International Statistics
- Data & Statistics (World Health Organization)WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation.
- Global Health Data ExchangeCatalogue of world health and demographic data operated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Can be used to locate population census data, indicators and estimates, administrative health data, and financial data related to health.
- Health Inequality MonitorData and resources from WHO
- UNdataHealth topics include personnel and expenditures. Data on education, environment and other topics may also be relevant for health research.
- World Bank Open DataDevelopment data, including multiple health-related indicators.
- OECD iLibraryA complete online collection of journals, books, and statistical series and databases published by the OECD since 1998. Use for: full-text access to books, journals and statistics from the OECD.
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)ICPSR is a repository and dissemination service for machine-readable social science datasets with more than 500,000 machine-readable files covering 130 countries in 7,500 research studies.
Get Help with Data and Statistics
For help finding data or statistics, start by contacting your subject librarian.
For help using R, check out the Research Commons workshops and one-on-one consultations.
For help managing your own research data, please see the Research Data Management guide.
For help analyzing or using data, UBC's Department of Statistics offers a range of free and fee-based services. The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences also offers fee-based statistical consulting.
Help with Citing Sources and Writing
- Centre for Writing and Scholarly CommunicationThis is an educational support unit at UBC that provides writing support to students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, and faculty. Includes one-on-one appointments, workshops, & more.
- Research CommonsSupport for UBC students including citation management software, NVivo, statistics software, and more. Workshops and one-on-one consultations available.