Walter W. Giesbrecht
/ walterg@yorku.ca
Ontario Library Association Superconference, 2003.02.01
This list of resources is by no means intended to be exhaustive; it is simply a list of links that I have found useful over time. A more extensive list can be found at my Library Data Services website <http://www.library.yorku.ca/LibraryDataServices/>. Only you know which ones you will find useful. Be aware that some of them require you to be accessing them from a registered DSP-registered institution.
Bank of Canada: financial rates and statistics
<http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates.htm>
Beyond 20/20
Canadian climate normals, 1971-2000
<http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/climate/climate_normals/index_e.cfm>
Canadian Council on Social Development: free statistics
<http://www.ccsd.ca/facts.html>
Includes: poverty line (LICO, low income cut off) lines, poverty rates and statistics, welfare, income, and statistics on child welfare and costs of raising. Most statistics are annual, and occur in the range 1950 through 2000.
Canadian crime statistics
<http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/85-205-XIE/85-205-XIE.html>
"This publication provides a statistical summary of police-reported crime in Canada and the provinces/territories back to 1962. Included in this publication are the following categories of tables: standard crime tables at the national and provincial/territorial levels; an historical crime table dating back to 1962; a municipal table describing crime in census metropolitan areas (CMAs) with populations over 100,000; and, a set of tables using the Incident Based UCR Survey to describe characteristics of criminal incidents, their victims, and the accused persons. These tables include data on weapon used in crime, the victim-accused relationship in violent crime, and the age and sex of victims and accused."
Canadian data product cheat sheets
Just what it says -- "cheat sheets", guides, etc., to a wide variety of Canadian data products, produced and made available by university library data centres across Canada.
Canadian statistics on justice and crime
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/State/justic.htm>
Free tabular data on: crimes; victims, suspects and criminals; the police and the courts.
Canadian Statistics
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/>
CANSIM II
Census of agriculture
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/agcensus2001/index.htm>
Census of population
<http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/release/index.cfm>
The Daily
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/dai-quo/>
"The Daily is Statistics Canada's official release bulletin, the Agency's first line of communication with the media and the public. The Daily issues news releases on current social and economic conditions and announces new products. It provides a comprehensive one-stop overview of new information available from Statistics Canada." Free subscription information
DLI (Data Liberation Initiative)
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/dli.htm>
E-STAT
<http://estat.statcan.ca/>
"E-STAT is Statistics Canada's interactive learning tool designed with the needs and interests of the education community in mind. First produced in 1992, E-STAT offers an enormous warehouse of reliable and timely statistics about Canada and its ever-changing people. CANSIM II in E-STAT is updated once a year during the summer months."
Education in Canada
<http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/81-229-XIB/81-229-XIB-e.html>
"This publication is an annual review of statistics on Canadian education. It summarizes information on institutions, enrolment, graduates, teachers and finance for all levels of education and provides an analysis of the data. Ten-year time series are shown for most variables at the Canada level and five-year time series at the provincial level. The publication also provides demographic data from the census of Canada and educational attainment, labour force participation rates and unemployment rates of the adult population from the Labour Force Survey."
Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)
<http://www.eqao.com/eqao/home_page/03e/3_1e.html>
"EQAO is an independent agency of the Ontario government. EQAO provides accurate, objective and clear information about student achievement and the quality of publicly funded education in Ontario. In addition, EQAO works to ensure that this information is used to bring about improvement for individual students and for the education system as a whole." Provides access to the Ontario Provincial Report on Achievement for elementary and secondary schools (1996-1997 to the present) as well as other reports on national and international assessments."
Elections Canada
<http://www.elections.ca/>
Finding and using statistics
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-533-XIE/free.htm>
"... a resource for finding and using statistics produced at Statistics Canada. Also included is a section which provides information concerning current issues, activities and programs, and future directions at Statistics Canada."
Free publications
globefund.com
http://www.globefund.com
Daily and historical data on Canadian mutual funds, with published articles from financial journalists, and background profiles on funds and fund companies. Reports and charts can be generated online.
globeinvestor.com
<http://globeinvestor.com>
globeinvestor.com has financial data on over 2,200 publicly-traded Canadian companies and 6,500 U.S. companies. You can obtain updated quotes on over 18,000 stocks (with 5 years of historical price data). Market quotes are updated every 15 minutes (20 minutes for the NYSE and other American exchanges).
Guide to data on
elementary and secondary education in
Canada
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/81F0004GIB/free.htm>
Health indicators
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/free.htm>
"Health indicators is a data product produced by Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information. It provides a set of indicators which measure the health of the Canadian population and the health care system. Health indicators are designed to provide comparable information at the health region and provincial/territorial level, and are based on standard definitions and methods. These indicators are organized into four categories: health status (including health conditions, mortality rates, measures of well-being); non-medical determinants of health (socio-economic characteristics and health behaviour); health system performance (measures of accessibility, appropriateness, effectiveness of health care services); and, community and health system characteristics (contextual information). Health indicators contains data tables with rates for a variety of indicators broken down by sex and by health region. Provincial and national rates are also provided within each table. These data are produced from a wide range of sources and are the most recent available. Technical notes and definitions present information necessary to interpret these indicators. "
Historical Statistics of Canada
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-516-XIE/sectiona/toc.htm>
"The second edition of Historical statistics of Canada was jointly produced by the Social Science Federation of Canada and Statistics Canada in 1983. This volume contains about 1,088 statistical tables on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada from the start of Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s. The tables are arranged in sections with an introduction explaining the content of each section, the principal sources of data for each table, and general explanatory notes regarding the statistics. In most cases, there is sufficient description of the individual series to enable the reader to use them without consulting the numerous basic sources referenced in the publication. The electronic version of this historical publication is accessible on the Internet site of Statistics Canada as a free downloadable document: text as HTML pages and all tables as individual spreadsheets in a comma delimited format (CSV)(which allows online viewing or downloading). "
Infomat: a weekly review
<http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/11-002-XIE/11-002-XIE.html>
Contains highlights of Statistics Canada reports, summary of latest monthly statistics, charts, and a list of recently released Statistics Canada publications.
Labour market and income data guide
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/75F0010XIE/main.htm>
"A guide through the vast array of labour market and income data sources and provides examples on how to use them. It offers detailed descriptions of the various surveys, including the data collected; a summary chart gives snapshot information for comparisons."
Public sector salary disclosure (Ontario)
<http://www.gov.on.ca/FIN/english/psecteng.htm>
Publicly available data resources on the nonprofit sector in Canada
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/75F0033MIE/75F0033MIE00003.pdf>
QWIFS test-drive (DLI institutions only)
Road safety: statistics and reports
<http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/STATS/statsi_e.htm>
Statistical Profile of Canadian Communities
<http://www12.statcan.ca/english/profil01/PlaceSearchForm1.cfm>
Statistical report on the health of Canadians
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-570-XIE/free.htm>
Statistics Canada
<http://www.statcan.ca/>
Statistics Canada learning resources
Toronto Police Service statistical reports
<http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/publications/>
Yahoo! Canada Finance
<http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/>
Data archives, data libraries and related institutions
<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/other/datalibs.htm>
University of Toronto Data Library Services
<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/>
Data on the Net
(University of California at San Diego)
<http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/>
Economagic.com: economic time series
<http://www.economagic.com/>
Election resources on the Internet
<http://electionresources.org/>
"Links to Internet sites around the world which provide complete and detailed national and local election statistics"
FedStats (USA)
<http://www.fedstats.gov/>
"The gateway to statistics from over 100 federal agencies."
Foreign trade statistics
<http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/>
International statistics
<http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/sd_intstat.htm>
Labor statistics (International Labor Organization)
<http://laborsta.ilo.org/>
National and international data sources and links
<http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/sd_natstat.htm>
National
publications and statistical yearbooks, current statistics and Internet sites
<http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/refs3.htm>
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
<http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/offstats/OFFSTATSmain.htm>
"OFFSTATS lists web sites offering free and easily accessible social, economic and general data from official or similar 'quotable' sources, especially those that provide both current data and time series. In the country lists, these are mainly web pages provided by statistical offices, central banks and government departments and agencies, whereas the topics list is comprised of links to the statistics pages of international organizations and associations and a few commercial sites."
Penn World Data tables
<http://www.bized.ac.uk/dataserv/penndata/pennhome.htm>
Online statistics covering 20 key variables on all the major world economies, from 1950 to 1998.
Statistical abstracts of the United States
Offers a vast collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. A special feature of the 1999 edition is a new section, "20th Century Statistics," "which presents data beginning in 1900 where available on a broad range of subjects such as population, education, income and labor force."
United Nations Statistics Division
<http://unstats.un.org/unsd/>
United States Census Bureau
<http://www.census.gov/>
World Health Organization Statistical Information System
<http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm>
DLILIST
<http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/sub.htm>
Discussion of DLI-related issues.
CAPDU
<http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/assoc/capdu/about.html>
Membership in CAPDU is open to users, distributors, and producers of data within Canada.
INFODEP
<http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/INFODEP/infodep1-e.html>
"INFODEP is a listserv intended to facilitate communication between the DSP and the depository network. This network includes depository libraries, federal departmental libraries, and the offices of Members of Parliament and Senators. INFODEP is intended to provide a forum for depository libraries to exchange information on publications distributed by the DSP. INFODEP will also become a means by which the DSP will communicate with depository libraries. Important messages will continue to be cross-posted to GOVINFO as well as appearing on the Notices to Depositories portion of our web site."