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USA 2016 election demographic data
From an open-source point of view, there is no direct source for age/income/race/location as to which way an individual voted; this is by design that you cannot figure out who voted for whom.
Having ...
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Literacy rates of Asian countries
I think data.worldbank.org is going to be your best bet for getting this information.
Here is a direct link to the indicator for "Adult literacy rate, population 15+ years, both sexes (%)" (SE.ADT....
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Data on the number of cats and dogs kept as pets in Asia and Africa
This Paper provides tables of ownership estimates of dogs and cats for most world countries. There is a description of the collection methodology.
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Where is voter data from the recent General Election?
Many states have posted the data on their election commission websites. The format varies from state to state. To answer your question about Open Elections, they pull their information directly from ...
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What is the latest census statistics on US demographics
the american community survey is the principal annual estimate of the united states population. i think you are asking for https://www.census.gov/popest/schedule.html
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List of countries that do not have psychiatric hospitals
It's not a sortable list, but the WHO keeps track of the mental health institutions per country and has a report on each country here: http://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/atlas/profiles/en/
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USA 2016 election demographic data
That data isn't available from the government, but the next closest thing that is available is the exit polls. CNN lets you browse their exit poll results on their website.
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USA 2016 election demographic data
You can download the data from CNN in JSON format at:
http://data.cnn.com/ELECTION/2016/full/P.full.json
This is some of the data that powers the CNN's election web page.
It has the outline shown ...
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US Population/Housing Data?
The Census API is pretty good and should have what you're looking for. If you want only recent data, you can use the ACS to get 2014 data. If you want more historical data, the 1990, 2000, and 2010 ...
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US Population/Housing Data?
If you are interested in using shapefile data and have access to QGIS or ArcGIS, this geodatabase contains geographic, demographic, and economic data for Places or "Cities" from the 2010 to 2014 ACS (...
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Data source for names demography analysis?
The Dutch Central Bureau for Genealogy has an interface where you can type a family name and it will show the geographical distribution of that name throughout the Netherlands. You can also enter a ...
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mean/median age for each US zip code
I did a quick export of data from the 2014 5-year ACS of the population and median age of every ZIP code: https://www.dropbox.com/s/utnthc601i82iff/census.csv?dl=0
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Travel statistics by gender and country
I don't know of a global database but Eurostat does provide some insights into European countries if that is of interest. You can find their tourism database here.
If you navigate through tour_dem > ...
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API or datasets for age & gender distributions of the world
I think geoba.se might interest you, although I'm not sure how reliable their sources are.
Unfortunately, geoba.se doesn't have an API, but you could try to scrape the data yourself using code like ...
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Searching for a dataset about chess ELO rating distribution broken down by gender
FIDE rating lists are available to download on this page.
The standard rating list contains both rating and sex information.
Your hypothesis is interesting, but it seems not very easy to test it, ...
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Searching for a dataset about chess ELO rating distribution broken down by gender
I'm posting here the results of my analysis so far. If this is not an appropriate place for this, let me know. The actual answer to my question is here, where you can find a very large database of ...
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Data on ethnicity of African names
I guess something like that would have to be computed from micro-data, prior to anonymization. Ideal would be censuses, but they are always conducted by the local statistical agencies and anonymized ...
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USA census historical demographic data
The NHGIS at the Minnesota Population Center / Univ of Minnesota is probably the most comprehensive source for historical US Census data - it has the complete summary data for each census going back ...
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World height and weight by age distributions?
Quandl has some data on height and weight by country, by age, by gender. I hope it can help you get started. A lot of the data, though, is related to malnutrition. Search for "weight" and "height" ...
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In the famous LaLonde dataset what treatment does "treat" represent?
I determined that treat represents participation in a 1970's job training program by reading the original paper by LaLonde (1986).
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Median age by state/city in Germany?
It seems that the puzzle pieces to answer your question are available at https://ergebnisse.zensus2011.de/?locale=en#StaticContent:00,BEV_11_1,m,table
It gives you population, by age and gender, for ...
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mean/median age for each US zip code
American Fact Finder includes median age in their General Population and Housing Statistics reports;
General Population and Housing Statistics for Zip Code 23662 is one such table, from the 2010 US ...
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Looking for extensive world population time series including both data and estimates
The World Bank Data is from 1960 and is the best open dataset I'm aware of for this. Are you looking for older datasets, or for specific attributes for each country?
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Chinese demographic data (age, gender)
The official stats page of China has a table with gender per political region, in Chinese, with the data you are looking for (source is Wikipedia Sixth National Population Census of the People's ...
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Where is voter data from the recent General Election?
Check out these links below, and you can also search "election 2016" in data.world for other related data. There's quite a few users who are already aggregating this data and creating analyses and ...
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USA 2016 election demographic data
Check out these links below, and you can also search "election 2016" in data.world for other related data. There's quite a few users who are already aggregating this data and creating analyses and ...
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Data source for names demography analysis?
The Social Security Administration in the U.S. publishes state-level baby names data since 1910. You could do a state-to-state comparison.
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/baby-names-from-social-...
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Unemployment Data
Many countries have their own labor statistics published through a dedicated agency, such as the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics or the Swiss Federation. Unemployment is also an indicator you can ...
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Census data aggregated at MGRS level
Unfortunately, I don't think this exists as a pre-aggregated data file.
However you could use a tool like census_area to get a close approximation. With this tool, you could download block or block ...
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