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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 DATA: 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

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.

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.

License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for their occasional use, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.