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UN Crime Data and Trends

General Background The collection of statistics on crime at the international level was first considered in 1853. The Economic and Social Council, in its resolution 1984/48 of 25 May 1984, requested that the Secretary-General maintain and develop the United Nations crime-related database by continuing to conduct surveys of crime trends and the operations of criminal ...
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Measuring Worth: Interest Rates - US, UK, China, Japan

The mission of the site is to make available to the public the highest quality and most reliable historical data on important economic aggregates, with particular emphasis on nominal measures. The data have been created using the highest standards of the fields of economics and history and are rigorously refereed by the most distinguished researchers in the fields. ...
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Child Support--Award and Recipiency Status of Custodial Parents: 2003

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files ...
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Political Borders for Central American Countries

Included, are the political borders for all of Central American. Central America is bordered by Mexico on the north and Colombia on the south. It includes Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.. The data was taken from Natural Earth, a public domain map dataset, featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data.
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Members of the European Parliament (5th parliamentary term - 1999 to 2004)

List of MEP (Members of the European Parliament) in the 4th term from 1999-2004. It includes the name, web profile ID and political group membership. The data has been obtained from the official website of the parliament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/term5.do?language=EN. The ID can be used to access each MEP’s profile via ...
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Members of the European Parliament (4th parliamentary term - 1994–1999)

List of MEP (Members of the European Parliament) in the 4th term from 1994-1999. It includes the name, web profile ID and political group membership. The data has been obtained from the official website of the parliament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/term4.do?language=EN. The ID can be used to access each MEP’s profile via ...
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The Price of Weed, Marijuana, Cannabis - PriceOfWeed.com

What is Marijuana really worth? We want to crowdsource the street value of marijuana from the most accurate source possible: you, the consumer. Help by anonymously submitting data on the latest transaction you’ve made.
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Employment Projections Data: Lawyers

The dataset from the National Employment Matrix provides the projected employment numbers for lawyers in the United States. The dataset divides the data by industry, while comparing 2008 figures with projected 2018 figures. The Employment Projections Program: Job openings result from the relationship between the population, labor force, and demand for goods and ...
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Directory of Lawyers

The dataset is derived from the Southern District of West Virginia’s uscourts.gov website website, and includes the lawyer’s name, law firm, address, phone number, fax number, email address, and case numbers.
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EUROPA -Activities of the European Union

This website provides approximately 3 000 summaries of EU legislation. They are offered in the form of factsheets disseminated under 32 thematic areas corresponding to the activities of the EU. The themes range from agriculture to transport, presenting comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of EU legislation. What is not covered, however, are legal decisions having only ...
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TX House Succession Infoboxes

This dataset consists of a collection of Infoboxes from Wikipedia on the topic of TX House Succession Box. Most common parameters for incumbents district = hometown = before = start = Most common parameters for previous member district = hometown = before = after = years = All parameters district = subdistrict = hometown = before = after = start = years = ...
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U S Secretary Infboxes

This dataset consists of a collection of Infoboxes from Wikipedia on the topic of U S Secretary Box. Included in the dataset is a list of secretaries, their department, years of service, president, the individuals that served before and after them.
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UK Statute Law Database Infoboxes

This dataset consists of a collection of Infoboxes from Wikipedia on the topic of the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). The dataset includes statutes, their corresponding names and dates.
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Sunlight Foundation

The Sunlight Foundation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that uses the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency, and provides new tools and resources for media and citizens, alike. The are committed to improving access to government information by making it available online, indeed redefining “public” information as ...
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2006 Hate Crime Statistics

Extraction of bias-motivated offense data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. Additional facts from data.gov Dataset Summary Date Released: Nov-07 Date Updated: Nov-07 Time Period: January 2006 through December 2006 Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog Frequency: Annual Specialized Data Category Designation: Statistical Contributing ...
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Interest Rate Statistics

Daily Treasury Bill Rates: These rates are the daily secondary market quotation on the most recently auctioned Treasury Bills for each maturity tranche (4-week, 13-week, 26-week, and 52-week) that Treasury currently issues new Bills. Market quotations are obtained at approximately 3:30 PM each business day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Bank Discount rate ...
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Interest Rate Statistics

Treasury Yield Curve Rates. These rates are commonly referred to as “Constant Maturity Treasury” rates, or CMTs. Yields are interpolated by the Treasury from the daily yield curve. This curve, which relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity is based on the closing market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities in the over-the-counter market. ...
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Interest Rate Statistics

Treasury Yield Curve Rates. These rates are commonly referred to as “Constant Maturity Treasury” rates, or CMTs. Yields are interpolated by the Treasury from the daily yield curve. This curve, which relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity is based on the closing market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities in the over-the-counter market. ...
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Interest Rate Statistics

Treasury Yield Curve Rates. These rates are commonly referred to as “Constant Maturity Treasury” rates, or CMTs. Yields are interpolated by the Treasury from the daily yield curve. This curve, which relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity is based on the closing market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities in the over-the-counter market. ...
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