Data: Canada: Microdata

Microdata Resources

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.

Data is downloadable in .csv format (opens in Excel, .ivt format (opens in Beyond 20/20), or ASCII format (suitable for software such as SPSS).
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.
SDA@CHASS
Microdata Analysis and Subsetting provides interactive access to a growing list of selected StatCan microdata files via Berkeley's software SDA (Survey Documentation and Analysis).
License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to the current faculty, staff, and students at the University of Saskatchewan 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.
Canadian Census Analyser @ CHASS
Public use microdata from 1971 to latest CENSUS via SDA software (Survey Documentation and Analysis): web-based analysis of survey data.
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.

Research Data Centre

Eligible researchers may be able to access master files, or detailed microdata files, from Statistics Canada through a Research Data Centre.

SKY-RDC
A Research Data Centre at USask providing researchers, including faculty and students, access to Statistics Canada microdata masterfiles. Data holdings include the Census of Population of Canadian censuses, cross-sectional and longitudinal population and household surveys, administrative data, and linked data.