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Use this guide to help you find data and statistics produced by Canadian governments and agencies. The University Library can help you find and access:
MICRODATA: data at the level of the individual, household, business, etc. responding to a survey, with codes (usually numbers) representing the response to each question.
AGGREGATE DATA or STATISTICS: summary-level data (the result of applying statistical analyses to microdata), often presented in tabular format.
TIME SERIES: observations of the same variable (e.g., unemployment rate) made over time, usually at a regular interval (e.g., annually).
GEOSPATIAL DATA: data that include geographic positioning information relative to a coordinate system.
Key Resources
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Statistics Canada
The Statistics Canada website is the central access point for data and statistics at the federal level. Using the StatCan website you can: Find and access data in a variety of formats; explore the Census and Census Profiles, find data and statistics by region or area, and find data by survey or statistical program.
Statistics Canada Data Portal (formerly CANSIM)
Access data, statistical profiles, maps, visualizations, and other products from Statistics Canada. Data tables available through this portal were formerly known as CANSIM tables. View concordance between CANSIM table nubmers and new Product IDs here.
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ODESI (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure)
A web-based data exploration, extraction, and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard. ODESI provides the ability to search for survey questions (variables) across hundreds of datasets, and supports basic tabulation and analysis online. Datasets and documentation are available for download in a variety of formats for further analysis.
Tutorial: StatCan Data Portal
A 5-minute video tutorial from Laurier Library on the new StatCan data portal.
Data, GIS & Government Publications Librarian
