IB Mathematical Studies Internal Assessment
Statistical Datasets for IB Maths
These are suggestions, and you may find other datasets online.
International and Global Data
World Bank
https://data.worldbank.org/
Find world-wide and country-specific statistics on economies, education, climate change agriculture & more. Browse by country or compare multiple countries’ data by indicator. You can also download data sets directly to Excel.
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/gho/en/
See global data by topic or select a country and view data on many indicators. Topics include traffic deaths, communicable diseases, maternal health, child health, water and sanitation, and more. You can download data sets directly to Excel.
United Nations Data
http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx?d=UNESCO
A portal to specific databases on nearly every subject, from energy and the environment to economic issues to health and safety, and more. Click on the “Topics” tab and find links to detailed data.
OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
https://stats.oecd.org/
OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.
https://data.oecd.org/
Find, compare and share the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables and related publications
OECD - Global Meat Consumption
https://data.oecd.org/agroutput/meat-consumption.htm
Data on meat consumption by country. You can download the data to Excel.
Eurostat
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/main/data/browse-statistics-by-theme
European Economic Union country statistics
National Data (U.S.)
U.S Government Data Sets
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset
Find national, state and local datasets on dozens of issues.
Voter Registration Data, 2020 election
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-585.html
Find information about registered voters, including income.
Economic Data (U.S.)
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
https://www.bea.gov/data/all
Find an array of statistics on income, business and personal savings and investment, foreign transactions, and more. Download the data directly into Excel.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
https://www.bls.gov/data/#employment
See Oregon, national and other states’ data on employment and wages.
Police and Crime Data (U.S.)
National Bureau of Justice Statistics
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=kfa
Look at key statistics about crime. Use the navigation bar on the left of the page to find more detailed statistics on various types of crime, incarceration rates, capital punishment and more.
FBI Crime Uniform Reporting Statistics
https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr
Create data tables that present statistics about many kinds of crime for one state or multiple states.
Fatal Encounters
https://fatalencounters.org/
Download a data spreadsheet of people who have been killed by police around the country.
Traffic Stops, Stanford Open Policing Project
https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/data/
Download data about traffic stops in one local area or around the country.
Climate Data
Climate Change Knowledge Portal
https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/
Climate data from The World Bank Group
State of the Climate - National Centers for Environmental Information (part of NOAA)
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/
National and Global climate reports
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access
Data access to NCEI's list of datasets
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/
Archive of global historical weather and climate data.
Includes daily, monthly, seasonal, and yearly measurements of temperature, precipitation, wind, and degree days as well as radar data and 30-year Climate Normals.
EarthData - NASA
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/
EarthData - Hazards and Disasters (NASA)
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/hazards-and-disasters
Hazards & Disaster Risk
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/theme/hazards/data/sets/browse
Education Data (U.S.)
Digest of Education Statistics 2020
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/2020menu_tables.asp
Find national data on college entrance tests, class sizes, school crime, student achievement and much more.
SAT Data 2021
https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/2021-total-group-sat-suite-assessments-annual-report.pdf
A breakdown in demographic and performance SAT data. You can also choose to search by state.
Health and Safety Data (Global)
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/gho/en/
See global data by topic or select a country and view data on many indicators. Topics include traffic deaths, communicable diseases, maternal health, child health, water and sanitation, and more. You can download data sets directly to Excel.
Global Mortality from Firearms, 1990–2016, University of Washington (International)
Read the PDF (see pages 16-49 and 249-332 of the report).
Find data for each country on homicides and suicides due to firearms.
Health and Safety Data (U.S.)
Suicide Mortality by State (U.S.)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/suicide.htm
Examine suicide data, broken down by state.
Car Crash Data
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/#/
Data from the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration about car and traffic safety.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data (U. S.)
https://www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics/
Find key statistics on a number of health-related topics, including birth defects, life expectancy, alcohol use, cancer rates, and foodborne illnesses.
National Insitute of Health - Dataset Hub (DASH)
https://dash.nichd.nih.gov/
National Cancer Institute - Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER)
https://seer.cancer.gov/
Cancer datasets
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention - US Cancer Statistics
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uscs/index.htm
Military Data
Department of Defense, DODC: Military Personnel (U.S.)
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/dwp_reports.jsp
See data sets on the number of current military personnel.
World Bank: Size of the U.S. military compared to foreign militaries
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.TOTL.P1
You can download a dataset comparing the number of U. S. military personnel to the size of other countries’ militaries.
World Bank: Arms imports (global data)
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.MPRT.KD
See how much countries around the world spend to import weapons.
Politics Data (Global)
Women in Politics
https://data.oecd.org/inequality/women-in-politics.htm
International data on the number of women serving in politics. Be sure to read the definition carefully of which women are represented in this data.
Proportion of Seats Held by Women in National Parliaments
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sg.gen.parl.zs
Country by country data from the World Bank.
Population and Demographics Data (U.S.)
Census Data (Population stats)
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/
Find population and demographic info.
Sports
Olympics Data
https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/olympic-results
Stats on all the gold, silver and bronze medalists in every Olympic sport since the Olympics began in 1896.
Soccer Data (U.S. and international)
http://www.espn.com/football/story/_/id/21087321/soccer-leagues-competitions
Find data tables for US and international soccer leagues.
Soccer Data (NCAA Women)
https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-women/d1
Find stats related to college women’s soccer
Video Games
Video Game Industry Statistics, Trends and Data 2019
https://www.wepc.com/news/video-game-statistics/
Stats on video game popularity, profitability and user data. You may have to comile some of this. |