian Data (Italy) - The Italian open government initiative


• Spanish Open Data (Spain)


• Belgian Open Data (Belgium)

European Statistical National Offices:

• Austria: Statistik Austria


• Bulgaria National Statistical Institute


• Croatia Central Bureau of Statistics


• Cyprus Department of Statistics and Research


• Czech Republic Czech Statistical Office


• Denmark Statistics Denmark


• Estonia Statistical Office of Estonia


• European Community (EC) EUROSTAT


• Finland Statistics Finland


• France National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE)


• Germany Federal Statistical Office


• Greece National Statistical Service


• Hungary Hungarian Central Statistical Office


• Iceland Statistics Iceland


• Ireland Central Statistics Office


• Italy National Institute of Statistics


• Latvia Central Statistical Bureau


• Lithuania Department of Statistics


• Luxembourg National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies


• Malta Central Office of Statistics


• Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)


• Norway Statistics Norway


• Poland Central Statistical Office


• Portugal National Institute of Statistics


• Romania National Commission for Statistics


• Russia Russian State Committee for Statistics


• Slovakia Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic


• Slovenia Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia


• Spain National Institute of Statistics


• Sweden Statistics Sweden


• Switzerland Swiss Federal Statistical Office


• Turkey State Institute of Statistics


• United Kingdom
  
  
  
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• Yugoslavia Federal Statistical Office