Sociology

• data.gov

Statistics from the UK central government departments

• Department for Education

Access to performance tables, statistics on class sizes and much more

• Statistics at FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Focuses on the main international measure of official aid spend, known as Official Development Assistance (ODA). 

Department of Health & Social Care

• English Indices of Deprivation

Statistics on relative deprivation in small areas in England

• Gov.UK - Statistics

Statistics on crime, probation, policing, immigration and the courts in the UK

• MORI (Market and Opinion Research International) Opinion Polls

Organisation which conducts surveys in the UK and internationally on political issues and news

• PAMCo (Publishers Audience Measurement Company)

Gathers market research information on the readership of 300 UK publications

• Nomis (Official Labour Market Statistics)

Service provides by the ONS giving free access to the latest and most detailed statistics on the UK labour market by official sources

• Office for National Statistics

Official UK statistics site for health, education, social issues, economic, commerce and labour and all government policy areas.  Includes the 2011 Census

• Statistics at MHCLG (Ministries of Housing, Communities and Local Government)

Department for communities and local government which collects and publishes official statistics relating to deprivation, fire and rescue services, housing and homelessness, local government finance, planning performance and land use.

• Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CRESSDA)

​​​​​​​CESSDA promotes cooperation and easier access to the data archives of countries around the world, particularly in Europe. The CESSDA Catalogue provides a seamless interface to datasets from social science data archives across Europe. The data may be located in several ways: free text search; browse by topic; browse by keyword; browse by data publisher.

• Eurostat

Statistical office of the European Communities.  Eurostat gathers data from the official statistical agencies in member countries.

• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

• Health at a glance: Europe

• Economic and Social Data Service International

Providing access to macro datasets such as OECD Social Expenditure dataset,

OECD education statistics, World Bank world development indicators, as well

as to micro data i.e. survey data from other countries.

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• ILOSTAT International Labour Organization

The leading source of labour statistics

• Statistics page from RBA

Key starting points

• UNESCO

Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture and communication

• UNICEF

Statistics on children of the world. UNICEF's key annual publication, State of the World's Children is available online

• United Nations Development Programme

Human development reports published annually contain figures on global poverty, education and literacy, GDP, health, equality and the environment

• Global Health Observatory

A world of health data

• United Nations Statistics Division

Access detailed figures on all countries of the world

• World Bank - Data page

Free and open access to global development data

• Our World in Data

A scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality