Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada is the national agency responsible for collecting and publishing socio-economic statistics in Canada.
A good overall resource for understanding statistics is Statistics Canada's online guide, Finding and Using Statistics, which provides a "step-by-step review on how to find, read and use data."
Statistics Canada's two main products are the Census and the Socioeconomic Data Tables.
Census of Canada
For information on how to find historical and current Canadian census information, please refer to the Census of Canada research guide.
CANSIM
- CANSIM @ CHASSAvailable from Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto (CHASS). Use of this version is still restricted to current UBC students, staff and faculty members.
More downloadable options are offered on this platform. - Online CANSIM@CHASS tutorial from SFU Library4 minute tutorial showing how to navigate the database and how to retrieve data by subject browsing.
Citing Statistics Canada Products
How to Cite Statistics Canada Products - This guide has been developed for authors, editors, researchers, academics, students, librarians and data librarians. It describes, in three steps, how to build bibliographic references when citing Statistics Canada products and materials.
Building your Statistics Canada References. Show examples of how to cite tables and graphs from StatsCan as well as surveys from CANSIM.