LibGuides: Government Documents: Statistics

Where to Start

Start with a BU Library Catalogue/One Stop Search. Start with a simple search - your topic and the term statistics. Examples:

diabetes canada statistics

statistics family violence

tourism statistics

Library Catalogue
Search for books, articles and more

Some Libguides have information about finding specific types of statistics. For example:

BU Library Guide: Statistics Canada Services
Statistics Canada Services at Brandon University
BU Library Guide: Indigenous Resources: Links: Statistics
BU Library Guide: Health Statistics

Don't find what you want? Try one of the online options below or ask for help!

Online options

Government of Canada: Advanced Search
Search government repositories, websites, documents, Statistics Canada. A good choice for beginning a search for Canadian materials.

Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada: Data Tables (formerly CANSIM)
Find the data you are looking for, such as data tables, microdata and data visualizations, on a wide range of subjects.
Statistics Canada Library
"The Statistics Canada Library houses a comprehensive repository of publications produced by Statistics Canada and its predecessor organizations. This includes a collection of historical material dating back to 1841 that provides information on topics such as the census, foreign trade and industrial production."
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"The Library also has a collection of externally published resources on statistical methodology, sociology, economics, industry, trade and other subjects of current and former interest to Statistics Canada."
Some content is full text. Includes links to online Census materials.
Statistics Canada News: The Daily
"The Daily" provides summaries of the daily releases from Statistics Canada. You can search within "Releases"; search "Releases by Subject"; and access the "Release Schedule".
Canadian Census Data Guide
Quicklinks to Census Data
Infographics
"These infographics will provide a quick overview of Statistics Canada survey data."
Public Use Microdata Files through Rich Data Services
Access to Statistics Canada Public Use Microdata Files through Rich Data Services. Currently works off campus through the university's VPN. There is only a limited selection of files at the moment. We are working on getting it wotking through the proxy server. Thank you for your patience.
GC InfoBase
Featured content includes: Departmental Plans, Main Estimates, Departmental Results Reports, Supplementary Estimates B, Spending by Program, Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) by Program, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests.
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"...The GC InfoBase is an interactive data-visualization tool, transforming complex federal data into simple visual stories for Canadians. Since its creation in 2013, the GC InfoBase has been recognized as the authoritative source of Government expenditure information by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) and was identified as a public sector innovation by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI). The tool contains years’ worth of federal government data, bringing together information previously scattered across over 500 government reports...."
Historical Statistics of Canada
There are 1,088 statistical tables on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada from the start of the Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s included here.
Statistics Canada Datasets in the Abacus Repository
The Abacus data repository has made more than 1000 Statistics Canada datasets available to the public under the terms of the Statistics Canada Open License. Anyone may search and download these datasets from the Abacus Open data collection.
Canada and the World Statistics Hub
Open Government portal
Federal Government open data/open information/open dialogue.
Canada Year Book
1906-1967.
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For volumes dated earlier than 1906 (which have slightly different titles) link to the 'Continues' option at this site.
BU has a print collection of CYB in Government Documents which includes many of the older, as well as more recent, volumes of this publication. The publication ceased publication in 2012.

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