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Government Information: Statistics

Canada

  • Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents from statistical agencies in print, microfiche and electronic format; for Statistics Canada publications, include "Statistics Canada" as an "Author/Creator".
  • Statistics Canada (main website)
  • The Daily: released Mondays to Fridays at 8:30am, this site provides announcements of new statistics and data, publications, surveys, scholars and initiatives.
  • Analysis: statistical tables, articles, journals, reports and other publications.
  • Statistics by subject
  • Census results & analysis
  • Data
  • Statistics by geography

Statistics Canada: publications

Government data (results from official Canadian government numerical surveys) can be found through these sites:

  • <odesi> "A web-based data exploration, extraction, and analysis tool...(that) lets you search for survey questions (variables) across thousands of datasets held in a growing number of collections, and supports basic tabulation and analysis online....Statistics Canada‘s public-use survey data forms the core of <odesi>’s social survey data holdings,...(and) key polling data collections include the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA), Canadian Gallup, and Ipsos Reid."
  • Data as available from Statistics Canada
  • CANSIM @ CHASS  Access Statistics Canada's CANSIM time series data through the Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Toronto)'s user interface.
  • Open Data Open access Canadian federal data.
  • Ontario Government Data Catalogue

United States

  • Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents from statistical agencies in print, microfiche and electronic format; for publications from American government agencies, include "United States" as an "Author/Creator".
  • Data and Statistics About the U.S.  Find data about the U.S., such as demographic and economic data, population, and maps. Get information about the 2020 U.S. Census.
  • Census Bureau
  • Federal Government Data and Statistics  Listed by government department.
  • Data.gov "The U.S. Government's open data. Find federal, state, and local data, tools, and resources to conduct research, build apps, design data visualizations, and more."

United Kingdom

International

  • Omni  Use Advanced Search to find government documents from statistical agencies in print, microfiche and electronic format; for publications from foreign countries' government agencies or from international government organizations, include the name of the country or the organization as an "Author/Creator".
  • OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web  Links to statistics from official statistical agencies around the world. (University of Auckland Library, 2008 to August 2017).

United Nations

  • UNData  Large, comprehensive statistical database covering all countries of the world. Pulls together statistics from all the major UN sources.
  • United Nations Statistics (Department of Economics and Social Affairs, ECOSOC)  Includes demographics, social indicators, vital statistics, disability and national accounts.  Explore these links in the drop-down menus:

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

  • OECD.stat
  • OECD iLibrary  Access to books, journals, reports, papers and other resources with statistical information, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

World Bank

European Union

World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)

Very basic statistical information on select countries of the world, updated regularly.

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