Library Guide to Statistical Information Sources
What are Statistical Information Sources?
Statistical information sources can enhance your research papers and in many cases may be essential to completing an essay or assignment. This guide contains statistical databases and tools that can be used to quickly locate authoritative statistics on a variety of subjects. Each Library Subject Guide also contains subject-specific links to statistical sources.
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How to Find and Use Statistical Information Sources
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.
Download Beyond 20/20 Browser for use with E-Stat and DLI tables.
Don't pay for Statistics!! Many CANSIM and CENSUS statistical tables are available for free to faculty and students through E-Stat. If you locate a table with an associated cost through Statistics Canada's internet site, be sure to check E-Stat before agreeing to pay for the statistics.
You may also find statistical resources listed in the Library Catalogue. Add the following phrase to the end of your search words: and statistic* (for example, homicide and statistic*).
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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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- E-STAT
- Connect to E-Stat (click on “ACCEPT AND ENTER” on the welcome page)
Statistics Canada's educational database including Census data and CANSIM (Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System). The Census provides a statistical portrait of Canada, and CANSIM provides observations at regular intervals on subjects such as labour, health, income, trade, education, manufacturing, and investment. ESTAT also provides access to publications from Statistics Canada which comment upon data retrieved from statistical surveys – i.e. highlighting economic trends, or giving overviews of crime rates across Canada.
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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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- Global Development Finance
- Connect to GDF
Statistical database providing 216 indicators for 135 countries, focusing on 216 indicators including external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections. Covers from 1970-present.
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- Global Market Information Database (GMID)
- Connect to GMID
Provides business intelligence on industries, markets, countries and consumers for over 200 countries. The database offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, commentary from expert industry and country analysts, market share and brand share rankings and more.
Note: restricted to UOIT only. No walk ins.
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- World Development Indicators
- Connect to WDI
Statistical database providing more than 700 indicators for 208 world economies and 18 regional and income groups. Includes social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators for 1960-present.
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Additional Electronic Resources (e.g. websites)
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- Canada Year Book Collection
- http://www.statcan.ca/english/yearbook/index-en.htm
The Canada Year Book was an annual publication from its first issue in 1867 (called the "Year-Book and Almanac of British North America") until the 1978/1979 issue. It was a biennial publication from the 1980/81 issue until the 2001 issue. In 2003 the Canada e-Book was released as an electronic version based on the 2001 Canada Year Book. There were no issues from 2002 to 2005. With the 2006 edition, the Canada Year Book returned to an annual frequency.
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- FedStats
- http://www.fedstats.gov/
Gateway to United States statistics.
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- GDSourcing
- http://www.gdsourcing.com/
An Internet based research and retrieval company that specializes in helping researchers access statistics collected by the Canadian Federal government as well as other non-government organizations and agencies.
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- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
- http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/
Links to official statistics websites from around the world.
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- Statistical Resources on the Web
- http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
This University of Michigan Documents Center website developed by Grace York is a comprehensive portal to statistics including the US Census Bureau
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- Statistics Canada
- http://www.statcan.gc.ca/
Free and priced Canadian statistical information with data on the 1996 and 2001 census as well as daily news. Students can access nearly all fee-based information from Statistics Canada via the ESTAT link above.
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- Statistics Canada 2006 Community Profiles
- http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/profiles/community/Index.cfm?Lang=E
These profiles present community-level information from the 2006 Census of Population. New for 2006: Census Tract (CT) Profiles. Census tracts are small, relatively stable geographic areas that usually have a population of 2,500 to 8,000 and are located in census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and larger census agglomerations (CAs).
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- Statistics Canada Free Internet Publications
- Connect to Statistics Canada Free Internet Publications
A subject listing of free, downloadable publications with statistics and analysis from Statistics Canada.
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- Statistics Canada Online Catalogue
- Connect to Statistics Canada Online Catalogue
Search by keyword for free information available from Statistics Canada.
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- UNdata
- http://data.un.org/
Single interface to search for statistics from a variety of international organizations on topics including energy, health, education, employment, industry, population and refugees.
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- World FactBook
- https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Published annually by the Central Intelligence Agency, this is a reference work for basic statistical data on countries of the world
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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.
