Library Guide to Data
What are Data Resources?
Often we use statistics created by organizations or researchers to enhance our essays and research papers. However, there are times when aggregate statistics are not available for a particular topic or we may want to reach different levels of geography, or greater detail than a particular statistical aggregate will supply. Then, we may benefit from using data..the microdata that is collected when the survey occurs. Using data requires a statistical program such as SPSS or SAS, or, for University students in Ontario, the Odesi platform, all of which help to create statistics from data.
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How to Find and Use Data
For a complete overview of finding statistics and data through ESTAT, DLI, IDLS and ICPSR, please review this presentation on data retrieval at UOIT .
Odesi Tutorials can be found here.
Codebooks for some Statistics Canada surveys available through DLI can be found on reserve in the library under the course name ?Data Library?.
Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) license.
SPSS 16.0 instructional films
A series of Camtasia videos show you how to use SPSS from the basics to more advanced topics. The introductory video (3 minutes) orients you to the series of 31 videos.
View SPSS videos
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Books
Online
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Print
The Sage Dictionary of Statistics REF HA17.C73 2004
The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms REF HA17.O97 2003
Encyclopedia of Social Measurement REF HA29.E52 2005
Doing Qualitative Research: A Practical Handbook H62.S46 2005
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Databases
Major Indexes
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- Data Liberation Initiative (DLI)
- Connect to DLI
The DLI website lists survey data that is available to UOIT students from Statistics Canada. Survey descriptions, questionnaires and user guides are available to all users. Actual data must be downloaded by the institution’s DLI Contact (currently Nicole Doyle) or accessed through IDLS. Use of data is restricted to UOIT students, faculty and staff for academic purposes only. Contact Nicole.Doyle@dc-uoit.ca for further information.
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- Equinox
- Connect to Equinox
Equinox provides UOIT students, faculty and staff with access to Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) data. Use is restricted to UOIT students, faculty and staff for academic purposes only. Additional data may be available. Contact Nicole.Doyle@dc-uoit.ca for further information.
Note that licensing restrict the use of this resource to UOIT only
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- ICPSR
- Connect to ICPSR
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research archives data from Social Science disciplines such as sociology, political science, history, criminal justice and economics. If you are using ICPSR to download a data-set for the first time, you will be asked to create an account as a new user. Once you create your account you will be able to download your data-set.
Note that licensing restrict the use of this resource to UOIT only
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- odesi
- Connect via Scholarsportal
This application facilitates the exploration (searching, data manipulation, creation of summary statistics, graphing and export) of multiple, sophisticated data sets from Statistics Canada and polling data from Gallup. The available datasets will continue to grow as more and more data are made available on Scholars Portal.
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Other Indexes
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- Conference Board of Canada
- Connect to Conference Board of Canada
Provides business research reports on risk management, corporate social responsibility, human resource management, leadership, public policy etc. as well as economic trends and indices (e.g. Consumer Confidence Index).
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- CORA
- http://www.queensu.ca/cora/
The Canadian Opinion Research Archive is a collection of hundreds of commercial and independent surveys dating back to the 1970’s. Individuals conducting research for non-commercial purposes may be able to get access to CORA’s electronic holdings by requesting a password from the CORA manager. CORA is generally prohibited from sending raw data extracts from commercially produced datasets (CROP, Decima, Environics). CRIC (Centre for Research and Information on Canada) data are available for download.
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Additional Electronic Resources (e.g. websites)
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How to Cite
Need to cite statistics?
Statistics Canada's guide for citing statistics
See the sections in the MLA and APA citation style guides information on citing statistics and data.
Help!
If you have questions, contact the Data Librarian.
