Data: Canada: Aggregate data

Aggregate Data Resources

ODESI (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) This link opens in a new window
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.

Data is downloadable in .csv format (opens in Excel) or .ivt format (opens in Beyond 20/20).
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.
CANSIM @ CHASS This link opens in a new window
CANSIM is StatCan's key socioeconomic database. Updated daily, CANSIM provides fast and easy access to a large range of the latest statistics available in Canada. The StatCan CANSIM interface is easy to navigate and use: recommended for novice users.
License Information: There are no restriction to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, 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, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
CANSIM Multidimensional @ CHASS This link opens in a new window
This alternative CANSIM database supports multiple search and browse options; its OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing) tool allows the user to generate data visualizations; and it includes historical versions of CANSIM. CANSIM Multidimensional @ CHASS is recommended for advanced users.
License Information: There are no restriction to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, 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, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Canadian Census Analyser @ CHASS This link opens in a new window
Profile files at enumeration areas, census tracts, census divisions, census subdivisions, federal electoral districts or provincials levels, some data going back to 1961.
License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to the current faculty, staff, students at the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.

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StatCan disseminates many of its aggregate data products as .ivt files, which open in Beyond 20/20. This software can be downloaded here.