Business: Statistics / Data

Statistical databases

Statista
Statista.com consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and makes it available on four platforms: German, English, French and Spanish.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.
SimplyAnalytics
A web-based mapping, analytics and data visualization program providing demographic information including census data (2006-2016), household spending data on hundreds of goods and services, and over 1.3 million Canadian business profiles from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). Data is available at the following geographies (Province/Territories, Census Metro Areas, Census Divisions, Forward Sortation Areas, Census Subdivisions, Census Tracts and Dissemination Areas). Users can export maps, data, and shapefiles. This resource was previously known as SimplyMap Canada. Access Note: Click on "Sign in as a guest" to access without creating an account.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.

Social Explorer
Research tool designed "to provide quick and easy access to modern and historical census data and demographic information" for the United States. Users can quickly create "intuitive, and illustrative maps and reports to help visually analyze and understand demography and social change throughout history.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.

WRDS Account

The University of Saskatchewan has a WRDS (a business research platform) subscription which offers access to Compustat, CRSP, MSCI, and other data.

USask students or faculty members can register for access to this research platform on the WRDS website. The Edwards School of Business IT Department will be sent a notice to approve your registration.

If you have any questions, contact the Edwards School of Business IT department at 306- 966-2590.

International Statistics

World Bank Open Data
Covers over 2000 indicators including databases: World Development Indicators (WDI), Global Development Finance (GDF), Africa Development Indicators (ADI), and the Global Economic Monitor (GEM), etc.
World Bank Open Knowledge
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products
Laborsta Internet
Collection of data and metadata for over 200 countries or territories on a variety of labor topics including: total and economically active population; employment; unemployment; hours of work; wages; labour cost; consumer price indices; occupational injuries; strikes and lockouts; household income and expenditure; and international labour migration.
International Financial Statistics Dataset
IMF dataset - free access. Indicators include exchange rates, monetary statistics, interest rates, government accounts, etc.